Archives, Advocacy and Change: Tales from Four New York City Collections
The New York Academy of Medicine
Librarians and archivists shape the historical record with the selection and acquisition choices they make on behalf of their institutions. Join four “activist” professionals who have broadened traditional notions of what is collected in a discussion focused on activism, collecting and change. Panelists from four very different New York City collections at both public and academic libraries will address how their acquisitions have enhanced and ignited conversations about humanities and science in their communities. We’ll meet in the Academy’s historic 1933 Drs. Barry and Bobbi Coller Rare Book Reading Room. This event is part of The New York Academy of Medicine’s 2016 Changemakers Series. Featured panelists: Jenna Freedman, Associate Director of Communications and Zine Librarian, at Barnard College. Freedman founded, curates, and catalogs the Barnard Zine Library. Her current project is working with members of the LIS Microaggressions zine group on an article for Library Trends. Steven Fullwood, Associate Curator of the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, and founder of the In the Life Archive, initiative to collect, preserve, catalog and make available to the public materials produced by and about LGBTQ people of African descent (also at the Schomburg Center.) Timothy Johnson, Director of NYU's Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives and co-director of Tamiment's Cold War Center. He also serves on the boards of Science & Society and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. Rich Wandel, Center Archivist and Historian, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. Free. RSVP here: http://bit.ly/2dvebul
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