Dear Zine Union Catalog list members, Things have been since we won the NEH Chairs Grant <https://zines.barnard.edu/news/neh-chairs-award-zine-union-catalog> for ZineCat about a year and a half ago, for many reasons. Organizing both ZLuC and the ZineCat planning meeting was maybe not the best idea, and communications suffered, probably along with other things. So, here's a belated recap for those who aren't part of ZineCat working groups or for other reasons have fallen out of the loop. - We held a ZineCat planning meeting in August <https://www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/union-catalog-work-space/zine-union-catalog-planning-meeting-2024/> - We ratified a spokes council decision making process, currently with four spokes and a not-yet-activated queerleading squad - Fundraising - Tech - Metadata - Membership and Outreach - Herders (one member of each of the above groups, currently: Lauren, Pablo, Rhonda, and Jenna) - We planned on holding an update meeting at the Zine Pavilion at ALA, using the remaining grant fund to support participation for people without other funding to attend - The NEH canceled our grant; we're working on an appeal - If the money doesn't re-materialize/we don't get $8ish thousand from a zine fairy, those attending ALA anyway will give a presentation on ZineCat - Please let us know if you'd like to join a working group - Feel free to zine fairy us $$$ if you want to fly a Kika from Belgium to Philly and put them up in a modest hotel and buy them a meal or two (same with a Milo, a Marya, and others from exotic locales like Milwaukee and Albuquerque) With lots of goodness in these not-good times, Lauren and Jenna -- Jenna Freedman | she, her Director of the Barnard Zine Library make an appointment <https://barnard.libcal.com/appointments/jenna-freedman> | https://is.gd/jennacalendar https://linktr.ee/barnardzinelibrary I do not speak for my institution (and my institution does not speak for me) Fridays are dedicated cataloging days. I will respond to messages I receive on Fridays the following week. _______________________________________________ Zlunioncat mailing list Zlunioncat@lists.qzap.org http://lists.qzap.org/listinfo.cgi/zlunioncat-qzap.org