Triangle Research Libraries Network

Electronic Resources Management Working Group Meeting (rescheduled for 3/27)
2020-03-20 16:00 (America/New_York) | The Frontier, Building 800, Dive (third floor), 800 Park Offices Drive, Research Triangle, NC, 27709, United States
COVID-19 Update, 3/13/20: Rescheduled for March 27 via Zoom.

TRLN Professional Development Planning Meeting
2020-03-23 09:00 - 11:00
COVID-19 Update, 3/17/20: Meeting will be held via Zoom.
This event is invite only.

Kristin Antelman Sustainable Scholarship Discussion
2020-03-26 15:30
COVID-19 Update, 3/25/20: This event has been canceled and may be rescheduled for Summer 2020.
This event is invite only.

Electronic Resources Management Working Group Meeting
2020-03-27 13:30 - 16:00
Via Zoom

Cooperative Print Retention Working Group Meeting
2020-04-01 10:00 - 11:00
Via Zoom.

TRLN Professional Development Planning Meeting
2020-04-06 09:30 - 10:30
Via Zoom. This event is invite only.

Heads of Technical Services interest group
2020-04-06 15:00 - 16:00 | Zoom virtual meeting

TRLN Discovery Development Meeting
2020-04-07 11:00 - 12:00, 2020-05-05 11:00 - 12:00
Via Zoom: https://duke.zoom.us/j/663757487

Cooperative Print Retention Working Group meeting
2020-04-07 16:00 - 17:00, 2020-04-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom virtual meeting

Executive Committee Meeting
2020-04-13 13:00 - 14:30
Location TBD.

TRLN Professional Development Planning Meeting
2020-04-16 09:30 - 10:30

Collections Interest Group Meeting
2020-04-17 14:00 - 16:00

Cooperative Print Retention Working Group meeting
2020-04-21 16:00 - 17:00

TRLN Discovery Metadata Team Meeting
2020-04-22 11:00 - 12:00

Advisory Council quarterly meeting
2020-04-24 09:00 - 11:00 | Archie K. Davis Conference Center, Briefing Center, 12 Davis Dr., RTP, NC, 27709

Electronic Resources Management Working Group Meeting
2020-04-24 13:30 - 16:00

Heads of Technical Services Interest Group Meeting
2020-04-27 15:00 - 16:30, 2020-06-01 15:00 - 16:30

Remote Rap Sessions - 99% Invisible Episode 308 Curb Cuts
2020-04-29 11:00 - 12:00
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The first discussion as part of TRLN’s Remote Rap Sessions will focus on episode 308 of the 99% Invisible podcast – Curb Cuts. This episode is available on multiple podcast platforms, but can also be streamed from the 99% Invisible website. Registration helps with our planning and is much appreciated. You can register before and during the discussion and will receive the meeting link as soon as you register.

If you live in an American city and you don’t personally use a wheelchair, it’s easy to overlook the small ramp at most intersections, between the sidewalk and the street. Today, these curb cuts are everywhere, but fifty years ago — when an activist named Ed Roberts was young — most urban corners featured a sharp drop-off, making it difficult for him and other wheelchair users to get between blocks without assistance.

Listen to this podcast at a time of your choosing and then join the Zoom discussion on 4/29 at 11am EST. We encourage participants to think about the implications of issues covered by the podcast with their work in libraries and discuss these with your TRLN colleagues.

Discussion questions:

What are the barriers to entry for the library, physical or online?What are the “curb cuts” we should advocate for?What language do we use that might lead to an unwelcoming atmosphere?What are some “electronic curb cuts” we have developed? What more could and should we do?How do we bridge that gap between what’s reasonable and what’s ideal?Is there a space for collective action through a body like TRLN that might make independence more achievable for all of our users?

Beth Ashmore, NC State’s Associate Head, Acquisitions & Discovery (Serials), Emily Daly, Duke’s Head, Assessment & User Experience Department, and Chad Haefele, UNC-Chapel Hill’s Head of User Experience will be co-facilitating the discussion. We hope you can join us and please reach out to events@trln.org with any questions!

Suggested Resources:

Big 10 and ASERL Library Accessibility Alliance (https://www.btaa.org/library/accessibility/reports)Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/)Web Accessibility in Mind (https://webaim.org/)Pionke, J. (2017). Beyond ADA Compliance: The Library as a Place for All. Urban Library Journal, 23 (1). Retrieved from https://academicworks.cuny.edu/ulj/vol23/iss1/3 Kenning Arlitsch (Column Editor) (2018) My User is a Machine: Making Information Accessible to Disabled Users by Structuring for Machine Intermediaries, Journal of Library Administration, 58:7, 728-738, DOI: 10.1080/01930826.2018.1514834WAVE Accessibility Evaluation Tool (https://wave.webaim.org/)

Remote Rap Sessions - The Next Black
2020-05-13 11:00 - 12:00
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The second session of TRLN’s Remote Rap Sessions will be about the documentary The Next Black – A film about the future of clothing. The documentary is freely available for streaming on YouTube. Registration helps with our planning and is much appreciated. You can register before and during the discussion and will receive the meeting link as soon as you register.

The Next Black is a documentary that brings together designers, innovators and leaders from around the globe for an open discussion on the concept of clothing. It probes beyond what we are wearing to explore how we produce clothes, how we interact with them and how we care for them. Each person we interviewed has a fresh perspective on the future of the clothing industry – and all of them are using their passions to fuel change.

Tali Brennan, Consultant, Sustainability, Energy and Climate Change for WSP USA (and graduate of Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment), Adam Rogers, NC State Libraries Head of Making and Innovation Studio, and Greg Tourino, NC State Libraries Lead Librarian for Textiles & Engineering Research will co-facilitate this discussion. We hope you can join us and please reach out to events@trln.org with any questions!

Discussion questions:

What’s one thing you found interesting about The Next Black?What can you do as an individual to support sustainable clothing?What textiles/brands/innovations can you think of that practice sustainable clothing techniques?What role do you see companies playing to change the fashion industry? What impact can companies have? Do consumers have to change first?The film shows increased innovation and sustainability in the fashion industry in recent years. How might the Covid outbreak affect that progress?Is technology in fashion a scalable concept? How can libraries be more sustainable?What topics in The Next Black resonated with our work in libraries? How can maker spaces adopt and support sustainable techniques?

Suggested Resources:

Textile Exchange: https://textileexchange.org/Sustainable Apparel Coalition: https://apparelcoalition.org/Patagonia’s Activism: https://www.patagonia.com/activism/Art’s Work: Genetic Futures exhibit (featuring Kerasynth garment using synthetically grown biological fibers)Art2Wear at NC State (& Inside Art2Wear events)FTD Emerging Designers ShowcaseNC State’s Special Collections in Textiles & Digitized PhotosNC State’s Wilson College of Textiles A Necessary Filter: Nonwovens Institute Steps Up to Combat COVID-19From Hillsborough to Hunt: 65 Years of History at the Burlington Textiles Library

We hope you can join us and please reach out to events@trln.org with any questions!

TRLN Discovery Metadata Team Meeting
2020-05-20 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom virtual meeting

Executive Committee Meeting
2020-05-26 13:00 - 14:00

Remote Rap Sessions - Lost Notes Imagining Billy Tipton
2020-05-27 11:00 - 12:00
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The third session of TRLN’s Remote Rap Sessions will be about episode 6 of the podcast Lost Notes called “Imagining Billy Tipton“. This episode is available on multiple podcast platforms, but can also be streamed from KCRW.com. Registration helps with our planning and is much appreciated. You can register before and during the discussion and will receive the meeting link as soon as you register.

Billy Tipton wasn’t a star or a jazz virtuoso; he was a working musician from the 1930s until the late ‘50s. He toured small clubs, performed variety shows, and recorded a few records for a no-name label. Then, in 1958, he walked away from his life as a musician. He became a family man, settling in Spokane, Washington, for the next three decades. Then, in 1989, Billy Tipton’s death made national headlines. He had several health problems, and when he collapsed, his son called an ambulance. As the paramedics tried to resuscitate Tipton, they discovered that he was anatomically female. His bandmates, his sons, and ex-wives said they didn’t know. His personal life became tabloid fodder and TV talk show gossip. And for some in the transgender community, Billy Tipton became a trans pioneer. But how do we apply our categorizations of identity today to someone’s story from the early 20th century? It’s difficult to say whether Tipton was confined, or actually felt free, without being able to ask him. His story isn’t so easy to tell – especially not decades later – and that’s why it’s important to try.

Edward Gomes, Senior Associate Dean – Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Laurin Penland, Rubenstein Library Technical Services Assistant at Duke University, Kristan Shawgo, Social Sciences Librarian at UNC-CH, and Aaron Smithers, Special Collections Research and Instruction Librarian at UNC-CH will co-facilitate this discussion.

Discussion questions:

How can we ensure that we are respecting people’s (research subjects’) preferences when we talk to library users about materials and research?Who gets to decide how people are represented and remembered?When is it appropriate to emphasize the subjectivity and uncertainty of descriptions? When is it okay to make assumptions about a person’s gender, race, or disability status?What do you do when you don’t know how to describe someone?How can we balance our understanding of identity today with identity in the early to mid 20th century? How does this impact representation and projection?What systems and structures do we currently have in place to help our users self-identify and feel represented respectfully and accurately? Where can we improve?

Suggested resources:

Muñoz, José Esteban. Cruising utopia : the then and there of queer futurity. New York : New York University Press, 2009.Archives for Black Lives: Anti-Racist Description Resources“Meet Patrick Haggerty: The Radical Granpappy of Gay Country”Shapland, Jenn. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers. Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2020.Jackie Shane: http://www.southerncultures.org/article/jackie-shane/ Beemyn, G. (2014). US History. In L. Erickson-Schroth,, (Ed.), Trans bodies, trans selves: A resources for the trans community, (pp. 501-536), Oxford University Press. (OA version linked here, p. 3 focuses on Billy Tipton, e-book available at UNC-CH, NCSU & Duke)

We hope you can join us and please reach out to events@trln.org with any questions!

Resource Sharing Working Group Meeting
2020-05-28 14:00 - 16:00

Electronic Resources Management Working Group (ERMWG) Meeting
2020-05-29 13:30 - 16:00

Circulation Meeting re: COVID-19 related workflows
2020-05-29 15:00 - 16:00

Metadata Interest Group Meeting
2020-06-02 14:00 - 16:00
Quarterly meeting of the Metadata Interest Group via Zoom.

Remote Rap Sessions - The Kitchen Sisters: The Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky
2020-06-10 11:00 - 12:00
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The selection for the fourth session of TRLN’s Remote Rap Sessions will be an episode of The Kitchen Sisters podcast called “The Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky”. This episode is available on multiple podcast platforms, but can also be streamed from kitchensisters.org. Registration helps with our planning and is much appreciated. You can register before and during the discussion and will receive the meeting link as soon as you register.

During the Depression, those horrible years after 1929, the Appalachians were hit hard. Coal mines were being shut down. Many people were living in dire poverty with no hope. In 1936, as part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the Kentucky WPA began to hire pack horse librarians, mostly women, to carry books to isolated cabins, rural school houses and homebound coalminers. The routes were rugged and treacherous. The “bookwomen” followed creek beds and fence routes through summer heat and frozen winters — their saddlebags and pillowcases stuffed with Robinson Crusoe, Women’s Home Companion, Popular Mechanics. Many people were illiterate and the women often stayed and read to them. The pay was $28 a month. Each woman was required to supply her own horse or mule, their food and boarding. When the program closed in 1943 as America entered World War II, nearly one thousand pack horse librarians had served 1.5 million people in 48 Kentucky counties. http://www.kitchensisters.org/2018/09/24/the-pack-horse-librarians-of-eastern-kentucky-the-directors-cut/

The Kitchen Sisters episode is less than 30 minutes, but these are some alternative formats to learn about this topic for the discussion on June 10th.

7 Minute summary aired on NPR’s Morning EditionThe Giver of Stars, Jojo MoyesThe Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Kim Michele Richardson

Donna Cornick, Retired, Head of Electronic Services, Reference Department, UNC Libraries (and Roosevelt aficionado), Sonoe Nakasone, Community Driven Archives Mellon Grant, Southern Historical Collection, and Chaitra Powell, African American Collections and Outreach Archivist and Project Director, Community Driven Archives Mellon Grant, Southern Historical Collection will co-facilitate this discussion.

Discussion questions:

What’s one thing you found interesting about the episode?What is something you would like to know about the Pack Horse Librarians program that was not addressed in the podcast?Would programs like the Works Progress Administration (WPA) or the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) succeed today, to create jobs and rebuild infrastructure? What can you imagine would be a modern day equivalent of this program? What should be the role of the federal government, state government, or local governments in creating and sustaining programs like this? The Pack Horse Librarians project, like other WPA and CCC projects, was born of economic crisis. What action, creativity, and innovation is emerging from the current crisis of COVID and the recent protests against police violence and racial injustice?

Suggested Resources:

African American Librarians in KentuckyThe Book Woman of Troublesome Creek Giver of StarsA Separate Flame: Western Branch: the first African-American public library That Book WomanWPA Pack Horse Librarians in Kentucky, visual image display, University of Kentucky libraries
