Remote Rap Sessions - Lena Richard: America’s Unknown Celebrity Chef
2021-01-22 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Register for the Zoom discussion.

The selection for the seventh session of TRLN’s Remote Rap Sessions will be about the Sidedoor podcast episode Lena Richard: America’s Unknown Celebrity Chef (32 minutes). 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.

When Lena Richard cooked her first chicken on television, she beat Julia Child to the screen by over a decade. At a time when most African American women cooks worked behind swinging kitchen doors, Richard claimed her place as a culinary authority, broadcasting in the living rooms of New Orleans’s elite white families. She was an entrepreneur, educator, author, and an icon—and her legacy lives on in her recipes. https://www.si.edu/sidedoor/ep-8-americas-unknown-celebrity-chef

Joining as co-facilitators of this session will be Marylène Altieri, Curator of Published and Printed Materials, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University; Katryna Robinson, Executive Assistant to the Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian & Vice Provost for Library Affairs, Duke University Libraries; Theodosia Shields, Director of Library Services, North Carolina Central University; Lucy Vanderkamp, Research Services Associate, Rubenstein Research Services, Duke University Libraries; and Ashley Rose Young, Historian of the American Food History Project at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Please reach out to events@trln.org if you have any questions. We hope you can join us!

Discussion Questions

What’s one thing you found interesting about the episode?What surprised you about Lena Richard’s story?What are some of the challenges that Richard faced?What aspects of Richard’s life and career do you want to learn more details about?If you could ask Richard a question about her lived experiences, what would you ask her?In what ways is Richard’s story relevant to our current moment?

Electronic Resources Management Working Group meeting
2021-01-22 13:30 - 16:00, 2021-03-05 13:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
via Zoom.

Employee Orientation
2021-01-27 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
You are invited to attend a virtual Employee Orientation! This event will be held via Zoom. Register for the Zoom meeting to receive the meeting link.

While this orientation is designed for “new” employees, we welcome participation by anyone who works in a TRLN library and who might want a refresher. It is a fun and informal introduction to the people, priorities, and activities of the consortium. Attendees will learn about the services that TRLN provides and learn about ways to get involved in numerous areas of collaboration. This is an excellent opportunity to build connections with a community beyond your home library and institution.More information and an agenda coming soon. We plan to offer one additional orientation session in 2021 for any who are unable to attend the January session.

Collections Interest Group meeting
2021-01-29 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Via Zoom, United States

Annual Meeting Steering Committee Meeting
2021-02-10 13:00 - 14:00, 2021-04-23 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York)

TRLN Discovery Metadata Team Meeting
2021-02-11 14:00 - 15:00, 2021-04-08 14:00 - 15:00, 2021-06-10 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Via Zoom

Advisory Council quarterly meeting
2021-02-19 09:00 - 10:30, 2021-05-21 09:00 - 10:30 UTC

TRLN Discovery Development Meeting
2021-03-02 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-05-04 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-07-06 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)

Governing Board Meeting
2021-03-04 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York)

Metadata Interest Group Meeting
2021-03-15 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)

High School Career Outreach
2021-03-16 15:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
Zoom

TRLN Heads of Technical Services Interest Group
2021-03-19 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York)

TRLN Annual Meeting Steering Committee Meeting
2021-03-24 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York)

Resource Sharing Working Group Meeting
2021-03-25 14:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Quarterly meeting of the Resource Sharing Working Group via Zoom.

Collections Interest Group Meeting
2021-03-26 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York)

Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Archive: Understanding and Resisting
2021-04-09 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Registration & About this Event

Register for the Zoom discussion.

Dillon Sung and Hamid Khan will speak about a project to create a digital archive for the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. Dillon will return in June to host a workshop for TRLN on generating folksonomies related to this archive. Attending this presentation is highly encouraged as a prerequisite to the workshop.

Conceptualized and developed with community members, this multi-phase project will collect and make accessible public records obtained from governmental agencies, materials about the Coalition, and additional information about the project and archive. The archive will support community members, organizers, artists, journalists, and researchers doing work against state surveillance, by providing access to information as well as models and archive tools for organizers who want to develop their own community-based archives locally. The archive represents the ongoing resistance against state surveillance, and aims to contribute to the building of community power towards abolition.

For more context about this project, we recommend a 30-minute documentary created by organizers, or you can read more about the project at https://www.eyebeam.org/residents/stop-lapd-spying-coalition/.

About the Speakers

Dillon Sung

Dillon Sung is a multimedia artist and community organizer based in Southern California. Dillon’s research as a Ph.D. student and Provost Fellow of American Studies & Ethnicity at USC is on the question of migrant self-determination and the conditions of possibility for full participation for stateless peoples—considering the historical function of Korean statelessness in particular. Her interdisciplinary work analyzes how affective practices—such as grief, missing, wanting of possibility—can generate resistive subject formations for the speculative potential of stateless socialities in imperiling the notion(s) of citizenship, settler colonialism, and nation-statehood. She also informs and engages her research with an art practice through discourses of fine art—namely social practice—and performance studies. She is a 2019 – 2021 Imagining America PAGE Co-Director and the lead artist in developing the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Archive as a 2020 – 2021 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future Fellow at Eyebeam.

Hamid Khan

Hamid Khan is an organizer and coordinator with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. The mission of the coalition is to build community-based power to dismantle police surveillance, spying, and infiltration programs. The coalition utilizes multiple campaigns to advance an innovative organizing model that is Los Angeles-based but has implications regionally, nationally, and internationally. As founder and former Executive Director of South Asian Network (1990-2010), Hamid helped create the first grass roots community-based organization in Los Angeles committed to informing and empowering thousands of South Asians in Southern California to act as agents of change in eliminating biases, discrimination and injustices. Hamid also serves on the board of May First Technology, a membership organization that engages in building movements by advancing the strategic use and collective control of technology for local struggles, global transformation, and emancipation without borders.

Questions to Consider

How did consulting with archivists and other information professionals change the project? Was there tension between “professional” archival concepts or conventions and the goals of the project? The archive is being shaped by the audiences that will use it. Who are the audiences you envisioned at the beginning and has this changed as you speak with more people about this work?Have any expressed community needs seemed in conflict with each other or the project goals and scope? If so, how those have been resolved.What are the implications of making a born digital archive physical? Are there other archives that you modeled this idea after? Some interviewees in the documentary talked about abolition, and at least one hoped this archive would lead to that. Can you talk more about the idea of abolition, and if there are any next steps for the archive after it’s live that relate to abolition?

Executive Committee Meeting
2021-04-15 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York)

Electronic Resources Management Working Group Meeting
2021-04-16 13:30 - 16:00, 2021-05-28 09:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York)

Resource Sharing Working Group
2021-05-20 14:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York)

Remote Rap: Pollinator Gardening for the South
2021-06-14 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
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TRLN is pleased to announce a panel discussion about pollinator and native plant gardening, featuring the NCSU faculty authors of the book Pollinator Gardening for the South (recently published by UNC Press) and the curator of the native plants garden at Duke Gardens. You can register before (or during) the discussion and will receive the meeting link immediately.

This step-by-step guide will answer all of your questions about how to create beautiful gardens designed to welcome beneficial pollinators across the South. Combining up-to-date scientific information with artful design strategies, Danesha Seth Carley and Anne M. Spafford teach gardeners of all levels to plan, plant, and maintain successful pollinator gardens at home and in shared community sites. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469659411/pollinator-gardening-for-the-south/

Panelists:

Danesha Seth Carley, author, pollinator expert, Associate Professor, Horticulture Science, NCSUElaine Maisner, executive editor, UNC PressAnnabel Renwick, curator of the Blomquist Garden of Native Plants at Sarah P. Duke GardensAnne Spafford, author, landscape architect, Associate Professor, Horticulture Science, NCSUModerator: Elaine Westbrooks, Vice Provost for University Libraries and University Librarian, UNC Chapel Hill

Attendees will receive a discount code for purchase of the book. Attendees also will be entered into a drawing to receive a courtesy copy of the book. Please reach out to events@trln.org if you have any questions. We hope you can join us!

Collections Interest Group
2021-06-25 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York)

Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Folksonomy Discussion
2021-07-16 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
In April, TRLN hosted an event about the digital archive for the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition for which you registered. The same organizers are hosting a follow up event to explore and discuss generating a folksonomy for the archive’s materials. This interactive session will be an exchange of ideas between attendees and the archive’s organizers so each can explore folksonomy development together and learn from each other’s expertise. Goals for this session include:

Increased awareness of the Stop LAPD Spying Archive;Exploration and discussion of the tools and strategies of folksonomy development in other projects participants have heard about or worked directly with;Collect feedback on folksonomy development process for project and the user experience of the archive’s platform; Form connections between traditional library cataloging work and more inclusive forms of cataloging like folksonomies;Gain knowledge from a case study that could inform the way libraries work;Exposure to a social justice project that incorporates skills often used in libraries.

We are looking for about 10 participants. If you are interested in participating, please contact kelly@trln.org.
