Triangle Research Libraries Network

Resource Sharing Working Group
2021-05-20 14:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | NC
Quarterly meeting of the Resource Sharing Working Group via Zoom.

TRLN Discovery Development Meeting
2021-05-04 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-03-02 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | NC
Via Zoom.

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

Electronic Resources Management Working Group Meeting
2021-04-16 13:30 - 16:00, 2020-12-04 13:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | NC
Via Zoom

Executive Committee Meeting
2021-04-15 10:00 - 11:00, 2021-01-14 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | NC

Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Archive: Understanding and Resisting
2021-04-09 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | NC
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?

TRLN Discovery Metadata Team Meeting
2021-04-08 14:00 - 15:00, 2021-02-11 14:00 - 15:00, 2021-01-13 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | NC

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

Resource Sharing Working Group Meeting
2021-03-25 14:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | NC

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

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

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

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

Electronic Resources Management Working Group Meeting
2021-03-05 13:30 - 16:00, 2021-01-22 13:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | NC

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

Advisory Council quarterly meeting
2021-02-19 09:00 - 10:30, 2020-11-13 09:00 - 10:30 UTC | NC

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

Employee Orientation
2021-01-27 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | NC
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.

Remote Rap Sessions - Lena Richard: America’s Unknown Celebrity Chef
2021-01-22 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | NC
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?

Scholarly Communication Data Working Group Meeting
2021-01-19 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | NC

TRLN Discovery Development Meeting
2021-01-05 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | NC

Library Carpentry Workshops
2020-12-01 10:00 - 2020-12-04 15:00 (America/New_York) | NC
TRLN is offering Library Carpentry workshops to approximately 25 people who work in TRLN member libraries. This opportunity is being funded by the Network of the National Library of Medicine, Southeastern/Atlantic Regional Office (NNLM/SEA), which invited applications in July from libraries and consortia interested in hosting a workshop. Nandita Mani, UNC-Chapel Hill Associate University Librarian for Health Sciences and Director of the Health Sciences Library, and Megan von Isenburg, Associate Dean for Library Services & Archives at the Duke School of Medicine, suggested that TRLN apply.

The workshops, offered via Zoom, include Introduction to Working with Data, the Unix Shell, OpenRefine, and Introduction to Git. The workshop series will last four days from 10:00am to 3:00pm (one day per topic) and will be led by experienced Library Carpentry instructors and supported by 2–3 helpers, staff of TRLN libraries who are familiar with the content. Participants and helpers were identified by the TRLN Advisory Council.
