by Sara Ring
Quick Summary
Registration will close at noon on Monday, November 8th for the Minitex Technical Services Symposium. This year’s theme is Good Trouble: Activism and Ethics in Technical Services. The program will feature keynote speaker Beth Shoemaker, Emory University, who will discuss how we navigate ethical principles and turn those into daily practice. The second keynote will be Kenda Zellner-Smith, founder of Save the Boards Minneapolis, which seeks to preserve the art created after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. Six breakout sessions will follow the keynote presentations. Visit the website for the full program and to register for this event. The fee to attend is $25.00.
Registration will close at noon on Monday, November 8th for the Minitex Technical Services Symposium. This year’s theme is Good Trouble: Activism and Ethics in Technical Services. A brief summary is below, or visit the website for the full program and to register for this event. The fee to attend is $25.00.
Note: Scholarships are available for staff from underrepresented libraries, cultural heritage organizations, and students studying Library and Information Science. Contact Sara Ring (ring0089@umn.edu) for more information if you're in need of scholarship assistance.
The program will feature keynote speaker Beth Shoemaker, Rare Book Librarian at Emory University and co-chair of the Cataloging Ethics Steering Committee, which released the Cataloging Code of Ethics in January 2021. The second keynote will be Kenda Zellner-Smith, founder of Save the Boards Minneapolis, which seeks to preserve the art created after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
6 breakout sessions will follow:
- Recognizing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Ethical Co-working in Technical Services, Caterina Reed, Stony Brook University Libraries
- Easy Ways to Decolonize the Catalog, Bobby Bothmann, Minnesota State University, Mankato
- You’ve Got Accessible Resources: Can Your Users Find Them?, Violet Fox; David Norris, St. Catherine University
- Using SNAC to Highlight Women's Voices in Archival Description, Libby Hertenstein, Bowling Green State University
- From the Back Room to the Front Line: Integrating DEI Primary Sources for Discovery, Faye Mazzia and Ying Zhang, University of Central Florida Libraries
- Demographics of Cataloging and the New White Man's Burden, Preston Salisbury, Mississippi State University
View the full program and more information on the website: https://z.umn.edu/techservices2021
