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Cover | BY MILO
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intro | BY ELLA & JENNA
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IZLuC2020 c ollage | BY JEN
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Writing our community care expectations | BY LILITH
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the IZLUC | BY JENNA
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The Spokes Model | BY JENNA
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Accessibility and Equity | BY KAT
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IZLD2020 [j21] | BY ELLA
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Coordinating | BY KELLY M
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Organizing tools | BY ELLA
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5 Tips for Being More Social on your Own Terms | BY ZINEDABAAD
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Languages | BY APRIL
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izluc survey | BY LOU MARIE
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Time zones | BY APRIL
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Programming | BY ELLA
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Documentation | BY JEN
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Outreach/Promotion | BY ZIBA
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Highlights from instagram
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Unconference sessions, two views | BY LILITH & ANON.
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Mad Zine Libs Aren’t Mad, A History | BY MILO
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A session screenshot | BY JENNA
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Dear Zine Community | BY L.
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Edited in Brooklyn & Rochester, NY by Ella & Jenna in 2021. CC-BY
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INTRO 2020 was the year the zine librarians unconference (ZLuC) was to convene outside the United States for the first time. We were going to meet in Montréal! Quel exciting! But then 2020 happened. Canada rightly told conferences to fuck all the way off. We were sad for a bit, but then after our millionth Zoom meeting, we realized that the conference Could Go On and maybe even be better for being remote. We had to work through a lot of ideas. Some of that process is documented here, if you read on. Like how did we try to wrangle timezones equitably? What tools did we use and why? Is there value in a test-run? How is social media a part of this? Does an unconference work online? We had a meeting in November 2020, talked about making this zine, were so ambitious, and here it is late may 2021, and we're putting this sucker together still on Zoom using the despicable Goog, but it WILL BE A ZINE. We feel mostly like we did a thing, and want to say what we did and also how we did it because we used our anarchopunk brains to make a space in a weird traumatic time, but we're also librarianarchivists and we care about The Future. So here, 2 Future, this is for you <3
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Highlights from @zineLUC on Instagram
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UnConference Sessions So, um, the unconference sessions at the unconference: I'm just going to say it--they didn't work so well over Zoom. We may have had too many hours of programming and people were too fatigued for it, or maybe, as one European suggested, the North Americans tended to dominate, or maybe Zoom just isn't the medium for free-flowing discussions among groups that consist 50% of people who know each other really well and 50% who are first-time attendees and perhaps non-native speakers of the primary language of the conference. That being said, for documentation's sake, what we tried to do was provide about two hours of unconference time in each session, following an hour-ish of programmed programming. We had topic ideas ahead of time for people to consider, but we could break into groups to talk about anything. Some of the trouble is that unconference scheduling takes a while. I led the first block of uncon, so after my challenging experience (hard time deciding, inequitable participation, lack of enthusiasm), I decided to have proposals ready for the next two nights. As it turned out, in the time slot I facilitated, the one favoring the UTC+10ish time zines (notable Australia), many participants reported being disappointed the cataloging session was in the middle of the night for them. I invited catalogers to join us for the third night (night for me, midday for Melbourne) so that we could do an impromptu cataloging uncon slot. It seemed to go well, but the dropoff by the end was significant. I'll also say that running three days of unconference sessions was wearing. I mean, it's hard on the psyche to be on so much. I also tend to feel responsible for everyone's good time and exhaust myself with the effort to make everyone happy, which of course is not truly my responsibility, but as host how can you not worry?!? I'm going to flat out say that my advice going forward is not to have unconference sessions at all. We could do free-flowing sessions, but I think the topics should be chosen ahead of time (could be by some sort of voting or consensus-building mechanism) and there should be a different facilitator for each. The idea that programming would attract unconferencers makes sense, but it's too easy in an online environment to peace out, and I think online sessions are less energizing than in person. That doesn't mean I don't think IZLUC was awesome, because it was. I just think the unconference sessions need to be re-thought. Or replaced. Maybe with candy or dancing bears.
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Here's a screenshot from the Australian time zone session on cataloging, featuring some US cataloging all-stars and other North American librarians, archivists, and technologists. It was Halloween in some country, but let the record show that Matthew pretty much always looks like this. 35
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O U T R O Selected feedback from conference survey I liked the diversity of subjects, the fact it was all online so I could participate for the first time, the fact it was accessible to international audiences with sessions for every time zone, the variety of talks and discussions (unconference), "meeting" some zinesters and librarians from across the globe whose zines I'd read or whose work I'd heard about, getting to know zinesters/librarians who don't live that far from me... It was a little lengthy, and would've prefered more structured sessions with discussion bits (and shorter unconference bits - sorry, I said it!). Time zones = always difficult
Maybe don't have the event during a time change (Daylight Savings Time in the US)
I'm super thrilled to have been part of the organizing group for this. Y'all are magical!!! I loved the community care expectations. I thought they were very well thought out and I appreciated that they were consistently communicated. The care taken in providing captions was very welcome. The multiple times zones approach went off very well.
Maybe have the events spread across more days instead of one long weekend.
I would love a hybrid in-person + online option in the future when we can travel and be together as well as include folks who aren't able to travel. 37
Resources and Credits Montreal bagel on page 1 from a video comparison with NYC bagels by Here Be Barr Sad zine librarian drawing on page 1 by Jenna, age 54 Instagram graphic artists include April, Kelsey, Lilith, Milo, Rhonda, and Ziba (and some we may have missed) Dancing bears on page 25 by Ren Huang, made for washi tape swag for Barnard Library
https://linktr.ee/IZLUC2020 Zine librarians email list --------> Zinelibraries.info Discord: Zines & GLAM https://discord.gg/cSG3gmx Facebook: Zine Librarians Insta & Twitter: @ZineLUC