UCLA SRRT

Mission Statement?

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Occupy Wall Street Librarians Talk About Feminism, Activism and Librarianship

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From In the Library with the Lead Pipe:

Libraries can be very siloed organizations. How often are public services staff involved in cataloging, acquisitions, and electronic resources management decisions, and vice versa? What will happen when catalogers are alongside instruction librarians thinking of new approaches to resource discovery? Consensus can open opportunities by deconstructing silos and starting to create new models for library decision-making.

Libraries that successfully engage in consensus decision-making will see improvement in making decisions that best serve their patrons; more cohesion in staff and accountability; and are likely to experience more creativity in problem solving. Individuals in these libraries will most likely become more dedicated to serving the organization and working towards its shared vision and mission. The reason these changes may occur, is that the decision-making and visioning is shared—individuals all contribute to the definition of and accomplishment of goals. Individuals would begin creating and environment of respect and trust, enabling them to participate in a democratic decision-making process.

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A Sunday dedicated to activism/advocacy via self-directed information production in the printmaking medium.

(IT'S FREE AND AT THE FOWLER MUSEUM ON CAMPUS) (AND YOU GET TO MAKE MINI PROTEST SIGNS)

Kids in the Courtyard: Print Your Voice

an all-ages (but especially kid-friendly) workshop to "explore printmaking as a medium for protest."

Sunday, November 13, 2011, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

THEN, right after:

4 p.m.

"Join Mapping Another L.A. co-curator Chon Noriega, master printer Richard Duardo, director of Self Help Graphics & Art Evonne Gallardo, and artist Joel Garcia for a conversation in the galleries about the use of printmaking as a force in the struggle for social justice."

(Noriega is also the director of UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center) (free lecture)

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L.A. Xicano: A Symposium on Art and Place Over Time

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"Cascade, a pro-corporate, libertarian research and advocacy group in Portland, argues in the report that Multnomah County library operations are more expensive than those in Seattle and Denver...The report suggests Multnomah County put library operations up for a private bid, and argues, 'There is no inherent reason why library workers need to be unionized public employees.'" Steve Law

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"It's more a way to define the community through a culturally meaningful form of sharing, a physical impulse to pass books from one hand to another. It's what you do when you come together: you pool your books so that they can be browsed and shared. Sharing books is communal nourishment, like breaking bread." Barbara Fister