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Item Review: Tsuchi: Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art(Art Libraries Society of North America, 2022-11) Hosford, JohnReview of Tsuchi: Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art by Bert Winther-Tamaki. University of Minnesota Press, June 2022. 312 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-5179-1190-4 $34.95. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/tsuchi. Reviewed November 2022 by John Hosford, Art Librarian, Scholes Library, Alfred University, hosford@alfred.eduItem Dreaming of a Better ILS(Information Today, Inc., 2007-10) Bahr, EllenLots of people dream about what they’d want in a “new and improved” ILS. CIL asked this author to put the question to a number of library tech experts, then study their responses. Here she reports on the wishes they all have in common and the dreams of the individuals.Item Creating Library Websites with Joomla: Not Too Big, Not Too Small, Just Right(Code4Lib, 2010-12) Bahr, Ellen; Speed, MattMany organizations, including libraries, are turning to content management systems to simplify the management of their websites. Alfred University‘s Herrick Memorial Library recently implemented a new website using Joomla, an open-source content management system. While Drupal has received significant attention in the library community, Joomla may be a more practical choice for some libraries. The purpose of this paper is to share our experience with Joomla so that other libraries can more easily evaluate its suitability to their environment.Item Uncapping the lens: The history of early photography(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2009-01) Bahr, EllenThe following list developed out of a personal interest in photography and an interest in early photographic processes in particular. Explore some of the sites here to learn about the rich history of traditional photography. Included are overviews, timelines, descriptions of photographic processes, resources for traditional photography supplies, podcasts, online discussion lists, organizations, portals, and image collections. The focus for the most part is on noncommercial sites that would be useful to students, historians, and practitioners of traditional photography.Item One-to-one instruction: Two perspectives(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2015-01) Bahr, Ellen; Harriss, ChandlerIn this article, we share a description and analysis of a project undertaken as part of an introductory-level mass communication class at Alfred University (AU). The project involved a semester-long collaboration between a librarian and a faculty member. The project was founded by a desire to give students an integrative experience, meaning an experience that connects the classroom with external campus resources (i.e., the library). We will present the experience from two perspectives, that of the librarian and that of the faculty.Item Repairing the Curriculum: Using OER to Fill Gaps(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2022) Adams, Kevin; Dannick, SamanthaItem Book Review: Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History. Liam Warfield, Walter Crasshole, and Yony Leyser, eds. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2021. 224p. Paper, $18.00 (ISBN 9781629637969).(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2022-03) Adams, KevinQueercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History tells the stories of queer punk, primarily in North America from 1969 to 1999, by constructing a narrative from the movement’s media (zines, records, and films), personalities, politics, and activism. The book is a snapshot of voices from many perspectives across this period of queer punk, and the imagery and voices are as graphic, explicit, and colorful as you might expect. Queercore springs from hours of interviews that were conducted originally for a film by the same name created by Leyser. The book’s editors used the remaining footage and dialogue to put together this work. The messy nature of history and punk are embodied by the oral history’s chorus of diverging voices. They come together in this volume to form a cohesive narrative covering several key themes: 1) defining queercore; 2) the history of queercore from 1969 to 1999; and 3) the media that made the movement. This book is of value to LIS workers on multiple fronts, particularly in the context it provides for archivists and librarians who specialize in alternative information resources and subcultures. Additionally, the book lays out a variety of activist and antifascist strategies for creating space for marginalized voices, something library workers at all levels ought to prioritize.Item A "Soup to Nuts" OER Workshop for Faculty and Staff(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2021-11) Dannick, SamanthaItem The Invertebrates Scale of Librarianship: Finding Your Niche(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2021-01) Dannick, SamanthaAs a new academic librarian trying to establish myself and build relationships, I’ve been forced to give a fair amount of thought to what kind of librarian I want, and need, to be. Like many academic librarians, I have been trying to find the balance between being available for our faculty—supporting their (and their students’) instruction needs and facilitating their research—and being a professional in my own right, advocating for myself and my expertise. Many articles about the faculty-librarian relationship focus on faculty perceptions of librarians (or vice versa) and on the need for collaborative relationships. These are important aspects of academic librarianship to address, but they don’t really speak to a significant contributing factor—librarians’ perceptions of themselves and their role.Item Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Punk Alternative Publications: Challenges to Fugitive Materials(Taylor & Francis, 2021) Adams, KevinPunk scenes are complex and heterogeneous. They have always been prolific producers of physical documentation of their attitudes, beliefs, and actions. At the same time, these scenes have often existed on the margins, which has led to the creation of fugitive collections of self-documentation. In Slavic, East European and Eurasian (SEEE) countries, this documentation has historically taken the form of non-traditional music releases, zines, and samizdat. Due to the often-illegal nature of these creations, the materials did not find immediate homes in official repositories, and the fugitive materials experienced a covert diaspora initially across Eastern Europe and later across multiple continents. The author provides a case study of the current state of collections of non-traditionally published SEEE punk materials to highlight the challenges that face access and use of marginalized, diasporic collections. This paper provides a definition of punk in a SEEE context; offers a literature review to illustrate the discourse and collections that address Slavic and East European punk materials; draws connections between SEEE punk alternative publications and broader marginalized fugitive collections; describes obstacles faced by collections of Slavic punk materials; and concludes by way of recommendations for addressing these challenges in order to improve access and use.