Our Publication
Our Goals for the Publication:
- To allow participants to reflect on their learning experience, to reflect the complementary expertise and talents of our particular group, and to demonstrate the breadth of methods and modalities in which search and discovery can – or could – take place
- To demonstrate for a range of stakeholders – member libraries, their leaders and staff; other aligned institutions; artists and designers; learners in other NYC “schools”; city officials who make decisions affecting libraries and archives; potential funders – the values of this program, including possibilities for cross-institutional cross-pollination, interdisciplinary thinking, camaraderie, and mutual aid
- To highlight the wealth of cultural resources and community intelligences in our city; and to demonstrate the benefits of – and potential for — well-resourced civic knowledge networks
Planning Your Contributions
We’ve decided to merge our top ideas — a box zine set, a scavenger hunt, a how-to manual, and a clock — into a four-part (exact # TBD!) zine set, each multi-authored, that (1) examines various approaches to search; (2) promotes urban exploration and (3) includes a temporal dimension.
For more, see our project planning doc, at the top of which you’ll find a discussion of our agreed-upon format. Here’s photo documentation of the brainstorming session from our April 29 meeting, too.
Sharing Your Potential Contributions: Please share — by May 22 — up to three potential themes / topics / sites you might like to explore through your contribution. Our curatorial group will then organize us into thematic clusters for each of our four(-ish!) zines.
Sharing Precedents and Inspiration: contribute to our Arena channel!