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Roberts Street needs contributions from our fans to help us pay for rent and power, buy glue sticks, buy zines, and basically keep our doors open and continue to offer rad programming and resources in 2012. We invite you to join our Fan Club by making a donation to the Centre. Attached is a sponsorship form with information about making a donation or becoming a sustaining member. If you would like to make a donation as a gift for the holidays, we will send a token of our appreciation [surprise!] along with a “donation has been made on your behalf” card to the lucky recipient.
We'll even come to you and pick up the donation if you live in Halifax and make a donation during our Fan Club Week, December 5-11.
Take a look at the flyer.
Sarah Evans, zinemaker and co-founder of the Anchor Archive Zine Library, was recently interviewed about the pet calendar and 24 Hour Zine Challenge on These Things that People Make - an awesome show about zines and other things that people make on CFRU. You can listen to Sarah's interview and other episodes of the show (including interviews with other Halifax zinemakers and former Robert
The Anchor Archive Zine Library is seeking submissions for the Anchorless Archive Zinemobile – the amazing roving zine cart! As part of its fundraising week (May 7-14), the Anchor Archive is building a zine cart that will be pushed or pulled around the city to promote and distribute zines.
Last Friday, Mike and Juele did the final boil-down of maple sap they collected around Halifax's north end, even in the crazy weather. A handful of people showed up despite the storm (those wonderful keeners!) and zines were distributed, stories and pancakes shared. The experience was a happy, if cold and wet one.
When I went to the Drupal site to find and download the Directory module, I ended up looking through all of the different modules associated with Taxonomy and I fell in love with Drupal again. Maybe "love" is too strong of a word, but I remembered how amazing Drupal is and how it can do everything and how much fun it is to try to figure out how to do something in Drupal.
Last week one of the Roberts Street residents (Macho!) came up with an awesome idea: start a blog on the website for residents to post info and updates about their projects. Of course!
The new issue of Zine Librarian Zine is out! In case you can’t tell from the title, it’s an awesome zine about zines and libraries. I wrote an article for the new issue about subject cataloguing and making a thesaurus for the Anchor Archive Zine Library. The PDF is available for viewing and printing. For a quick read, here is my article:
I apologize for my long absence from the Catalogue Blogue. A lot has happened since I last wrote.
As we’ve written about in detail elsewhere on this blog, we use the Taxonomy module in Drupal for the Subject field. It’s set up so that every time we enter a new subject term the term gets added to a controlled vocabulary that’s stored in Drupal.
I’ve found a couple of resources for alternative subject headings since my last post:
Now that we have this awesome catalogue, our next task is to fill it with data, or catalogue the collection of the Anchor Archive Zine Library. There are about 2000 zines in the collection, plus books and other items, but we’re just focusing on the zine collection for now. We hope to have most of the cataloguing done by September or October of 2008.
There are some fields in the zine record table for which we want to use a controlled vocabulary.
We have now conceived of a design for
most aspects of the Anchor Archive library system. We have made
postings about what different parts of the system will look like, all
sharing the category of “System Design.” We have been working in a
practice system that Zac installed on his server. If anyone would like
This week I began exploring Drupal. When I started working on the Anchor Archive project back in September, my friend installed Drupal on his server and added the Content Construction Kit so that I could assess Drupal’s suitability for building a system for the Anchor Archive.
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