November 2024
SLASC & SAASC @ SJSU ischool Present: Texas After Violence
On November 20th, 2024 SLASC & SAASC jointly presented Texas After Violence talk with Hannah Whelan. Hannah Whelan is the previous Digital Archivist (now Associate Director) of Texas After Violence—a community archive dedicated to understanding the impacts of state violence. Texas After Violence Project is a community-based archive and documentary project that cultivates a deeper understanding of the impacts of state violence on individuals, families, and communities. In addition to her work at TAVP, she also provides consulting services for various projects contending with sensitive text-based and oral records obtained through litigation against the US government or through Freedom of Information Act Requests (FOIAs). View the recording here.
October 2024
SLASC Presents: Navigating the World of Medical Librarianship: A Bay Area Perspective
On October 17, SLASC hosted a captivating panel discussion featuring experienced medical librarians from the University of California San Francisco and Stanford Lane Medical Library. The panel discussed the dynamic world of medical librarianship and the diverse career paths available in this exciting field. View the recording here.
September 2024
SLASC & SAASC @ SJSU ischool Present: International Guitar Research Archive (IGRA)
On September 25, SLASC and SAASC jointly hosted a conversation with Julieta Garcia, an archivist at the International Guitar Research Archives, to learn more about one of the world’s largest collections of guitar sheet music. View the recording here.
May 2024
Digitizing The Barrio with Angelica Hernandez
On May 23, SLASC met with Angelica Hernandez for a conversation about her work on the Digitizing The Barrio archive project for the Puerto Rican Cultural Center (of Chicago). Angelica Hernandez is the archivist for the Puerto Rican Cultural Center’s Digitizing The Barrio archive project. She received her Masters in Library and Information Science from Dominican University in 2022, and a BA in Art History from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017. Born and raised in Avondale, Hernandez is deeply passionate about community engagement, equitable access to information, and participatory archival practices. View the recording here.
Dark Archives with Megan Rosenbloom
On May 8, SLASC met with author and librarian Megan Rosenbloom, whose book Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin (2020) explores the practice of binding books with human skin. Megan spoke about current events around anthropodermic books around libraries in the United States and ethical considerations being made by librarians who find these items in their collections. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh’s MLIS program, Megan also talked about her journey from journalism into medical librarianship to her current role as Collections Strategy Librarian for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and how she found opportunities to learn about and work with rare books. This event was not recorded.
April 2024
Books Behind Bars: A Conversation with San Quentin’s Librarian
Have you ever wondered how incarcerated individuals access library resources? On April 24, SLASC spoke with librarian Gabriel Loiederman, who has served as librarian at San Quentin State Prison in California since 2018. Before embarking on his library career at San Quentin, Gabriel wore many hats. He brought the hustle and bustle of New York City to his work as a bike courier and then channeled his organizational skills as a cataloger for the Internet Archive in Boston.
February 2024
SLASC Alumni Panel
On February 26, we welcomed back SLASC Executive Committee alumni Lauren Kime, JonLuc Christensen, Sereen Suleiman, Tina Kremzner-Hsing, Hannah Martin, and Amy Nykamp for a look at their journey through the iSchool and where their careers have taken them into records management, public librarianship, and digital asset management, and how they have remained involved with the Special Libraries Association. View recording here.