Upcoming Zine Events!
Minnesota Center for Book Arts Zine Trade Fair
Minneapolis, MN
June 11, 2005
http://www.mnbookarts.org/events/20thanniv.html
Allied Media Conference
Bowling Green, OH
June 17-19, 2005
http://www.alliedmediaconference.com/
zine librarians caucus among other attractions...
American Library Association Annual Conference
Chicago, IL
June 25-28 2005
http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2005a/home.htm
zine book and zine interest group meetings at
11 & 12, Saturday June 25th. gather at the Counterpoise booth #2745
Radical Reference Meeting, Saturday, June 25th: http://radicalreference.info/ALA
The Secret Lives of Librarians Event
Featuring Jenna Freedman, Travis Fristoe,
Jenn Phillips-Bacher, Keith Helt, and Celia Perez
Monday, June 27th, 7:00PM
Join this group of zine-making librarians as they break away from the
American Library Association Annual Conference to read from their zines to
reveal the inner lives of librarians that give lie to the stereotype of the
repressed bun-wearing, Dewey Decimal obsessed shusher. Jenna Freedman,
editor of the zine Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout-Out, is
the Coordinator of Reference Services at Barnard College Library in NYC. She
is a member of the library worker activist group Radical Reference that
supports activists and independent journalists. Travis Fristoe devotes
himself to libraries, amateur protest music and salvaging discarded bikes.
Jenn Phillips-Bacher and Sara Pete published Riot Librarrrian. A
librarian-in-training, Keith Helt publishes Flotation Device and is in the
band the Rories. Celia Perez publishes I Dreamed I Was Assertive and Skate
Tough You Little Girls, a zine about women in skateboarding and is a
reference and instruction librarian at Harold Washington College where she
spends much of her time asking them to turn off their cell phones.
http://quimbys.com/events.php
Quimby's Bookstore
1854 West North Avenue
Chicago IL 60622
773/342-0910
http://www.quimbys.com
Minneapolis Zine Fest
Minneapolis, MN
July 22-24, 2005
http://www.zinefest.org
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Reuters News Service -- More than a fifth of the planet's bird species face extinction as humans venture further into their habitats and introduce alien predators, an environmental group said on Wednesday. While there have been some success stories of species that reappeared or recovered, the overall situation of the world's birds is worsening, BirdLife International said in its annual assessment of the feathered fauna. "The total number (of bird species) considered to be threatened with extinction is now 1,212, which when combined with the number of near threatened species gives a total of exactly 2,000 species in trouble -- more than a fifth of the planet's remaining 9,775 species," BirdLife said. Several species from Europe appear in the list for the first time, including the European roller, for which key populations in Turkey and European Russia have declined markedly. BirdLife, a global alliance of conservation groups, said 179 species were categorised as critically endangered, the highest level of threat. They include the Azores bullfinch, one of Europe's rarest songbirds that has fewer than 300 left. ... "Despite the recent rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker, overall more species are currently sliding towards oblivion," said BirdLife communication officer Ed Parnell. "One in five bird species on the planet now faces a risk in the short or medium-term of joining the dodo, great auk and 129 other species that we know have become extinct since 1500." (06/01/05) [
