The London Art Book fair is held at the Whitechapel gallery from 11am 24-26 September 2010 presenting new international art publications for sale. Unfortunately the library needs its librarians today otherwise we would be there in person browsing some of the amazing stalls and purchasing new exciting publications.
If you do attend this weekend then please make sure you stop by the Iniva stall and say hello to some of our colleagues where you can buy a selection of Iniva publications.
We have over 80 current journal titles in the library and one of my most time consuming but enjoyable tasks is the job of indexing individual journal articles and creating abstracts. This involves going through key journal titles and researching the most interesting and exciting articles, reviews, and essays for our library users, and creating new catalogue records to make them accessible to everyone.
While this is usually a very lengthy process it's always worth it, and the job is made so much more enjoyable when you come across genuinely engaging and exciting articles.
We are always happy to see the latest issue of N.Paradoxa arrive in our library as the process of indexing and creating abstracts doesn't seem quite so time consuming with this journal.
N.Paradoxa is the international feminist art journal providing spotlights on female artists and feminist theory in an international context. And it's not just loved by the library team, at the end of each day I can guarantee you will find at least one issue left out on the tables having been consulted by library visitors during the day.
N.Paradoxa have now published their fantastic online Twelve Step Guide to Feminist Art History and Criticism. Each step asks a series of important questions while providing links to key texts, artists, and exhibition catalogues, many of which you can find in the Stuart Hall Library!
This is a fantastic online resource for anyone researching feminist art history and criticism, particularly in an international context, please do check it out. And the next time you are in the library make sure you take a look at our full collection of N.Paradoxa.
The new issue of Race Revolt is out now and is available in the Stuart Hall Library!
Race Revolt is one of our favourite zines in the library and we are hopefully planning a Race Revolt related event sometime in the future. The zine started in 2007 as an intervention into the silences around race in queer, feminist and activist communities that. Although articles may not address activism or queer-feminist politics directly, many of the voices in the 'zine can be located within these concerns.
In the meantime if you would like to catch up on any previous issues of Race Revolt you can now read earlier issues online.
Please check out this amazing interactive archive project created by Nazmia Jamal. From talking to some of our regular library users throughout the years, I'm hoping that this is a project you will really want to get involved with.
The Black British Lesbian Timeline is a new herstory project documenting lesbian, queer and feminist events, groups and publications within black, asian, minority ethnic and refugee communities in the UK.
Your contributions are needed, please visit the blog or contact Nazmia to find out more information. You can add your contributions to the blog, volunteer to collect information or interview someone, or record your own oral history.
This is an opportunity for you to get out your old diaries, fliers, badges, zines, meeting minutes, conference notes, and photos, and make sure these stories are not lost.
You can add dates, events etc directly to the timeline at http://blackbritishlesbian.typepad.com/blog/
For more information, offers of help or advice please email nazmiaijamal@gmail.com
We would like to draw your attention to the recent Save the Arts campaign. This campaign is organised by the London branch of the Turning Point Network, a national consortium of over 2,000 arts organisations and artists dedicated to working together and finding new ways to support the arts in the UK.
Iniva is one of the many institutions represented in the London Turning Point Network. We would like to direct all our library visitors and researchers past and present to take a look at the campaign and direct you to the online petition appealing to the government to reconsider funding cuts for the arts. Our library users consist of artists, curators, researchers, educators, students, young people, and the general public and we hope that you will all see the long term benefits of supporting the arts in this way.
Unfortunately as of yet there is no national campaign to save existing library services which are also severely under threat. It was recently announced that the MLA is to be disbanded and there are increasing cuts being made to library services across all sectors, particularly public library services. Libraries, archives, and the heritage sector are unfortunately suffering just as much as the arts, although with less sympathetic media attention. We hope that you continue to support libraries and recognise their cultural and social significance. The CILIP website currently has a brief overview of ways in which you can support all library services found here. Library and Information professionals are also encouraged to contact CILIP to defend the role of libraries across a wide range of sectors. For more information please visit the CILIP website here
The Stuart Hall Library was very kindly nominated by Naomi Robinson to receive a donation of £500 to buy books! SAGE employees are invited to nominate education and research libraries and institutions to receive the money for new books each year. Naomi Robinson nominated the library after spending some time here using the unique library and archive collections during her research last year.
We would like to thank Naomi for this nomination, and we are thrilled to announce that the Stuart Hall Library has been successful and we have now received a cheque for £500! We are quickly drawing up our shopping lists and we are extremely pleased that we are able to introduce some new publications to the library very soon courtesy of SAGE.
