2025
- Kicked off the USA@250 Minizine Project.
- Published a piece about Austin music zines on the Oxford American website. It was also featured on Burnaway.
- Was interviewed for an Austin Chronicle article about the reopening of the Austin History Center by Joe Ellett.
- Was mentioned in an Austin American-Statesman column about the reopening of the Austin History Center by Michael Barnes.
- Helped pull of the 9th annual Lone Star Zine Fest and ramp up board and member participation in Austin Zine Friends.
- Tabled at the Zine Pavilion at the ALA convention in Philadelphia and participated in the ZineCat followup convening.
- Presented “Cataloging the Zine Revolution” workshop at the Society of Southwest Archivists annual meeting in Lafayette in May.
- Traveled to Pennsylvania, Louisiana (twice), Minnesota (twice), Utah, and the Pacific Northwest & Olympic Peninsula.
2024
- Recieved the Society of Southwest Archivists’ Distinguished Service Award for being “a human conduit to the archives profession.”
- Helped pull of the 8th annual Lone Star Zine Fest and the 2024 Austin Archives Bazaar.
- Participated in the Zine Librarians unConference and NEH-funded ZineCat convening in New York City in August.
- Continued serving the public at the Austin History Center, and serving on the boards of the Archivists of Central Texas and Austin Zine Friends.
- Traveled to California and New York.
- Failed to keep up with this log. Additions may be forthcoming.
2023
- Helped pull of the 7th annual Lone Star Zine Fest.
- Continued serving the public at the Austin History Center, and serving on the boards of the Archivists of Central Texas and Austin Zine Friends.
- Failed to keep up with this log. Additions may be forthcoming.
2022
- Gave outreach talks for the Austin History Center to the staff of KUT radio, and to the Bee Cave Public Library’s “What’s New Wednesday” group.
- Coordinated repository tables, edited the website, and arranged for some publicity for the 2022 Austin Archives Bazaar on April 24th at the ABGB!
- Continued serving the public at the Austin History Center, and serving as President of the board of the Archivists of Central Texas.
- Attended the 50th Society of Southwest Archivists annual meeting in Houston in May, and helped to create a collaborative quilt for the silent auction benefitting the scholarships fund.
- Organized the 6th annual Lone Star Zine Fest.
- Made a triumphant return to fandom during SXSWeek in March!
2021
- Held the fifth annual Lone Star Zine Fest (virtual version) on March 7th.
- Continued serving the public at the Austin History Center, serving as President of the board of the Archivists of Central Texas.
- Presented at the Society of Southwest Archivists annual meeting in May.
- Went on another looooong camping trip across the Western US with family.
2020
- Began serving as Reference Archivist at the Austin History Center just before the COVID-19 pandemic shut the world down. It has been both challenging and rewarding so far!
- Pulled off the biggest and best Lone Star Zine Fest yet on March 1st!
- Participated in virtual versions of International Zine Libraries Day and the Zine Librarians unConference.
2019
- Attended Digital Frontiers 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin.
- Organized the 3rd annual Lone Star Zine Fest and began planning for the next one.
- Traveled to Poland and Lithuania!
- Presented zine workshops at various Austin Public Library branches.
- Recruited tablers for and facilitated a zine-making workshop at the Dougherty Arts Center’s Date Night at the DAC: Zine Meet.
- Unveiled Town Talk Library‘s new home at MonkeyWrench Books and kicked off the monthly Austin Zine Friends meetup.
- Attended the Society of Southwest Archivists annual meeting in Tucson on behalf of FromThePage, and organized the 4th Quilt Bee fundraiser.
- Serving on the board of the Archivists of Central Texas.
- Co-chaired the Host Committee for the Society of American Archivists annual meeting in Austin.
2018
- Helped organize & attended the Breaking Library Silos for Social Justice workshop.
- Organized the 3rd Society of Southwest Archivists Scholarships Quilt Bee fundraiser.
- Took time off to see friends and enjoy music during South By Southwest.
- Zines in Libraries & Archives talk and zine workshop with the UT iSchool’s ALA/TLA student chapter.
- Attended the Society of Southwest Archivists annual meeting in San Antonio & hosted an Alliance for Local Music Archives lunchtime meetup.
- Attended the Zine Librarians (un)Conference in Minneapolis & visited family in St. Paul.
- Went on a 10-day camping trip across the Western US with family.
- Pulled off the second Lone Star Zine Fest!
- Gave a talk on “Preserving Your Personal Archives” at Holland Photo Imaging.
- Began consulting on the Gladewater High School Oral History Project.
- Tabled at San Antonio Zine Fest on behalf of Town Talk Library and Tiny Treats.
- Hosted two Town Talk Library and Tiny Treats pop up events at the Bus Stop Shop.
- Chaired the program committee for the 3rd Austin Archives Bazaar.
2017
- Worked with two UT School of Information Capstone students: Elyse Chevalier worked on issues around cataloging for Town Talk Library‘s contemporary zine collection, and Laura Rivoir developed transcription guidelines for the Austin Fanzine Project.
- Wrapped up my work at UT Libraries.
- Started working on the Austin City Limits Archive Project at KLRU-TV.
- Moderated “I Remember That Band”: Preserving Local Music at South By Southwest.
- Presented Outreach: Why & How to Dr. Trace’s Archival Enterprise II class at UT’s iSchool.
- Attended the Society of Southwest Archivists annual meeting.
- Helped organize the first Lone Star Zine Fest.
- Attended the Society of American Archivists annual meeting & facilitated an Alliance for Local Music Archives meetup.
- Did a weeklong residency at the Queer Zine Archive Project.
- Went on a solo road trip to Southern Illinois to see the total solar eclipse.
- Coordinated the creation of the first Texas Archives War zine and organized a guerrilla outreach event with archivists handing out zines to passersby at the Angelina Eberly Statue in downtown Austin on the 175th anniversary of the (second) Texas Archives War of 1842.
2016
- Worked with UT School of Information student, Melissa Roberts, on her Capstone project evaluating possible platforms for the Portal to Austin Music History, and with Kristin Sullivan, who developed the user experience aspects of a web interface to support crowd-contributed descriptive information about archival collections.
- Conducted a staff share project at UT’s Fine Arts Library focusing on archives and the zine collection, including programming, collection building, and archival management.
- Helped organize THATcamp Digital Pedagogy at UT Libraries.
- Attended the Modern Language Association convention.
- Presented a classroom instruction session introducing Lee Chesney’s undergraduate students to the world of zines.
- Took time off to see music during South By Southwest.
- Co-presented an overview of the national effort to build a Zine Union Catalog at DPLA Fest.
- Moderated Getting it Together After a Disaster: the Road to Recovery at the Society of Southwest Archivists annual meeting.
- Attended the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries and co-chaired the Texas Digital Humanities Consortium Mini-Conference.
- Helped wrap up the TARO to the 21st Century planning grant.
- Collaborated on a couple of grant applications.
- Participated in the Zine Librarians (un)Conference.
- Attended the Society of American Archivists annual meeting, and moderated a workshop session on outreach by regional archives groups.
- Attended Digital Frontiers and helped coordinate THATCamp TXDHC.
- Chaired the Program Committee for the 2016 Austin Archives Bazaar!
2015
- Worked with UT School of Information student, Susan Floyd, on her Capstone project creating a plan for and drafting a grant application to fund development of the Portal to Austin Music History (PAMH).
- Facilitated What are digital humanities & digital scholarship? brown-bag discussion at UT Libraries.
- Co-presented Introduction to Open Refine webcast via the Texas Digital Humanities Consortium.
- Guest spoke in UT iSchool “Digital Libraries” class.
- Spoke on AWIT Women in Tech Panel at the UT School of Information.
- Attended 2015 Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives Unconference and Symposium: Innovation, Collaboration, and Models.
- Took time off to see music during the South By Southwest Music festival.
- Presented a talk about what I’ve learned from the Austin Fanzine Project for Queer Zine Week at the University of North Texas.
- Co-presented From Early Modern Printing to Post-Modern Indie Publishing: Using eMOP on AFP with Matt Christy at the Texas Digital Humanities Consortium conference.
- Co-presented UT’s Fine Arts Library’s Zine Party! event.
- Co-presented Zine Party! Collaborating across UT Libraries to Experiment with Methods, Workflows & Tools, Build Awareness of a Collection, and Teach Metadata Literacy with Aaron Choate, Melanie Cofield, Ann Marchock, Rebecca Pad, and Laura Schwartz at the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries conference.
- Spoke on Archiving the Electronic Frontier at Austin’s Electronic Frontier Foundation monthly meet-up.
- Spoke on The Austin Archives Bazaar: Bringing Archives to the People, and chaired Represent!: Challenges and Rewards of Documenting Underdocumented Communities panel at the Society of Southwest Archivists annual meeting.
- Worked with UT School of Information student, Lizzie Seiple, on her Capstone project re-designing UT’s Fine Arts Library’s zine collection webpage. (See Lizzie’s presentation on the project at the Digital Frontiers conference.)
- Hosted the Zine Librarians (un)Conference at the University of Texas Libraries.
- Submitted Portal to Austin Music History grant application to the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Participated in the Texas Archival resources Online (TARO) NEH planning grant kickoff meeting & began work chairing the Governance Committee.
- Gave a short talk on crowdsourcing metadata & gamification as part of No More Silence in the Library: Documenting Fandom and Fan Culture in Archives and Special Collections), Society of American Archivists annual meeting.
- Attended Digital Frontiers and THATcamp Digital Frontiers.
- Began planning for the 2016 Austin Archives Bazaar.
- Joined the national Zine Union Catalog planning team.
- Participated in the Texas Digital Humanities Consortium planning retreat.