127: Matthew Murray

Guest host Thomas Maluck chats with Matthew Murray about zine libraries, diversity in comics, and podcasting in the library world. Matthew Murray is a Visiting Library Fellow at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas University Libraries. When he’s not trying to read all of the comics ever Matthew spends his time recording and editing the … Continue reading 127: Matthew Murray

Guest host Thomas Maluck chats with Matthew Murray about zine libraries, diversity in comics, and podcasting in the library world.

Matthew Murray is a Visiting Library Fellow at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas University Libraries. When he’s not trying to read all of the comics ever Matthew spends his time recording and editing the Book Club for Masochists readers’ advisory podcast, editing for the graphic novel review site No Flying No Tights, helping to run the Zine Pavilion at ALA, making the fiction anthology zine Two-Fisted Library Stories, and playing with Raspberry Pi computers and maker/technology stuff in general. He’s also willing to talk about why libraries are bad at cataloguing graphic novels for basically forever (or until they get better at it).

Thomas Maluck is a teen services librarian at Richland Library in Columbia, South Carolina with an MLIS from the University of South Carolina. He served on YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels For Teens committee for its 2014 and 2015 lists and has presented about teen programming and collections at various library and pop culture conventions. When he’s not reading as a juror for the Cybils and SEE-IT awards, he reviews for No Flying, No Tights and co-hosts a podcast about comics and libraries, The Secret Stacks. A member of the library’s anime club gave him a Star Build Strike Gundam, the most prestigious award in teen librarianship.

SHOW NOTES:

Zines!

Zine Pavilion at the American Library Association Annual ConferenceZinelibraries.infoZine Librarians – Mailing ListZine Librarians – Facebook GroupZine Librarian (un)ConferencesWhatcha mean, what’s a zine? Introducing Zine Collections and Small Press Publishing into Your Library Collections – Poster presentation at Canadian Library Association conference 2014

Two-Fisted Library Stories!

WebsiteBack Issues on IssuuFacebookTwitter Bot

Maker Stuff!

The Raspberry Pi powered Readers’ Advisory Device“Critical Making with a Raspberry Pi – Towards a Conceptualization of Librarians as Makers” – Article | Poster

Work Stuff!

ORCID @ University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries Pre-Pilot ReportFlying Blind: Creating a Library ORCID Integration Pilot – Presentation at the 2018 Digital Initiatives Symposium on April 24th

Comics!

Bringing the Library to the Comic Con article by Amie Wright about the library presence at Emerald City ComiconA Program Designed Specifically For Educators And Librarians at Emerald City Comicon this year on March 1stComics Conference for Educators and Librarians – 2017’s library events at San Diego Comic-Con

More info about this year’s plans at this link

No Flying No Tights – Comic review site by and for library peopleTintin in the Congo – WikipediaComics on a Hot Tintin Roof – Matthew’s visit to the Hergé MuseumThe Hilda comics by Luke PearsonGiant Days, vol. 1 (Goodreads) by John Allison, Lissa Treiman, and Max SarinMonstress, vol. 1 (Goodreads) by Marjorie Liu and Sana TakedaALA Graphic Novels & Comics in Libraries MIG – Facebook GroupSecret Stacks – Thomas’ podcast

Podcasting!

Book Club for Masochists – Podcast

Best of 2017 episode

Library Podcasters – Mailing List

Other Links!

#CritLib – The Critical Librarianship websiteLeague of Librarian Gamers – ALA GameRT – Facebook GroupReaders’ Advisory for Library Staff – Facebook Group

Matthew!

Matthew’s WebsiteTwitter: @MidniteLibraryEmail: [email protected]