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Jenna Freedman Coordinator of Reference Services and Zine Librarian , Barnard College

New Media Symposium Pratt Institute, April 25, 2009 Tech and Reference a Feminist Perspective http://jenna.openflows.com/talks/pratt/newmedia. Jenna Freedman Coordinator of Reference Services and Zine Librarian , Barnard College Radical Reference volunteer. context. Library job

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Jenna Freedman Coordinator of Reference Services and Zine Librarian , Barnard College

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  1. New Media Symposium Pratt Institute, April 25, 2009 Tech and Reference a Feminist Perspectivehttp://jenna.openflows.com/talks/pratt/newmedia Jenna Freedman Coordinator of Reference Services and Zine Librarian, Barnard College Radical Reference volunteer

  2. context • Library job • Tech skills • Age • Relation to "old" media • Library priority • Service population • Politics

  3. Tools I use Microsoft Office (also OpenOffice.org, and Google docs—cloud computing!) IM (Pidgin/Gaim, Meebo) Blogs (BarnardRefDesk, Radical Reference, Lower East Side Librarian, Zine Libraries): Blogger, Drupal, WordPress Social Networks (Facebook, Flickr, LiveJournal, MySpace, We Make Zines) Delicious (not socially), RSS Firefox, with extensions (LibX, Gmail, Delicious, Fireshot, Copy Plain Text, Google Gears) Jing (new to this) Tools I don't use Linked In (despite having an account) Twitter (creating an account for the library imminently, though) ALA Connect Less interested in A/V utilities like YouTube Do not yet own an mp3 player Web enabled telephone PDA Skype practice

  4. theory Reference is a feminist issue • Tech über alles • Privilege • The tyranny of the people who control the tools

  5. conclusion • Resist tyranny • Privilege service • Right tool for the job Contact me • IM (most services): BarnardLibJenna • Email http://jenna.openflows.com/contact

  6. articles, blog posts, and images credits • Confused thoughts on gender, libraries and tech by Meredith Farkas http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2006/08/27/on-gender-in-library-tech • I Can Has Cheezburger http://icanhascheezburger.com • Inside the Library Gender Gap by Stephanie Maatta http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6604387.html • LJ Series "New Roles": The Women Who Drive Library Technology by Eva Miller http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6435535.html • Lolbrarians http://community.livejournal.com/lolbrarians • Lower East Side Librarian 2007 http://jenna.openflows.com/leslzinecover/2007 • My shoes. Walk in them. By Dorothea Salo http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/2007/12/19/my-shoes-walk-in-them • Pafko at the Wall review http://jenna.openflows.com/reviews/delillo/pafkoatthewall • The Research Library in the 21st Century http://www.lib.utexas.edu/symposium

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