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Cataloguing Creativity: A Symposium of Literary Archives

Cataloguing Creativity: A Symposium of Literary Archives. Working Press, books by and about working class artists, 1986-1996 Cataloguing Collaboratively. Background: University for the Creative Arts. Six Art Schools and Technical Institutes dating from late Victorian times

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Cataloguing Creativity: A Symposium of Literary Archives

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  1. Cataloguing Creativity: A Symposium of Literary Archives Working Press, books by and about working class artists, 1986-1996 Cataloguing Collaboratively

  2. Background: University for the Creative Arts • Six Art Schools and Technical Institutes dating from late Victorian times • Campuses at Canterbury, Rochester, Maidstone (Kent), Epsom, Farnham (Surrey) • Specialising in the Creative Arts

  3. Beginnings of The Working Press • Initiated by Dr Stefan Szczelkun, with Graham Harwood • About working class identity • First self funded titles in 1987 Working Press poster

  4. About The Working Press • Class, gender and race perceptions (1980s-1990s politics) • Digital innovations • Self-funded publishing activity • Archive includes: • Correspondence • Conference records • Draft manuscripts • Finance • Publicity and distribution

  5. Class, Identity, and Culture Conference 1994

  6. Letters of reviews of Working Press Letter to Stefan Szczelkun relating to the pamphlet ‘Artists Liberation’

  7. Working class women artists

  8. Working class black artists

  9. Publicity Nothing Special, by Micheline Mason (a day in the life of a girl in a wheelchair)

  10. Links between different publishers The Federation of Worker Writers & Community Publisher letter, confirming funding for the 1994 conference

  11. Partners in the project • Dr Stefan Szczelkun, Artist • bookRoom, UCA research cluster.

  12. Cataloguing requirements Initial talks with Stefan: • Cataloguing as an artistic process • History of Working Press • Information about individuals

  13. Cataloguing requirements • Discussions on and Involvement in: • Definitions • Arrangement • Description

  14. Cataloguing requirements • Searchability and Accessibility • - Exploring links between books and archive • material • - Subject terms(including • librarian knowledge)

  15. Under exploration • Online presence • Voice recordings • Student involvement • Visual Guides • Exhibitions

  16. In summary… • Greater understanding of collection • Arrangement • Description • Subject terms • Links between published/unpublished material • Involvement leading to engagement

  17. Thanks for listening!Contact us at… ucreative.ac.uk/library Rtaylor8@ucreative.ac.uk http://ucaarchives.wordpress.com/

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