UPDATE: Here's the wiki with all the info! http://wiki.radicalreference.info/index.php/RNC2008
lia's blog
Lia Reports Back: Radical Reference at ALA Midwinter 2008
Submitted by lia on Mon, 01/14/2008 - 5:27pm.Members, potential members and allies of Radical Reference met in Philadelphia at the A Space, who graciously offered us accommodations for our meeting for a small donation. Thanks A space!
Radical Reference at the Mid-Atlantic Radical Bookfair
Submitted by lia on Wed, 10/10/2007 - 9:41am.Radical Reference will be conducting two workshops on Saturday October 20th in lovely Baltimore. You can see a full schedule of speakers, tables and other workshops here.
Descriptions of the workshops we are conducting are here. We'll have a table with (hopefully) some exciting crafty stuff too, so come over, it should be pretty great.
Dandizette interviews Radical Reference
Submitted by lia on Wed, 08/01/2007 - 3:49pm.A while back James and I were interviewed by Dandizette. The interview is now up on their site here
Rad Ref Free Library Book Project
Submitted by lia on Thu, 06/14/2007 - 12:25pm.In the spirit of projects like
http://bookcrossing.com and
http://www.londonproject.co.uk/bookproject
we've decided to set some books free as well. Essentially it's a way for you to make the entire world, and especially places that lack libraries of their own, (ie.
Professor Eric Faden has created an amazing Fair Use video!
Submitted by lia on Tue, 05/22/2007 - 5:29pm.Bucknell prof Eric Faden along with some of his film students at Bucknell, has produced a terrific video mashup.
"A Fair(y) Use Tale" cuts together thousands of extremely short clips from dozens of Disney cartoons, lifting individual words and short phrases to spell out an articulate, funny, and educational lesson on how copyright works, or rather..doesn't work.
Unbelievable, But True! RR Shirts at the NYC Anarchist Book Fair!
Submitted by lia on Fri, 04/06/2007 - 12:50pm.There will be Rad Ref shirts available at the NYC Anarchist Book Fair! This was my first attempt at screenprinting, so some are very poor, but some are fine! And by fine I mean FINE! Go buy one!
Food Not Lawns-Cultivating Food Justice Conference!
Submitted by lia on Tue, 03/06/2007 - 12:49pm.On March 3rd, 2007 The San Diego Food Not Lawns put on an all day conference and workshop at City College.
Michelle Simon, author of "Appetite for Profit, How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back." was the opening speaker, and Dolores Huerta made the evening keynote address.
NYC Radical Reference meets with NYC IMC
Submitted by lia on Wed, 01/19/2005 - 6:54pm.On January 10th, 2005 members of the New York wing of Radical Reference met at the offices of the NYC Indypendent Media Center to discuss how RadRef can help these independent journalists gather and refine information.
