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Published: March 30, 2020 
Self-care resources compiled by librarians for the Collaborative Guide to Pandemic Pedagogy
Published: March 30, 2020
Activities Backyard birding and wildlife watching Bob Ross Cook or bake If you have the ingredients, try Lace cookies. Cross stitch! Digital jigsaw puzzling https://www.jigsawplanet.com/ Free grown up (and some kid friendly) coloring pages at https://library.nyam.org/colorourcollections/ Free watercolor, lettering, and journaling resources Let’s Make Art If you have a Nintendo Switch, Just Dance 2020…
Read MoreZoom Best Practices
Published: March 30, 2020
There are a few simple Zoom practices that may help to ensure effective video conferences and to simplify as much as possible the process of scheduling, hosting, and attending meetings. These recommendations are based on UCLA’s instance of Zoom and the way that Zoom experts and webinar account holders use Zoom dozens of times a…
Read MoreIS Lab’s Online Journals
Published: March 20, 2020
Several journals available in the IS Lab may be accessed online, either by open access or using the UCLA VPN. Even when you are sheltered in place, these online journals are a great resource you can use to stay connected to the Information Studies community and remain apprised of recent scholarly work. Open access journals…
Read MorePerspectives on professional labor & library services to incarcerated people in Library Quarterly & Library Trends
Published: March 10, 2020
In this new series of blog posts, we highlight physical resources available for research and experimentation in the IS Lab . For our first blog post, we introduce The Library Quarterly and Library Trends, two longstanding journals of library and information research. Both journals and their editorial teams are composed of scholars with interdisciplinary backgrounds…
Read MoreFilm Handling and Inspection Workshop
Published: March 10, 2020Have you ever wanted to know how to handle film? In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the basics of film handling. Participants will first learn the properties of film, proper film storage techniques, and signs of film decay and damage before gaining hands-on experience handling and inspecting films of various formats held in…
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