Over the past few months, I have been reclassifying the “Popular Movie Collection” at the small academic library where I work. This is the second of two blog posts about the project.  In the first entry, I wrote about finding a way to fit movies into the Library of Congress classification system.  In this post, I am going to talk about implementing that system, and in particular, my attempts to make sense of movie genres.

Over the last few months, I have been working on reclassifying the “Popular Movie Collection” at the small academic library where I work. This is the first of two blog posts I am planning about the project, describing the process of deciding how to classify the movies. [Update: Part 2 can be found here.]

I just got home from a great talk at the Stonewall National Museum and Archives.  The talk was about the queer geography of South Florida from the 1970s to today, using census data and advertisements in archived gay magazines to track movements of lesbian and gay households and businesses through different communities in the area.  It was fascinating research, and helped me learn quite a bit about the region I currently call home.  The most exciting thing to me, though, was getting to see people be excited about archives and archival research.

I recently read this article about the Allen Ginsberg collection at Stanford, which I saw on Twitter, and was really struck by several things about it.

Just in time for Pride month, I spent most of June processing the collections of two (probably) lesbian mathematicians.  I really enjoy my job at the Archives of American Mathematics, which collects the papers of mathematicians and mathematics organizations, and over the past year, I have developed a real affection for the world of mathematics.  I was very excited to work with materials that combine my newly discovered love of mathematicians with my interest in LGBTQ history.  One of the things I love best about working in archives is the ability to get to know people through their collections, and I was eager to learn more about these two women and their relationship through processing their records.

This morning, I am presenting my first-ever talk at a professional conference!  This week is the Society of Southwest Archivists annual meeting here in Austin, and I am giving a talk entitled “Web Archiving for University Records” on a panel about digital records in university archives.  I’m a little nervous, but glad to be giving a presentation at a conference that everyone says is friendly and welcoming.  Plus it doesn’t hurt to have the home court advantage!