All Discussions Tagged 'database' - We Make Zines 2014-04-17T10:32:04Z http://wemakezines.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=database&feed=yes&xn_auth=no zines and zinesters on Goodreads, Librarything, etc tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2014-01-29:2288844:Topic:382576 2014-01-29T16:44:52.552Z Tim Nicholas http://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/timnicholas <p>is anyone here on Goodreads? (or similar sites like LibraryThing?)</p> <p></p> <p>here's mine: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5789830-tim">https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5789830-tim</a></p> <p></p> <p>I'm also curious what people's opinion is on listing zines on these types of sites. I was having this discussion with my girlfriend and she felt very strongly that zines shouldn't be on Goodreads. but I completely disagree! my feeling is that if there are zines in libraries,…</p> <p>is anyone here on Goodreads? (or similar sites like LibraryThing?)</p> <p></p> <p>here's mine: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5789830-tim">https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5789830-tim</a></p> <p></p> <p>I'm also curious what people's opinion is on listing zines on these types of sites. I was having this discussion with my girlfriend and she felt very strongly that zines shouldn't be on Goodreads. but I completely disagree! my feeling is that if there are zines in libraries, there can be zines on a site like Goodreads. plus, I'm a little obsessive, and I love having a database of everything I've read, when I read it, and what I thought of it. since some of the things I read are zines (and I don't think of them all that differently from books while I'm reading them), I'd really like to include those.</p> <p></p> <p>I've seen a few zines listed on the site -- <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/92846.Aaron_Cometbus" target="_blank">old issues of Cometbus</a>, for instance, and more book-length zines like <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/988828.Xtra_Tuf_5" target="_blank">Xtra Tuf</a> (or simply book-like [i.e. perfect bound] zines like <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1419379.Applicant" target="_blank">Applicant</a>), but also some popular informational zines/pamphlets <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13356586-support" target="_blank">like this</a> or slightly more obscure stuff presumably added by the creator <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7273612-love-letters-to-monsters-2" target="_blank">like this</a> (a friend of mine also adds each annually-published issue of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6927269-being-the-adventures-of-one-fine-summer" target="_blank">his print on demand photo zine</a> to the database). it seems for the most part though that the community there isn't familiar with what a zine is at all. doing some searching, all I really found was <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/102841-fanzine" target="_blank">one dead, two member group</a> and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1556585-zines" target="_blank">a discussion topic</a> with most responses by people who had never heard of zines or had heard of them but never seen one.</p> <p></p> <p>it also seems like the current site policy is "no magazines, literary journals, or single issue comics" and zines are kind of lumped into that category by default. thankfully the enforcement of that rule has been fairly lax from what I can see. the fact that there's no alternative database where zines can be listed (there's zinewiki, but it lacks the community/discussion/rating aspect, and I recently found a site called <a href="http://magpile.com/" target="_blank">Magpile</a>, but it's small and doesn't seem very zine-friendly) and that a lot of zines already have some great discussion surrounding them on that site makes me think it would be a real shame were they to be removed from the site.</p> <p></p> <p>what do you think are the upsides or downsides of including zines on Goodreads (or LibraryThing or whatever)? do you think there are certain criteria for whether something should be included or not? (length? binding? publication run? stand-alone vs periodical? ISBN number?) is anyone here a Goodreads librarian (I am!) or author, and if so, have you ever added zines to the database, either ones you've made or ones you've read? if you have, what's the response been, from regular users or "librarians"? has there been any controversy over whether it belongs on the site?</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>for more info about the debate on Goodreads...</p> <ul> <li>here's Goodreads' official "NOT A BOOK" policy: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/help/show/114-not-a-book">https://www.goodreads.com/help/show/114-not-a-book</a></li> <li>here's a discussion about the no mags policy: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/145654-question-about-issues-of-literary-periodicals">https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/145654-question-about-issues-of-literary-periodicals</a></li> <li>and here's another, where old-school mail art guru tENTATIVELY, a CONVENIENCE makes a good case for allowing zines: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/8954-is-it-ok-to-add-magazines?comment=368110#comment_368110">https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/8954-is-it-ok-to-add-magazines?comment=368110#comment_368110</a></li> <li>lastly, a convo specifically focusing on Cometbus issues: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1189959-how-why-did-cometbus-issues-disappear?comment=66741959">https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1189959-how-why-did-cometbus-issues-disappear?comment=66741959</a></li> </ul> Need help managing subscribers in the 21st Century tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2011-11-16:2288844:Topic:294064 2011-11-16T15:54:45.803Z The East Village Inky http://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/TheEastVillageInky <p>Question for those of you with subscribers and apple computers.<br></br><br></br> What program do you use to keep track of them / print labels? I have been depending on the long-since obsolete AppleWorks to keep track of East Village Inky business, but my Firewire is kaput and I have no way to connect the only computer in the joint that will run appleworks to the external hard drive on which they're stored.<br></br><br></br>there is a computer on the premises that has Numbers, and all of em have Address…</p> <p>Question for those of you with subscribers and apple computers.<br/><br/> What program do you use to keep track of them / print labels? I have been depending on the long-since obsolete AppleWorks to keep track of East Village Inky business, but my Firewire is kaput and I have no way to connect the only computer in the joint that will run appleworks to the external hard drive on which they're stored.<br/><br/>there is a computer on the premises that has Numbers, and all of em have Address Book. I have my data saved as an Appleworks Text document - ergo i can see all the data, i just can't manage it. <br/><br/>Usually when printing, I would do a search of the Last Issue field and omit all those whose subscriptions had lapsed. But it was handy to have them there in case they did decide to reup.<br/><br/>(as many of them are due to the East Village Inky Resubscription Round Up - yeehaw! got me banned from sending out friend requests for a couple of days, but it worked better than a greased watermelon. As soon as they let me out of the pokey, I will continue roping em in, albeit at a slower pace: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=292989167389990">https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=292989167389990</a> )<br/><br/>At this point i'm thinking of going through Address Book and reentering all the current subscribers, grouped by the issue # with which they're due to expire. It'd be a pain in the ass, but I could move em to a new group when they re-up.<br/><br/>Any insights you have would be helpful, particularly as a cavewoman in matters technological.</p>
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