Barbara Galletly

  

My background is in book publishing but I left the industry and New York in early 2011 in order to learn more about (literary) cultural movements beyond the walls of the traditional publishing system. I spent 6 months in LA working in different community organizations and organizing events before I moved to Austin to attend graduate school. And I am currently at the University of Texas's School of Information where I have spent the last year studying information systems in the context of cultural heritage collections.

From the construction of the codex to web design and an extensive amount of hands-on work in and around archives and new media collecting mechanisms, I've absorbed a lot in graduate school. Now I am eager to return to my primary goal: to understand and hopefully one day soon to participate in reformulation of publishing models, especially as an integral part of cultural institutions like libraries and museums. Learning about the collaborative efforts of the Variable Media Initiative and Getty Foundation's Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative has been particularly inspirational, and I am very excited to intern at the Reanimation Library as well as to serve as an archival intern at Ugly Duckling Presse in Brooklyn this summer. Here are three links that I have bookmarked because I have to keep thinking about them: 1. http://contentsmagazine.com/articles/babies-and-the-bathwater/ 2. http://machineproject.com/files/pdf/Machine_Project_Public_Engagement_Artist_in_Residence_Report_compressed.pdf 3. http://www.wearedesignbureau.com/projects/museum-of-public-fiction/