Presentation: Solidarity Journalism 101 with Mahalaya Newspaper

As part of a rich offering of programs to celebrate Filipino American History Month (October, 2023) at SFPL, the Magazines and Newspapers Center is hosting a virtual presentation on Friday, October 27.  

Solidarity Journalism 101 with Mahalaya Newspaper

Friday, 10/27/2023
2:00 - 3:00

Register Online to Attend (closed)

Learn about the basics of solidarity of reporting and how to center the stories and perspectives of your community. Mahalaya is a free community newspaper that you can pick up at one of several California locations, including the SFPL Magazines and Newspapers Center reference desk.

Presented by Casey Ticsay, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Mahalaya Newspaper.  

Connect:  Mahalaya Newspaper – Website | @mahalayasf - Instagram 

See event announcement on master calendar.

View other Magazines and Newspapers Center programs on the SFPL event calendar under the What's News heading. 

**Update October 31, 2023

After the presentation last Friday, editor Casey Ticsay shared a list of rich resources for attendees. Click through to view. 

The Burial: From the Pages of the New Yorker to Amazon Prime Video

The Film, The Burial

Amazon Prime Video's #1 streaming movie in the US right now is The Burial, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Foxx. It's a 2+hr feature film categorized as drama and comedy coming out of Amazon Studios as an original, and it has a 90% on the Tomatometer. The promotional materials describe it as "inspired by true events." The website History vs. Hollywood published a post devoted to comparing the real people with the actors cast to play them.

 

When Amazon Studios says "inspired by true events," they mean "adapted from a long-form journalism piece published in the New Yorker at the end of the last millennium." This is because, as we found out last week, the November 1, 1999 issue of the New Yorker ran a 26-page article by Jonathan Harr in the recurring Reporter at Large section that told this very story, under the same name, on pages 70-95.

A Reporter at Large: The Burial by Jonathan Harr

Winning multimillion-dollar verdicts had become easy for Willie Gary, and he began to want something bigger. Then he met a man with a complaint against a funeral-home empire

This is where the SFPL Magazines and Newspaper Center comes in. If you're hankering to read the original piece published in the New Yorker, we have a backfile of the publication covering the time period including 1999. 

Get the Original Article

To find out about SFPL's access to the New Yorker yourself, you can easily pop the title of the publication—the New Yorker—into our Periodical Finder tool. Looking at results #2 and #3, you will see none of the electronic access from our database subscriptions goes back to 1999, so it is not possible to get a copy of the article as a PDF immediately. However, result #1 will direct you to a link called SFPL Print Collection, which opens to a record from the SFPL classic catalog. We learn from this record that the Magazines and Newspapers Center has 1999 in both paper format and on microfilm. 

As Robert Frost would say, at this point two roads diverged in a wood: shall we travel the road of microfilm, or paper? 

One could make the decision to pull the microfilm roll from the cabinets in the Magazines and Newspapers reference room, and use the microfilm scanners to create a PDF of the pages. On the other hand, one could request the Nov. 1, 1999 issue of the New Yorker at the 5th floor Page Desk, with which one could use the copy machine to scan the pages and create a PDF. Both are free options.

Screen capture of the first two pages of the article on microfilm.

Photograph of the first two pages of the article from the paper copy.

Your Choice

Which would you have chosen? Microfilm or bound in print? Or a secret third thing?

Come visit us on the 5th floor of the Main Library if you're interested in reading the source of this popular new movie and we can help you get the article in whichever format you prefer.

Calling for All Comments

As summer draws to a close, here at the Magazines & Newspapers Center, we would like to take a moment to determine how to best continue delivering useful and timely information to you--our readers. If you have (and currently still are) reading our blog to receive notifications of our various classes, programs, tutorials, and highlights from our collection, we would appreciate it if you can take a moment to post a comment.

We would be most interested in learning about how you generally use the Web to get information offered by the library. Blogs? Facebook? Twitter? What kinds of topics would you be interested in seeing more of? Given the rapid advances in Web 2.0 technologies and social media applications, we are exploring other means of communicating information to you that would best serve your needs and interests.

Also, please look on the SFPL Facebook page for announcements here and there about upcoming Magazine & Newspapers Center events and classes. And you can always stop by the 5th Floor or e-mail mnc@sfpl.org with your comments or questions.

So with that being said, please feel free to chime in! Thank you.

Computer Music

Computer Music has been deemed as the “World’s Best Selling Music Software” magazine written to help musicians create great music with a PC or Mac computer. Futuristic music has finally arrived in the “Now” and this cutting-edge magazine offers musicians all the tricks of the trade they’ve been craving for visualizing, creating, developing, and executing their musical genuius.

Hailing from the UK—England since the first issue was introduced to the world of musicians in 1998, Computer Music (‘CM’ is its nickname) “tests the latest computer music products and offers tutorials on the most current software, enabling computer owners to develop their musical interests and expertise.” Each issue includes a DVD-ROM focusing on the current month’s topics. The DVD is a PDF guide offering an “exclusive” library of software, samples, and other materials compiled for “newcomers and rookies” to expose and help them gain basic computer music concepts—allowing them to take their music into another stratosphere.

Ever wonder how or what actually goes into the making and cutting of a musical soundtrack? How can you transform your music with the processing tricks of the pros? How to get big-bass sound from your sound system--and if changes can be made to create the sound you wish to achieve? Well, look no further. CM magazine’s step-by-step guides and illustrations offer answers to your questions. Readers will be guaranteed professional reviews on pricings, equipment and essentials, new sample packs, and applications and recommendations on the how, who, what, and where on the making of today’s worldly music.

Here are some magazine highlights:

• Making stunning vocal tracks without a singer in sight
• How to get Reggae musical sounds
• Making Beats and Basslines/Arrangement and Sound Design/Mixing and Mastering
• Making Laid-back tracks on a Mac or PC
• Guides on Audio/Sampling, Sound playback, Editing/Manipulating music on your computer
• Tips on Re-Sampling music/ Customizing sound and instruments

This is only the “tip-of-the-iceberg” of what you’re treated to in CM magazine. A Web site offers mostly the same information as does the magazine. Furthermore, one can experience listening to live sessions, plugins, software demos, tutorials, free apps for iPhones and iPod touch through the Computer Music magazine Facebook site designed to help you share music tips and ideas with other music afficionados.

The library has a small collection of periodicals on the subject of computer music, and our home page can be accessed at sfpl.org:

Go to Books & Materials, click Library Catalog, and run a keyword search for “computer music periodicals.” Notice there are a couple of electronic resources that gives you full-text articles. Of course, you can always visit San Francisco Public Library’s Magazines and Newspapers Center for more assistance.

ABCs of Digital Scanning Microfilm

Hands-on demonstration

Please join us for a digital scanning instruction session that will combine historical research with image-capturing computer technology. The Magazines and Newspapers Center hosts this workshop to demonstrate successful techniques for digitizing archival newspapers and journals from the vast San Francisco Public Library collection.

- Address: 100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
- Location: Main Library, 5th Floor, Microfilm Room
- Event Date & Time: Monday, June 27, 2011 (Noon - 1 p.m.)

Mining Magazines and Journals with MasterFILE Premier

Have you ever wanted to browse through back issues of Consumer Reports or Psychology Today, but had no time to visit your local library? Perhaps you remember an article from Atlantic Monthly or Science News, but couldn't remember in which issue it appeared. In this presentation, learn how to answer some of these types of questions with one of our electronic databases--EbscoHost MasterFILE Premier. Explore popular magazines, journals, and trade publications from over 1700 sources by navigating and searching this periodical database.

- Address: 100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
- Location: Main Library, Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room B
- Event Date & Time: Monday, June 20, 2011 (Noon - 1 p.m)