Content
The Video Inn Library established in 1973 was comprised of a video and publications library. This eclectic publications collection is weighted towards video and film (communications and media theory, distribution catalogues, festival catalogues, etc), however, there is also a signficant number of publications on sociopolitical issues (feminism, queer, poverty, Indigenous rights, human rights, settlement, labour, environmentalism), visual art, literature, dance, music, performance art, tech industry magazines, communiques, government publications (CRTC, funding bodies, etc.), community events, and artists’ zines and monographs.
The publication library is referred to today as the Time & Space Library, reflecting the organizational structure devised by Crista Dahl. The publications are arranged first by year, then within each year, subdivided into general locations of publication: B.C., Canada, U.S., and International.
Additional Resources
The Time & Space Library are the publications collected by the Satellite Video Exchange Society. Other sources of publications at the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archive include:
Women In Focus Society fonds [feminist, Status of Women, women’s media]
Sara Diamond fonds [Revolutionary Workers League, Marxist, feminist, queer, labour, art]
Mary Anne McEwen fonds [Gay Games, feminist, lesbian]
Lenore Herb Archive [art, punk zines, enviromentalism, CRTC]
Access
The Time & Space Library has not been fully catalogued. If you are interested in LGBTQ2S+ materials, please use the publications search function of our online finding aid, Every Queer Thing.
For those who can’t make an in-person visit, please contact us with your areas of interest and research and we’ll be happy to assist. library@vivomediaarts.com