We’re talking about that bad article on critical confabulations in archives. We talk about history as a process, the archive, gaps in our knowledge, language as a conveyor of reality, and The Watermelon Woman.

Media mentioned

THE ARTICLE: Critical Confabulation: Can LLMs Hallucinate for Social Good? https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07722
Guillaume Cabanac, “How a Tortured Conference Becomes a Series: An Analysis of Conference Manipulations” IEEE Xplore https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11363742
Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work, TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/16/research-repository-arxiv-will-ban-authors-for-a-year-if-they-let-ai-do-all-the-work/
The Watermelon Woman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watermelon_Woman
Keith Haring Unfinished Painting: https://mymodernmet.com/artificial-intelligence-finishes-keith-harings-unfinished-painting/
Patrick Wyman, Lost Worlds https://www.harpercollins.com/products/lost-worlds-patrick-wyman?variant=43084775817250
Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America, Patrice McSherry https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/predatory-states-9780742568709/
Dorothea series on patron privacy https://ischool.wisc.edu/continuing-education/tech-crash-course-data-information-privacy/

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Our second live show! Only Justin could make it to ALA but we’ve got THREE great guests plus very good audience questions. We talk about AI through discourse analysis, refusal, STS, and more.

Guests’ writings

Transcending Binaries of Agency through Librarians’ Discursive Constructions of AI

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/961342

Discourses of fear around AI and their implications for library and information science: https://publicera.kb.se/ir/article/view/47548

I Bought Slop: A Conversation on the Accidental Purchase of AI-Generated Material https://acrlog.org/2026/02/09/i-bought-slop-a-conversation-on-the-accidental-purchase-of-ai-generated-material/

ChatGPT Can’t Envision Anything: It’s Actually BS-ing - ACRLog https://acrlog.org/2023/07/21/chatgpt-cant-envision-anything-its-actually-bs-ing/

A ChatGPT generated post (and a first year librarian’s thoughts) - ACRLog https://acrlog.org/2023/01/31/a-chatgpt-generated-post-and-a-first-year-librarians-thoughts/

“Against AI:Critical Refusal in the Library,” from Library Trends: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/968497

“Relationality Over Neutrality: On Technology,” from Information Technology and Libraries: https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/17581

Media mentioned

Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/why-we-fear-ai

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/

Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/imagination-a-manifesto

Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves – In the Library with the Lead Pipe https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/

Resurrecting the Black Body: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/resurrecting-the-black-body/paper

Investigating the 'Feeling Rules' of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/ai-feeling-rules/

Outsiders-within-Library and Information Science: Reprioritizing the marginalized in critical sociocultural work https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.24449

Libraries, Librarians, and the Discourse of Fear https://www.jstor.org/stable/4309528

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Media mentioned

Radical Infrastructure | University of California Press https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.261 (Open Access)

Radical Infrastructure 2023 paper: Radical Infrastructures NMS - BRITT S. PARIS

Podcast w/ 404 Podcast: The Physical Politics of the Internet with Britt Paris

Muskism book https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff

Railroad Luxemburg: Rosa Luxemburg’s Theory of Infrastructure and its Consequences for a Public Service Internet https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1461

The Accumulation of Capital: A Contribution to an Economic Explanation of Imperialism https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1913/accumulation-capital/

Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/why-we-fear-ai

What is Communalism? The Democratic Dimension of Anarchism https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-what-is-communalism

Become a member of AAUP: https://www.aaup.org/join

QLL librarypunk team: https://givebutter.com/qqlls-pride-campaign-2026-rg3yn3/librarypunk-loves-qll/sadieg1

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We’re back after a break! We’re talking about our backburner episodes. Episodes we haven’t gotten to yet, guests we’d like to have on. Also: the AI booing at commencements which was very funny.

Media mentioned

Violet’s AI zine https://violetbfox.info/against-ai/

Exposing Ex Libris zine https://librarianswithpalestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ExLibris1Color.pdf

Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fight-Like-Hell/Kim-Kelly/9781982171063

The Fall: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460791/

The Great Book Robbery: https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1636018

American Animals: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6212478/

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We’re talking with Abby and Hal about NYC Public Library Action Network (PLAN)! Learn about what they’re doing, how you can help, how you can copy them, and what’s working for them by having a community-led library advocacy group that is separate from the library itself.

How can people get involved?

nycplan.org

Email your city councilmember

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/city-council-we-demand-half-a-percent-of-the-overall-city-budget-for-libraries

May City Council meeting

info@nycplan.org for agendas

Media mentioned

Mamdani failed to deliver on the campaign promises that NYC PLAN pushed him to make. Here's a roundup of coverage in case it helps:

NYC PLAN (Newsletter, Feb. 17th, the day after the preliminary budget release)
Mariame Kaba
- Mayor Mamdani Breaks His Promise to NYC Public Libraries (Feb 18th)
- NEW! The Dreaded NYC Library Budget Dance Continues… (March 23rd)
Seven Stories Press: Guest Post: Hal Schrieve on the Fight to Fund NYC Libraries (Feb 27th)
WNYC: WNYC_Budget Cuts.mp3 (Feb 20th)
The City: Mamdani Promised a New Era for Parks and Libraries. His First Budget Falls Short. (Feb 19th)
Literary Hub: New York Mayor Mamdani is breaking his promise on library funding. (Feb 19th)
Gothamist: Taking page from Adams, Mayor Mamdani proposes NYC library cuts (Feb 19th)
La Voce di New York: Mamdani Proposes Cuts to Public Library Funding–Despite Campaign Promises (Feb 20th)
New York Daily News: Budget shortfall may close the book on Mamdani’s library funding promise
FOX 5: Clip_Budget Cuts.mp4 (Feb 19th)
The New York Post: Mamdani wants to slash NYC library budgets by $30M— despite calling similar cuts by Adams ‘cruel’ (Feb 20th)

Here are some details on NYC PLAN's recent assembly event:

https://nycplan.org/peoples-assembly-march-21-2026/
And a slide deck from part of the event: Public Library Funding in NYC (Queens, March 2026)

https://www.librariansequalliteracy.org/

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We’re joined by the authors of Organize Your Library to talk about library labor, the future, the ALA union drive, and more!

Media mentioned

Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers https://alastore.ala.org/oryrlib

ALA union letter: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v8ACD_ltC3ZW1JBJX6qdheD11xq7tBdR/view

ALA union announcement: https://afscme31.org/news/american-library-association-employees-forming-union-afscme

WNBA players association agreement signed https://www.wnba.com/news/wnba-wnbpa-tentative-cba-deal-2026

NYC Plan https://nycplan.org/

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This week we’re joined by Steph to talk about fashion and librarianship: how it works, how they intersect, and how fashion is interdisciplinary. We also learn about how you get into this gig!

Media mentioned
Good general article: Frederiksen, Linda. “Fashion by Design.” Library Journal, vol. 131, no. 10, June 2006, pp. 79–81. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=297645b9-2580-3b4f-bdae-8ee2344a2633.

Costume Institute article: Kazmi, Sahar. “A CENTURY OF FASHION: Library Collections Reflect the Evolution of 20th-Century American Style.” Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 13, no. 1, Jan. 2024, pp. 14–19. EBSCOhost, https://www.loc.gov/lcm/pdf/LCM_2024_0102.pdf

ARLIS article: King, Lindsay M., and Russell T. Clement. “Style and Substance: Fashion in Twenty-First-Century Research Libraries.” Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, vol. 31, no. 1, Mar. 2012, pp. 93–107. EBSCOhost, doi.org/10.1086/664912

Library Journal's September By The Numbers focused on fashion libraries: “Fashion and Beauty.” American Libraries, vol. 56, no. 9/10, Sept. 2025, p. 11 https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/09/02/by-the-numbers-fashion-and-beauty/

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Part 2 of our discussion with Jonny and Jez about SciOp, a torrent-focused data preservation project that encourages academics to help with the act of making data available. It’s distributed, it’s robust, and SciOp is working on making it easy to do.

contact@safeguar.de

Contact Jonny:

Fedi: https://elektrine.com/remote/jonny@neuromatch.social
Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/jo.nny.rip

Media mentioned

https://sciop.net/

https://forum.safeguar.de/about

https://blog.sciop.net/2025-08-29/webseeds

https://punctumbooks.com/titles/warez-the-infrastructure-and-aesthetics-of-piracy/

Safeguarding/sciop: collecting at-risk data in torrent rss feeds - Codeberg.org

https://codeberg.org/safeguarding/sciop
the scraping code, such as it is: https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop-scraping
sciop the blog, such as it is: https://blog.sciop.net/

https://programminghistorian.org/

https://book.the-turing-way.org/

last episodes on federation:

https://www.librarypunk.gay/e/101-mastodon-bluesky-and-bullshit-part-1-feat-jonny-saunders/

https://www.librarypunk.gay/e/102-mastodon-bluesky-and-bullshit-part-2-feat-jonny/

Tools mentioned

webrecorder, browser trix

https://webrecorder.net/

https://webrecorder.net/browsertrix/

academictorrents - academic data tracker https://academictorrents.com/

aggregor mauve https://agregore.mauve.moe/

DRP - lumos https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/datalumos/home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table

https://torrentfreak.com/controversy-as-rookie-admin-aspires-to-bittorrent-domination-080730/

ddos secrets https://ddosecrets.org/

Archive Team Warrior https://tracker.archiveteam.org/

How to contribute to sciop

https://sciop.net/docs/quickstart/

Create account.

Create a torrent. [find how to link for how to create a torrent]

Upload.

Get permission so they are visible to others.

Seed.

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We’re talking with Jonny and Jez about SciOp, a torrent-focused data preservation project that encourages academics to help with the act of making data available. It’s distributed, it’s robust, and SciOp is working on making it easy to do.

contact@safeguar.de

Contact Jonny:

Fedi: https://elektrine.com/remote/jonny@neuromatch.social
Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/jo.nny.rip

Media mentioned

https://sciop.net/

https://forum.safeguar.de/about

https://blog.sciop.net/2025-08-29/webseeds

https://punctumbooks.com/titles/warez-the-infrastructure-and-aesthetics-of-piracy/

Safeguarding/sciop: collecting at-risk data in torrent rss feeds - Codeberg.org

https://codeberg.org/safeguarding/sciop
the scraping code, such as it is: https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop-scraping
sciop the blog, such as it is: https://blog.sciop.net/

https://programminghistorian.org/

https://book.the-turing-way.org/

last episodes on federation:

https://www.librarypunk.gay/e/101-mastodon-bluesky-and-bullshit-part-1-feat-jonny-saunders/

https://www.librarypunk.gay/e/102-mastodon-bluesky-and-bullshit-part-2-feat-jonny/

Tools mentioned

webrecorder, browser trix

https://webrecorder.net/

https://webrecorder.net/browsertrix/

academictorrents - academic data tracker https://academictorrents.com/

aggregor mauve https://agregore.mauve.moe/

DRP - lumos https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/datalumos/home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table

https://torrentfreak.com/controversy-as-rookie-admin-aspires-to-bittorrent-domination-080730/

ddos secrets https://ddosecrets.org/

Archive Team Warrior https://tracker.archiveteam.org/

How to contribute to sciop

https://sciop.net/docs/quickstart/

Create account.

Create a torrent. [find how to link for how to create a torrent]

Upload.

Get permission so they are visible to others.

Seed.

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This week we’re joined by Hagen to talk about their new book on AI and labor/power/knowledge/eugenics. We also discuss some library Reddit developments.

Media mentioned

https://juandavidcampolargo.substack.com/p/naperville-library-spy

https://www.juandavidcampolargo.com/projects/naperlibspy

https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/why-we-fear-ai

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It’s a fun one! We’re talking with Jessamyn about the public domain, new and old technology, blogging at the DNC, and lots of inside baseball.

Media mentioned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessamyn_West_(librarian)

https://www.librarian.net/stax/5566/the-mining-of-the-public-domain/

https://jessamyn.com/tweets/

https://tararobertson.ca/2016/oob/

Request to Verify Eligibility for Free Ebooks for the Print Disabled https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScSBbT17HSQywTm-fQawOK7G4dN-QPbDWNstdfvysoKTXCjKA/viewform

Veii’s music: https://veii.bandcamp.com/

Who Owns this Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs https://fit.princeton.edu/publications/who-owns-sentence-history-copyrights-and-wrongs

Free Whistles
https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
My Justice of the Peace tumblr
https://vermontjp.tumblr.com/
Logan Airport chapel
https://discovermass.com/church/our-lady-of-the-airways-east-boston-ma/
Soul of a New Machine
https://www.tracykidder.com/the-soul-of-a-new-machine.html
Matteo Lane
https://matteolanecomedy.com/
My DNC blog
https://www.librarian.net/dnc/
Librarian at Burning Man
https://www.jessamyn.com/journal/02/burnlib.html
Flickr Commons Explorer
https://commons.flickr.org/Without a Net, Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide
https://www.librarian.net/digitaldivide/
Marrakesh Treaty
https://www.wipo.int/en/web/treaties/ip/marrakesh/index
Flickypedia
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Flickypedia
That's My Grandma Flickr Gallery
https://flickr.com/photos/flickrfoundation/galleries/72157722979767596/
Murkutu
https://mukurtu.org/
Barnard Zine Library
https://zines.barnard.edu/
Cleaning out mom's house
https://www.flickr.com/photos/iamthebestartist/albums/72157719713137030

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We’re back! We’re talking about weeding and library collections as government speech.

Media mentioned

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/25/is-including-hidden-ai-prompts-in-academic-papers-gaming-the-peer-review-system-or-keeping-it-honest/

https://buttondown.com/wellsourced/archive/CREW-Method-Manual/

https://bookriot.com/little-vs-llano-county-fifth-circuit/

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Companion zine for the episode: https://smazzie.itch.io/the-politics-of-weeding-and-little-v-llano-county-zine

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We’re talking with Kevin again about workers inquiry as an organizing tool and the example of the pamphlet The American Worker from 1947.

Twitter: https://x.com/AmericanWork47

readingstruggles.info

notesfrombelow.org

Media mentioned

The American Worker on COVER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikphd5bNza4&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Ff9eaa73e-0b64-4316-a994-c97369b4e555.usrfiles.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY

“Searching for the American Worker” https://newpol.org/issue_post/searching-for-the-american-worker/

Culbertson, Anna W. “Our Labor, Our Terms: Workers’ Inquiry in Libraries,” in “Assemblage, Inquiry, and Common Work in Library and Information Studies,” eds. Melissa Adler and Andrew Lau. Special issue, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 4; https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/175 (CC BY-NC)

In and against the state: discussion notes for socialists. https://libcom.org/book/export/html/31378

Reading Struggles: Working-Class Self-Activity from Detroit to Turin and Back Again. https://www.readingstruggles.info/

Guerillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible. https://www.akpress.org/guerrillas-of-desire.html

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This week we have Kay back on to talk about AI and what the refusal of AI means in terms of library practice and theory.

Bsky: @kslater.bsky.social

Media mentioned

Kay’s article in Library Trends: Against AI: Critical Refusal in the Library

The AI Con (book) https://thecon.ai/

“Synthetic literacy” forthcoming from Dr. Kishonna Gray https://www.kishonnagray.com/

librarians doing infolit session part of that is telling the students how it will track you - privacy issues

https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2016/putting-critical-information-literacy-into-context-how-and-why-librarians-adopt-critical-practices-in-their-teaching/

https://infolit.org.uk/privacy-and-surveillance-in-the-classroom-responding-to-new-information-literacy-challenges/

https://acrlog.org/2020/11/13/privacy-consent-and-the-virtual-one-shot/

https://datalabelers.org/

https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/cia-triad

The People’s Platform (book) https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062598/thepeoplesplatform/

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This week we’re talking with Young Adult author and children’s librarian Hal to talk about hir new book, vampires, monstrosity, the Old Internet, and the publishing landscape.

Pre-order Fawn’s Blood here: https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4753-fawn-s-blood

halschrieve.com

Media mentioned

https://www.tumblr.com/librarycards

https://www.tumblr.com/gatheringbones

Books/Literature

Small changes over long periods of time https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/small-changes-long-periods-time/

Failure to Comply https://www.featherproof.com/catalog/failure-to-comply-sarah-cavar

Dead Collections https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/678855/dead-collections-by-isaac-fellman/

Carmilla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmilla

Thirst https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712422/thirst-by-marina-yuszczuk-translated-by-heather-cleary/

Peeps, Scott Westerfeld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peeps_(novel)

Little F (formerly Little Faggot) https://www.feministpress.org/books-overflow/litte-f

Mortal Companion, Patrick Califia https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/620928.Mortal_Companion

The Fist of the Spider Woman https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/F/Fist-of-the-Spider-Woman

Mermaid in Chelsea Creek https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/mermaid-in-chelsea-creek

Cold, Mariko Tamaki https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250831569/cold/

Read at Your Own Risk https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250323354/readatyourownrisk/

It Better Be Worth the Trip – First gay YA novel (1969) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ll_Get_There._It_Better_Be_Worth_the_Trip

The Outsiders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsiders_(novel)

Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_(Anderson_novel)

Looking for Alaska, John Green https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_for_Alaska

Books by Raina Telgemeier

Books by Svetlana Chmakova

Books by Tiffany Jackson

Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales https://www.nathanhaleauthor.com/

We Are Palestinian https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Are-Palestinian/Reem-Kassis/9781623717254

These Olive Trees https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/703283/these-olive-trees-by-aya-ghanameh/

Hilwa’s Gifts https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/774226/hilwas-gifts-by-safa-suleiman-illustrated-by-anait-semirdzhyan/

Movies

Hackers (1995) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/

Dracula’s Daughter (1936) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027545/

Nosferatu (2024) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5040012/

Daughters of Darkness (1971) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067690

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116367/

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103874

Blade (1998) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120611/

I Am Legend

Disney Channel’s Zombies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombies_(2018_film)

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This week we’re talking about workers’ inquiry with the Blue Bottle Independent Union for cafe workers! Learn about workers’ inquiry, organization, and how you can do it too!

Media mentioned

Part 1 (on what cafe workers think and do while at work): https://notesfrombelow.org/article/class-composition-in-the-cafe-sector-part-1

Part 2 (exploring how cafe workers are organizing at work): https://notesfrombelow.org/article/class-composition-in-the-cafe-sector-part-2

Marx 101 questions Enquête Ouvrière (“Workers’ Inquiry”) for Benoît Malon’s French newspaper La Revue Socialiste https://notesfrombelow.org/article/introduction-karl-marxs-workers-inquiry

Blood in the Machine: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-merchant/blood-in-the-machine/9780316487740/?lens=little-brown

https://theworkandus.squarespace.com/

https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/

https://workingpeople.libsyn.com/

http://workersinquiry.work/

Support Blue Bottle Union

https://www.bluebottleunion.org/

https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/support-blue-bottle-workers-taking-on-nestle

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Recording of our first ever live show! Guests Alison and Jennie talk with us about organizing, contracts, AI nonsense, updates, and more! You don’t want to miss the audience participation either!

info@libraryfreedom.org Email for LFP mailing list.

Media mentioned

SPARC contracts library: https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-knowledge-base/contracts-library/

Data Cartels, Sarah Lamdan - https://www.sup.org/books/law/data-cartels

https://commonslibrary.org/organizing-people-power-and-change-the-one-on-one-meeting/

Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher - https://files.libcom.org/files/%5BMark_Fisher%5D_Capitalist_Realism_Is_There_no_Alte(BookZZ.org).pdf

The fourth Librarian Futures report reveals critical gaps—and opportunities—in how librarians can lead on AI integration in higher education https://www.sagepub.com/explore-our-content/press-office/press-releases/2025/05/20/new-technology-from-sage-report-explores-librarian-leadership-in-the-age-of-ai

Siembra ICE training: https://www.siembranc.org/

Kay Slater, Library Trends upcoming article on AI.

https://labornotes.org/events

One on One training https://commonslibrary.org/organizing-people-power-and-change-the-one-on-one-meeting/

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We have David Demchuk on to talk about his new book The Butcher's Daughter. We also talk about more Canada updates, including how the backlash against queer and Black literature is evolving in the Canadian landscape with US backing.

Media mentioned

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/19/youtube-apparently-unsure-if-shakespeare-is-in-the-public-domain/

Get the book here:

https://sohopress.com/books/the-butchers-daughter-the-hitherto-untold-story-of-mrs-lovett/

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We’re talking with Kelly about the IMLS executive order and fallout.

Kelly on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/heykellyjensen.bsky.social

Literary Activism Newsletter: https://bookriot.com/newsletter/literary-activism/

Media mentioned

https://mn.gov/mmb/budget/federal-investments/data-and-reporting/

https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/virginia/virginia-beach-moca-museum-of-contemporary-art-federal-grant-terminated/291-bbbaeb6f-6954-4f3a-ab6d-96d63b962619 May 11

IMLS stories

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59257/gov.uscourts.rid.59257.64.0.pdf (May 21)

https://bookriot.com/trump-seeks-stay-in-imls-injunction-sonderling-bashes-imls-employees-in-declaration/ (May 20)

https://www.wordsandmoney.com/ala-urges-court-to-deny-dojs-motion-for-reconsideration-in-imls-case/ (May 14)

https://bookriot.com/massive-victory-in-lawsuit-filed-against-trump-administrations-dismantling-of-imls/ (May 13)

https://bookriot.com/the-latest-from-the-institute-of-museum-and-library-services/ (May 6, 2025)

https://bookriot.com/recent-attacks-on-libraries/ (Apr 15, 2025)

https://bookriot.com/imls-gutted/ (Mar 31, 2025)

Labor Lessons from the US South event: bit.ly/laborlessons

Live show tickets: https://bit.ly/librarypunklive25

Conference sticker fundraiser: https://ko-fi.com/s/8b9407ef58

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This week we’re talking with the editors of the new book Censorship is a Drag. We talk about putting yourself on the line, personal and professional risks, and reacting to the latest administration’s onslaught against queer people.

Order Censorship is a Drag here: https://litwinbooks.com/books/censorship-is-a-drag/

Media mentioned

The Joy of Gay Sex: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-joy-of-gay-sex-charles-silversteinfelice-picano

Sara Ahmed’s works

The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sara-ahmed/the-feminist-killjoy-handbook/9781541603752/?lens=seal-press

Bri Watson join Homosaurus call: https://bsky.app/profile/brimwats.com/post/3lkvvyv4szk2w

Form for Homosaurus: https://forms.gle/tADEnq9qPYk3e5eE6

Fairhope Public Library story: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/alabama-fairhope-public-library-book-bans

Indigenous metadata projects to look into:

Maori: https://natlib.govt.nz/librarians/nga-upoko-tukutuku

Others: https://guides.library.ubc.ca/Indiglibrarianship/knowledgeorganizations

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We’re talking with Josh from TWOAPW about Patmos Public Library, his personal connections to it, and the issues around public library funding and censorship of LGTBQ materials.

https://www.worstpossible.world/

https://www.twitch.tv/traditional_scrench

TWOAPW Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kp7xkxfutoinhqeg3sfswghd

Media Mentioned

Segment: https://www.kcrg.com/2025/02/25/bill-ban-obscene-material-iowa-libraries-advances/

Why it’s called the Patmos library: https://hudsedfound.org/what-we-do/engage-alumni/marvinandjunepatmos.html

Whose Children Are They: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18559276/

Reporting from the time of the initial removal vote:

https://www.metrotimes.com/news/conservative-michigan-town-defunds-library-over-lgbtq-book-30736450
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/upset-over-lgbtq-books-michigan-town-defunds-its-library-tax-vote
https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/politics/jamestown-township-library-close-failed-millage-lgbtq/69-021f241b-611c-4856-bd7f-0994f967e714
Go Fund Me set up: https://www.gofundme.com/f/fund-patmos-library-for-2023

Reporting on the failure of the second vote:

https://www.mlive.com/politics/2022/11/patmos-library-millage-fails-again-following-controversy-over-lgbtq-books.html
MLA statement after second vote: https://www.milibraries.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1375:statement-on-patmos-library-millage---news---michigan-library-association&catid=44:news-advocacy&Itemid=311

Funding approved:

https://lanthorn.com/101674/news/allendale/jamestown-library-funding-approved-after-multi-year-content-disagreements/
https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/politics/michigan-politics/millage-vote-fund-jamestown-township-patmos-library-fails-ottawa-county/69-8102ff6f-1944-4246-a967-c2b3dc3a119e

MLive documentary on banning books in Michigan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x043zuGWgMA

Another Michigan library: https://bookriot.com/alpena-public-library/

Porn hunters in Canada: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6656855

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We’re talking with Nicole of Brave Co-op about their overdose sensors, and Samantha of Guelph Public Library. Trigger warning: death by overdose is mentioned several times

Media mentioned

https://www.brave.coop/about

Welcoming Streets Guelph: https://guelphchc.ca/welcoming-streets/

Hope House Guelph: https://www.hopehouseguelph.ca/

Facts on Narcan and fent test strips in Texas: https://www.trs.texas.gov/Pages/healthcare-news-202301_Fentanyl_Facts.aspx

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We're talking with QLL about who they are and what they do!

Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/queerliblib

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/queerliblib/?hl=en

Bsky https://bsky.app/profile/queerliblib.bsky.social

Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@queerliblib

Media mentioned

https://www.queerliberationlibrary.org

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/queer-liberation-library-offers-free-lgbtq-books-response-wave-school-rcna156463

https://xtramagazine.com/culture/books/queer-libraries-book-bans-activism-255227

https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/library_sp/68/

https://www.gaycity.org/library-information/

Donate: https://givebutter.com/J9nhcW

Preorder The Emperor of Gladness (% of pre-order proceeds go to QLL): https://sites.prh.com/emperor-of-gladness/preorder/

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It’s in the title.

Media mentioned

BIBFRAME Must Die,Jeff Edmunds https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/fc19faee-70b9-44b3-9346-18e40a2cd990

BIBFRAME Must Die, Part II: the Official RDA Toolkit, JEFF EDMUNDS https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/40be29ce-4342-475f-b380-d8ed065b3643

BIBFRAME Must Die, Part III: A Brief History of the Future of Cataloging https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/6100de9a-5f6f-400f-90ea-fe517d16152d

“Missing the MARC: Utilization of MARC fields in the search process.” https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1314&context=lib_pubs

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We’re talking with Rachel about peer mentoring, networking, friend groups, and how we’re navigating the online social space. What experiences do we have with peers, how is engagement changing after COVID?

Media mentioned

“They didn’t teach this in Library School” Against The Grain 30, no. 6 (2019) https://issuu.com/against-the-grain/docs/atg_v30-6

https://pemento.org/

Descriptive presentation at Charleston 2022 https://youtu.be/_mkHudh_LAg?si=gSril-1fQa9Ue344)

Amplifying Historically Marginalized Voices Through Open Pedagogy in Rethinking Institutional Repositories p.219

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This week we have Mike Nason on to talk about open scholarship, publishing, Crossref, NISO, and decentralized publishing futures. Also Jay airs his grievances against Dublin Core.

https://bsky.app/profile/ahemnason.bsky.social

Media referenced

Better Practices in Journal Metadata https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/metadata-practices/en/

(NISO) JAV Revision + Draft https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/jav-revision

PIDs and Open Infrastructure Deck https://slides.com/ahemnason/pids-osi-2024

Identifying Metadata Quality Issues Across Cultures (preprint) https://osf.io/6fykh

Mike’s https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5527-8489

Getting Found, Staying Found: https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/getting-found-staying-found/en/

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We’re talking about Library Futures! All of them! All at once! CDL, ebook contracts, opera, genAI, and some surprisingly deep Jennie-lore.

https://www.libraryfutures.net/who-we-are

https://bsky.app/profile/littlewow.bsky.social

https://bsky.app/profile/libraryfutures.bsky.social

Media mentioned

The End of Ownership https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262535243/the-end-of-ownership/

UC AI-generated course: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/comparative-literature-zrinka-stahuljak-artificial-intelligence?taid=6755debeb8836e000133c355

New Research Report: OER in Public Libraries: https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/new-research-report-oer-in-public-libraries

Hoopla content issues: https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/hooplas-content-problem

Storm Center (1956) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049800/

Library Futures ebook legislation: https://www.libraryfutures.net/library-futures-ebooks-policy-paper

How to Read a Contract: https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/how-to-read-a-contract

Library Freedom Project vendor scorecard: https://libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Library-Freedom-Vendor-Scorecard-110719.pdf

Authors Alliance - Developing a public interest training commons of books: https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/12/05/developing-a-public-interest-training-commons-of-books/

I think AI should leave: https://violetbfox.info/against-ai/

Justin’s word list: https://pastecode.io/s/s3kq4kzo

ForYou: Algorithms & the Attention Economy reimagines media literacy for algorithmic information environments

ACRL Sandbox entries (complete with lesson plans)

Workshop guides (teaching & learning materials, also linked from the Sandbox)

Digital Shred Privacy Literacy Toolkit: https://sites.psu.edu/digitalshred/

https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/practicing-privacy-literacy-academic-libraries-theories-methods-and-cases

Media Mentioned

1890 harvard law paper on right to privacy https://www.jstor.org/stable/1321160

“Nobody Sees It, Nobody Gets Mad”: Social Media, Privacy, and Personal Responsibility Among Low-SES Youth https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305117710455

Privacy Literacy and Its Problems. https://openurl.ebsco.com/EPDB%3Agcd%3A6%3A19315958/detailv2?sid=ebsco%3Aplink%3Ascholar&id=ebsco%3Agcd%3A133682180&crl=c

Lawrence Lessig Pathetic Dot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_dot_theory

https://stopncii.org/

https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/

Shame Machine https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/606203/the-shame-machine-by-cathy-oneil/

Kate Devlin Turned On https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/turned-on-9781472950871/

Danielle Keats Citron Sexual Privacy https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/sexual-privacy

Danielle Keats Citron The Fight for Privacy https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393882315

Kate Devlin https://www.hotpress.com/sex-drugs/sex-robots-frontlines-ai-revolution-kate-devlin-22775520

https://iste.org/standards

Sarah’s Sci Fi https://alastore.ala.org/content/self-subject-autoethnographic-research-identity-culture-and-academic-librarianship

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Download some sage jpegs and ponder the AI, we’re talking with Alex about queer Internet histories, LGBTQ2S+ archives, email archiving, feminist restaurants, and technopaganism. Be sure to check out the notes on this one!

https://www.alexketchum.ca

Media mentioned

https://www.lgbtqarchives.com/

Disrupting Disruptions: https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com/

Cait McKinney, Information Activism: https://www.dukeupress.edu/information-activism

Deep Sniff: https://www.adamzmith.com/deep-sniff-poppers-book

The Log Books: https://www.thelogbooks.org/

Hannah Zeavin, The Distance Cure: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045926/the-distance-cure/

Google study [pdf]: https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf?ref=404media.co

40 years of magic on the web: https://airtable.com/appBlKZqOs8ATBq6f/shr1SocSlfKqSP8YV

Report on the State of Resources Provided to Support Scholars Against Harassment, Trolling, and Doxxing While Doing Public Media Work: https://medium.com/@alexandraketchum/report-on-the-state-of-resources-provided-to-support-scholars-against-harassment-trolling-and-401bed8cfbf1

Missing Datasets: https://github.com/MimiOnuoha/missing-datasets

Moya Bailey, #transform(ing)DH Writing and Research: An Autoethnography of Digital Humanities and Feminist Ethics https://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/9/2/000209/000209.html

The Historical Cooking Project: http://www.historicalcookingproject.com

The Feminist Restaurant Project: http://www.thefeministrestaurantproject.com

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We’re covering the Chuck Tingle thing. Also the damned mouse. Do we need DMCA for Trademarks? Who knows!

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk

UPDATE on Tingle story at TLA: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/01/book-event-disinvites-queer-author-because-his-disability-aid-makes-others-uncomfortable/

Media Mentioned

https://boxreceiver.medium.com/a-case-for-library-archives-boycott-and-divestment-exlibris-493737a911c5.
Chuck Tingle post: https://www.tumblr.com/drchucktingle/739065274126499840/the-texas-library-association-tells-chuck-tingle?source=share
https://mashable.com/article/youtube-demontizes-public-domain-steamboat-willie-disney-copyright-claim
Even 2023. Keeping the Good Faith: YouTube, Fair Use, and the DMCA
Meyer n.d. https://theholmesfirm.com/takedown-notices-why-trademarks-and-copyrights-are-so-valuable-but-can-lead-to-damages-for-infringers/
Percival 2020. Social Networks, Counterfeit, and Contributory Trademark Infringement: Are Social Media Giants Still Protected Ten Years After Tiffany? https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1355&context=uoplawreview
Dong 2022. https://jbipl.pubpub.org/pub/fzs4ru5v/release/2 Balancing the Interests of Trademark Owners and E-Commerce Platforms during the Internet Age

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We’re talking about more issues in scholcomm.

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Media mentioned

Hijacked journals:

https://www.science.org/content/article/leading-scholarly-database-listed-hundreds-papers-hijacked-journals

Hbomberguy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ

Weird MIT report on OA: https://access-to-science.pubpub.org/

Zombie journals: what’s left after editorial board leaves like Glossia/ Lingua

https://www.openlibhums.org/news/656/ - Glossia/Lingua

https://www.science.org/content/article/zombie-papers-wont-die-retracted-papers-notorious-fraudster-still-cited-years-later

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We’re infoshopping. What are they? Justin ponders if they can make leather vests for straight people.

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Media mentioned

Street Libraries: Infoshops and Alternative Reading Rooms - Chris Dodge

This City Is An Archive: Squatting History and Urban Authority - Samuel Burgum, 2022

https://web.archive.org/web/20190323204714/http://lucyparsons.org/history.php

https://web.archive.org/web/20011116035809/http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/texts/disco.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20030223215959/http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/infoshops_defined.html

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-radical-bookstore

https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/category/book-shop-info-shop-library

https://slingshotcollective.org/

https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/1235906145 The Radical Bookstore: Counterspace for Social Movements, by Kimberley Kinder

West, Jessamyn. "On-the-Fly Reference." American Libraries 33.5 (2002): 54-57. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/09/01/library-birdwatching-programming-on-the-fly/

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We’re watching a documentary about Palestine! Libraries and museums are implicated in settler-colonialism and we’re gonna talk about it!

Media mentioned

Film: The Great Book Robbery: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/witness/2012/5/24/the-great-book-robbery

Reddit Question: https://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/comments/17w0bu8/other_trans_library_directors/

Salvage or Plunder? Israel's "Collection" of Private Palestinian Libraries in West Jerusalem: https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/42473

Overdue Books Paper: https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/78440#:~:text=At%20the%20same%20time%2C%20the,other%2C%20still%20in%20historic%20Palestine.

Overdue Books Zine: https://librarianswithpalestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Overdue-Books-AP-zine.pdf

Antiquities Trafficking: https://2017-2021.state.gov/tackling-illicit-trafficking-of-antiquities-and-its-ties-to-terrorist-financing/

Hobby Lobby’s Hammurabi Robbing Hobby: Power and Appropriation at the Museum of the Bible: https://theijournal.ca/index.php/ijournal/article/view/39322

Other stuff related

USPS General Delivery: https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-is-General-Delivery

Librarians with Palestine Readings and Resources: https://librarianswithpalestine.org/readings-and-resources/

Land Grab Universities: https://www.landgrabu.org/

Join the discord

https://discord.gg/bYBNxPbT

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We’re joined to Becky to talk about the SPARC report on Science Direct! Data privacy, contracts, the big companies that have us over a barrel!

Media mentioned

https://zenodo.org/records/10078610

https://www.politico.eu/article/data-at-risk-amazon-security-threat/

https://librarytechnology.org/mergers/

https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/15122

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We let the ADD take over this episode.

Media Mentioned

https://newsguild.org/scholastic-workers-walk-out-to-protest-glaring-hypocrisy-by-the-childrens-publishing-powerhouse/

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Cory Doctorow comes on to talk about his books The Internet Con and Chokepoint Capitalism and the applications to libraries. We talk interop, vendor contracts, and even writing productivity.

Pre-order Cory’s new book The Lost Cause: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865939/thelostcause

Media mentioned

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/google-will-shield-ai-users-from-copyright-challenges-within-limits/

https://chokepointcapitalism.com/

https://www.versobooks.com/products/3035-the-internet-con

DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/751443/technofeudalism-by-yanis-varoufakis/

https://librarysimplified.org/

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This week we’re joined by Anaya to talk about accessibility! Interwebs, Libguides, buildings, Braille Playboy magazines, swear words! We cover it all.

Media mentioned

https://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/comments/17alk55/bookseller_turned_librarian_associate/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaU6tI2pb3M

https://accessibility.umich.edu/assistive-technology/instructional-accessibility-tips

https://udlguidelines.cast.org/

https://dwcag.org/

https://ask.springshare.com/libguides/faq/1065

https://www.tiktok.com/@j2atv/video/7229460849893625131

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Oh boy we’ve got something special! We’re joined again by laborkyle to talk about Walter Benjamin and his essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Also AI, fascism, and dreams.

Kyle’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/laborkyle

Profane Illuminations: Theology for Militants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeV314axro4

All Gamers Are Bastards: https://soundcloud.com/agabpod

Media mentioned

https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068327/

Discord: https://discord.gg/2CNQgjwgR

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Same thing as with Jay, but now featuring Justin. Also some news.

Discord: https://discord.gg/7WcvM7Xdq

Media mentioned

https://www.applevalleynewsnow.com/news/court-blocks-push-to-close-dayton-library/article_b73f99a8-58bf-11ee-98ed-efcddf58abbd.html

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/26/fcc-announces-plans-to-reinstate-net-neutrality/

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We’re covering updates on the Mütter Museum’s exhibits, digital collections, and human remains policies.

Media mentioned

Segment: https://www.wired.com/story/prisoners-training-ai-finland/

Article that named Mütter Museum as one of Philly museums still holding indigenous remains: https://www.inquirer.com/news/native-american-remains-penn-temple-mutter-20230113.html (January 13, 2023)

Original article that gained traction, there was an earlier one on the digital collections going down that might have prompted it: https://www.inquirer.com/news/mutter-museum-oddities-review-new-plan-20230603.html (Updated June 3, 2023)

Petition in response to article: https://www.change.org/p/protect-the-integrity-of-the-m%C3%BCtter-museum

Pro Quinn article that came out with Guardian piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/science/mutter-medical-museum.html (Aug 13, 2023)

Most recent:

https://whyy.org/articles/mutter-museum-public-engagement-program-collection-future/ (Sept 17, 2023)

https://www.inquirer.com/arts/mutter-museum-human-remains-debate-town-halls-20230918.html ( Sept 18, 2023)

Three Identical Strangers: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7664504/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortal_Life_of_Henrietta_Lacks

Twin Rabbit - Plains Sign & the Myth of Indigenous Illiteracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pogA7PQCtu0

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We’re going over the daily life of a library worker for those who are interested! First up: Jay!

Media mentioned

Segment:https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/96

https://youtu.be/v1eWIshUzr8?si=jc3ouGYgcJIlfJsx

https://www.dukeupress.edu/complaint

Discord: https://discord.gg/qTMg4v7Xu

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This week we’re joined by Jon and Ash from Horror Vanguard to talk about the spookiest movie of the summer: Storm Center (1956).

Horror Vanguard: https://linktr.ee/HorrorVanguard

Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan

Media Mentioned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhLP8M9eXD8

https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/arts/poetry/item/2729-in-praise-of-communism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Brown_(librarian)

Face to Face with Communism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_jbMrXcVmw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_futurism

Hammer and Hoe https://uncpress.org/book/9781469625485/hammer-and-hoe/

https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/capitalist-realism-new-edition

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2631-class-war

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5867314/

https://www.librarypunk.gay/e/080-moms-for-libertymoms-for-libraries/

https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/201-in-the-earth

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Justin and Jay both had to talk about this for work, so why not do an episode?

Discord: https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan

Media mentioned

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2023/08/29/appeals-court-rules-against-mandatory-deposit/#:~:text=In%20a%20decision%20handed%20down,violation%20of%20the%20takings%20clause.

The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool | Techdirt

Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon

Introduction to Large Language Models and the Transformer Architecture | by Pradeep Menon

Google and YouTube are trying to have it both ways with AI and copyright - The Verge

Google and Universal Music working on licensing voices for AI-generated songs | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/generative-ai/

https://www.copyright.gov/ai/

Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co. - Wikipedia.

AI-Generated Art Lacks Copyright Protection, D.C. Court Says (1)

AI-generated art cannot receive copyrights, US court says | Reuters

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We’re doing another bad news roundup. And you know we’re Bataille posting!

Media mentioned

Justin

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/07/26/hisd-to-eliminate-librarians-turn-libraries-into-discipline-centers-at-28-campuses/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/publishers-booksellers-sue-texas-over-public-school-book-ban-2023-07-26/

Sadie

https://www.thedailybeast.com/crowd-gives-campbell-county-library-board-in-wyoming-the-finger-after-library-director-is-fired

Jay

https://www.metroweekly.com/2023/07/attempt-to-remove-san-diego-librarys-lgbtq-books-backfires/

The Pornographic Imagination (Sontag) https://www.remittancegirl.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/124506505-The-Pornographic-Imagination-by-Susan-Sontag.pdf

https://repeaterbooks.com/product/postcapitalist-desire-the-final-lectures/

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Part 2!

https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan

Media mentioned

https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/microsoft-lost-keys-government-hacked/

https://dustycloud.org/blog/on-standards-divisions-collaboration/

https://jon-e.net/infrastructure/#forums--feeds (applicability of AP to publishing)

https://mayfirst.coop/en/

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/65/336347/the-vectoralist-class/

https://www.versobooks.com/products/887-capital-is-dead

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710957/chokepoint-capitalism-by-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin/

https://piracy.solutions/

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A two parter because we had so much to cover! Jonny joins us to explain Fediverse, ActivityPub, Bluesky, and other mysterious hives of villainy. How do preservation? Also: Microsoft lost the keys to their cloud. Also we started a discord!

https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan

Media mentioned

https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/microsoft-lost-keys-government-hacked/

https://dustycloud.org/blog/on-standards-divisions-collaboration/

https://jon-e.net/infrastructure/#forums--feeds (applicability of AP to publishing)

https://mayfirst.coop/en/

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/65/336347/the-vectoralist-class/

https://www.versobooks.com/products/887-capital-is-dead

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710957/chokepoint-capitalism-by-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin/

https://piracy.solutions/

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We do the closest thing to a bonus episode. We get meta: lifting the veil on how we do the podcast, what we listen to, and the friends we’ve made along the way. Also lots of copyright, AI, and Georges Bataille.

Media mentioned

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/08/the-fear-of-ai-just-killed-a-very-useful-tool/

https://blog.shaxpir.com/taking-down-prosecraft-io-37e189797121

FSCI event: https://semanticclimate.org/p/en/events/fsci2023_event/

Carl Malamud corpus: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02895-8

https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/wet-tyrant-contest-feat-patrick-wyman/

https://tendersubjectpod.podbean.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_the_Eye

Acid Horizon episodes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/georges-bataille-sustainability-and-climate-change/id1512615438?i=1000623479739

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/georges-bataille-sustainability-and-climate-change/id1512615438?i=1000623904471

Stuart Kindall biography on Bataille https://www.amazon.com/Georges-Bataille-Critical-Stuart-Kendall/dp/1861893272/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingchi

Cargo Cult podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cargo-cult/id1687043930

Good Omens https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1869454/

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This week we’re joined by Leòn from The Left Page & Here Be Media to talk about Da Netherlands, Mastodon, and tech policy in Europe.

https://shows.acast.com/63bb2e28364f560010c45f46

https://bsky.app/profile/leftpagemedia.bsky.social

https://twitter.com/leftpagepod

Media mentioned

https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/lawmaker-calls-for-changes-at-archives-and-history-after-lecture-on-alabamas-lgbtq-history.html

https://fediversereport.com/dutch-government-officially-launches-mastodon-server/

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2022/11/22/the-copyright-challenge-with-mastodon/

https://www.copyright.gov/dmca-directory/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5bHLrGBUKo

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/kids-online-safety-act-still-huge-danger-our-rights-online

https://twitter.com/tender_subject

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It’s a bad news roundup pardner! We’re talking public library leases, book ratings, and Montana being a shit to Emily Drabinski.

Open letter in support of Emily: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fgz9ITvekfCCtVspicgbaCM0Go2YzkaSrYGtR6s9lHo/preview

Sadie

https://www.kcur.org/news/2023-07-11/a-kansas-town-is-threatening-again-to-kick-out-the-public-library-unless-it-removes-lgbtq-books

Justin

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/business/texas-sexually-explicit-books-law/index.html

OSTP memo https://docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/AP19/20230714/116251/BILLS-118--AP--CJS-FY24CJSSubcommitteeMark.pdf

Jay

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/ala-responds-to-montana-state-library-commissions-withdrawal-of-membership/

https://dailymontanan.com/2023/06/22/library-commissioners-concerned-about-national-associations-new-marxist-lesbian-president/

https://jacobin.com/2023/07/american-library-association-emily-drabinski-montana-state-library-right-wing-homophobia-anticommunism

Media mentioned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_the_Matter_with_Kansas%3F_(book)#:~:text=How%20Conservatives%20Won%20the%20Heart,of%20Kansas%2C%20Frank's%20native%20state.

Idaho copycat of Montana https://twitter.com/annakate_miller/status/1680969944270508032

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This week we’re talking about John Rogers, a memorabilia mogul who flew too close to the sun (fueled by cocaine) by buying up newspaper photo collections and promising digital archives in return, while flogging the rarest photos for a profit. A warning to libraries and museums to be careful when a new digitization scheme rides into town!

https://defector.com/he-said-he-was-going-to-save-a-century-of-priceless-sports-photos-he-ended-up-the-madoff-of-memorabilia

Media mentioned

https://www.cnet.com/tech/openai-sued-by-authors-alleging-chatgpt-trained-on-their-writing/

https://bookriot.com/hoopla-overdrive-libby-now-banned-for-those-under-18-in-mississippi/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Point (Teilhard’s idea)

https://www.polygon.com/23779892/mtg-the-one-ring-found-how-much-price-spain

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Miriam is back to talk about her Digital Labor course and how it went teaching undergrad IT students to think critically about tech and logistics. We also cover student anxiety and why Justin could never get a BBL.

https://twitter.com/miriamkp

https://bsky.app/profile/miriamkp.bsky.social

Course syllabus. https://miriamposner.com/classes/dh150s23/

Media mentioned

Zizi Li: influencer labor. https://www.zizili.net/

https://westernkabuki.podbean.com/e/vtube-nation-ft-j-aubrey/

Acid Horizon: Data is Dead Labor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr3tE0D7UhI

https://baki.fandom.com/wiki/Jack_Hanma

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14549466/

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520383876/resurrecting-the-black-body

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We have the wonderful Ben and Matt on to talk about their new comic Justice Warriors, but also about the role of satire, book bans, cops in libraries (e.g. Winnipeg), and cuts to the social safety net in favor of cops where libraries become the service point of last resort.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Justice-Warriors/Matt-Bors/9781952090226

https://twitter.com/benclarkson

https://twitter.com/MattBors

Media mentioned

https://thenib.com/

https://scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/

https://scottmccloud.com/2-print/3-mc/index.html

https://scottmccloud.com/2-print/2-rc/index.html

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This week we're joined by Gracen to talk about the Lab, accommodations, death and remembrance, Crip futures, and lots more!

Transcript: https://sonix.ai/share/EshPDeD7BmqS2zUR4V3PoUL4

Readings

https://linktr.ee/disabilityarchiveslab

https://twitter.com/DisArchivesLab

http://disabilityarchiveslab.com/blog/

https://litwinbooks.com/books/preserving-disability/#:~:text=Preserving%20Disability%3A%20Disability%20and%20the,approaches%20to%20the%20archival%20profession.

Media mentioned

https://bookriot.com/illinois-has-officially-banned-book-bans/

https://lostinthestacks.libsyn.com/episode-560-what-is-the-disability-archives-lab?tdest_id=157087

https://mukurtu.org/

https://www.dukeupress.edu/work-requirements

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Welcome to the first episode of Tender Subject! This week, we're going over the whats and whys of this podcast. Why cannibalism? Why aren't we talking about True Crime? We also talk a little bit about the current cannibal craze in media and why we always need to justify our enjoyment. Finally, we do a show & tell for each other about something we might not do an entire episode on but wanted to talk about anyway.

Media Discussed:

2022 Was the Year of the Cannibal. What Does That Say About Us?

We the Parasites by A.V. Marraccini

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

Art by Anya R. Hueing

Music by @coffin_flops

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This week we’re doing the other library school movie, Desk Set. But first, we solve the eternal war between goths and librarians by talking about the Mütter Museum’s changes. Then we get into AI, automation, and sexy library shenanigans.

Media mentioned

Mütter Museum: https://www.inquirer.com/news/mutter-museum-oddities-review-new-plan-20230603.html

Knott Malone, "Imagining information retrieval in the library: Desk Set in historical context," in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 14-22, July-Sept. 2002, doi: 10.1109/MAHC.2002.1024759. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1024759

Desk set revisited: Reference librarians, reality, & research systems' design (1995) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0099133395901450

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We’re talking about the latest season of Preserving Worlds! Video game preservation, indie media, archiving, animation, DIY, the Internet as a bad place! We close talking about the end: our deaths, our multiple digital deaths, and how they won’t coincide with each other.

https://means.tv/programs/preservingworlds

https://twitter.com/DerekLMurphy

https://twitter.com/MitchellZemil

Media Mentioned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrzKT-dFUjE - Lemon Demon video Shawn worked on

https://rpgmaker.fandom.com/wiki/Yume_Nikki - Yume Nikki

https://rpgmaker.net/games/2430/ - Space Funeral

https://rpgmaker.net/games/6697/ - OFF

https://rpgmaker.fandom.com/wiki/Ib - Ib

https://www.youtube.com/@ToddintheShadows

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/19/1073367/digital-life-isnt-permanent-google-twitter-inactive-accounts/

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It’s just the crew this week and we’re gonna talk a lot about butt fucking! It’s Homosaurus time.

Media Mentioned

https://homosaurus.org/

https://librarynews.lmu.edu/2019/09/building-the-homosaurus-an-international-lgbtq-linked-data-vocabulary/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2072753

https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/7985/11110

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Crossover episode! We're talking with Srsly Wrong about the rights of minors to read, to know, and to be treated as people. We talk about our memories as children and accessing information at various stages in our development, and what the liberation of children will look like in regard to libraries.

Media Mentioned

The Convention on the Rights of the Child: The child-friendly version | UNICEF State of Palestine

https://www.schneier.com/books/a-hackers-mind/

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/part-of-our-lives-9780190248000?cc=fr⟨=en&

https://www.dukeupress.edu/no-future

Srsly Wrong episodes about child rights

262 – Society Lets Children Down
263 – A Conversation with Pearson Bolt about Child Liberation
265- Ageism, Misopedy, Adult Supremacy, Child Liberation, Childism, Adultism, Child Rights, Etc.
266 – Think of the Children!

ALA

About Banned & Challenged Books | Advocacy, Legislation & Issues
Access to Library Resources and Services for Minors: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights | Advocacy, Legislation & Issues
Notable First Amendment Court Cases | Advocacy, Legislation & Issues

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This week we’re talking about leaving academic libraries. Allison joins us to talk about using your skills to move into another field, barriers in academia, work/life balance, and the impact of temporary grant funded positions.

Media mentioned

https://medium.com/@allisonjaiodell/why-i-left-academic-libraries-26e2a63c8bf2

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This week we talk male beauty tips, why you need a weed card in New Hampshire, and the implosion of libraries as we know them. News time!

Media mentioned

https://www.newstalk.com/news/library-staff-offered-supports-as-anti-lgbtq-protesters-target-childrens-books-1452290

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2023/04/03/libraries-at-centre-of-culture-wars-as-protesters-try-to-remove-lgtbq-books-for-young-people/

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/texas-banned-books-ruling-judge/story?id=98303996

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/31/texas-school-library-books/

https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2023/02/20/safety-measure-or-book-banning-tool-k-12-obscene-materials-bill-sparks-heated-debate/

Non-news media mentioned

FLO Controlled Digital Lending Meeting: https://libraries.flo.org/ld.php?content_id=71305971

https://www.dukeupress.edu/no-future

Srsly Wrong episodes about child rights

266 – Think of the Children!
265- Ageism, Misopedy, Adult Supremacy, Child Liberation, Childism, Adultism, Child Rights, Etc.
263 – A Conversation with Pearson Bolt about Child Liberation
262 – Society Lets Children Down

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We’re covering the Internet Archive lawsuit point by point and discuss the implications for libraries trying to do CDL.

Media Mentioned

Decision: https://t.co/vskSf6gqSH

https://controlleddigitallending.org/2023/03/20/hachette-v-ia-liveblog/

What is CDL? https://controlleddigitallending.org/whitepaper/

The Publisher Playbook: A Brief History of the Publishing Industry’s Obstruction of the Library Mission: https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37374618

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Movie night! We’re watching The Watermelon Woman. If you haven’t seen it, go watch it first!

https://litwinbooks.com/books/ephemeral-material/

https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/C/Conflict-Is-Not-Abuse

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The Children's Internet Protection Act is a good starting point to talk about Internet censorship. E-Rate has become an almost invisible restriction on what you can view on library computers. We cover Section 230 adjustments including FOSTA/SESTA and tie it into current political battles over libraries and access to sexual or queer materials.

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Returning guest and fungal host Kayte joins us to talk fungus. Rhizomes, rot, rights, and Roald Dahl. We covered it all. Embrace your future body possibilities.

https://twitter.com/fangspodcast

https://twitter.com/kayteterry

http://www.kayteterry.com/

https://www.patreon.com/fangspodcast

Media mentioned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation_(VanderMeer_novel)

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691220550/the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14549466/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4547056/

https://feralatlas.org/

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Versions! Manifestations! Translations! We’re joined by Frank and Leon to talk about the material, artistic, and practical implications of how works change. This week we discover cartoons are bad and Justin displays his woeful ignorance of European countries starting with D.

https://www.patreon.com/leftpage

https://twitter.com/leftpagepod

https://twitter.com/FrankGothic

https://twitter.com/LoveLiveLeon

Media mentioned

https://www.dukeupress.edu/no-future

https://time.com/5388681/audiobooks-reading-books/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6OT77T7YlE

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200104-audiobooks-the-rise-and-rise-of-the-books-you-dont-read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Kid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_Donald_Duck

https://www.cbr.com/batman-joker-iran-ambassador-retcon-qurac/

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Socialist_Democratic_Federated_Republic_of_Carbombya

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2023 is the Year of Physical Media! Buy physical porn! TV is an illusion!

This episode is brought to you by Lizard Codeine. Get Gekked (TM).

Readings

https://torrentfreak.com/sony-thinks-cloud-gaming-can-eliminate-piracy-and-consoles-210626/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1527476420928480

Media mentioned

https://www.tumblr.com/catchymemes/705443101126295552?source=share

Porn you can’t watch:https://www.tumblr.com/duskydestra/705666837692694528

Missing documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2883206/

Why we all need subtitles now

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This week we have two researchers to talk about web archiving, its politics, its goals, and how web archiving is often mobilized to address problems it really can’t help. We’re talking Tumblr and GeoCities, Twitter’s feared implosion, Internet Archive, and the space to mourn our platforms and communities.

Jessica’s social: https://twitter.com/jessogden

Katie’s social: https://twitter.com/ktcmackinnon; katiemackinnon.xyz

Readings

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2021.1985835
- PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EEODs_kMMUj0vywKLZMf7aetgUcBdh1q/view?usp=sharing
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2022.2051331
- PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16305lQTUYB2IK_G-eSnjvCEgt5YdOCQp/view?usp=sharing

Media referenced

Jessica PhD thesis https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/447624/

Jessica’s publications: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/jessica-ogden

Katie’s PhD: https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/125246

Katie’s publications: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=zKGIFGEAAAAJ&hl=en

GeoCities Tumblr research project https://www.tumblr.com/oneterabyteofkilobyteage

Dead-and-dying platforms: a roundtable https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/24701475.2022.2071396

Baltimore Uprising; A Teen Epistolary https://www.activedistributionshop.org/shop/books/3963-the-2015-baltimore-uprising-a-teen-epistolary-by-various.html

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This week we’re talking about everyone’s favorite “grassroots” organization, Moms for Liberty. Justin is breaking out the cork board to show you where it’s all coming from. We also share our controversial takes on the Wikipedia redesign.

Readings

https://web.archive.org/web/20230117220154/https://www.momsforliberty.org/news/moms-for-liberty-partners-with-brave-books-to-donate-thousands-of-books-to-schools/
https://bookriot.com/moms-for-libraries/
- About the launch of Moms for Libraries.
- Among the titles in Brave Books’s catalog are Elephants Are Not Birds, Little Lives Matter, and More Than Spots and Stripes — 100,000 copies of this anti-critical race theory book were given away on Martin Luther King Day this year. It’s clear what the “values” in said books are.
https://newrepublic.com/article/169946/moms-for-libraries-public-schools
- Moms for Libraries prompts supporters to purchase copies of books from a handful of small conservative publishers it’s chosen, such as Heroes of Liberty, which released a book in December valorizing Elon Musk.
- Also mentions Brave Books
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/10/moms-against-libraries/
- “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” mentioned in this article.
https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2022/07/09/just-who-is-behind-moms-for-liberty-column/
- Funding sources for Moms for Liberty unclear.
- Moms for Liberty incorporated as an Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(4) organization, a form that lends itself to dark money political shenanigans.
- Moms for Liberty has formed three federal and one state political action committees, one of which is a SuperPAC able to accept unlimited donations
- Moms for Liberty’s press is being handled by Calvary Strategies whose CEO is a former campaign manager and chief of staff to Sen. (then-Gov.) Rick Scott
- Two of Moms for Liberty’s National Summit sponsors, the Leadership Institute and Heritage Foundation are critical members of the Council for National Policy
https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/christian-childrens-author-kirk-cameron-alleges-racial-religious-discrimination-by-indypl/
- Kirk Cameron demanding official partnership with the library as a program.
- Contrary to Cameron’s statement, Brave Books had rented a room for an event. And indeed, the Indianapolis event went ahead as planned in the rented room. Afterward, Brave Books celebrated by castigating other libraries, posting on Twitter, “No longer will Christians be silent,” and Fox News hosted Cameron, during which he threatened legal action against the library anyway, a victory lap over nothing
https://www.mediamatters.org/critical-race-theory/unmasking-moms-liberty
https://www.the74million.org/article/exclusive-moms-for-liberty-pays-21k-to-co-owned-by-founding-members-husband/
- Moms for Liberty, one of the fastest-growing and most recognized conservative parent advocacy groups in the nation, paid $21,357 to a company owned by the husband of one of its founding members, campaign finance records show.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/anti-lgbtq-activists-will-train-floridas-public-school-librarians-books-ban/
- “In Brevard County alone, it ignored the five submissions made by the bipartisan local school board, including the nomination of a former elementary school assistant principal, the director of Eastern Florida State College’s tutoring centers, and the administrator of a local scholarship fund,” the aforementioned publication wrote.
- Instead, the department chose a self-nominated individual named Michelle Beavers. Beavers heads the local chapter of Moms for Liberty, a right-wing group that gained notoriety during the pandemic for attending and protesting school board meetings to oppose mask mandates and LGBTQ inclusivity in schools.
- She herself advocated for Brevard County schools to ban the coming-of-age graphic novel This One Summer over its mention of lesbians and its crude teenage humor. She also supports revoking county school policies allowing parents to individually block their children’s access to library materials — Beavers prefers statewide bans on titles instead.
- “These books violate the law, it’s a felony. So why would you try and still defend there [sic] existence by letting parents opt out?” she wrote to the Brevard County schools superintendent.
- Who is Moms for Liberty? - Moms for Liberty has county-specific chapters across the country that target local school board meetings, school board members, administrators, and teachers. The group advocates to strip districts of protective COVID-19 measures and modify classroom curriculum to exclude the teaching of “critical race theory” (CRT) and sex education, all in the name of “parental rights.” - Origin in Florida, connected to mainstream Florida Republican politicians - Promoting anti-trans pseudoscience: “rapid-onset gender dysphoria.” From a paper in PLoS that was retracted, based on interviews with parents of transgender minors sourced from anti-trans sites.
- Major players
  - Moms for Liberty
    - https://www.momsforliberty.org/about/
    - Tiffany Justice
    - Tina Descovich
    - Marie Rogerson
    - Bridget Ziegler (not listed on the page anymore)
      - But there was a third founder, Bridget Ziegler. She is still a school committee member and her husband, Christian Ziegler, is vice chairman of the Florida Republican Party and the owner of a political marketing firm.
      - Christian Ziegler owns Microtargeted Media, which Moms for Liberty spent $21,357 according to campaign finance disclosure
    - Connections and funding (from Tampa Bay Times article)
      - Where does funding come from
        
        Clearly a Koch funded and fundamentalist funded org.
        
        Claim to run on tshirt sales (laughable, ask anyone who sells tshirt merch)
      - Yet perhaps they’ve heard of the Council for National Policy. Two of Moms for Liberty’s National Summit sponsors, the Leadership Institute and Heritage Foundation are critical members of the Council for National Policy, a secretive network of right wing billionaires and Christian fundamentalist leaders that underwrites and coordinates right wing politics.
      - Parents Defending Education is Koch-connected. The Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) claims credit for the havoc wreaked by anti-Critical Race Theory legislation. The Council for National Policy’s Leadership Institute commenced its own program to take over school boards. The Council for National Policy-connected Turning Point USA initiated a School Board Watch List for reporting “woke” school boards.
    - Michelle Beavers, nominated herself and appointed by DeSantis
      - https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/anti-lgbtq-activists-will-train-floridas-public-school-librarians-books-ban/
        
        “In Brevard County alone, it ignored the five submissions made by the bipartisan local school board, including the nomination of a former elementary school assistant principal, the director of Eastern Florida State College’s tutoring centers, and the administrator of a local scholarship fund,” the aforementioned publication wrote.
        
        Instead, the department chose a self-nominated individual named Michelle Beavers. Beavers heads the local chapter of Moms for Liberty, a right-wing group that gained notoriety during the pandemic for attending and protesting school board meetings to oppose mask mandates and LGBTQ inclusivity in schools.
        
        She herself advocated for Brevard County schools to ban the coming-of-age graphic novel This One Summer over its mention of lesbians and its crude teenage humor. She also supports revoking county school policies allowing parents to individually block their children’s access to library materials — Beavers prefers statewide bans on titles instead.
        
        “These books violate the law, it’s a felony. So why would you try and still defend there [sic] existence by letting parents opt out?” she wrote to the Brevard County schools superintendent.
    - Mamas for DeSantis (promoted by Moms for Liberty) run by DeSantis’s wife.
      - The workgroup also included Jamie Merchant, a member of Mamas for DeSantis. The group’s goals include training parents to oppose CRT, gender ideology (the existence of trans people), and “social emotional learning” while also training candidates to take over local school boards.
      - The astroturfed group has received financing from two anti-LGBTQ conservative groups, the Heritage Foundation and Turning Point USA, Politico reported. It has been promoted by Moms for Liberty. On Mamas for DeSantis’ summer reading list, the group included a book called Crimes of the Educators, which called on citizens to end the American public school system.
Moms for Liberty’s press is being handled by Calvary Strategies whose CEO is a former campaign manager and chief of staff to Sen. (then-Gov.) Rick Scott
- - Moms for Libraries * Catherine Rahimian, who founded the Orange County California chapter of Moms for Liberty + Board member of the Gavel Project, “an Anti-Woke non-profit” which has sued schools to block masking and vaccine policies * Heroes of Liberty - Publisher they partner with that has a book about Elon Musk + And to help you, Heroes of Liberty are offering 15% off all of their products. Just use coupon code: MOMS4LIBERTY
From Press Release: BRAVE Books is offering a 10% off promo code “MOMSFORLIBERTY” on any purchase with another 10% kept in a donation fund to help the Moms for Liberty Foundation purchase more books for schools in the future.
- - Brave Books * Staff https://bravebooks.us/pages/about-us + Trent Talbot + Zach Bell + Lina Sawaqedy + Savannah Morello + Eric Presley + Steve Ingalls + Hannah Carlson * Kirk Cameron book came through them. + News cycle was orchestrated. Program is called Brave Books Story Hour https://bravebooks.us/pages/bb-story-hour * Other authors (Who’s Who of grifters and ghouls). Looks like they’re specifically chosen for name recognition. This whole operation is planned to be a culture war instrument. Figured it was just someone’s husband’s grift. + Elizabeth Johnston (homeschool activist) + Ashley St. Clair (TPUSA anti-trans person until photographed with nazis) + Jack Posobiec (alt-right grifter) + Dan Crenshaw (TX Republican representative, eyepatch guy) + Dana Loesch (NRA spokesperson) + Graham Allen (Podcaster, TPUSA guy) + Missy Robertson (Duck Dynasty guy’s wife) + Trent Talbot (Brave Books President) + Mike Waltz (Florida Republican, soldier, replaced DeSantis’s seat) + Robby Starbuck (gusano grifter) + Bethany Hamilton (motivational speaker who got arm bit off by a shark) + Gen. Michael Flynn (Trump cabinet member) + Dinesh and Debbie D’Souza + Sheriff Mark Lamb (Border security grifter)
Moms for Libraries
- Methods of outreach
  - Facebook group
  - Based in CA but basically synonymous and used interchangeably with Moms for Liberty, as a program of theirs rather than a separate organization.
  - Closely tied to Brave Books. People buy books from them to have them donated to teachers and students directly. Sales money goes back to Moms for Libraries to fund more donations (allegedly).
  - Donating directly to students rather than libraries.
- Agenda as self-described
  - Focus on restrictions on “public school libraries” (very deliberate phrasing, always includes the public part). Probably to conflate school libraries with public libraries so they can censor those as well in the name of school aged children.
    - Tend to avoid talking about public libraries when on the defensive. (“If N.C. statutes require parental consent for sex education, why are we freely allowing sexually explicit materials in our public school libraries and classrooms?”)
    - Probably also use Public School to differentiate from Charter Schools, home schooling
  - Pushes for early literacy and funding of libraries (for the moment)
  - Mixture of ideology. Wedging into liberal support until it shifts. TERF behavior.
  - Focus on transparency language (identical to Gov. DeSantis anti DEI order).
Most local chapter members believe these are legitimate grassroots organizations. May not have lasting power when the people funding it lose interest.
Fights over school boards are nothing new, the homeschooling movement has been infiltrating public school boards for decades.
Will also attempt to divert funds to charter schools. Moms for DeSantis explicitly against public education by promoting Crimes of the Educators.

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New Year New works in the Public Domain! This week we have Nancy Sims to talk about what’s entering the Public Domain in 2023. Of course we had to touch on AI authorship and copyright, Naruto the monkey, and a possible solution for regular weeding discourses.

Readings

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/

https://vimeo.com/696206791 - Sherlock Holmes presentation by Nancy

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/29/canada-steals-cultural-works-from-the-public-by-extending-copyright-terms/ Chapter 2 of Jamie Boyle’s “Public Domain” book - https://www.thepublicdomain.org/download/ - especially pages 19-23 or so, but the rest of it is also really telling about some historical thinking on exclusive IP rights. (With all the caveats about “founding fathers” that have ever caveated.)

Media mentioned

https://xkcd.com/294/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_(TV_series)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing_(1993_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clueless

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Own_Private_Idaho

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This week we’re joined by Adriana White to talk about school libraries, accommodations, and remote work. We also give the latest updates on Kirk Cameron’s book tour. Remember to be annoying and ask if that new job posted has a remote option!

https://adrianaluisawhite.wordpress.com/

https://twitter.com/adriana_edu

Media mentioned

Job Accommodations Network

https://twitter.com/iww/status/1605600642872987652?s=20&t=wS2rP5ZIrMnmi3xbL6Lkww

Stella Young's TED TALK https://www.ted.com/talks/stella_young_i_m_not_your_inspiration_thank_you_very_much?language=en

https://twitter.com/SecCardona/status/1604204972920385537?s=20&t=wS2rP5ZIrMnmi3xbL6Lkww

Library Salaries List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YXCBN4gxetizJMfKWYcZWRjHHCntD42minrgiPqh-9Y/edit?usp=sharing

INALJ Remote: https://inalj.com/?page_id=56476

Recommended Resources:

Adaptive Umbrella workshop
Accessibility in Your Library webinar
- Research by J.J. Pionke
- Understanding Disability to Support Library Workers – Journal of Library Administration
Invisible Disabilities and an Inclusive Library Workplace – LIS Mental Health
Navigating the Academic Hiring Process with Disabilities – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
Job Seeking and Daily Workforce Experiences of Autistic Librarians – Amelia Anderson, Old Dominion University
Libraries are for everyone! Except if you’re autistic blog post

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We're talking about accommodations again!

Jess’s linktree https://linktr.ee/schomj

Media mentioned

https://litwinbooks.com/books/beyond-accommodation/

https://works.bepress.com/jessica-schomberg/28/

https://www.sinsinvalid.org/

https://www.uwindsor.ca/wgst/merrickpilling

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-83692-4?sap-outbound-id=DA70FE8AABF69428A26B0BFC99E4CAD1A574A9CE

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-90413-5

https://uncpress.org/book/9781469624891/no-right-to-be-idle/

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674972094

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/

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This week we’re joined by Jessica Sylvia to talk about prisons as places of censorship, parole boards, and archival priorities for stories from the inside.

https://twitter.com/Abolition_Jess

Media Mentioned

https://pen.org/prison-book-bans-protect-mass-incarceration/

https://scalawagmagazine.org/press-in-prison/

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=16574

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Litigation_Reform_Act

https://daily.jstor.org/far-from-folsom-prison-more-to-music-inside/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Rape_Elimination_Act_of_2003

https://www.studyandstruggle.com/critical-conversations

https://www.empowermentave.com/

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We’re talking with comic artist R.E. Parrish about Jorge Luis Borges and The Library of Babel. On the way we cover a Reddit question, information paradoxes, goth librarianship, and Twitter archiving.

https://reparrishcomics.com/

https://www.etsy.com/shop/reparrishcomics

https://twitter.com/reparrishcomics

Media Mentioned

The Library of Babel - Wikipedia

https://libraryofbabel.info/About.html

Infinite monkey theorem - Wikipedia

The Total Library

https://reparrishcomics.com/post/101029451973/writer-fights-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox

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Returning guest Dorothea Salo joins us to teach Justin about The Carpentries.

Media Referenced

https://carpentries.org/

https://librarycarpentry.org/

https://datacarpentry.org/

https://twitter.com/thecarpentries

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

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We’ve got Sarah Lamdan on to talk about her new book Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information! We talk about government contracting to third party data companies, legal loopholes, the connection to academic publishing and metrics, and the stranglehold the corporate duopoly has over access to US law by lawyers, citizens, and prisoners. Justin also advances his theory that academic journals are just podcasts.

https://twitter.com/greenarchives1

Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information | Sarah Lamdan

Librarianship at the Crossroads of ICE Surveillance

S3 Ep2 – Knowledge Equity Lab

Media mentioned

Fact Sheet: New Records Provide Details on ICE’s Mass Use of LexisNexis Accurint to Surveil Immigrants - Community Resource Hub

Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil: 9780553418835 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Algorithms of Oppression

https://twitter.com/JailLawSpeak

https://libraryjuiceacademy.com/shop/course/317-zotero-for-librarians/?attribute_pa_session=2023-03-mar

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Docudrama time! We’re watching F for Fake (1973), the world’s first breadtube essay. We discuss the nature of art, lies, forgeries, markets, and how bad editing is ableism.

Readings

S3E5: Elmyr de Hory

F for Fake - Wikipedia

Chokepoint Capitalism | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

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We’re talking with Beatrice Adler-Bolton from Death Panel and the author of Health Communism. We talk about accommodations, surplus populations, extraction, and communism.

https://twitter.com/realLandsEnd

https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Readings

Health Communism (10/20/22) by Death Panel podcast

Death Panel Podcast

Reddit Question

Man's Search for Meaning - Wikipedia

Capitalism and Disability - Marta Russell

Histories of the Transgender Child — University of Minnesota Press

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We’re doing metadata anarchy this week. Come for the creative destruction, stay for the Reddit questions.

Readings

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-on-order

Eros in the Library

Metadata Anarchy

Media mentioned

Ask Reddit
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/comments/xz0egf/ada_and_patron_question/
- Adult males in the children’s department : r/Libraries
- TX Library Professionals: share your "conspicuous place"
- Is it wrong to decorate your library with a witch?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G56_mQwyBM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliban_and_the_Witch

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/669547

https://litwinbooks.com/books/feminist-pedagogy-for-library-instruction/

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We’re talking anime with Leslie from Fangs for the Memories! Click the link for a long list of all the anime we mentioned!

https://twitter.com/FangsPodcast

https://www.patreon.com/fangscast/posts

https://twitter.com/dangitleslie

Media mentioned

Yaoi Paddle Kickstarter Faces Intellectual Property Dispute

Satoshi Kon - Wikipedia

The Crow (1994 film) - Wikipedia

Tomie - Wikipedia

Russian Workout Routine Exercise Training with Bears, Preparing for Ukraine Invasion #Shorts 🐻💤 𝓦𝓞𝓦

Beowulf (2007) - IMDb

HBO Max Controversies Serve As A Reminder Of Why Physical Media Matters

Anam An Amhrain DVD – CartoonSaloon

The Secret of Kells - Wikipedia

Anime Clubs and Licensing : r/Libraries

The Crow Comic Accompaniment by Trust Obey- "Fear And Bullets" (ETR078 | Enjoy The Ride Records

Anime mentioned

Sailor Moon - Wikipedia

Pokémon (TV series) - Wikipedia

Promare - Wikipedia

Ghost in the Shell - Wikipedia

FLCL - Wikipedia

Millennium Actress - Wikipedia

Studio Trigger - Wikipedia

Kill la Kill - Wikipedia

Space Patrol Luluco - Wikipedia

Ranma ½ - Wikipedia

Ninja Scroll - Wikipedia

Akira (1988 film) - Wikipedia

Baki the Grappler - Wikipedia

Dragon Ball Z - Wikipedia

Tottoi - Wikipedia

How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? - Wikipedia

Kengan Ashura - Wikipedia

Anohana - Wikipedia

Space Battleship Yamato - Wikipedia

Bleach (TV series) - Wikipedia

Ronin Warriors - Wikipedia

Samurai Pizza Cats - Wikipedia

Naruto - Wikipedia

Cowboy Bebop - Wikipedia

Samurai Champloo - Wikipedia

My Hero Academia - Wikipedia

Haikyu!! - Wikipedia

Laid-Back Camp - Wikipedia

Neon Genesis Evangelion (franchise) - Wikipedia

Toradora! - Wikipedia

Studio Ghibli - Wikipedia

Revolutionary Girl Utena - Wikipedia

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This week Sadie is teaching Jay and Justin about cybersecurity. Phishing, bitcoin, CISA-lords, and more!

Readings

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/leading-library-services-firm-baker-and-taylor-hit-by-ransomware/

https://publiclibrariesonline.org/2021/05/ransomware-attacks-at-libraries-how-they-happen-what-to-do/

https://www.spiceworks.com/it-security/cyber-risk-management/guest-article/why-are-small-businesses-suffering-for-steep-cyber-insurance-premiums/

Media mentioned:

Demon core - Wikipedia

Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs

Kevin Mitnick - Wikipedia

Kitboga - YouTube

CISA can’t definitively say if ransomware is getting better or worse | Cybersecurity Dive

How the YubiKey Works | Yubico

Just Delete Me | A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services.

https://unroll.me/

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Movie time! We're watching the 2018 heist film American Animals, based on the real theft of rare books from Transylvania University's special collections. We talk about libraries and the carceral state, the worth of library workers versus special collections, and birds.

Media Mentioned

https://www.vulture.com/2018/06/the-real-life-heist-caper-behind-american-animals.html

https://www.audubon.org/news/in-american-animals-audubons-art-source-obsession-greed-and-infamy

https://www.transy.edu/1780/2020/09/transylvania-special-collections-librarian-retires-after-26-years-of-connecting-researchers-with-historical-treasures/

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We’re talkin’ manga collections again! Ashley Hawkins comes on to talk about school libraries, manga collections, book challenges, and generally give us some reading recommendations!

Ashley Hawkins (@manga_librarian) / Twitter

Manga Librarian

Guide to Graphic Novels in Libraries

Manga Collection Development for Librarians: The Basics

School Librarians United with Amy Hermon: 141 Manga Librarian

Manga and Women: Buying Manga for School Libraries in the #MeToo Era

Media Referenced

Talk to My Back

Berserk (manga) - Wikipedia

Parents, school librarians concerned about repercussions as Missouri’s ban on ‘sexually explicit material’ law takes effect

DENPA

Yen Press

LibraryPass

Comics Plus

Sora + Public Library CONNECT

Witch Hat Atelier - Wikipedia

Cat + Gamer - Wikipedia

Boys Run the Riot - Wikipedia

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This week we’re joined by Emily Knox!

If you ever feel like books are conflated with ideas themselves, this is a good one to listen to. Why do books hold such power in a time where we assume nobody reads them?

https://twitter.com/ejmknox

Book Banning in 21st-Century America - 9781442231689

Foundations of Intellectual Freedom | ALA Store

Media mentioned

Books, censorship, and anti-intellectualism in schools

Passing (novel) - Wikipedia

The Lily goes 'Incognito': Why we made a zine about secrecy

Conduct Unbecoming: Gays & Lesbians in the U.S. Military: Shilts, Randy: 9780449909171: Amazon.com

Reading the world in 196 books - BBC Culture

Foreword Reviews

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We're talking with Scarlet Galvan, the new VPO for Negotiations at SPARC about how library contract negotiations work and can work better in the future!

https://twitter.com/panoptigoth

Media mentioned

UNT Manifesto: Expectations for Library Vendors.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5308322/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko-di_Koko-da

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This week we’re joined by Audrey and Donovan from Radio Free Tote Bag! We talk about the ever-important issue of sex and libraries. We finally have answers for the questions you were too afraid to ask!

https://rftb.me

https://www.patreon.com/rftb

https://twitter.com/rftbPod

https://twitter.com/rftbAudrey

https://twitter.com/rftbdono

Media mentioned

212 A Badly Edited Collage of Disappointment feat. Liam Anderson and Rin | Radio Free Tote Bag

101 John Fucking McAfee feat. John and Janice McAfee | Radio Free Tote Bag

8 books sparked library debate: How does Livingston handle dating, sex and gender issues? | News | theadvocate.com

John Waters - This Filthy World (2006 Special) [1080P HD]

049 - Party Girl (1995) feat Luisa Díez

127 Buy A Butt Plug And Read Up On Stoicism | Radio Free Tote Bag

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This week we’re techin' it up about library labor.

https://twitter.com/adr - John’s Twitter

https://twitter.com/elibtronic - Tim’s Twitter

https://LISgrievances.com

Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces - 1st Edition

Media Mentioned

https://themaintainers.org

The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man

The Fragment On Machines - Karl Marx : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Building Sustainable Digital Humanities Projects

Update: Librarians Embroiled in Lawsuit Alleging Sexual Harassment | Library Journal

Nixon in China - Wikipedia

The Leader - Karl Marx Anime (English Subs) - YouTube

Epilogue

After the episode ended we started looking at the Karl Marx animated series The Leader Wikipedia page and found the truth: that Karl Marx was into vore. We also made sure to thank the brave truth teller who made the edit from their phone and decided to edit nothing else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leader_(web_series)

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This week we're talking about toxic productivity, bad bosses, and horror novels.

About – Productivity Alchemy

What Is Toxic Productivity? 5 Tips To Overcome It | Trello

Donate | Trans Lifeline

Find Your Local Food Bank | Feeding America

Media mentioned

Episode 257 – Off to AnthroCon, Jay Colbert – Productivity Alchemy

Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves

‘A bigger paycheck? I’d rather watch the sunset!’: is this the end of ambition? | Work-life balance | The Guardian

Mary Robinette Kowal

https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/book

FlyLady.net

Time Management for System Administrators [Book]

What Moves the Dead

The Twisted Ones | Book by T. Kingfisher | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster

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This week we have Whitney Trettien to talk about John Bagford, a biblioclast of the early modern period and how changes in technology and access shape our interaction with information and its formats.

https://twitter.com/whitneytrettien

“Cover” in “Cut/Copy/Paste” on Manifold @uminnpress

Media mentioned

John Bagford, bibliophile or biblioclast? - Medieval manuscripts blog

The Bagford Collection | British Library - Picturing Places

Eros in the library: Considering the aesthetics of knowledge organization | Art Libraries Journal | Cambridge Core

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This week we have Kyle K. Courtney to talk about Controlled Digital Lending, Open Library, and the encroaching AI threat.

https://twitter.com/KyleKCourtney

Library Futures Releases Policy Statement and Draft eBook Legislative Language: Mitigating the Library eBook Conundrum Through Legislative Action in the States

Ebooks Legislative Map

Media mentioned

If publishers have their way, libraries' digital options will see major cuts | The Hill

Interoperable System of Controlled Digital Lending | NISO website

The End of Ownership | The MIT Press

Emerging Issues in Copyright: A Jaunt Through Some Common Problems (Justin’s presentation)

Does digitization hurt book readership and sales? Evidence from the Google books project

The Evolution of Ebook Bills - EveryLibrary Institute

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This week we're diving into the OCLC lawsuit against Clarivate for its MetaDoor product, the implications of Roe being overturned, and ALAmageddon.

Becky Yoose (@yo_bj) / Twitter

Managing Data for Patron Privacy: Comprehensive Strategies for Libraries | ALA Store

About Us - LDH Consulting Services

Media mentioned Privacy Guides

https://gavialib.com/2022/06/stoning-goliath/ Library Loon article.

Karen Coyle - https://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-oclc-v-clarivate-dilemma.html

OCLC's non-profit status « The Thingology Blog

Outsourcing the catalog department: A meditation inspired by the business and library literature - ScienceDirect

SkyRiver vs. OCLC antitrust lawsuit – librarian.net

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We’re watching Justin’s favorite movie and brought on the Internet’s premiere smart thinky man, Kyle! We address the question: what if a Star Trek TOS episode was 97 minutes long?

https://twitter.com/laborkyle

https://www.youtube.com/c/laborkyle

https://twitter.com/profaneshow

https://twitter.com/agabpod

Media referenced:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_logico-epistemology

Community - Abed proves Who's the Boss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasein

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Movie night! We watch the sex and violence packed crime drama The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989). It’s got books in it.

https://twitter.com/kayteterry

https://twitter.com/FangsPodcast

https://www.patreon.com/fangscast

Media mentioned

https://www.doubledialogues.com/article/traversing-the-alimentary-canal-peter-greenaways-the-cook-the-thief-his-wife-and-her-lover/

Girls, Guts, & Giallo on Apple Podcasts

You Must Remember This Podcast

The Name of The Rose By That Guy Who Wrote The Fascism Essay Everyone Uses | Brows Held High

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This week we’re going to talk about the scrapbooking industry, how information is saved and accessed in scrapbooking, the knowledge management aspects of your daily life, and what hides in Justin’s closet.

Kristin's instagram account with photos of lots of my Daily Pages -- my daily scrapbook practice

This is a long-ish interview of me (by one of the big modern scrapbook people) and she does a great job of talking to me about most of my projects and values: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbx3dtKFhd2/

https://www.craftyassfemale.com/ podcast

https://theawesomeladiesproject.com/ Main website

Kristin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/rukristin

Media mentioned:

Justin’s how to build a white box: https://complaintificate.tumblr.com/post/81389437835/for-photographing-some-of-our-smaller-rare-books

Glowforge machine: https://glowforge.com/

John Bagford: https://manifold.umn.edu/read/cut-copy-paste/section/9ae020aa-7be0-44f7-8b60-53a77616fcef#ch03

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We’re doing digital gardens again, this time with Deleuze. It’s rhizome time baby. Also we cover the Hoopla Slide and TikTok updates.

Readings

Tensions Between Zettelkasten & the Productivity Scene https://writing.bobdoto.computer/tensions-between-zettelkasten-and-the-productivity-scene/

Misconceptions About the Relationship Between Permanent & Evergreen Notes https://writing.bobdoto.computer/misconceptions-about-the-relationship-between-permanent-and-evergreen-notes/

Zettelkasten Madness https://bobdoto.computer/Zettelkasten-Madness

How to choose the right note-taking app: https://nesslabs.com/how-to-choose-the-right-note-taking-app

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertwingularity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome_(philosophy)

Explaining Deleuze with drum machines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDVKrbM5MIQ&t=364s

Media mentioned:

Thread: https://twitter.com/eminencefont/status/1529174808914804736

https://lib-static.github.io/

https://wilde-at-heart.garden/

Justin’s public garden: https://smazzie.github.io/ObsidianSite/My_Obsidian_journey/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat-file_database

https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/

Nick Milo https://www.linkingyourthinking.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson

Software/systems mentioned:

https://logseq.com/

https://www.notion.so/product

https://obsidian.md/

https://evernote.com/

https://www.craft.do/

https://readwise.io/

https://ticktick.com/?language=en_US

https://www.zotero.org/

OneNote

https://airtable.com/

https://roamresearch.com/

https://www.orgroam.com/

https://joplinapp.org/

Apple Notes

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We’re talking about library socialism and the basic ideas that go into it such as usufruct, irreducible minimum, and what sex toys are best for circulating collections.

https://twitter.com/SrslyWrong

Episodes

https://srslywrong.com/podcast/189-library-socialism-usufruct/
https://srslywrong.com/podcast/196-library-socialism-the-irreducible-minimum/
https://srslywrong.com/podcast/200-complementarity/
https://srslywrong.com/podcast/236-talking-to-ironweeds-about-library-socialism-and-bein-sweetie-pie/

Means TV show: Papa and Boy, June-July 2022.

Media mentioned:

Library Socialism: a utopian vision of a sustaniable, luxuriant future of circulating abundance

Moral Rights Basics.

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Video: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=455589028208337

I was a Stripper Librarian on Amazon and Barnes & Noble

Kristy’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/librarydefend

https://www.kristycooper.com/

Lola Davina: https://www.loladavina.com/

https://www.sexworkinfoshare.org/

https://www.swopbehindbars.org/

Mutual aid

https://twitter.com/LysistrataMCCF

https://swopusa.org/

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Readings

Library Strategy and Collaboration Across the College Ecosystem - Ithaka S+R

Huang, C., Samek, T., & Shiri, A. (2021). AI and ethics: Ethical and educational perspectives for LIS. https://doi.org/10.3138/jelis-62-4-2020-0106

A Comprehensive Primer to Library Learning Analytics Practices, Initiatives, and Privacy Issues | Jones

The Mixed-Method Library: Qualitative Research and the Future of Assessment in Libraries

Media mentioned

Roxanne Shirazi https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt1pwt6wq.11?seq=1

Who Succeeds in Higher Education? Questioning the Connection Between Academic Libraries & Student Success. – Zoe Fisher .

University of Wisconsin Circulation and E-Resource Access Records

Soylent Semantic Web Is People!, slides.

Andrew Asher - Project MUSE - Unethical Numbers? A Meta-analysis of Library Learning Analytics Studies

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We talk with Haley from Q4Q: Queer Personals Podcast about how they came up with the idea for the podcast, how sourcing personal ads works, how niche podcasting is the new Tumblr side blog, and what a research project on personals would look like. We also do a mini Q4Q episode!

Q4Q: Queer Personal Ads Podcast

Come on Q4Q as a guest

Q4Q: Queer Personals Podcast (@Queerpersonals) / Twitter

Media mentioned:

Gerber/Hart https://www.gerberhart.org/

OutWeek Magazine

Moulin Rouge - Wikipedia!

Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator on Steam

Boyfriend Dungeon on Steam

Jesse Helms Out Week cover: https://imgur.com/a/flIDOJS

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luisa díez (@luisadieznuts) / Twitter

Why You Mad Pod

Why You Mad (@WhyYouMadPod) / Twitter

Party Girl (1995) - Full Movie

Media mentioned:

Librarians and Party Girls: Cultural Studies and the Meaning of the Librarian

25 Years Later, the Makers of 'Party Girl' Reflect on the Cult Film's Fashion Legacy | Vogue

Party Girl Episode 1 Pilot

Follow Friday

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This week we’re welcoming back returning champ Callan, and new guest Alison Macrina to talk about That Article, Hoopla, collection development, TERF bangs, and more!

We demand accountability from Hoopla Digital and OverDrive regarding the platforming of fascist propaganda in their digital library collections.

Latest Hoopla update on Library Freedom Project: https://twitter.com/library_futures/status/1501962543300059136?s=20&t=iG5sKJBfzGRxg2rU0X9u7Q

Also check #vendorslurry posts on Twitter.

Early Follett Discover email: https://twitter.com/talya_cooper/status/1508499331657130001

We demand accountability from Hoopla Digital and OverDrive regarding the platforming of fascist propaganda in their digital library collections.

Latest Hoopla update on Library Freedom Project: https://twitter.com/library_futures/status/1501962543300059136?s=20&t=iG5sKJBfzGRxg2rU0X9u7Q

Also check #vendorslurry posts on Twitter.

Early Follett Discover email: https://twitter.com/talya_cooper/status/1508499331657130001

Media referenced:

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom

https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/terf-bangs-cultural-history.html

Callan is host of radio show 8pm-10pm eastern https://uncertain.fm Outback Witchhouse

https://libraryfreedom.org/crashcourse/

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom

https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/terf-bangs-cultural-history.html

Callan is host of radio show 8pm-10pm eastern https://uncertain.fm Outback Witchhouse

https://libraryfreedom.org/crashcourse/

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https://twitter.com/Greene_DM

The Promise of Access | The MIT Press

Link for articles, book talks, classes, etc: https://dmgreene.net

Tech won’t save us episode (especially the second half) https://overcast.fm/+ZpQDQrdL4

Logic article on The Access Doctrine: https://logicmag.io/distribution/the-access-doctrine/

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https://twitter.com/feraljokes

Pod Damn America: https://soundcloud.com/poddamnamerica

Why You Mad? https://soundcloud.com/whyyoumadpod

Jake’s shows: https://www.feraljokes.com/dates

Readings

Gender Queer Under Review in Coppell, Texas; Director's Response Is a Model to Follow

Gov. Greg Abbott calls for criminal investigation into availability of pornographic content in public schools

A Space for Civic Dialogue - Blog - Free Library

Things mentioned (in order)

Measure that could fine, jail librarians passes Idaho House

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauntology

Gender Queer: A Memoir | Book by Maia Kobabe | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster

Opinion | I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead. - The New York Times

Pod Damn America episode on NFTs (paywalled)

Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves

Rhizome (philosophy) - Wikipedia

Mishka Shubaly podcast with Jake

037 - Digital Gardens, Hypertext, and Donna Haraway

Dan Greene, The Promise of Access | The MIT Press

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https://twitter.com/edrabinski

Getting Organized | American Libraries Magazine

Meet the Candidates for ALA President: Emily Drabinski | American Libraries Magazine

Media mentioned

Jane McAlevey | No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

The Revolution That Wasn't — Jen Schradie | Harvard University Press

Gary drink of water video: https://twitter.com/edrabinski/status/1501673661522141196?s=20&t=jBBe27AjLRkj5geTMBOfGQ

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Ben’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/benwritesthings

https://benwritesthings.com

https://badgayspod.com

Pre-order book https://badgayspod.com/book

Schwules Museum https://twitter.com/gaymuseum

Media mentioned

Gabrielle Palluch - The Opium Queen

The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire by Wayne Koestenbaum

Nadezhda Durova - Wikipedia

Curating Visual Archives of Sex: A Roundtable Discussion

University of Toronto Press - States of Liberation

Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love By Laurie Marhoefer

Emily Knox interview

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https://twitter.com/wylie_alan

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB438

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Leisure_Limited

Readings

Public libraries are vital to local communities – Labour must fight to defend them | openDemocracy (2018)
The Fight for Britain's Libraries (2021)
Public-Private Partnerships Are Quietly Hollowing Out Our Public Libraries (2021)
Evidence on the use of volunteers in libraries and on volunteer-run libraries (2015, pdf)
The UK no longer has a national public library system | Laura Swaffield | The Guardian (2017)

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Time for volume 3 in our series on interviewing library workers in non-librarian jobs. This week we have Woody!

If you have any information on Woody’s trapped library school credits, DM us on Twitter or email librarypunktranscript@gmail.com and we’ll put you in touch with them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull-face_Bookseller_Honda-san

https://twitter.com/tcplny

https://www.tiktok.com/@tomcopublib?lang=en

Media mentioned

Drinking on my friend’s roof Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dereklipp_/video/6949424048044625158

Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san - Watch on Crunchyroll

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Lydia’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lydia_zv

https://cjal.ca/index.php/capal/article/view/36367

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This week we're joined by Kay Slater, an Adult Services Desk Assistant, to talk about their job and library worker inclusion!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kailyn0001

Paul Otlet - Wikipedia

Rick Roderick: Self Under Seige - 20th Century Philosophy - YouTube

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https://twitter.com/megan_e_riley

Mattern, Shannon. “Maintenance and Care.” Places Journal, November 20, 2018. https://doi.org/10.22269/181120

Moxie Marlinspike >> Blog >> My first impressions of web3

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Welcome to the first in our series on non-librarian library jobs, how we all interact, and hopefully find some critical perspectives on library organizations along the way. And we're starting with our cohost Sadie!

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Segment: Library Futures | Statement on the Association of American Publishers Suit Against the State of Maryland THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS FILES SUIT AGAINST THE STATE OF MARYLAND OVER UNPRECEDENTED ENCROACHMENT INTO FEDERALLY PROTECTED COPYRIGHTS - AAP

Maggie Appleton: A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral | Hapgood

How the Blog Broke the Web - Stacking the Bricks

🌱 My Blog is a Digital Garden, Not a Blog by Joel Hooks: https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden

Werner Herzog’s Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World. The main relevant part is this interview with Ted Nelson: Ted Nelson in Herzog's "Lo and Behold"

Shawn Wang: Learn In Public: The fastest way to learn

Donna Haraway: Staying with the Trouble

Key Theories of Donna Haraway

Staying With The Trouble by Donna Haraway | PDF | Cthulhu

Jay’s paper: Composting Hypertext: Digital Gardens in the Chthulucene 20211207_FeministTheory_SeminarPaper_ColbertJL.docx

https://tenthousandposts.podbean.com/e/yes-haha-yes-ft-mattie-lubchansky/

https://web.archive.org/web/20160315090512/http:/www.webword.com/moving/healing.html

Zettelkasten - Wikipedia

https://wilde-at-heart.garden

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april vendetta (they/them) explores themes of control, labor, and sexual play through D.I.Y. surveillance to question the human body's physicality and resilience. They are co-founder of HUMAN TRASH DUMP. HUMAN TRASH DUMP is an open digital archive founded in 2015 that invites contributions of audio, text, image, and video files to be hosted and disseminated as material, tools, handbooks, puzzles, and keys. Participant’s stream, download, share, and remix archived fragments to expand collective intimacy. Data is stored in a dump not a cloud.

Contact: humantrashdump@gmail.com

Resources

HUMAN TRASH DUMP on archive.org (an imperfect solution due to some censorship issues*)

HUMAN TRASH DUMP is an open digital archive founded in 2015 that invites contributions of audio, text, image, and video files to be hosted and disseminated as material, tools, handbooks, puzzles, and keys. Participants stream, download, share, and remix archived fragments to expand collective intimacy. Data is stored in a dump not a cloud.

Fragmented-Body / Fragmented Archive (this presentation took place during New York Archives Week Symposium hosted by The Archivists Round Table (A.R.T.) of Metropolitan New York on Thursday, October 21st, 2021 at 3:45 PM EST.)

vendetta: the fragmented archive

Archival Liberation Vision Board Showcase (presentation took place as part in the Archival Liberation Vision Board Showcase Hosted by the Queens College Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists & the Archival Technologies Lab. AERI 2021 virtual conference.

Conditions & Possibilities - Organized by Noah Ortega (Artist talk back after a collective/individual public action(s) outside the New York Stock Exchange, 2021)

Action In The Street: A Guide to Performing & Archiving Public Exchange

21s thesis Griess archive copy

thesis part II

*http://www.albatross.website/albatrossartfair (scroll down for human trash dump/april vendetta. Artwork created about being censored and having my personal account locked on the internet archive)

Transgender YouTubers had their videos grabbed to train facial recognition software

NYU dean sends R.E.M. dance video as part of response to students' call for tuition refund

Additional Links

INSTITUTION IS A VERB : A PANOPLY PERFORMANCE LAB COMPILATION (FREE PDF)

Fugitivision TV - One Man: The Liberation Project

Guerilla Open Access Manifesto by Aaron Swartz

The Black Trans Archive - Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

The Black Trans Archive Is Revolutionizing How We Tell Queer History

One Black Woman’s Path to Librarianship (and Some Advice) - Interview with Gina Murrell

I’m Leaving the Archival Profession: It’s Better This Way by Jarrett M. Drake

Archiving Series: Archiving Through People

We Still Can't Eat Prestige: Lessons from Arts and Cultural Worker Organizing

Artists Against Displacement

Coalition to Protect Chinatown & the Lower East Side

PETITION: Stop Displacement in Lower Manhattan

National Mobilization Against Sweatshops

January Week of Action to Demand: #CancelStudentDebt https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-up-to-join-our-cancel-student-debt-week-of-action/

https://debtcollective.org

Resources for Artists, Activists, and Archivists (compiled by April in their thesis)

Joan Mitchell Foundation Professional Development & Resources for Artists

joanmitchellfoundation.org/professional-development

NFPF Grants

filmpreservation.org/nfpf-grants

SAADA (South Asian American Digital Archive) Family Album – Getting Started: Preservation Guide for your Personal Archive

saada.org/familyalbum/resources

Smithsonian Institution Archives – How to Do Oral History Guide

siarchives.si.edu/history/how-do-oral-history

Starting an Artist Interview Program: Hard-Earned Lessons on Best Practices by Tim Lillis and Erica Gangsei

sfmoma.org/read/starting-artist-interview-program

Volunteer Lawyers for The Arts - New York

vlany.org

Witness – Activists’ Guide to Archiving Video

archiving.witness.org/archive-guide

XFR Collective

xfrcollective.wordpress.com/resources

EAI - Electronic Arts Intermix

VDB - Video Data Bank

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We’re finally here! The Leather Archives & Museum episode! We talk about… the Leather Archives. Just listen to it.

https://twitter.com/leatherarchives

https://www.instagram.com/leatherarchives/

Become a member of the Leather Archives

ROAM Program benefits

References

Bound together: Leather, sex, archives, and contemporary art

Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display

“Thinking Sex”, Gayle Rubin

leatherdyke gender technology - by Daemonum X - Dead but Delicious

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This week we’re joined by Miriam Posner and Matthew Hannah to talk about digital humanities stuff! We talk about creating a Marxist political economy for DH, and what it means to do Radical DH. We mention map projections, labor issues, self identification, and why the Silent Hill III remake is bad.

Student collaborator bill of rights

Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights | hc:26741 | Humanities CORE

Levels of Digital Preservation (DLF)

Do Better - Love(,) Us | Do Better Labor

Links to Miriam’s Stuff

Miriam’s website

On DH

The Radical, Unrealized Potential of DH

How Did They Make That?

Bunch of tutorials (a lot of people use these in their teaching)

Why is it so hard to do digital humanities in the library?

On supply chains, etc.

See No Evil

The Software that Shapes Workers’ Lives

Breakpoints and Black Boxes: Information in Global Supply Chains

Links to Matthew’s Stuff

Matthew’s website

A Political Economy of Digital Humanities Vision Statement

A Political Economy of Digital Humanities: New Directions CFP for ACH 2021

On DH

Inclusive Infrastructure: Digital Scholarship Centers and the Academic Library Liaison

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We are joined by Kat Klement who presented at the OpenEd21 conference on their course Queer Psychology, which they built using free and openly licensed materials (including OER). We talk about finding resources, modifying courses, how does one queer psychology, and, of course, the TV show Chopped.

OpenEd21: OER as a Tool to Decenter Whiteness: A Q…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e11vGa9zRs

https://twitter.com/krklement

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We’re joined by the brains behind the Article Finder Network (https://twitter.com/article_finder) to talk about their massively popular new project, how library twitter got weird about it, and John Bagford.

https://twitter.com/article_finder

https://twitter.com/LauraMorreale

https://twitter.com/leoba

References:

“Guerilla Open Access Manifesto”

The General Index: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02895-8

Diego Gomez: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/support-diego-gomez-and-join-global-open-access-movement

Unpaywall: https://unpaywall.org/

https://www.libkey.io/

John Bagford asides:

Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork|Paperback

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bagford

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This week we’re joined by Dr. Jeanie Austin to discuss their research on information services for incarcerated people. We discuss the way mailroom policies and content bans have inherent anti-Black and anti-LGBT bigotry, and how these policies cut off incarcerated people from their communities. We talk about how LIS as a field has abandoned its role in providing information services to incarcerated people and how we can learn lessons from the librarians of the 70s.

Austin, J., Charenko, M, Dillon, M. and Lincoln, J. (2020). Systemic oppression and the contested ground of information access for incarcerated people. Open Information Science. 4(1), 169-185. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opis-2020-0013/

Austin, J. and Villa-Nicholas, M. (2019). Information provision and the carceral state: Race and reference beyond the idea of the “underserved.” The Reference Librarian. 60(4), 233-261.

Jeanie’s book - Library Services and Incarceration: Recognizing Barriers, Strengthening Access https://www.alastore.ala.org/lsai

Jeanie’s website - https://jeanieaustin.com/

Jeanie’s research in the ALA archives - https://jeanieaustin.com/2021/09/24/timeline-additions/

Referenced in the episode:

Abolitionist Library Association: https://abolitionistlibraryassociation.org/

Earhustle podcast - https://www.earhustlesq.com/ Drakeo - GTL the prison phone https://www.npr.org/2020/08/28/906807077/prison-telecom-business-indicted-by-rap-album-recorded-in-jail

Tracie D. Hall, A Hurting Thing - https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/05/03/a-hurting-thing-school-to-prison-pipeline/

Tracie D. Hall, Defending the Fifth Freedom - https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/01/04/defending-fifth-freedom-information-access-prisons/

Resist Everything Except Temptation - https://www.akpress.org/resist-everything-except-temptation.html

Prisoners Pay to Read - https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/prisoners-pay-to-read-prison-tablets/

When Biometrics Fail - https://www.dukeupress.edu/when-biometrics-fail

Organizations:

Prison Book Program - https://prisonbookprogram.org/prisonbooknetwork/ Find a local organization here.

A Room of One's Own wish list for LGBT prisoners - https://www.roomofonesown.com/wishlist/82

Books to Prisoners - https://www.bookstoprisoners.net/

TGI Justice - http://www.tgijp.org/

Reforma Children in Crisis - https://refugeechildren.wixsite.com/refugee-children

PEN America - https://pen.org/prison-writing/

Black and Pink PenPal Network - https://blackandpinkpenpals.org/

Prison Library Support Network (PLSN)- https://plsn-nyc.tumblr.com/

Chicago Books to Women in Prison - https://chicagobwp.org/

LGBT Books to Prisoners - https://lgbtbookstoprisoners.org/

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Welcome boils and ghouls, to the first episode of horrorpunk, the premiere podcast for information science and materialist analysis of horror movies starring your favorite co-ghosts from the Horror Vanguard podcast, Ash and Jon. We talk about loss and how we deal with it, and the sometimes bad habits that creates for us in seeking explanations. We also talk (well, glance over) how Irish Americans continue to appropriate Celtic nationalism for no real reason. And we answer the question: who’s gonna pay this dang ghost?

https://twitter.com/HorrorVanguard

https://twitter.com/TheLitCritGuy

https://twitter.com/darrowvania

https://www.youtube.com/c/JonTheLitCritGuy

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We're joined this week by Rebecca, a public librarian and former prison librarian to talk about her experience working in a state prison library.

https://twitter.com/britlitgeek

Items mentioned:

Abolitionist Library Association

Increasing Access to Quality Educational Resources to Support Higher Education in Prison

Advancing Technological Equity for Incarcerated College Students

Outside and In: Services for People Impacted By Incarceration

J Pay drafts update https://twitter.com/ChrisWBlackwell/status/1432726185201389574

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This week we’re joined by Kay and Kyle from the All Gamers Are Bastards podcast. We’re talking about video game preservation, modes of production, piracy, and, of course, Boss Baby.

https://twitter.com/kayandskittles

https://www.youtube.com/c/KayAndSkittles

https://twitter.com/laborkyle

https://www.youtube.com/c/laborkyle

https://twitter.com/agabpod

Why Disco Elysium Is The Most Hopeful Game I've Ever Played (Feat. Laborkyle)

Readings

https://twitter.com/aswatki1/status/1407120973900431360?s=20

Sony Thinks Cloud Gaming Can Eliminate Piracy (and Consoles)

The Expanded DMCA Exemption for Video Game Preservation Grants a Small Victory Amidst the Seventh Triennial Rulemaking

PS3 and PS4 games about to become unplayable

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We got Sam back on to talk about intellectual freedom and give us our regular Canada Library Shenanigans update.

https://www.spopowich.ca/blog/irreversible-damage

https://www.spopowich.ca/blog/irreversible-damage-part-two

https://www.spopowich.ca/blog/the-populism-of-intellectual-freedom

https://litwinbooks.com/books/in-solidarity/

Sam’s twitter: https://twitter.com/redlibrarian

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This week we’re joined by Fobazi Ettarh to talk about the religious underpinnings of vocational awe.

https://twitter.com/Fobettarh

fobettarh@gmail.com

https://fobaziettarh.com/

GiveFobaziAJob

References:

The original paper on vocational awe: Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
Anne Helen Petersen talks more about vocational awe here: vocational awe
Tweet about religiosity: https://haha!twitter.com/Fobettarh/status/1432003244289630208?s=20
Germinal paper on protestant work ethic, for background (not necessary to know): The protestant work ethic as a cultural phenomenon
Kathi Weeks, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
- Shorter article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1095796014526859
Article about the problems with the “do what you love” framework: In The Name of Love by Miya Tokumitsu
How the professional and upper classes have turned work into a religious identity: Workism is Making Americans Miserable by Derek Thompson

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This week we’re joined by Matthew Noe to talk about graphic medicine!

https://twitter.com/NoetheMatt

Graphic Medicine Manifesto Introduction - this is probably the most important of these for background

https://www.graphicmedicine.org/ - probably worth just clicking around, seeing what the org is up to

Essential Graphic Medicine: An Annotated Bibliography - ALA funded project. The project description briefly touches on one of my big things: the risk of canonization

Mapping the Use of Comics in Health Education: A Scoping Review of the Graphic Medicine Literature

Pawpaganda https://twitter.com/ALALibrary/status/1426302296334520320?s=20

Free Comic Book Day https://abc7ny.com/10957902/?ex_cid=TA_WABC_TW&taid=611c41f0ced6e00001763b50&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+New+Content+(Feed)&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

Aaron David Lewis: https://www.graphicmedicine.org/resources/liaison-program/comics-studies/

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We’re talking presidential libraries. What are they, what are they for, how do Twitter?

Visit Presidential Libraries and Museums | National Archives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_library#List_of_presidential_libraries

This American Life 424: Kid Politics

Welcome to the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum | Harry S. Truman

What's That Building? The Warehouse Storing Papers For Barack Obama's Presidential Library

Sears’ Headquarters Was Supposed to Turn a Sleepy Suburb Into a Boomtown. It Never Happened.

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

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This week we’re joined by AJ Boston to talk about his Read and Let Read proposal for scholarly journal articles. We also talk about consortial approaches to publishing, the new UKRI open access policy, Carrie’s formative experiences with Alvin and the Chipmunks, and 9/11.

https://twitter.com/AJ_Boston

Twitter thread on Read and Let Read: https://twitter.com/AJ_Boston/status/1393288071836094464

Dave Ghamandi fragments on scholarly communications: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:35125/

UKRI announces new Open Access Policy – UKRI

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Repeat guest! We’re joined by Matthew Murray of the Book Club for Masochists podcast to talk about nonfiction comics. What are they even for in libraries? Was Full House a comic book? Find out on this exciting episode of librarypunk.

http://bookclub4m.com

https://twitter.com/bookclub4m

https://twitter.com/MidniteLibrary

Articles on collection development for graphic novels

Collection development for graphic novels in academic libraries: results of a national survey

Graphic Novels: Collecting, Cataloging and Outreach in an Academic Library.

Japanese manga in translation and American graphic novels: A re-examination of the collections in 36 academic libraries ten years later

Things mentioned:

Global Webcomics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisner_Award_for_Best_Reality-Based_Work

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This week we’re talking with Milo from the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) to talk about what the most goth holiday is. Along the way we talk about zines, metadata for zines, DIY, fairies, and butts.

https://qzap.org/v9/index.php

https://twitter.com/qzap

https://www.instagram.com/queerzines/

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This week we’re talking with John Fink about open standards (a little bit) and open source (a lot) in libraries. Also libertarians.

John’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/adr

John’s internet famous presentation: Stop Using Proprietary Document Formats; A Lightning Talk Where I Will Yell At You

Article we read (post-print): https://asu-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2346.1/36134/PDF_Proof2.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

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We’re talking buildings! Are you ready for some Brutalism? Learn about the trauma room at SPL, the joys of concrete, and Jay’s ideas for hate scissoring fanfic.

Library lists

Beautiful Libraries Around the World Every Booklover Should Visit

The World's Most Beautiful Libraries | Condé Nast Traveler

The 20 most beautiful libraries in the U.S.

The 25 Most Beautiful Libraries in America

Best Libraries in the World - Ranking The Top 35

Best Libraries in The World | Coolest Libraries 2020

Visit 28 of the Best Libraries in the World

The Case For Saving Atlanta's Ugliest Library

National Library of Kosovo – Pristina, Kosovo

Readings

How Andrew Carnegie Built the Architecture of American Literacy

11 replies on “Grate Job, Guys: Cornell Fine Arts Library Privileges Architecture Over People”

Carrie’s post on library furniture: https://seadoubleyew.com/598/the-librarys-furniture/

Ending music: https://pixabay.com/music/metal-ultra-metal-253/

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Movie night! We’re watching The Name of the Rose (1986) about a mystery in an abbey that has scriptoriums, lost books, and twinks.

Missing Eco: On Reading "The Name of the Rose" as Library Criticism

https://libraryofbabel.info/

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We’re talking about surveillance, ubiquitous computing, AI, printer problems, and labor with this week’s guest Callan (eminencefont).

https://twitter.com/eminencefont

Outback Wish House https://bkfst.org/

Users at the Center of Everything: Service Design in Rapidly Changing Libraries

Responding to Rapid Change in Libraries: A User Experience Approach | ALA Store

Articles and other links

Goodbye, ALA | At The Intersection

https://seadoubleyew.com/630/maintaining-curation-lessons-from-an-ipod-in-2021/

https://abolitionistlibraryassociation.org/

Critical Library Performativity: Toward Progressive Change in Academic Library Management and Organizations https://cjal.ca/index.php/capal/article/view/34402

Allied Media Conference: AMC2022

Defend Dissent – Open Textbook

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3717-automation-and-the-future-of-work

https://twitter.com/lib_rev

https://libraryfreedom.org/

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This week we’re talking about the history of the MLS degree, why do we do it, and how does it exacerbate all those pesky contradictions that keep dialecting off themselves?

Draft 6: Radical Empathy Report

Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex

Harris, R. M. (1992). Librarianship : the erosion of a woman’s profession. Ablex Pub. Corp.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/librarianship-the-erosion-of-a-womans-profession/oclc/25832854/editions?referer=di&editionsView=true

http://mauraseale.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Seale-Mirza-Empty-Presence-final-manuscript.pdf

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This week we’re celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Sokal Affair by talking about academic hoaxes. What are they? What qualifies as a hoax? Will the Leather Archives be our next guest on the podcast? Find out! All hail the snake science.

The “grievance studies” hoax does not reveal what its authors think.

Editor response to Sokal http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9607/mst.html

https://twitter.com/dwschieber/status/1047497301021798400 < Reviewer for one of the papers

Opinion: I Published a Fake Paper in a 'Peer-Reviewed' Journal

Please Commit More Blatant Academic Fraud (jacobbuckman.com)

https://twitter.com/450Movement

"Robo-snakes" by jurvetson is licensed under CC BY 2.0

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This week we’re talking with Matthew Murray, co-host of the Book Club for Masochists podcast, about manga in libraries! We covered a lot of ground so shonen jump in!

https://twitter.com/MidniteLibrary

https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/

Links referenced:

Ohio Lawmakers Attempt to Ban Anime Book, Author Susan J. Napier Responds

The Plight of Translation In America - In 2018 47 books were translated from Japanese into English (this number does not include manga or light novels)

Manga in Libraries: Why Manga?

Mangasplaining podcast

YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels for Teens

GNCRT’s Best Graphic Novels for Adults Reading List

GNCRT’s Best Graphic Novels for Children Reading List

Manga Plus

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This week we’re joined by Mark Matienzo to talk about archives access, mousework, digitization gig economics, and skin suits.

Mark’s Sourcery post: https://matienzo.org/2021/on-sourcery-or-the-enclosure-of-remote-access/

Caswell/Cifor article Mark mentions: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/687705/pdf

Mark’s Twitter: @anarchivist

Mark’s Bandcamp: https://blacktent.bandcamp.com

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We’re finally at the porn episode! Bri Watson is here to talk about all things libraries and porn: metadata, collections, web filtering, Mormons, and more!

NYT video: https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000004108501/x-rated-at-the-library.html?action=click&gtype=vhs&version=vhs-heading&module=vhs&region=title-area&cview=true&t=4

http://homosaurus.org/

http://www.brimwats.com/

Charitable Non Profit | SWAN Vancouver Society | British Columbia

AI porn TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMetpXWce/

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This week we’re joined by Mitchell Zemil from the documentary series Preserving Worlds on Means.tv! We talk about the series, gender online, preserving and interacting in open and closed online spaces, and material/virtual worlds.

https://means.tv/programs/preservingworlds

A.L.T. Doom WAD article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/paq5bz/alt-doom-mod-stalker

https://twitter.com/MitchellZemil

https://twitter.com/DerekLMurphy

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This week we’re talking disinformation and misinformation. Also we feature a new segment!

Diary of a wimpy kid getting arrested

Santa Monica Library Branch to Reopen Under Self-Service Model - SM Mirror

Moving Forward, critically (handbook): Critical Disinformation Studies

librarypunk on twitter.

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This week we talk about library worker representation in media! Movies, webcomics, TV, and more!

Study Finds Librarian Saying "Shh" Directly to Camera Still Most Effective Music Video Element for Conveying Pop-Punk Bands' Distaste for Authority

Perceptions of a Profession: Librarians and Stereotypes in Online Videos

16 Great Library Scenes in Film

Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

Cover image: "Day 12 - Jan 12: Madame Librarian" by Paul Howard Photo is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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This week we’re joined by temporary replacement Jay, Peter Woods, to talk about makerspaces, Maker (™) movements, gender, and education. We also get into who would be the best nu-metal library rockstar.

You can follow Peter on Twitter at @PeterJWoodsPhD. His DIY Peloton stream https://www.twitch.tv/xpelotonx.

(PDF) (Re)making Whiteness: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Equity-Based Maker Literature

Articles Peter referenced:

Funds of knowledge and discourses and hybrid space

Creating Hybrid Spaces for Engaging School Science Among Urban Middle School Girls

Stem-Rich Maker Learning: Designing for Equity with Youth of Color

DIY Skateparks as temporary disruptions to neoliberal cities: informal learning through micropolitical making

Weird makerspace cult Jay wanted to talk about https://lassonde.utah.edu/studios/

Image credit: "Milwaukee Makerspace at the 2011 Frolics Parade" by plural is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

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CONTENT WARNING: We briefly mention events at Charlottesville during Unite the Right.

We are joined by Dave @saggiotipo to talk about so-called transformative agreements. What are they? How to they affect everything in the library? We get into the specifics of the University of California deal (as far as we have them).

Read Dave’s musings prior to the UC announcement here: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:35125/

Ginny Steel criticism in 2016: https://www.library.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/Ginny-Steel_open-letter_OA2020-PIF_October-2016_0.pdf

Full UC MOU with Elsevier here: https://ucsf.app.box.com/s/gb2zj4dmk3h11p4munjvt9gsvtxr84qw

And UC’s description of their deal: https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/uc-publisher-relationships/elsevier-oa-agreement/#basics

We also answer a superfan’s question! So keep writing in on Twitter @librarypunk.

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This episode we are joined by Sam Popowich to talk about ideology, specifically the liberal kind, and how it permeates libraries and library workers. We also talk dual power, and ask if libraries would exist after the revolution? Plus we finally talk about anime again.

Buy Sam’s book: Confronting the Democratic Discourse of Librarianship: A Marxist Approach.

Follow Sam on Twitter, @redlibrarian

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