librarypunk

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-...

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. htt...

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://tw...

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 https://linktr.ee/disabilityarchiveslab https://twitter.com/DisArchivesLab    http://disabilityarchiveslab.com/blog/   https://litwinbooks.com/books/preserving-disability/#:~:text=Preserving%20Disability%3A%20Disabi...

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 tal...

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 retrieva...

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 Mentio...

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

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 Sta...

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

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-b...

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 Lib...

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  

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. 

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/bo...

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/LoveLiv...

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...

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/ktcm...

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...

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://ww...

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/1605600...

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:...

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_Li...

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...

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/