librarypunk

librarypunk

A leftist library worker podcast.

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librarypunk

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Education

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www.librarypunk.gay

Latest episode

Jul 1, 2026

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Episodes

043 - Nonprofitization of Council Libraries in the UK feat. Alan Wylie 20.02.2022

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 Librarie...

042 - Scary Stories to Chill Your Tomes Vol. III feat. Woody 11.02.2022

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/@tomc...

041 - Refusal in the Contemporary Academy feat. Lydia Zvyagintseva 28.01.2022

Lydia’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lydia_zv   https://cjal.ca/index.php/capal/article/view/36367  

040 - Scary Stories to Chill Your Tomes Vol. II feat. Kay Slater 21.01.2022

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

039 - Public Library Work and Maintenance 17.01.2022

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

038 - Scary Stories to Chill Your Tomes: Vol I 27.12.2021

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!

037 - Digital Gardens, Hypertext, and Donna Haraway 16.12.2021

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 Blo...

036 - HUMAN TRASH DUMP 02.12.2021

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,...

035 - Leather Archives & Museum 19.11.2021

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”,...

034 - Political Economy and Radical Digital Humanities 11.11.2021

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 COR...

033 - Queer Psychology and Open Education 04.11.2021

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   ht...

032 - Article Finder Network 28.10.2021

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/art...

031 - Information Services for Incarcerated People feat. Dr. Jeanie Austin 17.10.2021

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 incarcerate...

030 - horrorpunk feat. Horror Vanguard 11.10.2021

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...

029 - Prison Librarianship 30.09.2021

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 I...

028 - Game Preservation is not Poggers feat. All Gamers Are Bastards 23.09.2021

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'...

027 - Intellectual Fweedom (no steppy) 09.09.2021

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

026 - Vocational Awe and Christianity 02.09.2021

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 h...

025 - Graphic Medicine 19.08.2021

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 des...

024 - Dead Presidents 12.08.2021

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 Pape...

023 - Read and Let Read 07.08.2021

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...

022 - Nonfiction Comics 05.08.2021

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 developme...

021 - QZAP 29.07.2021

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/  

020 - Proprietary formats, a podcast where we will yell at you 24.07.2021

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?seque...

019 - I Simp for Concrete 15.07.2021

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 Li...

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