librarypunk

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/

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 Good...

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/lib...

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://...

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 translate...

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  

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...

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 http...

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.

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 Accid...

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 Litera...

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/d...

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...

CONTENT WARNING: We discuss stories of people involved in 9/11 and its aftermath.   We’re joined by anthropologist Luisa Díez to talk about labor in museums and libraries, navigating college, winding career paths, and specifically the 9/11 museum where Luisa worked for six years. Luisa and Carrie also get into what makes a good museum experience.    Follow Luisa at @luisadieznuts on Twitter and he...

It's Fair Use Week! We talk about copyright, music, movies, and gay porn. Find out what AFAB really means, how to behave in Kmart, and why library workers are not cops.    Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime's 'Santeria' to Avoid Being Live-streamed?    

We're joined by Dorothea Salo to talk about learning analytics! Learn more about the Data Doubles project at https://datadoubles.org Add your pay: https://bit.ly/libsal   THE BIO BUTTON: https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-surveilled-student    

This episode we talk about butts, boob windows, and open access. 

Welcome to the premiere of the top rated library worker podcast! We talk about privacy, vendor agreements, and fascism.