librarypunk is a leftist library worker podcast.
This week we’re doing a news roundup on book bans. We also cover Gaza protests and radical literature as police propaganda, and what library workers can do to archive and support the current protests.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/04/16/library-legislation-restrictions-protections/
https://x.com/librarypunk/status/1786563891893342537
LFP Vendor Scorecard: https://github.com/alisonLFP/libraryfreedomi...
We’re talking with Ana Valens! Internet culture, learning about yourself, and vtubing.
Readings
Tumblr Porn by Ana Valens (Remember the Internet, Vol. 1): https://instarbooks.itch.io/tumblr-porn-by-ana-valens-remember-the-internet-vol-1
Trans Women and Smut: The 4 Worst Tropes From Porn Artists | [Sex Ed Video Essay]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jf_aLAuCtE
In an ep to coincide with the release of Infra Finder, we’re joined by Chrys and Lauren from Invest in Open Infrastructure to talk about the release, open source challenges, IT supply chains, and more!
https://infrafinder.investinopen.org
https://investinopen.org/blog/blog-introducing-infra-finder/
Reasonable Costs projects: https://investinopen.org/blog/the-cost-and-price-of-public-access-to-research-dat...
We’re talking with Quill and RiotDad about the community side of the response to the Fort Vancouver Regional Library and local school board issues surrounding transmisia, book bans in school and public libraries, and how to push back. Salary petition, board email/phone, and template email are in the notes.
Email trustees@fvrl.org (Template email below)
Trustees phone contact: 360-906-5011
Attend meetings through FVRL website fvrl.o...
Movie night. We’re learning about the cutting edge of postmodernist impact from the Internet in 2016.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5275828/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_and_Behold,_Reveries_of_the_Connected_World
https://walkerart.org/magazine/minnesota-declaration-truth-documentary-cinema-1999/
https://walkerart.org/magazine/werner-herzog-minnesota-declaration-2017-addendum
This week we’re joined by Derya of the WPEA to talk about the Fort Vancouver Regional Library and the library staff represented by the union fighting for a living wage. Check the notes to see how you can help support them!
https://nwlaborpress.org/2024/03/low-paid-librarians-fed-up-in-vancouver/
https://www.thestand.org/2024/02/take-action-raises-for-sw-washington-librarians-overdue/ (article #1)
We’re talking about Jon’s upcoming book on Bloch and how libraries are or are not models of utopia.
Pre-order Jon's book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/primer-utopian-philosophy-ernst-bloch
Horror Vanguard: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500
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https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/
https://www.akpress.org/resist-everything-except-temptation.html
We’re talking about how the book sausage gets made! Publishing, publishers, libraries, horror, queerness, and maybe even some literal human sausage making.
https://twitter.com/david_demchuk
https://bsky.app/profile/daviddemchuk.com
https://hazlitt.net/feature/where-monsters-are-made
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Cruising (1980) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080569/
Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke https://ericlarocca....
This week we’re talking to the world’s greatest author, what else is there to say?
Pre-order Bury Your Gays: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250874658/buryyourgays
Chuck’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chucktingle
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TLA post by Chuck: https://www.tumblr.com/drchucktingle/739065274126499840/the-texas-library-association-tells-chuck-tingle
It’s our Valentine’s Day episode!
RFTB https://radiofreetotebag.castos.com/
Data Transfer https://open.spotify.com/show/71DUoMdvyGDfWqDx2uvTGC
Bluesky @Aud
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We're covering the British Library hack and its fallout.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/comments/1aeq1ek/library_moral_dilemma_from_a_while_ago/
https://www.ft.com/content/4be5d468-0cc3-4881-a5fb-b5d0163de93e
https://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2010/long-term-access-digital-information.html (Dorothea mentioned)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rhysida-ransomware-gang-claims-british-library-...
This week we're talking about privacy literacy. Instruction, workshops, and how your data ends up all over the place.
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk
[shorter LOEX conference paper] Transforming Privacy Literacy Instruction: From Surveillance Theory to Teaching Practice
[longer book chapter] The Promise of Theory-Informed Pedagogy: Building a Privacy Literacy Program
[for browsing] Open-licensed privacy literacy cu...
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!
Register for the Queer Food Conference: https://www.queerfoodconference.com/p/registration.html
Media mentioned
https://www.lgbtqarchives.com/
Disrupting Disruptions: https://www.femin...
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/
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We’re talking about more issues in scholcomm.
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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/ ...
We’re infoshopping. What are they? Justin ponders if they can make leather vests for straight people.
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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
We’re watching a documentary about Palestine! Libraries and museums are implicated in settler-colonialism and we’re gonna talk about it!
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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 i...
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!
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https://zenodo.org/records/10078610
https://www.politico.eu/article/data-at-risk-amazon-security-threat/
We let the ADD take over this episode.
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Join the discord: https://discord.gg/AJHpwx946
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
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