librarypunk

Movie night. We’re learning about the cutting edge of postmodernist impact from the Internet in 2016. 

Media mentioned

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 

https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-...

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)

FVRL Board: Pay your library wo...

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 

Media mentioned

https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/

https://www.akpress.org/resist-everything-except-temptation.html

https://www.marx...

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

Media mentioned

Cruising (1980) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080569/ 

Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke https://ericlarocca....

It’s our Valentine’s Day episode!

RFTB https://radiofreetotebag.castos.com/ 

Data Transfer https://open.spotify.com/show/71DUoMdvyGDfWqDx2uvTGC 

Bluesky @Aud

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

Media mentioned

• Reddit segment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Library/s/lWgNJFVxif 
• Coyne (2022) “We have to figure it out ourselves”: Transfeminine adolescents’ online ...

We're covering the British Library hack and its fallout.

Media mentioned

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!

https://www.alexketchum.ca 

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/

Media Mentioned

• https://boxreceiver.medium.com/a-case-for-library-archives-boycott-and-di...

We’re talking about more issues in scholcomm.

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

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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/ ...

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

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

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/200...

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...

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/ 

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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://dwca...

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

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https://www.marxists....