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”, Gayle Rubin leatherdyke gender technology - by Daemonum X - Dead but Delicious...
Nov 19, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 35
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 CORE Levels of Digital Preservation (DLF) Do Better - Love(,) Us | Do Better Labor Links to Miriam’s St...
Nov 11, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 34
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 https://twitter.com/krklement...
Nov 04, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 33
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/articles/d41586-021-02895-8 Diego Gomez: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/support-diego-gomez-and-join-...
Oct 28, 2021•53 min•Ep. 32
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 incarcerated people and how we can learn lessons from the librarians of the 70s. Austin, J., Charenko, M, Dillo...
Oct 17, 2021•56 min•Ep. 31
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 continue to appropriate Celtic nationalism for no real reason. And we answer the question: who’s go...
Oct 11, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 30
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 In: Services for People Impacted By Incarceration J Pay drafts update https://twitter.com/ChrisWBlackwell/...
Sep 30, 2021•54 min•Ep. 29
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've Ever Played (Feat. Laborkyle) Readings https://twitter.com/aswatki1/status/1407120973900431360?s=20 ...
Sep 23, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 28
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...
Sep 09, 2021•54 min•Ep. 27
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 here: vocational awe Tweet about religiosity: https://haha!twitter.com/Fobettarh/status/1432003244289630208?...
Sep 02, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 26
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 description briefly touches on one of my big things: the risk of canonization Mapping the Use of Comics in H...
Aug 19, 2021•55 min•Ep. 25
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 Papers For Barack Obama's Presidential Library Sears’ Headquarters Was Supposed to Turn a Sleepy Suburb Int...
Aug 12, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 24
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 Dave Ghamandi fragments on scholarly communications: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:35125/ UKRI ...
Aug 07, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 23
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 development for graphic novels in academic libraries: results of a national survey Graphic Novels: Collecting, Ca...
Aug 05, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 22
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/
Jul 29, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 21
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?sequence=1&isAllowed=y...
Jul 24, 2021•59 min•Ep. 20
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 Libraries in the World - Ranking The Top 35 Best Libraries in The World | Coolest Libraries 2020 Visit 28 of...
Jul 15, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 19
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/
Jul 08, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 18
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 Goodbye, ALA | At The Intersection https://seadoubleyew.com/630/maintaining-curation-lessons-from-an-ipod-in-2...
Jul 01, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 17
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/librarianship-the-erosion-of-a-womans-profession/oclc/25832854/editions?referer=di&editionsView=true http...
Jun 24, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 16
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://twitter.com/dwschieber/status/1047497301021798400 < Reviewer for one of the papers Opinion: I Publis...
Jun 17, 2021•57 min•Ep. 15
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 translated from Japanese into English (this number does not include manga or light novels) Manga in Libraries: Why ...
Jun 10, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 14
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...
Jun 03, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 13
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>ype=vhs&version=vhs-heading&module=vhs®ion=title-area&cview=true&t=4 http://homosaurus.org/ http://www.brimwats.com/ Charitable Non Profit | SWAN Vancouver Society | British Columbia AI porn TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.c...
May 20, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 12
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 https://twitter.com/DerekLMurphy...
May 13, 2021•55 min•Ep. 11
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....
Apr 29, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 10
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 Accidental Prison Librarian Cover image: "Day 12 - Jan 12: Madame Librarian" by Paul Howard Photo is licensed ...
Apr 22, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 9
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 Literature Articles Peter referenced: Funds of knowledge and discourses and hybrid space Creating Hybrid Sp...
Apr 11, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 8
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/deposits/item/hc:35125/ Ginny Steel criticism in 2016: https://www.library.ucla.edu/sites/default/files...
Apr 04, 2021•59 min•Ep. 7
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 More to read: Professionalism and Labour Aristocracy The Social Theory of Neutrality — Sam Popowich...
Mar 14, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 6
