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librarypunk is a leftist library worker podcast.
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Sunday Oct 10, 2021
Sunday Oct 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 continue to appropriate Celtic nationalism for no real reason. And we answer the question: who’s gonna pay this dang ghost?
https://twitter.com/HorrorVanguard
https://twitter.com/TheLitCritGuy
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
Thursday Sep 30, 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 In: Services for People Impacted By Incarceration
J Pay drafts update https://twitter.com/ChrisWBlackwell/status/1432726185201389574
Thursday Sep 23, 2021
Thursday Sep 23, 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://www.youtube.com/c/laborkyle
Why Disco Elysium Is The Most Hopeful Game I've Ever Played (Feat. Laborkyle)
Readings
https://twitter.com/aswatki1/status/1407120973900431360?s=20
Sony Thinks Cloud Gaming Can Eliminate Piracy (and Consoles)
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Thursday Sep 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
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
This week we’re joined by Fobazi Ettarh to talk about the religious underpinnings of vocational awe.
#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?s=20
- Germinal paper on protestant work ethic, for background (not necessary to know): The protestant work ethic as a cultural phenomenon
- Kathi Weeks, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
- Shorter article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1095796014526859
- Article about the problems with the “do what you love” framework: In The Name of Love by Miya Tokumitsu
- How the professional and upper classes have turned work into a religious identity: Workism is Making Americans Miserable by Derek Thompson
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Thursday Aug 19, 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 description briefly touches on one of my big things: the risk of canonization
Mapping the Use of Comics in Health Education: A Scoping Review of the Graphic Medicine Literature
Pawpaganda https://twitter.com/ALALibrary/status/1426302296334520320?s=20
Free Comic Book Day https://abc7ny.com/10957902/?ex_cid=TA_WABC_TW&taid=611c41f0ced6e00001763b50&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+New+Content+(Feed)&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
Aaron David Lewis: https://www.graphicmedicine.org/resources/liaison-program/comics-studies/
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Wednesday Aug 11, 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 Papers For Barack Obama's Presidential Library
Sears’ Headquarters Was Supposed to Turn a Sleepy Suburb Into a Boomtown. It Never Happened.
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
Friday Aug 06, 2021
Friday Aug 06, 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.
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/
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
Thursday Aug 05, 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.
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, Cataloging and Outreach in an Academic Library.
Things mentioned:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisner_Award_for_Best_Reality-Based_Work
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
Wednesday Jul 28, 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.