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.

Media mentioned

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/libraryfreedominstitute/blob/master/LFI2/finalprojects/Library%20Freedom-%20Vendor%20Scorecard-%20110719.pdf

https://litwinbooks.com/books/feminist-pedagogy-for-library-instruction/ 

VandeBurgt, M. M., Rodgers, B. M., & Brown, K. (2021). Testimonies: The rewards and challenges of letting their voices be heard. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 47(5), 102420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2021.102420

Journal of Radical Librarianship https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/issue/view/12 

Related: http://radicalreference.info/

Baltimore Uprising: A Teen Epistolary: https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/59859/ 

Youtube Video Downloader Justin Recommends: https://www.4kdownload.com/-54

https://archive.ph/

https://climatemirror.org/

https://github.com/iipc/awesome-web-archiving

https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/  

https://soundcloud.com/poddamnamerica/the-problem-with-spotify-w-steve-albini 

Zines and Distros

https://linktr.ee/mbtadistro 

https://haters.noblogs.org/zines/ 

https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/ 

https://www.autistici.org/fugitivedistro/