We’re talking about Library Futures! All of them! All at once! CDL, ebook contracts, opera, genAI, and some surprisingly deep Jennie-lore. 

https://www.libraryfutures.net/who-we-are

https://bsky.app/profile/littlewow.bsky.social 

https://bsky.app/profile/libraryfutures.bsky.social 

Media mentioned

The End of Ownership https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262535243/the-end-of-ownership/ 

UC AI-generated course: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/comparative-literature-zrinka-stahuljak-artificial-intelligence?taid=6755debeb8836e000133c355 

New Research Report: OER in Public Libraries: https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/new-research-report-oer-in-public-libraries 

Hoopla content issues: https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/hooplas-content-problem 

Storm Center (1956) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049800/ 

Library Futures ebook legislation: https://www.libraryfutures.net/library-futures-ebooks-policy-paper

How to Read a Contract: https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/how-to-read-a-contract 

Library Freedom Project vendor scorecard: https://libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Library-Freedom-Vendor-Scorecard-110719.pdf

Authors Alliance - Developing a public interest training commons of books: https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/12/05/developing-a-public-interest-training-commons-of-books/ 

I think AI should leave: https://violetbfox.info/against-ai/ 

Justin’s word list: https://pastecode.io/s/s3kq4kzo 

More from Library Futures

https://cats.libraryfutures.net/

https://www.cilip.org.uk/news/685877/US-Election---the-risk-for-libraries.htm 

https://syllabus.pirate.care/topic/piratecareintroduction/

https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/were-still-fighting-for-fair-use

https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2020/the-library-commons/

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542333/the-promise-of-access/

https://www.libraryfutures.net/oer

https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/how-much-does-obamas-summer-reading-list-cost-your-library

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/an-app-called-libby-and-the-surprisingly-big-business-of-library-e-books

CATS! from Library Futures https://cats.libraryfutures.net

Vintage banger: https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2014/who-are-you-empowering/

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4184946

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This week we’re interviewing Brandon and Katherine on metadata related to indigenous issues, but we of course stray into many other topics. 

Katherine: https://linktr.ee/katwitzig 

Brandon: bcastle [at] umass [dot] edu

Media mentioned

https://open.spotify.com/show/0ZtaU2XZlPEhmIW1OV7k8O

PCC Task Group Charge: https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/taskgroup/Metadata-Related-to-Indigenous-Peoples-Americas-TG-charge.pdf 

Preliminary Report (PCC Task Group for Metadata Related to Indigenous Peoples of the Americas): https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/taskgroup/Metadata-Related-to-Indigenous-Peoples-Americas-TG-preliminary-report.pdf 

Short article on our work in Descriptive Notes (blog of Society of American Archivists): https://saadescription.wordpress.com/2024/05/20/taking-on-the-challenge-pccs-metadata-justice-work-for-indigenous-communities/ 

https://www.landgrabu.org/ 

https://localcontexts.org/ 

https://localcontexts.org/labels/traditional-knowledge-labels/ 

https://ailanet.org/ 

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What can library workers actually do within their institutional limitations? 

Media mentioned

https://www.404media.co/leaked-documents-show-what-phones-secretive-tech-graykey-can-unlock-2/

https://www.blackrosefed.org/anarchists-in-the-labor-movement-4/ 

https://github.com/rechelon/zine_library 

https://www.digitalrightsbytes.org/

https://ssd.eff.org/

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This week we’re talking with Emily Weak from Hiring Librarians and answering listener questions about getting the MLS, job hunting, and more!

https://x.com/HiringLib 

https://emilyweak.com/

https://bsky.app/profile/hiringlibrarians.com

https://livingwage.mit.edu/ 

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We’re getting into our favorite copyright myths and some copyright related news.

Media mentioned

Tattoo copyright news: https://apnews.com/article/kat-von-d-tattoo-trial-miles-davis-388d1831c0a065b096fe4f69fe8a224e

Wiley news, sells rights to AI https://www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-set-to-earn-44m-from-ai-rights-deals-confirms-no-opt-out-for-authors 

https://fanlore.org/wiki/Disclaimer 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_with_fan_fiction 

https://fanlore.org/wiki/Disclaimer 

https://www.eff.org/pages/eff-screen-lock-images-new-logo 

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We’re joined by Adam Jones from Acid Horizon to talk about cybernetics and systems of control. We talk about how systems of control impact libraries, and how cybernetics can help us see the connections between different systems. 

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Media Mentioned

Acid Horizon podcast: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ 

Anti-Oculus https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734147/anti-oculus-by-acid-horizon/ 

1. "Queer Animality", Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, Mel Y. Chen. https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1652/chapter-abstract/178668/Queer-Animality?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Trap Door: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544894/trap-door/ 

That Particular Flavor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distrust_That_Particular_Flavor

Resisting AI https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai

Work Without the Worker https://www.versobooks.com/products/2518-work-without-the-worker

Heike Bauer, ‘Burning Sexual Subjects: Books, Homophobia and the Nazi Destruction of the Institute of Sexual Science in Berlin’, in Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary, eds. Partington and Smyth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 17–33. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137367662_2

The gang talks about linked open data. What did we learn in library school? What’s the future? Where does it fall off a cliff? 

Media mentioned

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/graph-types/

The Ethics of Sustaining Linked Data Infrastructure https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/430f30bf-e029-483d-b1c8-d7e9bb430a8e 

Aaron Swartz unfinished book https://web.archive.org/web/20220512132144/https://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00481ED1V01Y201302WBE005 

Tim Berners Lee

• https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Overview.html

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111938123937338008

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111939286501257910 

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111731459659839112 

https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/#knowledge-graphs-a-backbone-in-the-surveillance-economy 

http://microblogging.infodocs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/publishing_bnb_as_lod.pdf 

https://www.oclc.org/en/news/releases/2024/20240507-introducing-oclc-meridian.html

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This week we’re talking about museums, ethics, and taxonomy. Probably other stuff too!

Media mentioned

https://www.geocurator.org/images/resources/geocurator/vol7/geocurator_7_6.pdf#page=14

"FRONTIERS TO SCIENCE: FREE TRADE AND MUSEUM ETHICS"  by Tristram P. Besterman, 2001

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69005527

"US curator denies smuggling scorpions and spiders from Istanbul" BBC News, 2024

https://webarchive.unesco.org/web/20230926050719/https://en.unesco.org/cultnatlaws/list

The web archived version of the UNESCO database for national cultural heritage laws, which ....they've taken down from their website for some reason? I was literally working from this list last year so idk what happened

https://www.audubon.org/news/the-history-and-evolution-migratory-bird-treaty-act

The Audubon website's heavily summarised history of the MBTA; pay particular note to the blurbs under 1900 and 1916

https://www.ducks.org/ The Ducks Unlimited website. Note Conservation and Hunting as top two tabs.

https://www.ducks.ca/about/our-partners/ The Ducks Unlimited Canada website page of corporate partners! Count the number of oil pipelines!

https://pridesource.com/article/stomping-spots-queer-feelings-for-a-bad-bug-heading-to-michigan

Episode transcript in HTML (download to view): https://pastecode.io/s/e7ye92tz 

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We’re joined by All Gamers Are Bastards to talk about Pentiment, a mystery game with an opening similar to the novel/film Name of the Rose (1986) in many ways. Time for the history boys to drop some historiography.

https://soundcloud.com/agabpod

https://x.com/agabpod

https://x.com/kayandskittles

https://x.com/laborkyle

Kay’s other podcast and YouTube show

https://x.com/vgatwtoe 

https://www.youtube.com/@KayAndSkittles 

Kyle’s other podcasts

https://x.com/horrorvanguard 

https://x.com/profaneshow

Media mentioned

Kay’s video: Two Games About History (And Why You Should Care) https://youtu.be/A1ibaKebZjo?si=wY_gStTszO9a_Uz3

https://forgottencitygame.com/

Episode transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/xiawczu3

This week we’re talking about digital remains and death! How do things get into archives? What happens to your social media accounts when you die? Should you be planning now? Mormon transhumanists! All this and more!

Death Glitch: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/ 

Media mentioned

Tamara’s presentation at the Mormon Transhumanist Association: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmfjjwmJ1Hc 

Anya Bernstein Russian immortalists in the 19th century https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/anya-bernstein 

Jacob Boss https://aiandfaith.org/featured-interview-jacob-boss

https://www.wired.com/story/using-generative-ai-to-resurrect-the-dead-will-create-a-burden-for-the-living/