librarypunk

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/

Movie night again! We’re talking about the film Close-Up about a strange case of fraud in Iran surrounding a film director, made by a film director who was part of the events because he wanted to make a movie about it. The layers!

Media Mentioned

https://web.archive.org/web/20120322165628/http://www.projectorhead.in/one/closeup.html

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1492-close-up-prison-and-escape

https://sabzian.be/text/%E2%80%9Cambient-genocide%E2%80%9D

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/ 

We’re talking with Ana Valens! Internet culture, learning about yourself, and vtubing. 

https://twitter.com/acvalens 

Readings

Tumblr Porn by Ana Valens (Remember the Internet, Vol. 1): https://instarbooks.itch.io/tumblr-porn-by-ana-valens-remember-the-internet-vol-1 

Trans Women and Smut: The 4 Worst Tropes From Porn Artists | [Sex Ed Video Essay]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jf_aLAuCtE 

Why Don't Games Journalists Cover Adult Games? It's Complicated. And Getting Worse.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m8C_gkvXGA 

Public sex is at the center of a queer culture war: https://cashmeremag.com/public-sex-lgbtq-845525/ 

Pixiv's NSFW Ban In The US & UK, Explained — And Why DLSite Still Doesn't Have MasterCard & Visa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMdpWC-ReIA 

Media mentioned

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-kill-the-couple-in-your-head

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/trans-bodies-trans-selves-9780199325351

https://opendistro.net/

In an ep to coincide with the release of Infra Finder, we’re joined by Chrys and Lauren from Invest in Open Infrastructure to talk about the release, open source challenges, IT supply chains, and more!

https://investinopen.org/

https://infrafinder.investinopen.org

https://investinopen.org/blog/blog-introducing-infra-finder/

 Reasonable Costs projects: https://investinopen.org/blog/the-cost-and-price-of-public-access-to-research-data/

http://investinopen.org/blog/infra-finder-your-hub-for-finding-infrastructure-services-enabling-open-research-and-scholarship

Media mentioned

UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science: https://www.unesco.org/en/open-science/about?hub=686

Nelson Memo: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-access-Memo.pdf

Holden Memo: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf

Gates Foundation Open Access Policy: https://openaccess.gatesfoundation.org/

https://australiainstitute.org.au/report/ending-profiteering-from-publicly-funded-research/ 

https://www.heliosopen.org/

https://openscholarlyinfrastructure.org/

https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/scholarly-publishing/uc-open-access-policies-background/presidential/

We’re talking with Quill and RiotDad about the community side of the response to the Fort Vancouver Regional Library and local school board issues surrounding transmisia, book bans in school and public libraries, and how to push back. Salary petition, board email/phone, and template email are in the notes.

Email [email protected] (Template email below)

Trustees phone contact: 360-906-5011

Attend meetings through FVRL website fvrl.org/board/trustees 

Sign petition for FVRL staff salaries: https://www.change.org/p/it-s-time-fvrlibraries-pay-your-staff-a-living-wage?original_footer_petition_id=34850778&algorithm=promoted&grid_position=5&pt=AVBldGl0aW9uABhQQQIAAAAAZbwMe%2FqWz6hhNDJhOWQwNw%3D%3D 

Readings

https://www.columbian.com/news/2022/dec/06/opposition-to-drag-queen-story-hours-roils-fvrlibraries/ 

FVRL Board Meeting 2/20/2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_r6NqOlEi0 

• FVRL employees testimony

https://keepthelibrarysafeforchildren.com/author/keepthelibrary/

Librarian Calls Police On Mom (Olga Hodges)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqqg-TBqPw0

2023 voters pamphlet (page 50)

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Email template for FVRL Board of Trustees

Dear Board of Trustees,

I am writing to express my ongoing support for the Fort Vancouver Regional Library (FVRL) and its commitment to inclusivity for queer and trans community members. Members of the community have inspired me by attending Board meetings to counter misinformation regarding the Drag Queen Story Hour and other LGBTQ+ materials. I applaud their dedication and now wish to add my voice in their support.

Also, during a recent meeting, dedicated FVRL employees and WPEA union members shared their struggles with low wages and an unsustainable workload due to high staff turnover. Starting salaries at minimum wage and capped wages force many to live in poverty. Employees are burdened with performing duties outside their job descriptions simply to keep branches functioning.

I stand with these employees and the WPEA. I urge the Board to take immediate action to:

• Address the wage disparity by offering fair compensation commensurate with the cost of living.

Furthermore, I encourage the Board to:

• Uphold the freedom of information by ensuring diverse materials representing all communities are readily available.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

[Your Name/Group Name]