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  • 032 - Article Finder Network

    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-global-open-access-movement  

    Unpaywall: https://unpaywall.org/ 

    https://www.libkey.io/



    John Bagford asides:

    Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork|Paperback

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

    53 min
  • 031 - Information Services for Incarcerated People feat. Dr. Jeanie Austin

    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, Dillon, M. and Lincoln, J. (2020). Systemic oppression and the contested ground of information access for incarcerated people. Open Information Science. 4(1), 169-185. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opis-2020-0013/

    Austin, J. and Villa-Nicholas, M. (2019). Information provision and the carceral state: Race and reference beyond the idea of the “underserved.” The Reference Librarian. 60(4), 233-261.

    Jeanie’s book - Library Services and Incarceration: Recognizing Barriers, Strengthening Access https://www.alastore.ala.org/lsai 

    Jeanie’s website - https://jeanieaustin.com/

    Jeanie’s research in the ALA archives -  https://jeanieaustin.com/2021/09/24/timeline-additions/ 

    Referenced in the episode:

    Abolitionist Library Association: https://abolitionistlibraryassociation.org/ 

    Earhustle podcast - https://www.earhustlesq.com/

    Drakeo - GTL the prison phone https://www.npr.org/2020/08/28/906807077/prison-telecom-business-indicted-by-rap-album-recorded-in-jail 

    Tracie D. Hall, A Hurting Thing - https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/05/03/a-hurting-thing-school-to-prison-pipeline/ 

    Tracie D. Hall, Defending the Fifth Freedom -  https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/01/04/defending-fifth-freedom-information-access-prisons/ 

    Resist Everything Except Temptation - https://www.akpress.org/resist-everything-except-temptation.html 

    Prisoners Pay to Read - https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/prisoners-pay-to-read-prison-tablets/ 

    When Biometrics Fail - https://www.dukeupress.edu/when-biometrics-fail 

    Organizations:

    Prison Book Program - https://prisonbookprogram.org/prisonbooknetwork/ Find a local organization here. 

    A Room of One's Own wish list for LGBT prisoners - https://www.roomofonesown.com/wishlist/82 

    Books to Prisoners - https://www.bookstoprisoners.net/ 

    TGI Justice - http://www.tgijp.org/ 

    Reforma Children in Crisis - https://refugeechildren.wixsite.com/refugee-children 

    PEN America - https://pen.org/prison-writing/ 

    Black and Pink PenPal Network - https://blackandpinkpenpals.org/ 

    Prison Library Support Network (PLSN)- https://plsn-nyc.tumblr.com/ 

    Chicago Books to Women in Prison - https://chicagobwp.org/ 

    LGBT Books to Prisoners - https://lgbtbookstoprisoners.org/

    56 min
  • 030 - horrorpunk feat. Horror Vanguard

    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

    https://twitter.com/darrowvania

    https://www.youtube.com/c/JonTheLitCritGuy

    1 hr 19 min
  • 029 - Prison Librarianship

    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

    55 min
  • 028 - Game Preservation is not Poggers feat. All Gamers Are Bastards

    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

    Sony Thinks Cloud Gaming Can Eliminate Piracy (and Consoles)

    The Expanded DMCA Exemption for Video Game Preservation Grants a Small Victory Amidst the Seventh Triennial Rulemaking

    PS3 and PS4 games about to become unplayable

    1 hr 15 min
  • 027 - Intellectual Fweedom (no steppy)

    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

    55 min
  • 026 - Vocational Awe and Christianity

    This week we’re joined by Fobazi Ettarh to talk about the religious underpinnings of vocational awe. 

    https://twitter.com/Fobettarh 

    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?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
  • 1 hr 9 min
  • 025 - Graphic Medicine

    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/

    55 min
  • 024 - Dead Presidents

    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

    1 hr 5 min
  • 023 - Read and Let Read

    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 announces new Open Access Policy – UKRI

    1 hr 11 min

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