This week we’re doing the other library school movie, Desk Set. But first, we solve the eternal war between goths and librarians by talking about the Mütter Museum’s changes. Then we get into AI, automation, and sexy library shenanigans. 

Media mentioned

Mütter Museum: https://www.inquirer.com/news/mutter-museum-oddities-review-new-plan-20230603.html 

Knott Malone, "Imagining information retrieval in the library: Desk Set in historical context," in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 14-22, July-Sept. 2002, doi: 10.1109/MAHC.2002.1024759. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1024759

Desk set revisited: Reference librarians, reality, & research systems' design (1995) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0099133395901450

We’re talking about the latest season of Preserving Worlds! Video game preservation, indie media, archiving, animation, DIY, the Internet as a bad place! We close talking about the end: our deaths, our multiple digital deaths, and how they won’t coincide with each other.

https://means.tv/programs/preservingworlds 

https://twitter.com/DerekLMurphy 

https://twitter.com/MitchellZemil 

Media Mentioned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrzKT-dFUjE - Lemon Demon video Shawn worked on

https://rpgmaker.fandom.com/wiki/Yume_Nikki - Yume Nikki

https://rpgmaker.net/games/2430/ - Space Funeral

https://rpgmaker.net/games/6697/ - OFF

https://rpgmaker.fandom.com/wiki/Ib - Ib

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

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/19/1073367/digital-life-isnt-permanent-google-twitter-inactive-accounts/

It’s just the crew this week and we’re gonna talk a lot about butt fucking! It’s Homosaurus time. 

Media Mentioned

https://homosaurus.org/

https://librarynews.lmu.edu/2019/09/building-the-homosaurus-an-international-lgbtq-linked-data-vocabulary/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2072753 

https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/7985/11110

Crossover episode! We're talking with Srsly Wrong about the rights of minors to read, to know, and to be treated as people. We talk about our memories as children and accessing information at various stages in our development, and what the liberation of children will look like in regard to libraries.

Media Mentioned

The Convention on the Rights of the Child: The child-friendly version | UNICEF State of Palestine

https://www.schneier.com/books/a-hackers-mind/ 

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/part-of-our-lives-9780190248000?cc=fr&lang=en& 

https://www.dukeupress.edu/no-future

Srsly Wrong episodes about child rights

• 262 – Society Lets Children Down

ALA

• About Banned & Challenged Books | Advocacy, Legislation & Issues 

This week we’re talking about leaving academic libraries. Allison joins us to talk about using your skills to move into another field, barriers in academia, work/life balance, and the impact of temporary grant funded positions. 

Media mentioned

https://medium.com/@allisonjaiodell/why-i-left-academic-libraries-26e2a63c8bf2

This week we talk male beauty tips, why you need a weed card in New Hampshire, and the implosion of libraries as we know them. News time!

Media mentioned

https://www.newstalk.com/news/library-staff-offered-supports-as-anti-lgbtq-protesters-target-childrens-books-1452290 

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2023/04/03/libraries-at-centre-of-culture-wars-as-protesters-try-to-remove-lgtbq-books-for-young-people/

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/texas-banned-books-ruling-judge/story?id=98303996 

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/31/texas-school-library-books/

https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2023/02/20/safety-measure-or-book-banning-tool-k-12-obscene-materials-bill-sparks-heated-debate/ 

Non-news media mentioned

FLO Controlled Digital Lending Meeting: https://libraries.flo.org/ld.php?content_id=71305971

https://www.dukeupress.edu/no-future

Srsly Wrong episodes about child rights

• 266 – Think of the Children!

We’re covering the Internet Archive lawsuit point by point and discuss the implications for libraries trying to do CDL. 

Media Mentioned

Decision: https://t.co/vskSf6gqSH 

https://controlleddigitallending.org/2023/03/20/hachette-v-ia-liveblog/

What is CDL? https://controlleddigitallending.org/whitepaper/ 

The Publisher Playbook: A Brief History of the Publishing Industry’s Obstruction of the Library Mission: https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37374618

Movie night! We’re watching The Watermelon Woman. If you haven’t seen it, go watch it first! 

https://litwinbooks.com/books/ephemeral-material/

https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/C/Conflict-Is-Not-Abuse 

The Children's Internet Protection Act is a good starting point to talk about Internet censorship. E-Rate has become an almost invisible restriction on what you can view on library computers. We cover Section 230 adjustments including FOSTA/SESTA and tie it into current political battles over libraries and access to sexual or queer materials. 

Returning guest and fungal host Kayte joins us to talk fungus. Rhizomes, rot, rights, and Roald Dahl. We covered it all. Embrace your future body possibilities. 

https://twitter.com/fangspodcast

https://twitter.com/kayteterry

http://www.kayteterry.com/

https://www.patreon.com/fangspodcast

Media mentioned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation_(VanderMeer_novel) 

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691220550/the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14549466/ 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4547056/ 

https://feralatlas.org/