Organizing Ideas

Organizing Ideas

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Organizing Ideas episodes

  • Ep 5 - Community-Led Libraries with Jorge Cardenas
    What is community-led work in and for libraries? We got to sit down with Jorge Cardenas in Allison’s home to talk about what it means to work in libraries with a community-led focus. Jorge is a community librarian and currently manages Burnaby Public Library’s McGill branch. He is also an instructor at the University of British Columbia, where he co-taught the Community-Led Libraries class with Christie Menzo, and is now teaching it solo for the 2019-2020 academic year.
    Some resources mentioned in the episode:
    > Community-Led Libraries Toolkit: https://www.vpl.ca/sites/vpl/public/Community-Led-Libraries-Toolkit.pdf?
    > Public Library Leaders program, organized by the Canadian Urban Library Council: http://www.culc.ca/projects/plleaders/
    Jorge can be reached at:
    > Twitter: @libliothecary
    > Email: jorge [dot] cardenas [at] ubc [dot] ca
    The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.
    Read along with the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dRf7o8hTo1ZOhxLu8ZFWbclUPAy4X2nfqzqbYVpFyWo/edit?usp=sharing
    You can reach us at:
    > Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
    > Twitter: @OrganizingPod
    > Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
    54 min
  • Ep 4 - Invitation to Contribute
    We are preparing an episode in response to Toronto Public Library’s recent room booking to Meghan Murphy, a well-known transphobic speaker. We would like to include the voices and perspectives of more trans people to hear how trans people are thinking and feeling about this room booking and similar events elsewhere.
    If you would like to leave us a voice message to include in the episode, please visit anchor.fm/organizing-ideas and click on "Send a Voice Message." You can also email us a written message that we can read for the episode at [email protected]. You are welcome to include your name or to remain anonymous.
    We hope to gather all these messages by Wednesday October 23rd by the end of the day so that we can have this episode up by Friday the 25th. In the meantime, we send our love, rage, and solidarity. Take care.
    Read the full transcript of this mini-episode here.
    As always, you can reach us at:
    > Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
    > Twitter: @OrganizingPod
    > Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
    2 min
  • Ep 3 - Precarious Work with Ean Henninger and Ted Lee
    In this episode we got to sit down with Ean Henninger and Ted Lee to talk about precarity in the library, archival, and information field. It’s a fascinating conversation, ranging from the challenges of addressing the lack of diversity in LIS to the mental and physical toll of precarious work, to the inevitable question: how do we dismantle capitalism!?
    Read along with the transcript.
    Resources
    > Follow Ean on Twitter: @rhymewithzinger; @LISprecarity
    > Follow Ted on Twitter: @teioh
    > Isabell Lorey’s book “The State of Insecurity”
    > SAA19 Archivist Salary Transparency Open Spreadsheet (updated October 2019)
    > Ted’s tweet about the postmodern condition and his thread about precarity and capitalism
    > April Hathcock’s twitter and her article “White Librarianship in Blackface: Diversity Initiatives in LIS"
    > LIS Precarity’s research page 
    > Alaniz, D. (2019). Reflections on temporary appointments and innovation/diversity culture in libraries and archives. 
    > Bacevic, J. (2019). Knowing Neoliberalism. Social Epistemology 33(4), 380-392.
    > Henninger, E., Brons, A., Riley, C., & Yin, C. (2019). Perceptions and experiences of precarious employment in Canadian libraries: An exploratory study. Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 14(2).
    Fact checking!
    > The City of Burnaby’s $1 billion surplus that Allison mentions isn’t a surplus, it’s a reserve fund. 
    > From Matthew Battles’ Library: An Unquiet History: Dewey developed a serious cough after being caught in a fire and doctors thought he wouldn’t live long, so he became obsessed with efficiency. “In superficial retrospect, the decision [to admit women to the School of Library Economy at Columbia] looks like a pioneer move in women’s rights. But as his biographer Wiegand points out, Dewey actually used the admittance of women to the college to the same end he used their hiring in the library: to define the profession down. Women were already socially subordinate to the men who filled faculty roles; for Dewey, this subordination nicely mirrored the professional subordination of librarians to professors and other experts—a subordination he deemed necessary to the efficient workings of the library.” (144)
    The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.
    You can reach us at:
    > Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
    > Twitter: @OrganizingPod
    > Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com
    59 min
  • Ep 2 - Library School and Student Government with Victoria Gomez

    We're thrilled to get to sit down and talk to our friend and classmate, Victoria Gomez. Victoria is an MLIS student at the University of British Columbia, and (among many other things) is the co-president of our student association, LASSA (Library and Archival Studies Student Association). This is a great episode especially for anyone new to the UBC iSchool, thinking about pursuing an MLIS, or interested in student government and community-led work with students. You can find Victoria on Twitter at @LibVick.


    The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.

    Read along with the transcript.

    You can reach us at:
    > Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
    > Twitter: @OrganizingPod
    > Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/

    47 min
  • Ep 1 - Intro

    Hello! We're Allison and Karen, and this is the introduction to this podcast project about organizing ideas and community organizing. We are two new librarians/archivist figuring things out as we go, including how to piece together a podcast. We go over some personal introductions as well as what we're hoping to cover in the upcoming episodes. (Note: this episode was recorded a few months ago during the summer.)


    The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.

    A transcript is available here.

    You can reach us at:
    > Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
    > Twitter: @OrganizingPod
    > Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/


    24 min

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