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  • We’re talking with Kelly about the IMLS executive order and fallout.

    Kelly on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/heykellyjensen.bsky.social

    Literary Activism Newsletter: https://bookriot.com/newsletter/literary-activism/

    Media mentioned

    https://mn.gov/mmb/budget/federal-investments/data-and-reporting/

    https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/virginia/virginia-beach-moca-museum-of-contemporary-art-federal-grant-terminated/291-bbbaeb6f-6954-4f3a-ab6d-96d63b962619 May 11

    IMLS stories

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59257/gov.uscourts.rid.59257.64.0.pdf (May 21)

    https://bookriot.com/trump-seeks-stay-in-imls-injunction-sonderling-bashes-imls-employees-in-declaration/ (May 20)

    https://www.wordsandmoney.com/ala-urges-court-to-deny-dojs-motion-for-reconsideration-in-imls-case/ (May 14)

    https://bookriot.com/massive-victory-in-lawsuit-filed-against-trump-administrations-dismantling-of-imls/ (May 13)

    https://bookriot.com/the-latest-from-the-institute-of-museum-and-library-services/ (May 6, 2025)

    https://bookriot.com/recent-attacks-on-libraries/ (Apr 15, 2025)

    https://bookriot.com/imls-gutted/ (Mar 31, 2025)

    Labor Lessons from the US South event: bit.ly/laborlessons

    Live show tickets: https://bit.ly/librarypunklive25

    Conference sticker fundraiser: https://ko-fi.com/s/8b9407ef58

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  • This week we’re talking with the editors of the new book Censorship is a Drag. We talk about putting yourself on the line, personal and professional risks, and reacting to the latest administration’s onslaught against queer people.

    Order Censorship is a Drag here: https://litwinbooks.com/books/censorship-is-a-drag/

    Media mentioned

    The Joy of Gay Sex: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-joy-of-gay-sex-charles-silversteinfelice-picano

    Sara Ahmed’s works

    The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sara-ahmed/the-feminist-killjoy-handbook/9781541603752/?lens=seal-press

    Bri Watson join Homosaurus call: https://bsky.app/profile/brimwats.com/post/3lkvvyv4szk2w

    Form for Homosaurus: https://forms.gle/tADEnq9qPYk3e5eE6

    Fairhope Public Library story: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/alabama-fairhope-public-library-book-bans

    Indigenous metadata projects to look into:

    Maori: https://natlib.govt.nz/librarians/nga-upoko-tukutuku

    Others: https://guides.library.ubc.ca/Indiglibrarianship/knowledgeorganizations

    Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/r8istne2

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  • We’re talking with Josh from TWOAPW about Patmos Public Library, his personal connections to it, and the issues around public library funding and censorship of LGTBQ materials.

    https://www.worstpossible.world/

    https://www.twitch.tv/traditional_scrench

    TWOAPW Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kp7xkxfutoinhqeg3sfswghd

    Media Mentioned

    Segment: https://www.kcrg.com/2025/02/25/bill-ban-obscene-material-iowa-libraries-advances/

    Why it’s called the Patmos library: https://hudsedfound.org/what-we-do/engage-alumni/marvinandjunepatmos.html

    Whose Children Are They: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18559276/

    Reporting from the time of the initial removal vote:

    https://www.metrotimes.com/news/conservative-michigan-town-defunds-library-over-lgbtq-book-30736450https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/upset-over-lgbtq-books-michigan-town-defunds-its-library-tax-vote https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/politics/jamestown-township-library-close-failed-millage-lgbtq/69-021f241b-611c-4856-bd7f-0994f967e714Go Fund Me set up: https://www.gofundme.com/f/fund-patmos-library-for-2023

    Reporting on the failure of the second vote:

    https://www.mlive.com/politics/2022/11/patmos-library-millage-fails-again-following-controversy-over-lgbtq-books.htmlMLA statement after second vote: https://www.milibraries.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1375:statement-on-patmos-library-millage---news---michigan-library-association&catid=44:news-advocacy&Itemid=311

    Funding approved:

    https://lanthorn.com/101674/news/allendale/jamestown-library-funding-approved-after-multi-year-content-disagreements/https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/politics/michigan-politics/millage-vote-fund-jamestown-township-patmos-library-fails-ottawa-county/69-8102ff6f-1944-4246-a967-c2b3dc3a119e

    MLive documentary on banning books in Michigan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x043zuGWgMA

    Another Michigan library: https://bookriot.com/alpena-public-library/

    Porn hunters in Canada: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6656855

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    Transcripts: https://pastecode.io/s/ybvo6u1t

  • We’re talking with Nicole of Brave Co-op about their overdose sensors, and Samantha of Guelph Public Library. Trigger warning: death by overdose is mentioned several times

    Media mentioned

    https://www.brave.coop/about

    Welcoming Streets Guelph: https://guelphchc.ca/welcoming-streets/

    Hope House Guelph: https://www.hopehouseguelph.ca/

    Facts on Narcan and fent test strips in Texas: https://www.trs.texas.gov/Pages/healthcare-news-202301_Fentanyl_Facts.aspx

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    Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/j4gauhdc

  • We're talking with QLL about who they are and what they do!

    Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/queerliblib

    Instagram https://www.instagram.com/queerliblib/?hl=en

    Bsky https://bsky.app/profile/queerliblib.bsky.social

    Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@queerliblib

    Media mentioned

    https://www.queerliberationlibrary.org

    https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/queer-liberation-library-offers-free-lgbtq-books-response-wave-school-rcna156463

    https://xtramagazine.com/culture/books/queer-libraries-book-bans-activism-255227

    https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/library_sp/68/

    https://www.gaycity.org/library-information/

    Donate: https://givebutter.com/J9nhcW

    Preorder The Emperor of Gladness (% of pre-order proceeds go to QLL): https://sites.prh.com/emperor-of-gladness/preorder/

  • It’s in the title.

    Media mentioned

    BIBFRAME Must Die,Jeff Edmunds https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/fc19faee-70b9-44b3-9346-18e40a2cd990

    BIBFRAME Must Die, Part II: the Official RDA Toolkit, JEFF EDMUNDS https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/40be29ce-4342-475f-b380-d8ed065b3643

    BIBFRAME Must Die, Part III: A Brief History of the Future of Cataloging https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/6100de9a-5f6f-400f-90ea-fe517d16152d

    “Missing the MARC: Utilization of MARC fields in the search process.” https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1314&context=lib_pubs

    Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/ssabs0oo

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  • We’re talking with Rachel about peer mentoring, networking, friend groups, and how we’re navigating the online social space. What experiences do we have with peers, how is engagement changing after COVID?

    Media mentioned

    “They didn’t teach this in Library School” Against The Grain 30, no. 6 (2019) https://issuu.com/against-the-grain/docs/atg_v30-6

    https://pemento.org/

    Descriptive presentation at Charleston 2022 https://youtu.be/_mkHudh_LAg?si=gSril-1fQa9Ue344)

    Amplifying Historically Marginalized Voices Through Open Pedagogy in Rethinking Institutional Repositories p.219

    Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/g1wgo1nk

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  • This week we have Mike Nason on to talk about open scholarship, publishing, Crossref, NISO, and decentralized publishing futures. Also Jay airs his grievances against Dublin Core.

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

    Media referenced

    Better Practices in Journal Metadata https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/metadata-practices/en/

    (NISO) JAV Revision + Draft https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/jav-revision

    PIDs and Open Infrastructure Deck https://slides.com/ahemnason/pids-osi-2024

    Identifying Metadata Quality Issues Across Cultures (preprint) https://osf.io/6fykh

    Mike’s https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5527-8489

    Getting Found, Staying Found: https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/getting-found-staying-found/en/

    Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/k67htspf

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  • 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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    Transcripts: https://pastecode.io/s/ri7ufg9o

  • 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/

    Transcripts:https://pastecode.io/s/ck3tz6ym

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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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    Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/3h472fne

  • 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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    Transcripts: https://pastecode.io/s/rakyczca

  • 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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    Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/q0qhmqpg

  • 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/

    "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

    Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/y926mbqh

  • 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.htmlhttps://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/RDFnot.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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    Transcript (plaintext): https://pastecode.io/s/qundkp0n

  • 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/

    Episode transcript: https://pastebin.com/0RWi1j5R

  • 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