Episodes

Thursday Sep 23, 2021
028 - Game Preservation is not Poggers feat. All Gamers Are Bastards
Thursday Sep 23, 2021
Thursday Sep 23, 2021
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://www.youtube.com/c/laborkyle
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)

Thursday Sep 09, 2021
027 - Intellectual Fweedom (no steppy)
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
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

Thursday Sep 02, 2021
026 - Vocational Awe and Christianity
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
This week we’re joined by Fobazi Ettarh to talk about the religious underpinnings of vocational awe.
#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

Thursday Aug 19, 2021
025 - Graphic Medicine
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
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/

Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
024 - Dead Presidents
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
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

Friday Aug 06, 2021
023 - Read and Let Read
Friday Aug 06, 2021
Friday Aug 06, 2021
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.
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/

Thursday Aug 05, 2021
022 - Nonfiction Comics
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
Repeat guest! We’re joined by Matthew Murray of the Book Club for Masochists podcast to talk about nonfiction comics. What are they even for in libraries? Was Full House a comic book? Find out on this exciting episode of librarypunk.
https://twitter.com/bookclub4m
https://twitter.com/MidniteLibrary
Articles on collection development for graphic novels
Collection development for graphic novels in academic libraries: results of a national survey
Graphic Novels: Collecting, Cataloging and Outreach in an Academic Library.
Things mentioned:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisner_Award_for_Best_Reality-Based_Work

Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
021 - QZAP
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
This week we’re talking with Milo from the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) to talk about what the most goth holiday is. Along the way we talk about zines, metadata for zines, DIY, fairies, and butts.

Saturday Jul 24, 2021
020 - Proprietary formats, a podcast where we will yell at you
Saturday Jul 24, 2021
Saturday Jul 24, 2021
This week we’re talking with John Fink about open standards (a little bit) and open source (a lot) in libraries. Also libertarians.
John’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/adr
John’s internet famous presentation: Stop Using Proprietary Document Formats; A Lightning Talk Where I Will Yell At You
Article we read (post-print): https://asu-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2346.1/36134/PDF_Proof2.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
019 - I Simp for Concrete
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
We’re talking buildings! Are you ready for some Brutalism? Learn about the trauma room at SPL, the joys of concrete, and Jay’s ideas for hate scissoring fanfic.
Library lists
Beautiful Libraries Around the World Every Booklover Should Visit
The World's Most Beautiful Libraries | Condé Nast Traveler
The 20 most beautiful libraries in the U.S.
The 25 Most Beautiful Libraries in America
Best Libraries in the World - Ranking The Top 35
Best Libraries in The World | Coolest Libraries 2020
Visit 28 of the Best Libraries in the World
The Case For Saving Atlanta's Ugliest Library
National Library of Kosovo – Pristina, Kosovo
Readings
How Andrew Carnegie Built the Architecture of American Literacy
11 replies on “Grate Job, Guys: Cornell Fine Arts Library Privileges Architecture Over People”
Carrie’s post on library furniture: https://seadoubleyew.com/598/the-librarys-furniture/
Ending music: https://pixabay.com/music/metal-ultra-metal-253/