librarypunk

We’re talking with Quill and RiotDad about the community side of the response to the Fort Vancouver Regional Library and local school board issues surrounding transmisia, book bans in school and public libraries, and how to push back. Salary petition, board email/phone, and template email are in the notes.

Email trustees@fvrl.org (Template email below)

Trustees phone contact: 360-906-5011

Attend meetings through FVRL website fvrl.org/board/trustees 

Sign petition for FVRL staff salaries: https://www.change.org/p/it-s-time-fvrlibraries-pay-your-staff-a-living-wage?original_footer_petition_id=34850778&algorithm=promoted&grid_position=5&pt=AVBldGl0aW9uABhQQQIAAAAAZbwMe%2FqWz6hhNDJhOWQwNw%3D%3D 

Readings

https://www.columbian.com/news/2022/dec/06/opposition-to-drag-queen-story-hours-roils-fvrlibraries/ 

FVRL Board Meeting 2/20/2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_r6NqOlEi0 

• FVRL employees testimony

https://keepthelibrarysafeforchildren.com/author/keepthelibrary/

Librarian Calls Police On Mom (Olga Hodges)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqqg-TBqPw0

2023 voters pamphlet (page 50)

 

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG 

 

Email template for FVRL Board of Trustees

Dear Board of Trustees,

I am writing to express my ongoing support for the Fort Vancouver Regional Library (FVRL) and its commitment to inclusivity for queer and trans community members. Members of the community have inspired me by attending Board meetings to counter misinformation regarding the Drag Queen Story Hour and other LGBTQ+ materials. I applaud their dedication and now wish to add my voice in their support.

Also, during a recent meeting, dedicated FVRL employees and WPEA union members shared their struggles with low wages and an unsustainable workload due to high staff turnover. Starting salaries at minimum wage and capped wages force many to live in poverty. Employees are burdened with performing duties outside their job descriptions simply to keep branches functioning.

I stand with these employees and the WPEA. I urge the Board to take immediate action to:

• Address the wage disparity by offering fair compensation commensurate with the cost of living.
• Invest in staff retention by providing competitive wages and benefits.
• Maintain the dedicated workforce required to keep libraries as vital community hubs.

Furthermore, I encourage the Board to:

• Uphold the freedom of information by ensuring diverse materials representing all communities are readily available.
• Counter misinformation by providing accurate resources about LGBTQ+ topics and inclusivity efforts.
• Prioritize both the well-being of its staff and the needs of all members of the community. 

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

[Your Name/Group Name]

Movie night. We’re learning about the cutting edge of postmodernist impact from the Internet in 2016. 

Media mentioned

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5275828/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_and_Behold,_Reveries_of_the_Connected_World

https://walkerart.org/magazine/minnesota-declaration-truth-documentary-cinema-1999/ 

https://walkerart.org/magazine/werner-herzog-minnesota-declaration-2017-addendum 

https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-untold-story-three-young-hackers-web-killing-monster/ 

https://qz.com/778747/an-early-internet-pioneer-says-the-construction-of-the-web-is-crippling-our-thinking

https://www.reddit.com/r/ElectroBOOM/comments/1772skr/server_room_goals/

https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/04/24/the-ecstatic-truth

This week we’re joined by Derya of the WPEA to talk about the Fort Vancouver Regional Library and the library staff represented by the union fighting for a living wage. Check the notes to see how you can help support them!

 

https://nwlaborpress.org/2024/03/low-paid-librarians-fed-up-in-vancouver/ 

https://www.thestand.org/2024/02/take-action-raises-for-sw-washington-librarians-overdue/  (article #1)

FVRL Board: Pay your library workers livable wages! (thestand.org)   (article #2-following the action)

 

Media mentioned

Joe Clement did this piece on the Old Mole Radio Variety Hour, and it contains research resources as well as public testimony audio captured from Nerissa, Carmen, Abbie, and Derya from the latest Board meeting on March 18.

https://truthout.org/articles/public-private-partnerships-are-quietly-hollowing-out-our-public-libraries/

https://www.lsslibraries.com/

https://twitter.com/wylie_alan 

FVRL Board Meeting 2/20/2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_r6NqOlEi0 

Old Mole Variety Hour on libraries upcoming April 8 https://kboo.fm/media/120834-old-mole-variety-hour-april-8-2024 

Contact the FVRL Board

The problem and the solution are simple: Fort Vancouver Regional Library workers are grossly underpaid, and they must be paid a living wage.

  

We are asking the community at large to speak up for libraries by telling the FVRL Board to approve the allocation of funds to ensure the dignity of a living wage for all FVRL workers. 

• Sign petition https://www.change.org/p/it-s-time-fvrlibraries-pay-your-staff-a-living-wage?original_footer_petition_id=34850778&algorithm=promoted&grid_position=5&pt=AVBldGl0aW9uABhQQQIAAAAAZbwMe%2FqWz6hhNDJhOWQwNw%3D%3D 
• Email board of trustees of FVRL trustees@fvrl.org
• Attend meetings through FVRL website fvrl.org/board/trustees 
• Trustees phone contact:  360-906-5011 

More information

Flyer https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GQRWWVlrgZURJXOtSagHEcVoE0H-5j6f/view?usp=sharing

Infographic https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MO9qZroV4NVwWnz7MTQfY4ElBg5nnzX-/view?usp=sharing

 

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG 

We’re talking about Jon’s upcoming book on Bloch and how libraries are or are not models of utopia. 

Pre-order Jon's book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/primer-utopian-philosophy-ernst-bloch

Horror Vanguard: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500 

Media mentioned

https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/

https://www.akpress.org/resist-everything-except-temptation.html

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/wilde-oscar/soul-man/index.htm

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We’re talking about how the book sausage gets made! Publishing, publishers, libraries, horror, queerness, and maybe even some literal human sausage making. 

https://twitter.com/david_demchuk

https://bsky.app/profile/daviddemchuk.com

https://hazlitt.net/feature/where-monsters-are-made

Media mentioned

Cruising (1980) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080569/ 

Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke https://ericlarocca.com/about

Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt, Cuckoo. https://twitter.com/scumbelievable

Hailey Piper, https://www.haileypiper.com/ 

Joe Koch, https://horrorsong.blog/

Suzan Palumbo, https://suzanpalumbo.wordpress.com/

Feeding Hannibal: A Connoisseur's Cookbook https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/feeding-hannibal-janice-poon/1123457647

Tender Is the Flesh https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tender-Is-the-Flesh/Agustina-Bazterrica/9781982150921 

On the Line: New Gay Fiction https://www.amazon.com/Line-New-Gay-Fiction/dp/0895940493

Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

The Borrowers

Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

Rosemary’s Baby

Thomas Trion, The Other 

The Haunting of Hill House

Gerard Boesche, Feral

The Stepford Wives

The Exorcist

John Updike

John Cheever

Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint

Margaret Atwood, Life Before Man, A Handmaid’s Tale, Alias Grace

David’s favourite contemporary queer/trans+ horror writers

Eric LaRocca

Gretchen Felker-Martin

Hailey Piper

Joe Koch

Suzan Palumbo

Adam Pottle

Allison Rumfitt

Lee Mandelo

1. Kingfisher

A.C. Wise

Sam J. Miller

Ashley Deng

Jordan Shiveley

Nino Cipri

Chuck Tingle

This week we’re talking to the world’s greatest author, what else is there to say? 

Pre-order Bury Your Gays: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250874658/buryyourgays

Chuck’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chucktingle

Media mentioned

TLA post by Chuck: https://www.tumblr.com/drchucktingle/739065274126499840/the-texas-library-association-tells-chuck-tingle 

It’s our Valentine’s Day episode!

 

RFTB https://radiofreetotebag.castos.com/ 

Data Transfer https://open.spotify.com/show/71DUoMdvyGDfWqDx2uvTGC 

Bluesky @Aud

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk 

Media mentioned

• Reddit segment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Library/s/lWgNJFVxif 
• Coyne (2022) “We have to figure it out ourselves”: Transfeminine adolescents’ online sexual experiences and recommendations for supporting their sexual health and wellbeing
• Ma 2022 Patterns of online relationship seeking among transgender and gender diverse adolescents: Advice for others and common inquiries. 
• Skeen (2024) The intersectional social patterning of early-COVID-era digital intimacies among transgender and gender-diverse young adults: effects on peri-pandemic sexual decision-making 
• Rothbauer (2004) The Internet in the Reading Accounts of Lesbian and Queer Young Women: Failed Searches and Unsanctioned Reading. https://openurl.ebsco.com/EPDB%3Agcd%3A4%3A11553252/detailv2?sid=ebsco%3Aplink%3Ascholar&id=ebsco%3Agcd%3A19872901&crl=c 
• Primed: The Back Pocket Guide for Trans Men and the Men Who Dig Them | Rainbow Health Ontario 

We're covering the British Library hack and its fallout.

Media mentioned

https://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/comments/1aeq1ek/library_moral_dilemma_from_a_while_ago/ 

https://www.ft.com/content/4be5d468-0cc3-4881-a5fb-b5d0163de93e

https://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2010/long-term-access-digital-information.html (Dorothea mentioned)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rhysida-ransomware-gang-claims-british-library-cyberattack/

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/08/british_library_finances_remain_healthy/?is=b78b52a0bbc1b1a4c4446480c8d59b7f8abf7ac5db44dcfceee6104ddb4dab4f

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/24/rhysida-the-new-ransomware-gang-behind-british-library-cyber-attack

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/15/british-library-cyber-attack-staff-users-analysis 

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk 

This week we're talking about privacy literacy. Instruction, workshops, and how your data ends up all over the place. 

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk

[shorter LOEX conference paper] Transforming Privacy Literacy Instruction: From Surveillance Theory to Teaching Practice

[longer book chapter] The Promise of Theory-Informed Pedagogy: Building a Privacy Literacy Program

[for browsing] Open-licensed privacy literacy curriculum

Private Bits: Privacy, Intimacy, and Consent might be of particular interest

Dark Patterns: Surveillance Capitalism and Business Ethics deals with data brokerage (a la Becky Yoose and Nick Shockey’s work for SPARC)

#ForYou: Algorithms & the Attention Economy reimagines media literacy for algorithmic information environments

ACRL Sandbox entries (complete with lesson plans)

Workshop guides (teaching & learning materials, also linked from the Sandbox)

Digital Shred Privacy Literacy Toolkit: https://sites.psu.edu/digitalshred/

https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/practicing-privacy-literacy-academic-libraries-theories-methods-and-cases

Media Mentioned

1890 harvard law paper on right to privacy https://www.jstor.org/stable/1321160

“Nobody Sees It, Nobody Gets Mad”: Social Media, Privacy, and Personal Responsibility Among Low-SES Youth https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305117710455

Privacy Literacy and Its Problems. https://openurl.ebsco.com/EPDB%3Agcd%3A6%3A19315958/detailv2?sid=ebsco%3Aplink%3Ascholar&id=ebsco%3Agcd%3A133682180&crl=c 

Lawrence Lessig Pathetic Dot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_dot_theory

https://stopncii.org/

https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/

Shame Machine https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/606203/the-shame-machine-by-cathy-oneil/

Kate Devlin Turned On https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/turned-on-9781472950871/

Danielle Keats Citron Sexual Privacy https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/sexual-privacy

Danielle Keats Citron The Fight for Privacy https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393882315

Kate Devlin https://www.hotpress.com/sex-drugs/sex-robots-frontlines-ai-revolution-kate-devlin-22775520 

https://iste.org/standards

Sarah’s Sci Fi https://alastore.ala.org/content/self-subject-autoethnographic-research-identity-culture-and-academic-librarianship

Download some sage jpegs and ponder the AI, we’re talking with Alex about queer Internet histories, LGBTQ2S+ archives, email archiving, feminist restaurants, and technopaganism. Be sure to check out the notes on this one!

https://www.alexketchum.ca 

Register for the Queer Food Conference:  https://www.queerfoodconference.com/p/registration.html

Media mentioned

https://www.lgbtqarchives.com/

Disrupting Disruptions: https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com/

Cait McKinney, Information Activism: https://www.dukeupress.edu/information-activism

Deep Sniff: https://www.adamzmith.com/deep-sniff-poppers-book

The Log Books: https://www.thelogbooks.org/

Hannah Zeavin, The Distance Cure: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045926/the-distance-cure/

Google study [pdf]: https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf?ref=404media.co

40 years of magic on the web:  https://airtable.com/appBlKZqOs8ATBq6f/shr1SocSlfKqSP8YV  

Report on the State of Resources Provided to Support Scholars Against Harassment, Trolling, and Doxxing While Doing Public Media Work:  https://medium.com/@alexandraketchum/report-on-the-state-of-resources-provided-to-support-scholars-against-harassment-trolling-and-401bed8cfbf1

Missing Datasets: https://github.com/MimiOnuoha/missing-datasets

Moya Bailey, #transform(ing)DH Writing and Research: An Autoethnography of Digital Humanities and Feminist Ethics https://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/9/2/000209/000209.html 

The Historical Cooking Project: http://www.historicalcookingproject.com 

The Feminist Restaurant Project: http://www.thefeministrestaurantproject.com