librarypunk

This week we’re talking about John Rogers, a memorabilia mogul who flew too close to the sun (fueled by cocaine) by buying up newspaper photo collections and promising digital archives in return, while flogging the rarest photos for a profit. A warning to libraries and museums to be careful when a new digitization scheme rides into town!

https://defector.com/he-said-he-was-going-to-save-a-century-of-priceless-sports-photos-he-ended-up-the-madoff-of-memorabilia 

Media mentioned

https://www.cnet.com/tech/openai-sued-by-authors-alleging-chatgpt-trained-on-their-writing/

https://bookriot.com/hoopla-overdrive-libby-now-banned-for-those-under-18-in-mississippi/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Point (Teilhard’s idea)

https://www.polygon.com/23779892/mtg-the-one-ring-found-how-much-price-spain

Miriam is back to talk about her Digital Labor course and how it went teaching undergrad IT students to think critically about tech and logistics. We also cover student anxiety and why Justin could never get a BBL.

https://twitter.com/miriamkp 

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

Course syllabus. https://miriamposner.com/classes/dh150s23/ 

Media mentioned

Zizi Li: influencer labor. https://www.zizili.net/

https://westernkabuki.podbean.com/e/vtube-nation-ft-j-aubrey/

Acid Horizon: Data is Dead Labor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr3tE0D7UhI 

https://baki.fandom.com/wiki/Jack_Hanma

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

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520383876/resurrecting-the-black-body

We have the wonderful Ben and Matt on to talk about their new comic Justice Warriors, but also about the role of satire, book bans, cops in libraries (e.g. Winnipeg), and cuts to the social safety net in favor of cops where libraries become the service point of last resort. 

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Justice-Warriors/Matt-Bors/9781952090226 

https://twitter.com/benclarkson

https://twitter.com/MattBors 

Media mentioned

https://thenib.com/ 

https://scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/

https://scottmccloud.com/2-print/3-mc/index.html

 https://scottmccloud.com/2-print/2-rc/index.html

This week we're joined by Gracen to talk about the Lab, accommodations, death and remembrance, Crip futures, and lots more! 

Transcript: https://sonix.ai/share/EshPDeD7BmqS2zUR4V3PoUL4

https://linktr.ee/disabilityarchiveslab

https://twitter.com/DisArchivesLab  

http://disabilityarchiveslab.com/blog/ 

https://litwinbooks.com/books/preserving-disability/#:~:text=Preserving%20Disability%3A%20Disability%20and%20the,approaches%20to%20the%20archival%20profession. 

Media mentioned

https://bookriot.com/illinois-has-officially-banned-book-bans/ 

https://lostinthestacks.libsyn.com/episode-560-what-is-the-disability-archives-lab?tdest_id=157087

https://mukurtu.org/ 

https://www.dukeupress.edu/work-requirements

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/728 

Welcome to the first episode of Tender Subject! This week, we're going over the whats and whys of this podcast. Why cannibalism? Why aren't we talking about True Crime? We also talk a little bit about the current cannibal craze in media and why we always need to justify our enjoyment. Finally, we do a show & tell for each other about something we might not do an entire episode on but wanted to talk about anyway.

Media Discussed:

2022 Was the Year of the Cannibal. What Does That Say About Us?

We the Parasites by A.V. Marraccini

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod

Art by Anya R. Hueing

Music by @coffin_flops

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
• 263 – A Conversation with Pearson Bolt about Child Liberation
• 265- Ageism, Misopedy, Adult Supremacy, Child Liberation, Childism, Adultism, Child Rights, Etc.
• 266 – Think of the Children!

ALA

• About Banned & Challenged Books | Advocacy, Legislation & Issues 
• Access to Library Resources and Services for Minors: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights | Advocacy, Legislation & Issues 
• Notable First Amendment Court Cases | 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