We’re joined by the authors of Organize Your Library to talk about library labor, the future, the ALA union drive, and more!

Media mentioned

Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers https://alastore.ala.org/oryrlib

ALA union letter: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v8ACD_ltC3ZW1JBJX6qdheD11xq7tBdR/view

ALA union announcement: https://afscme31.org/news/american-library-association-employees-forming-union-afscme

WNBA players association agreement signed https://www.wnba.com/news/wnba-wnbpa-tentative-cba-deal-2026

NYC Plan https://nycplan.org/

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This week we’re joined by Steph to talk about fashion and librarianship: how it works, how they intersect, and how fashion is interdisciplinary. We also learn about how you get into this gig!

Media mentioned Good general article: Frederiksen, Linda. “Fashion by Design.” Library Journal, vol. 131, no. 10, June 2006, pp. 79–81. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=297645b9-2580-3b4f-bdae-8ee2344a2633.

Costume Institute article: Kazmi, Sahar. “A CENTURY OF FASHION: Library Collections Reflect the Evolution of 20th-Century American Style.” Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 13, no. 1, Jan. 2024, pp. 14–19. EBSCOhost, https://www.loc.gov/lcm/pdf/LCM_2024_0102.pdf

ARLIS article: King, Lindsay M., and Russell T. Clement. “Style and Substance: Fashion in Twenty-First-Century Research Libraries.” Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, vol. 31, no. 1, Mar. 2012, pp. 93–107. EBSCOhost, doi.org/10.1086/664912

Library Journal's September By The Numbers focused on fashion libraries: “Fashion and Beauty.” American Libraries, vol. 56, no. 9/10, Sept. 2025, p. 11 https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/09/02/by-the-numbers-fashion-and-beauty/

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Part 2 of our discussion with Jonny and Jez about SciOp, a torrent-focused data preservation project that encourages academics to help with the act of making data available. It’s distributed, it’s robust, and SciOp is working on making it easy to do.

contact@safeguar.de

Contact Jonny:

Fedi: https://elektrine.com/remote/jonny@neuromatch.social Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/jo.nny.rip

Media mentioned

https://sciop.net/

https://forum.safeguar.de/about

https://blog.sciop.net/2025-08-29/webseeds

https://punctumbooks.com/titles/warez-the-infrastructure-and-aesthetics-of-piracy/

Safeguarding/sciop: collecting at-risk data in torrent rss feeds - Codeberg.org

- https://codeberg.org/safeguarding/sciop - the scraping code, such as it is: https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop-scraping

- sciop the blog, such as it is: https://blog.sciop.net/

https://programminghistorian.org/

https://book.the-turing-way.org/

last episodes on federation:

https://www.librarypunk.gay/e/101-mastodon-bluesky-and-bullshit-part-1-feat-jonny-saunders/

https://www.librarypunk.gay/e/102-mastodon-bluesky-and-bullshit-part-2-feat-jonny/

Tools mentioned

webrecorder, browser trix

https://webrecorder.net/

https://webrecorder.net/browsertrix/

academictorrents - academic data tracker https://academictorrents.com/

aggregor mauve https://agregore.mauve.moe/

DRP - lumos https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/datalumos/home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table

https://torrentfreak.com/controversy-as-rookie-admin-aspires-to-bittorrent-domination-080730/

ddos secrets https://ddosecrets.org/

Archive Team Warrior https://tracker.archiveteam.org/

How to contribute to sciop

https://sciop.net/docs/quickstart/

Create account.

Create a torrent. [find how to link for how to create a torrent]

Upload.

Get permission so they are visible to others.

Seed.

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