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/

All transcripts: https://podscripts.co/podcasts/librarypunk

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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.

All transcripts: https://podscripts.co/podcasts/librarypunk

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We’re talking 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.

Transcripts: https://podscripts.co/podcasts/librarypunk

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This week we’re joined by Hagen to talk about their new book on AI and labor/power/knowledge/eugenics. We also discuss some library Reddit developments.

Media mentioned

https://juandavidcampolargo.substack.com/p/naperville-library-spy

https://www.juandavidcampolargo.com/projects/naperlibspy

https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/why-we-fear-ai

Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/gesekv6i

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It’s a fun one! We’re talking with Jessamyn about the public domain, new and old technology, blogging at the DNC, and lots of inside baseball.

Media mentioned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessamyn_West_(librarian)

https://www.librarian.net/stax/5566/the-mining-of-the-public-domain/

https://jessamyn.com/tweets/

https://tararobertson.ca/2016/oob/

Request to Verify Eligibility for Free Ebooks for the Print Disabled https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScSBbT17HSQywTm-fQawOK7G4dN-QPbDWNstdfvysoKTXCjKA/viewform

Veii’s music: https://veii.bandcamp.com/

Who Owns this Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs https://fit.princeton.edu/publications/who-owns-sentence-history-copyrights-and-wrongs

Free Whistles https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles My Justice of the Peace tumblr https://vermontjp.tumblr.com/ Logan Airport chapel https://discovermass.com/church/our-lady-of-the-airways-east-boston-ma/ Soul of a New Machine https://www.tracykidder.com/the-soul-of-a-new-machine.html Matteo Lane https://matteolanecomedy.com/ My DNC blog https://www.librarian.net/dnc/ Librarian at Burning Man https://www.jessamyn.com/journal/02/burnlib.html Flickr Commons Explorer https://commons.flickr.org/Without a Net, Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide https://www.librarian.net/digitaldivide/ Marrakesh Treaty https://www.wipo.int/en/web/treaties/ip/marrakesh/index Flickypedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Flickypedia That's My Grandma Flickr Gallery https://flickr.com/photos/flickrfoundation/galleries/72157722979767596/ Murkutu https://mukurtu.org/ Barnard Zine Library https://zines.barnard.edu/ Cleaning out mom's house https://www.flickr.com/photos/iamthebestartist/albums/72157719713137030

Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/684xqjj9

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We’re back! We’re talking about weeding and library collections as government speech.

Media mentioned

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/25/is-including-hidden-ai-prompts-in-academic-papers-gaming-the-peer-review-system-or-keeping-it-honest/

https://buttondown.com/wellsourced/archive/CREW-Method-Manual/

https://bookriot.com/little-vs-llano-county-fifth-circuit/

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

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Companion zine for the episode: https://smazzie.itch.io/the-politics-of-weeding-and-little-v-llano-county-zine

We’re talking with Kevin again about workers inquiry as an organizing tool and the example of the pamphlet The American Worker from 1947.

Twitter: https://x.com/AmericanWork47

readingstruggles.info

notesfrombelow.org

Media mentioned

The American Worker on COVER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikphd5bNza4&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Ff9eaa73e-0b64-4316-a994-c97369b4e555.usrfiles.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY

“Searching for the American Worker” https://newpol.org/issue_post/searching-for-the-american-worker/

Culbertson, Anna W. “Our Labor, Our Terms: Workers’ Inquiry in Libraries,” in “Assemblage, Inquiry, and Common Work in Library and Information Studies,” eds. Melissa Adler and Andrew Lau. Special issue, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 4; https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/175 (CC BY-NC)

In and against the state: discussion notes for socialists. https://libcom.org/book/export/html/31378

Reading Struggles: Working-Class Self-Activity from Detroit to Turin and Back Again. https://www.readingstruggles.info/

Guerillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible. https://www.akpress.org/guerrillas-of-desire.html

Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/bgobg2t9

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