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Because libraries and archives are never neutral.
Taking a closer look at the relationships between organizing information and community organizing. We talk to information professionals, activists, and other insightful folks who have thoughts about what we mean when we say, “knowledge is power”. Hosted by two new librarians figuring things out as we go. We are based on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
Taking a closer look at the relationships between organizing information and community organizing. We talk to information professionals, activists, and other insightful folks who have thoughts about what we mean when we say, “knowledge is power”. Hosted by two new librarians figuring things out as we go. We are based on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
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In this two-part interview, we chat with Stacy Collins, Research & Instruction Librarian at Simmons University in Boston, about police in libraries, as well as the role of policing in the forms of social work and librarianship.
Timestamps:
• 0:00 - 1:24 Intro
• 1:24 - 5:56 Why police shouldn’t be in libraries
• 5:56 - 9:56 How to talk about police and security in your workplace
• 9:56 - 15:35 Social workers and private security in libraries
• 15:35 - 21:05 Final thoughts on liberation, oppression, and complicity
Follow Stacy on Twitter @DarkLiterata
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/yyykj645
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
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• Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
• Twitter: @OrganizingPod
• Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
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In this two-part interview, we chat with Stacy Collins, Research & Instruction Librarian at Simmons University in Boston, about the Anti-Oppression LibGuide that she’s created, and how anti-oppression is intertwined with children’s literature.
Timestamps:
• 0:00 - 1:43 Intro
• 1:43 - 5:39 How did you get into librarianship?
• 5:39 - 11:51 What is anti-oppression, and what’s a LibGuide?
• 11:51 - 17:00 Inspiration for the Anti-Oppression LibGuide?
• 17:00 - 21:46 Challenges and highlights
• 21:46 - 28:38 Harassment and backlash
• 28:38 - 39:12 Change and future plans
• 39:12 - 46:40 How does anti-oppression inform your work?
• 46:40 - 56:10 Anti-oppression and children’s literature
Follow Stacy on Twitter @DarkLiterata
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y43pk2oa
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
You can reach us at:
• Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
• Twitter: @OrganizingPod
• Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
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Karen and Allison share some personal-professional updates for 2020, as well as some of their reading joys and reading hopefuls.
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Read along with the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LD2d-NRkOdLSdovxmDYsYW9mZnHuFXZ6pV8hm-jPxmI/edit?usp=sharing
Time stamps:
0:00 // Introduction
1:03 // Podcast updates
5:25 // Personal-professional updates
21:58 // Reading habits in 2020
29:23 // Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me by Anna Mehler Paperny
30:28 // Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley
33:30 // The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic, and The Burning God by R.F. Kuang
38:00 // Gillian Bradshaw
42:02 // This Place: 150 Years Retold
42:54 // Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
46:15 // Reading hopes for 2021 and outro
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.
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Twitter: @OrganizingPod
Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
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We welcome back our guests Ted Lee and Ean Henninger from Episode 3 of the podcast to talk about precarious work and knowledge mobilization. We discuss questions and qualms we have about knowledge mobilization, how precarious work makes knowledge mobilization difficult, the power of union organizing, and how COVID-19 has affected precarity! This episode was recorded live as part of the 2020 Keeping it ReAL conference.
Follow Ean (@rhymewithzinger) and Ted (@teioh) on Twitter!
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y3e5sxw6
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.
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Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @OrganizingPod
Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
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In this episode, we sat down with Karen’s classmate Clara Giménez-Delgado to talk about her project processing a collection of lantern slides at the Museum of Anthropology. The collection is called the Missionary Society of Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada Slide Collection, and it was the subject of Clara’s final project in Dr. Jennifer Douglas’s Personal Archives class at the University of British Columbia. Clara talks about witnessing, emotion and affect, reconsidering archival practices, and colonial harm in her project, and we’re very grateful to have had the chance to talk to her about the archiving process.
Follow Clara on Twitter @clararchiving
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y4tzt7kt
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
This episode was transcribed by Sam Frederick, Victoria Gomez, and Karen Ng.
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Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @OrganizingPod
Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
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What is fascism? How have fascists used libraries in their organizing strategies to gain legitimacy? How does this relate to current TERF room bookings at libraries? And why have libraries struggled so much to respond?! We cover all this and more with Lena Gluck, founder of the Anti-Fascist Library Network.
Follow Lena on Twitter @LenaGluck
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y4hxwvee
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.
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Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
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In this episode we outline our plans for season 3, as well as pass along some advice for folks returning or thinking of applying to library/archives school, with some guest clips from good friends Sony, Zakir, and Victoria.
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y3g7abyo
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
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In this episode, we chat with Sierra King, an artist, photographer, and archivist, about her work with Black Women Artists, and her curatorial debut exhibition here. there. everywhere. Sierra talks about Kathleen Cleaver’s archive, personal archiving, and Black art and futurity. Her exhibition (August 22 - September 26, 2020) at MINT Gallery in Atlanta is a multidimensional portrait of the journey towards Black Futurity that Black Women across the African Diaspora have been pursuing in the name of freedom.
Follow Sierra on Twitter @SierraChas
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y5r2rb8x
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
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• Twitter: @OrganizingPod
• Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
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We sit down with Baharak Yousefi to talk about being a good library boss, the joy and generosity of library Twitter, and the responsibilities of academic freedom... but mostly we talk about power, intersectionality, and anti-oppression. It’s a good one, folks!
Follow Baharak on Twitter @BaharakY
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y4uws5kh
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.
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Episode 26, in which Karen and Allison talk about their feelings during the midst of COVID-19, and books they’ve been reading and shows they’ve been watching in 2020 so far.
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y7nx8brh
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
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We talk with Ariel Caldwell, a Teen Services Librarian at Vancouver Public Library, about teen librarianship, community-led work, juggling 5 calendars, using improv to navigate power dynamics, intergenerational programming, and creating fun!
You can reach Ariel at ariel.caldwell [at] vpl [dot] ca.
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/yckbpmzh
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
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In anticipation of the (now cancelled) British Columbia Library Association 2020 conference on “Libraries, Democracy, and Action,” Sam Popowich, author of Confronting the Democratic Discourse of Librarianship: A Marxist Approach, talks about intellectual freedom and what democracy means in libraries.
Follow Sam on Twitter @redlibrarian
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/ya9gkmwg
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
You can reach us at:
Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @OrganizingPod
Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
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Hey folks - we hope this mini episode finds you as well as can be considering the current circumstances. We are putting together an episode COVID-19 and invite you to share your thoughts with us in a short audio clip! Find the full details about how to contribute by listening to the episode or reading the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/wzeduor
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
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** This episode was recorded on March 12, 2020 before UBC Library, where we were recording, was closed to the public, and we were all encouraged to stay home and physically distance from one another. **
In preparation for the now-cancelled British Columbia Library Association (BCLA) 2020 conference, Karen sat down with Y Vy Truong, Rachel Lau, and Avi Grundner to talk about expectations and ideas for their discussion panel, titled “Collections in Social Movements: Grassroots Libraries in Marginalized Communities.”
Our guests:
• Y Vy Truong - @YVyTruong / @josspaperlib
• Rachel Lau - @racholau / @queer_reads_library
• Avi Grundner - @avi_ouslyy / @OutOnTheShelves
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/u69ug9q
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
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• Twitter: @OrganizingPod
• Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
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Throw out the whole book! In this episode we chat with Elaine Su, an elementary school teacher librarian and advocate for youth voices, about inquiry-based learning and education practices and reform—and what she means by throwing the whole book out.
Follow Elaine on Twitter @elainesoup
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/tfcl76k
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
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We chat with Jessica Schomberg about disability frameworks, intersectionality, cataloguing, relationships, solidarity, prioritizing people over productivity, unions, and their new book, co-authored with Wendy Highby, coming out in April: “Beyond Accommodation: Creating an Inclusive Workplace for Disabled Library Workers.”
Follow Jessica on Twitter @schomj
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/rrgfs5o
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
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Twitter: @OrganizingPod
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We hop on Skype to chat with Zakiya Collier from the Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture about her work web archiving (which is not what Gmail does), the Hashtag Syllabus Movement, critical archival studies, and “fugitive discernment”.
Follow Zakiya on Twitter @ZZcollier
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/u84dvwo
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
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Twitter: @OrganizingPod
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We chat with Krista McCracken about public history, colonialism and archives, how slooooowww archives are to change (and why there’s so much resistance to challenging power structures!), and embroidery as a form of feminist resistance.
Check out Krista’s blog and follow them on Twitter @KristaMcCracken.
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.
Read along with the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1frHtDAYAnv8fmrrzYu1e1tYhKIcmsKHwT7tchZjn7Lg/edit?usp=sharing
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1Symphony Bruce, Resident Librarian at American University Library, shares her experience with the Library Freedom Institute, and talks to us about information literacy, digital privacy and safety, and how information is empowerment.
Follow Symphony on Twitter @curlsinthelib
Read along with the transcript (links to resources included): https://tinyurl.com/t4znf6f
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
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Lara Maestro talks about knowledge-keeping practices and living archives in the Philippines from her thesis, “Alternative Becomings, Alternative Belongings: Cordillera Case Studies of Records in Context,” and the values and framework that guided her work, which include participation, solidarity, and social justice.
You can check out more of Lara’s community organizing work at Sulong at UBC on their Instagram and Facebook pages.
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/s7ul7sl
You can reach us at:
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• Twitter: @OrganizingPod
• Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
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