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We’re talking with Abby and Hal about NYC Public Library Action Network (PLAN)! Learn about what they’re doing, how you can help, how you can copy them, and what’s working for them by having a community-led library advocacy group that is separate from the library itself.  How can people get involved? nycplan.org  Email your city councilmember https://actionnetwork.org/letters/city-council-we-demand-half-a-percent-of-the-overall-city-budget-for-libraries   May City Council meeting [email protected] for agendas Media mentioned Mamdani failed to deliver on the campaign promises that NYC PLAN pushed him to make. Here's a roundup of coverage in case it helps: NYC PLAN (Newsletter, Feb. 17th, the day after the preliminary budget release) Mariame Kaba Mayor Mamdani Breaks His Promise to NYC Public Libraries (Feb 18th) NEW! The Dreaded NYC Library Budget Dance Continues… (March 23rd) Seven Stories Press: Guest Post: Hal Schrieve on the Fight to Fund NYC Libraries (Feb 27th) WNYC: WNYC_Budget Cuts.mp3 (Feb 20th) The City: Mamdani Promised a New Era for Parks and Libraries. His First Budget Falls Short. (Feb 19th) Literary Hub: New York Mayor Mamdani is breaking his promise on library funding. (Feb 19th) Gothamist: Taking page from Adams, Mayor Mamdani proposes NYC library cuts (Feb 19th) La Voce di New York: Mamdani Proposes Cuts to Public Library Funding–Despite Campaign Promises (Feb 20th) New York Daily News: Budget shortfall may close the book on Mamdani’s library funding promise FOX 5: Clip_Budget Cuts.mp4  (Feb 19th) The New York Post: Mamdani wants to slash NYC library budgets by $30M— despite calling similar cuts by Adams ‘cruel’ (Feb 20th) Here are some details on NYC PLAN's recent assembly event: https://nycplan.org/peoples-assembly-march-21-2026/ And a slide deck from part of the event: Public Library Funding in NYC (Queens, March 2026) https://www.librariansequalliteracy.org/ All transcripts: https://podscripts.co/podcasts/librarypunk  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/qWPTurTnkT

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

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 mentionedGood 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/  All previous transcripts: https://podscripts.co/podcasts/librarypunk  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/qWPTurTnkT

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. [email protected]  Contact Jonny:  Fedi: https://elektrine.com/remote/[email protected] 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  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/qWPTurTnkT

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. [email protected]  Contact Jonny:  Fedi: https://elektrine.com/remote/[email protected] 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  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/qWPTurTnkT