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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 Whistleshttps://linktr.ee/3DwhistlesMy Justice of the Peace tumblrhttps://vermontjp.tumblr.com/Logan Airport chapelhttps://discovermass.com/church/our-lady-of-the-airways-east-boston-ma/Soul of a New Machinehttps://www.tracykidder.com/the-soul-of-a-new-machine.htmlMatteo Lanehttps://matteolanecomedy.com/My DNC bloghttps://www.librarian.net/dnc/Librarian at Burning Manhttps://www.jessamyn.com/journal/02/burnlib.htmlFlickr Commons Explorerhttps://commons.flickr.org/Without a Net, Librarians Bridging the Digital Dividehttps://www.librarian.net/digitaldivide/Marrakesh Treatyhttps://www.wipo.int/en/web/treaties/ip/marrakesh/indexFlickypediahttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:FlickypediaThat's My Grandma Flickr Galleryhttps://flickr.com/photos/flickrfoundation/galleries/72157722979767596/Murkutuhttps://mukurtu.org/Barnard Zine Libraryhttps://zines.barnard.edu/Cleaning out mom's househttps://www.flickr.com/photos/iamthebestartist/albums/72157719713137030 Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/684xqjj9  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/qWPTurTnkT

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  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/qWPTurTnkT 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  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG

This week we have Kay back on to talk about AI and what the refusal of AI means in terms of library practice and theory.  Bsky: @kslater.bsky.social Media mentioned Kay’s article in Library Trends: Against AI: Critical Refusal in the Library The AI Con (book) https://thecon.ai/  “Synthetic literacy” forthcoming from Dr. Kishonna Gray https://www.kishonnagray.com/    librarians doing infolit session part of that is telling the students how it will track you - privacy issues https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2016/putting-critical-information-literacy-into-context-how-and-why-librarians-adopt-critical-practices-in-their-teaching/  https://infolit.org.uk/privacy-and-surveillance-in-the-classroom-responding-to-new-information-literacy-challenges/  https://acrlog.org/2020/11/13/privacy-consent-and-the-virtual-one-shot/  https://datalabelers.org/  https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/cia-triad The People’s Platform (book) https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062598/thepeoplesplatform/ Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/g3d9cgmm  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG

This week we’re talking with children’s author and children’s librarian Hal to talk about zir new book, vampires, monstrosity, the Old Internet, and the publishing landscape.