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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

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