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This week we’re talking with Emily Weak from Hiring Librarians and answering listener questions about getting the MLS, job hunting, and more! https://x.com/HiringLib  https://emilyweak.com/ https://bsky.app/profile/hiringlibrarians.com https://livingwage.mit.edu/  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG Transcripts: https://pastecode.io/s/rakyczca 

We’re getting into our favorite copyright myths and some copyright related news. Media mentioned Tattoo copyright news: https://apnews.com/article/kat-von-d-tattoo-trial-miles-davis-388d1831c0a065b096fe4f69fe8a224e Wiley news, sells rights to AI https://www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-set-to-earn-44m-from-ai-rights-deals-confirms-no-opt-out-for-authors  https://fanlore.org/wiki/Disclaimer  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_with_fan_fiction  https://fanlore.org/wiki/Disclaimer  https://www.eff.org/pages/eff-screen-lock-images-new-logo  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/q0qhmqpg 

We’re joined by Adam Jones from Acid Horizon to talk about cybernetics and systems of control. We talk about how systems of control impact libraries, and how cybernetics can help us see the connections between different systems.  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG  Media Mentioned Acid Horizon podcast: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/  Anti-Oculus https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734147/anti-oculus-by-acid-horizon/  "Queer Animality", Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, Mel Y. Chen. https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1652/chapter-abstract/178668/Queer-Animality?redirectedFrom=fulltext Trap Door: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544894/trap-door/  That Particular Flavor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distrust_That_Particular_Flavor Resisting AI https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai Work Without the Worker https://www.versobooks.com/products/2518-work-without-the-worker Heike Bauer, ‘Burning Sexual Subjects: Books, Homophobia and the Nazi Destruction of the Institute of Sexual Science in Berlin’, in Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary, eds. Partington and Smyth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 17–33. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137367662_2 Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/y926mbqh

The gang talks about linked open data. What did we learn in library school? What’s the future? Where does it fall off a cliff?  Media mentioned https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/graph-types/ The Ethics of Sustaining Linked Data Infrastructure https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/430f30bf-e029-483d-b1c8-d7e9bb430a8e  Aaron Swartz unfinished book https://web.archive.org/web/20220512132144/https://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00481ED1V01Y201302WBE005  Tim Berners Lee https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Overview.html https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/RDFnot.html https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111938123937338008 https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111939286501257910  https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111731459659839112  https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/#knowledge-graphs-a-backbone-in-the-surveillance-economy  http://microblogging.infodocs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/publishing_bnb_as_lod.pdf  https://www.oclc.org/en/news/releases/2024/20240507-introducing-oclc-meridian.html Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG Transcript (plaintext): https://pastecode.io/s/qundkp0n

This week we’re talking about museums, ethics, and taxonomy. Probably other stuff too! Media mentioned https://www.geocurator.org/images/resources/geocurator/vol7/geocurator_7_6.pdf#page=14 "FRONTIERS TO SCIENCE: FREE TRADE AND MUSEUM ETHICS"  by Tristram P. Besterman, 2001 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69005527 "US curator denies smuggling scorpions and spiders from Istanbul" BBC News, 2024 https://webarchive.unesco.org/web/20230926050719/https://en.unesco.org/cultnatlaws/list The web archived version of the UNESCO database for national cultural heritage laws, which ....they've taken down from their website for some reason? I was literally working from this list last year so idk what happened https://www.audubon.org/news/the-history-and-evolution-migratory-bird-treaty-act The Audubon website's heavily summarised history of the MBTA; pay particular note to the blurbs under 1900 and 1916 https://www.ducks.org/ The Ducks Unlimited website. Note Conservation and Hunting as top two tabs. https://www.ducks.ca/about/our-partners/ The Ducks Unlimited Canada website page of corporate partners! Count the number of oil pipelines! https://pridesource.com/article/stomping-spots-queer-feelings-for-a-bad-bug-heading-to-michigan Episode transcript in HTML (download to view): https://pastecode.io/s/e7ye92tz  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG