Episodes

2 days ago
093 - Desk Set (1957)
2 days ago
2 days ago
This week we’re doing the other library school movie, Desk Set. But first, we solve the eternal war between goths and librarians by talking about the Mütter Museum’s changes. Then we get into AI, automation, and sexy library shenanigans.
Media mentioned
Mütter Museum: https://www.inquirer.com/news/mutter-museum-oddities-review-new-plan-20230603.html
Knott Malone, "Imagining information retrieval in the library: Desk Set in historical context," in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 14-22, July-Sept. 2002, doi: 10.1109/MAHC.2002.1024759. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1024759
Desk set revisited: Reference librarians, reality, & research systems' design (1995) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0099133395901450

Thursday May 25, 2023
092 - Preserving Worlds II: Preservinger
Thursday May 25, 2023
Thursday May 25, 2023
We’re talking about the latest season of Preserving Worlds! Video game preservation, indie media, archiving, animation, DIY, the Internet as a bad place! We close talking about the end: our deaths, our multiple digital deaths, and how they won’t coincide with each other.
https://means.tv/programs/preservingworlds
https://twitter.com/DerekLMurphy
https://twitter.com/MitchellZemil
Media Mentioned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrzKT-dFUjE - Lemon Demon video Shawn worked on
https://rpgmaker.fandom.com/wiki/Yume_Nikki - Yume Nikki
https://rpgmaker.net/games/2430/ - Space Funeral
https://rpgmaker.net/games/6697/ - OFF
https://rpgmaker.fandom.com/wiki/Ib - Ib

Thursday May 18, 2023
091 - Homosaurus
Thursday May 18, 2023
Thursday May 18, 2023
It’s just the crew this week and we’re gonna talk a lot about butt fucking! It’s Homosaurus time.
Media Mentioned
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2072753
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/7985/11110

Friday May 12, 2023
090 - Right of Children to Read and Know feat. Srsly Wrong
Friday May 12, 2023
Friday May 12, 2023
Crossover episode! We're talking with Srsly Wrong about the rights of minors to read, to know, and to be treated as people. We talk about our memories as children and accessing information at various stages in our development, and what the liberation of children will look like in regard to libraries.
Media Mentioned
The Convention on the Rights of the Child: The child-friendly version | UNICEF State of Palestine
https://www.schneier.com/books/a-hackers-mind/
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/part-of-our-lives-9780190248000?cc=fr&lang=en&
https://www.dukeupress.edu/no-future
Srsly Wrong episodes about child rights
- 262 – Society Lets Children Down
- 263 – A Conversation with Pearson Bolt about Child Liberation
- 265- Ageism, Misopedy, Adult Supremacy, Child Liberation, Childism, Adultism, Child Rights, Etc.
- 266 – Think of the Children!
ALA

Thursday Apr 27, 2023
089 - Leaving Libraries feat. Allison
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
This week we’re talking about leaving academic libraries. Allison joins us to talk about using your skills to move into another field, barriers in academia, work/life balance, and the impact of temporary grant funded positions.
Media mentioned
https://medium.com/@allisonjaiodell/why-i-left-academic-libraries-26e2a63c8bf2

Thursday Apr 06, 2023
088 - It’s bad news roundup, pardner
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
This week we talk male beauty tips, why you need a weed card in New Hampshire, and the implosion of libraries as we know them. News time!
Media mentioned
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/texas-banned-books-ruling-judge/story?id=98303996
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/31/texas-school-library-books/
Non-news media mentioned
FLO Controlled Digital Lending Meeting: https://libraries.flo.org/ld.php?content_id=71305971
https://www.dukeupress.edu/no-future
Srsly Wrong episodes about child rights

Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
087 - Hachette v. Internet Archive
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
We’re covering the Internet Archive lawsuit point by point and discuss the implications for libraries trying to do CDL.
Media Mentioned
Decision: https://t.co/vskSf6gqSH
https://controlleddigitallending.org/2023/03/20/hachette-v-ia-liveblog/
What is CDL? https://controlleddigitallending.org/whitepaper/
The Publisher Playbook: A Brief History of the Publishing Industry’s Obstruction of the Library Mission: https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37374618

Thursday Mar 16, 2023
086 - The Watermelon Woman (1996)
Thursday Mar 16, 2023
Thursday Mar 16, 2023
Movie night! We’re watching The Watermelon Woman. If you haven’t seen it, go watch it first!

Saturday Mar 11, 2023
085 - CIPA and Internet Filtering
Saturday Mar 11, 2023
Saturday Mar 11, 2023
The Children's Internet Protection Act is a good starting point to talk about Internet censorship. E-Rate has become an almost invisible restriction on what you can view on library computers. We cover Section 230 adjustments including FOSTA/SESTA and tie it into current political battles over libraries and access to sexual or queer materials.
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Thursday Feb 23, 2023
084 - Mushrooms [JOIN THE DECAY]
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Returning guest and fungal host Kayte joins us to talk fungus. Rhizomes, rot, rights, and Roald Dahl. We covered it all. Embrace your future body possibilities.
https://twitter.com/fangspodcast
https://twitter.com/kayteterry
https://www.patreon.com/fangspodcast
Media mentioned
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation_(VanderMeer_novel)
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691220550/the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14549466/