In this two-part interview, we chat with Stacy Collins, Research & Instruction Librarian at Simmons University in Boston, about police in libraries, as well as the role of policing in the forms of social work and librarianship. Timestamps: • 0:00 - 1:24 Intro • 1:24 - 5:56 Why police shouldn’t be in libraries • 5:56 - 9:56 How to talk about police and security in your workplace • 9:56 - 15:35 Social workers and private security in libraries • 15:35 - 21:05 Final thoughts on liberation, oppression, and complicity Follow Stacy on Twitter @DarkLiterata Read along with the transcript: https ..read more

In this two-part interview, we chat with Stacy Collins, Research & Instruction Librarian at Simmons University in Boston, about the Anti-Oppression LibGuide that she’s created, and how anti-oppression is intertwined with children’s literature. Timestamps: • 0:00 - 1:43 Intro • 1:43 - 5:39 How did you get into librarianship? • 5:39 - 11:51 What is anti-oppression, and what’s a LibGuide? • 11:51 - 17:00 Inspiration for the Anti-Oppression LibGuide? • 17:00 - 21:46 Challenges and highlights • 21:46 - 28:38 Harassment and backlash • 28:38 - 39:12 Change and future plans • 39:12 - 46:40 How doe ..read more

Karen and Allison share some personal-professional updates for 2020, as well as some of their reading joys and reading hopefuls. Listen to the episode: Read along with the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LD2d-NRkOdLSdovxmDYsYW9mZnHuFXZ6pV8hm-jPxmI/edit?usp=sharing Time stamps: 0:00 // Introduction 1:03 // Podcast updates 5:25 // Personal-professional updates 21:58 // Reading habits in 2020 29:23 // Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me by Anna Mehler Paperny 30:28 // Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley 33:30 // The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic, and The Burning Go ..read more

We welcome back our guests Ted Lee and Ean Henninger from Episode 3 of the podcast to talk about precarious work and knowledge mobilization. We discuss questions and qualms we have about knowledge mobilization, how precarious work makes knowledge mobilization difficult, the power of union organizing, and how COVID-19 has affected precarity! This episode was recorded live as part of the 2020 Keeping it ReAL conference. Follow Ean (@rhymewithzinger) and Ted (@teioh) on Twitter! Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y3e5sxw6 The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic. You can ..read more

We sit down with Baharak Yousefi to talk about being a good library boss, the joy and generosity of library Twitter, and the responsibilities of academic freedom... but mostly we talk about power, intersectionality, and anti-oppression. It’s a good one, folks! Follow Baharak on Twitter @BaharakY Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y4uws5kh The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic. You can reach us at: Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com Twitter: @OrganizingPod Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters ..read more

In this episode, we sat down with Karen’s classmate Clara Giménez-Delgado to talk about her project processing a collection of lantern slides at the Museum of Anthropology. The collection is called the Missionary Society of Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada Slide Collection, and it was the subject of Clara’s final project in Dr. Jennifer Douglas’s Personal Archives class at the University of British Columbia. Clara talks about witnessing, emotion and affect, reconsidering archival practices, and colonial harm in her project, and we’re very grateful to have had the chance to ..read more

What is fascism? How have fascists used libraries in their organizing strategies to gain legitimacy? How does this relate to current TERF room bookings at libraries? And why have libraries struggled so much to respond?! We cover all this and more with Lena Gluck, founder of the Anti-Fascist Library Network. Follow Lena on Twitter @LenaGluck Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y4hxwvee The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic. You can reach us at: Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com Twitter: @OrganizingPod Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com ..read more

In this episode we outline our plans for season 3, as well as pass along some advice for folks returning or thinking of applying to library/archives school, with some guest clips from good friends Sony, Zakir, and Victoria. Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y3g7abyo The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/). You can reach us at: Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com Twitter: @OrganizingPod Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/organizing-ideas/mes ..read more

Episode 26, in which Karen and Allison talk about their feelings during the midst of COVID-19, and books they’ve been reading and shows they’ve been watching in 2020 so far. Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y7nx8brh The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/). You can reach us at: Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com Twitter: @OrganizingPod Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/organizing-ideas/message ..read more

We talk with Ariel Caldwell, a Teen Services Librarian at Vancouver Public Library, about teen librarianship, community-led work, juggling 5 calendars, using improv to navigate power dynamics, intergenerational programming, and creating fun! You can reach Ariel at ariel.caldwell [at] vpl [dot] ca. Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/yckbpmzh The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/). You can reach us at: Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com Twitter: @OrganizingPod Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/ --- Send in a ..read more