Organizing Ideas Organizing Ideas Podcast
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- Society & Culture
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Because libraries and archives are never neutral.
Taking a closer look at the relationships between organizing information and community organizing. We talk to information professionals, activists, and other insightful folks who have thoughts about what we mean when we say, “knowledge is power”. Hosted by two new librarians figuring things out as we go. We are based on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
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Ep 35 - Belonging, Safety, and Police Presence in Libraries with Stacy Collins - part 2
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://tinyurl.com/yyykj645
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/
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Ep 34 - Anti-Oppression and Research Guides with Stacy Collins - part 1
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 does anti-oppression inform your work?
• 46:40 - 56:10 Anti-oppression and children’s literature
Follow Stacy on Twitter @DarkLiterata
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y43pk2oa
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/
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Ep 33 - 2020 Reading in Review with Karen and Allison
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 God by R.F. Kuang
38:00 // Gillian Bradshaw
42:02 // This Place: 150 Years Retold
42:54 // Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
46:15 // Reading hopes for 2021 and outro
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/
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Ep 32 - Precarious Work and Knowledge Mobilization with Ted Lee and Ean Henninger at Keeping it ReAL
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 reach us at:
Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @OrganizingPod
Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
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Ep 31 - Library Power Structures with Baharak Yousefi
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/
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Ep 30 - Witnessing and Reconsidering Personal Archives with Clara Giménez-Delgado
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 talk to her about the archiving process.
Follow Clara on Twitter @clararchiving
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y4tzt7kt
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
This episode was transcribed by Sam Frederick, Victoria Gomez, and Karen Ng.
You can reach us at:
Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @OrganizingPod
Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
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Customer Reviews
Best library podcast
What a breath of fresh air! Organizing Ideas confronts the issues libraries need to be addressing, but are often afraid to do so. As a library worker and MLS student I often feel like the odd one out brining up these topics with my coworkers and classmates. OI always helps to remind me that I’m not the alone in dreaming of a brighter and anti-capitalist future for libraries (and hopefully society as a whole.)
Sad to see they’ve been on hiatus since the beginning of this year, but I hope they’re back soon with more killer discourse and interviews!
Thanks so much to the wonderful hosts and staff of this great production! Radical and critical librarianship needs more programs such as this to bring us all together. Hope to see more content and more shows like this soon. Thanks again, OI!