This week we’re doing a news roundup on book bans. We also cover Gaza protests and radical literature as police propaganda, and what library workers can do to archive and support the current protests.
Media mentioned
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/04/16/library-legislation-restrictions-protections/
https://x.com/librarypunk/status/1786563891893342537
LFP Vendor Scorecard: https://github.com/alisonLFP/libraryfreedominstitute/blob/master/LFI2/finalprojects/Library%20Freedom-%20Vendor%20Scorecard-%20110719.pdf
https://litwinbooks.com/books/feminist-pedagogy-for-library-instruction/
VandeBurgt, M. M., Rodgers, B. M., & Brown, K. (2021). Testimonies: The rewards and challenges of letting their voices be heard. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 47(5), 102420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2021.102420
Journal of Radical Librarianship https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/issue/view/12
Related: http://radicalreference.info/
Baltimore Uprising: A Teen Epistolary: https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/59859/
Youtube Video Downloader Justin Recommends: https://www.4kdownload.com/-54
https://github.com/iipc/awesome-web-archiving
https://soundcloud.com/poddamnamerica/the-problem-with-spotify-w-steve-albini
Zines and Distros
https://haters.noblogs.org/zines/
https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/
https://www.autistici.org/fugitivedistro/
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