Organizing Ideas
By Organizing Ideas Podcast
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.
Organizing IdeasApr 03, 2020
Ep 35 - Belonging, Safety, and Police Presence in Libraries with Stacy Collins - part 2
Ep 34 - Anti-Oppression and Research Guides with Stacy Collins - part 1
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 outroThe cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.
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Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com Twitter: @OrganizingPod Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/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] comTwitter: @OrganizingPod
Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
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.
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Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com Twitter: @OrganizingPod Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/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.
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Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com Twitter: @OrganizingPod Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/Ep 29 - Anti-Fascist Librarianship with Lena Gluck
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.
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Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com Twitter: @OrganizingPod Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/Ep 28 - Season 3 and Back to School
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] comTwitter: @OrganizingPod
Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
Ep 27 - Black Women Artists, Archives, and Futurity with Sierra King
In this episode, we chat with Sierra King, an artist, photographer, and archivist, about her work with Black Women Artists, and her curatorial debut exhibition here. there. everywhere. Sierra talks about Kathleen Cleaver’s archive, personal archiving, and Black art and futurity. Her exhibition (August 22 - September 26, 2020) at MINT Gallery in Atlanta is a multidimensional portrait of the journey towards Black Futurity that Black Women across the African Diaspora have been pursuing in the name of freedom.
Follow Sierra on Twitter @SierraChas
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y5r2rb8x
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/
Ep 26 - Books and Feelings in the Time of COVID-19
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] comTwitter: @OrganizingPod
Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
Ep 25 - Community-Led Teen Librarianship with Ariel Caldwell
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] comTwitter: @OrganizingPod
Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
Ep 24 - Libraries, "Democracy", and Intellectual Freedom with Sam Popowich
In anticipation of the (now cancelled) British Columbia Library Association 2020 conference on “Libraries, Democracy, and Action,” Sam Popowich, author of Confronting the Democratic Discourse of Librarianship: A Marxist Approach, talks about intellectual freedom and what democracy means in libraries.
Follow Sam on Twitter @redlibrarian
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/ya9gkmwg
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
You can reach us at:
Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] comTwitter: @OrganizingPod
Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
You can reach us at:
Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] comTwitter: @OrganizingPod
Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
Ep 23 - How are you feeling? COVID-19 Call for Contributions
Hey folks - we hope this mini episode finds you as well as can be considering the current circumstances. We are putting together an episode COVID-19 and invite you to share your thoughts with us in a short audio clip! Find the full details about how to contribute by listening to the episode or reading the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/wzeduor
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
You can reach us at:
Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] comTwitter: @OrganizingPod
Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
Ep 22 - Grassroots Libraries and Care in Community (Pre-BCLA Chat) with Y Vy Truong, Rachel Lau, and Avi Grundner
** This episode was recorded on March 12, 2020 before UBC Library, where we were recording, was closed to the public, and we were all encouraged to stay home and physically distance from one another. **
In preparation for the now-cancelled British Columbia Library Association (BCLA) 2020 conference, Karen sat down with Y Vy Truong, Rachel Lau, and Avi Grundner to talk about expectations and ideas for their discussion panel, titled “Collections in Social Movements: Grassroots Libraries in Marginalized Communities.”
Our guests:
• Y Vy Truong - @YVyTruong / @josspaperlib
• Rachel Lau - @racholau / @queer_reads_library
• Avi Grundner - @avi_ouslyy / @OutOnTheShelves
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/u69ug9q
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/
Ep 21 - (Elementary) Teacher Librarianship and Inquiry-Based Learning with Elaine Su
Throw out the whole book! In this episode we chat with Elaine Su, an elementary school teacher librarian and advocate for youth voices, about inquiry-based learning and education practices and reform—and what she means by throwing the whole book out.
Follow Elaine on Twitter @elainesoup
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/tfcl76k
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/
Ep 20 - Libraries and Disabilities with Jessica Schomberg
We chat with Jessica Schomberg about disability frameworks, intersectionality, cataloguing, relationships, solidarity, prioritizing people over productivity, unions, and their new book, co-authored with Wendy Highby, coming out in April: “Beyond Accommodation: Creating an Inclusive Workplace for Disabled Library Workers.”
Follow Jessica on Twitter @schomj
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/rrgfs5o
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/Ep 19 - (Web) Archives and Black Culture with Zakiya Collier
We hop on Skype to chat with Zakiya Collier from the Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture about her work web archiving (which is not what Gmail does), the Hashtag Syllabus Movement, critical archival studies, and “fugitive discernment”.
Follow Zakiya on Twitter @ZZcollier
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/u84dvwo
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
You can reach us at:
Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] comTwitter: @OrganizingPod
Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
Ep 18 - Public History with Krista McCracken
We chat with Krista McCracken about public history, colonialism and archives, how slooooowww archives are to change (and why there’s so much resistance to challenging power structures!), and embroidery as a form of feminist resistance.
Check out Krista’s blog and follow them on Twitter @KristaMcCracken.
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.
Read along with the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1frHtDAYAnv8fmrrzYu1e1tYhKIcmsKHwT7tchZjn7Lg/edit?usp=sharing
You can reach us at:
Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] comTwitter: @OrganizingPod
Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
Ep 17 - Digital Privacy, Information Literacy, and the Library Freedom Institute with Symphony Bruce
Symphony Bruce, Resident Librarian at American University Library, shares her experience with the Library Freedom Institute, and talks to us about information literacy, digital privacy and safety, and how information is empowerment.
Follow Symphony on Twitter @curlsinthelib
Read along with the transcript (links to resources included): https://tinyurl.com/t4znf6f
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).
You can reach us at:
Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] comTwitter: @OrganizingPod
Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
Ep 16 - Archival Theory Through Participation, Solidarity, and Social Justice with Lara Maestro
Lara Maestro talks about knowledge-keeping practices and living archives in the Philippines from her thesis, “Alternative Becomings, Alternative Belongings: Cordillera Case Studies of Records in Context,” and the values and framework that guided her work, which include participation, solidarity, and social justice.
You can check out more of Lara’s community organizing work at Sulong at UBC on their Instagram and Facebook pages.
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/s7ul7sl
You can reach us at:
• Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
• Twitter: @OrganizingPod
• Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
Ep 15 - Catalyzing a Community Led Future at the Free Library of Philadelphia with Andrea Lemoins
Andrea Lemoins, Community Organizer at the Free Library of Philadelphia, talks about her work with community, professionalization, library school, Afrofuturism, Yusef Omowale’s article “We Already Are”, community archives, and an upcoming Memory Lab project.
Follow Andrea on twitter @ALemoins
The reading list from the Community Archives and Digital Cultural Memory class at the Rare Book School: (https://rarebookschool.org/courses/library/l115/reading-list/)
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.
Read along with the transcript.
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/
Ep 14 - Navigation, Resistance, and Rebellion with Sarah Dupont and Amy Perreault
In this episode we sit down with two amazing Métis librarians and information professionals at the University of British Columbia. Sarah Dupont is the Head of Xwi7xwa Library, and Amy Perreault is Senior Strategist for Indigenous Initiatives at the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology (CTLT). Sarah and Amy talk about Indigenous engagement, the importance of elders and finding community, and some of the projects that they’re working on.
Some links to things mentioned (more in the transcript):
• UBC Indigenous strategic plan: https://aboriginal.ubc.ca/indigenous-strategic-plan/
• UBC library strategic framework: https://about.library.ubc.ca/about-us/strategic-framework/
• TRC calls to action: http://trc.ca/assets/pdf/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf
• MMIWG report: https://mmiwg-ffada.ca/
• UNDRIP: https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html
• FNCC: https://slais.ubc.ca/programs/specializations/fncc/
• Indigitization: http://www.indigitization.ca/
• Indigenous Foundations: https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/home/
• Xwi7xwa Library Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xwi7xwa
• Xwi7xwa Library Twitter: https://twitter.com/Xwi7xwaLibrary
• Sarah’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/dupontsarah
• Indigitzation Twitter: https://twitter.com/indigitization
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.
Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/t33duyv
You can reach us at:
• Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
• Twitter: @OrganizingPod
• Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
Ep 13 - Recap and Looking Forward to 2020 (ft. voice messages)
This pod is winding down for the end of 2019! In this episode we reflect on what we’ve learned over the past few months, play some audio clips from listeners, share what we’re hoping and planning for in 2020, and talk a little bit about how we make the podcast and how you can get involved!
The transcript is available here.
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/
Ep 12 - 2019 Reading Highlights with Allison and Karen
Allison and Karen get together to discuss their reading highlights as our home planet completes another arbitrary circuit around the sun.
Books mentioned:
> Chop Suey Nation by Ann Hui
> Starlight by Richard Wagamese
> The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai
> Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom
> Trickster Drift by Eden Robinson
> Disappearing Moon Cafe by SKY Lee
> Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
> Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
> Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole
> The Hungry Ghosts by Shyam Selvadura
> Rebent Sinner by Ivan Coyote
> Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante (illustrated by Onjana Yawnghwe) - Read this and join Allison for a book club discussion in January at Burnaby Public Library! Details here.
> All That Matters by Wayson Choy
We also talk about:
> VPL's "What Do I Read Next?" and BPL's "Find Your Next Fiction Read" services
> BookRiot's 2019 Read Harder Challenge
> VPL's 2019 Book Bingo
The transcript is available here.
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/
Ep 11 - Trans Inclusivity in Libraries and Research with Shelby Miller
Shelby Miller, a student in the MLIS program at UBC’s iSchool and an employee at Vancouver Public Library, joins us for a conversation about working at VPL as a non-binary trans employee, what’s wrong with the liberal utopian idea of intellectual freedom, and her thesis project on the information seeking habits of transgender individuals.
Shelby recently participated (with Allison, Hazel Jane Plante, Leah Tottenham, and syr) in a roundtable discussion for the BCLA Connect newsletter called “Not Cis in LIS: A Roundtable Discussion about Being Trans in Libraries,” and we were very glad to build on this conversation in person!
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/Ep 10 - TPL and Transphobia (round 2) with Niko Stratis
Allison chats with Niko Stratis, who has been heavily involved in responding to Meghan Murphy’s event at Toronto Public Library, about this event, the impact it has had on trans people, how libraries might rethink “intellectual freedom” if we’re committed to being trans inclusive, and the failures of media coverage of the event. Read their piece, “Someone Tell The Media That Trans Folks Were At The Meghan Murphy Protests, Too” and check out their Twitter feed to learn more about their work.
Read the transcript here.
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic. You can reach us at:
> Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
> Twitter: @OrganizingPod@organizingpod
> Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
Ep 9 - Rare Books and Manuscripts Section 2019 Conference
Read along with the transcript here.
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.
You can reach us at:
• Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
• Twitter: @OrganizingPod
• Website: organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
Ep 8 - Queer and Radical Knowledge Organization with Avi Grundner
Ep 7 - Public Programming and Professionalization with Y Vy Truong
In this episode we got to sit down with Y Vy Truong, who is the librarian for joss paper library based in Vancouver’s Chinatown. We got to talk about public programming, professionalization, and what it means to build both collections and communities.
Read along with the transcript here.
Things mentioned this episode:
> Y Vy Truong: @YVyTruong
> joss paper library: @josspaperlib
> ARL Fellowship for Digital and Inclusive Excellence
> American Library Association and accreditation
> Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection
> Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies program
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/
Ep 6 - Toronto Public Library and Transphobia
In the wake of Toronto Public Library’s room booking to Meghan Murphy, we sit down to talk with Alicia Elliott, an incredible Tuscarora author from Six Nations of the Grand River, and one of the original signatories on a petition called “Stop Hate Speech from Being Spread at the Toronto Public Library.” This episode also includes statements from a number of trans community members and library workers about the impacts of this event, including Niko Stratis, John Fink, and Leanna Jantzi.
Numerous resources and folks to follow if you’d like to learn more about this situation are linked in the episode transcript. Read along here.
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic. You can reach us at:
> Email: organizingideaspod@gmail.com
> Twitter: @OrganizingPod
> Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
Ep 5 - Community-Led Libraries with Jorge Cardenas
Ep 4 - Invitation to Contribute
Ep 3 - Precarious Work with Ean Henninger and Ted Lee
Ep 2 - Library School and Student Government with Victoria Gomez
We're thrilled to get to sit down and talk to our friend and classmate, Victoria Gomez. Victoria is an MLIS student at the University of British Columbia, and (among many other things) is the co-president of our student association, LASSA (Library and Archival Studies Student Association). This is a great episode especially for anyone new to the UBC iSchool, thinking about pursuing an MLIS, or interested in student government and community-led work with students. You can find Victoria on Twitter at @LibVick.
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.
Read along with the transcript.
You can reach us at:
> Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
> Twitter: @OrganizingPod
> Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
Ep 1 - Intro
Hello! We're Allison and Karen, and this is the introduction to this podcast project about organizing ideas and community organizing. We are two new librarians/archivist figuring things out as we go, including how to piece together a podcast. We go over some personal introductions as well as what we're hoping to cover in the upcoming episodes. (Note: this episode was recorded a few months ago during the summer.)
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.
A transcript is available here.
You can reach us at:
> Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
> Twitter: @OrganizingPod
> Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/