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...
29 Nov 201934min
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 ...
22 Nov 201930min
Ep 9 - Rare Books and Manuscripts Section 2019 Conference
Karen Ng shares a letter written after the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section “Response and Responsibility: Special Collections and Climate Change” conference in Baltimore in June 2019. This episode i...
15 Nov 201925min
Ep 8 - Queer and Radical Knowledge Organization with Avi Grundner
This episode we got to sit down with Avi Grundner, a MLIS/MAS student at UBC who is working on a Queer Subject Heading Thesaurus for Out on the Shelves Library. We talk about queer and radical knowled...
8 Nov 201946min
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 ...
1 Nov 201952min
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 origi...
25 Okt 201947min
Ep 5 - Community-Led Libraries with Jorge Cardenas
What is community-led work in and for libraries? We got to sit down with Jorge Cardenas in Allison’s home to talk about what it means to work in libraries with a community-led focus. Jorge is a commun...
21 Okt 201953min
Ep 4 - Invitation to Contribute
We are preparing an episode in response to Toronto Public Library’s recent room booking to Meghan Murphy, a well-known transphobic speaker. We would like to include the voices and perspectives of more...
20 Okt 20191min
