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Radical Infrastructure | University of California Press  https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.261 (Open Access)

Radical Infrastructure 2023 paper: Radical Infrastructures NMS - BRITT S. PARIS  

Podcast w/ 404 Podcast: The Physical Politics of the Internet with Britt Paris 

Muskism book https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff

Railroad Luxemburg: Rosa Luxemburg’s Theory of Infrastructure and its Consequences for a Public Service Internet https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1461 

The Accumulation of Capital: A Contribution to an Economic Explanation of Imperialism https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1913/accumulation-capital/ 

Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/why-we-fear-ai 

What is Communalism? The Democratic Dimension of Anarchism https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-what-is-communalism 

 

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QLL librarypunk team: https://givebutter.com/qqlls-pride-campaign-2026-rg3yn3/librarypunk-loves-qll/sadieg1

 

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We’re back after a break! We’re talking about our backburner episodes. Episodes we haven’t gotten to yet, guests we’d like to have on. Also: the AI booing at commencements which was very funny. 

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Violet’s AI zine https://violetbfox.info/against-ai/

Exposing Ex Libris zine https://librarianswithpalestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ExLibris1Color.pdf

Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fight-Like-Hell/Kim-Kelly/9781982171063

The Fall: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460791/

The Great Book Robbery: https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1636018

American Animals: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6212478/

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We’re talking with Abby and Hal about NYC Public Library Action Network (PLAN)! Learn about what they’re doing, how you can help, how you can copy them, and what’s working for them by having a community-led library advocacy group that is separate from the library itself. 

How can people get involved?

nycplan.org 

Email your city councilmember

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/city-council-we-demand-half-a-percent-of-the-overall-city-budget-for-libraries  

May City Council meeting

info@nycplan.org for agendas

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Mamdani failed to deliver on the campaign promises that NYC PLAN pushed him to make. Here's a roundup of coverage in case it helps:

NYC PLAN (Newsletter, Feb. 17th, the day after the preliminary budget release)

Mariame Kaba
Mayor Mamdani Breaks His Promise to NYC Public Libraries (Feb 18th)

NEW! The Dreaded NYC Library Budget Dance Continues… (March 23rd)

Seven Stories Press: Guest Post: Hal Schrieve on the Fight to Fund NYC Libraries (Feb 27th)

WNYC: WNYC_Budget Cuts.mp3 (Feb 20th)

The City: Mamdani Promised a New Era for Parks and Libraries. His First Budget Falls Short. (Feb 19th)

Literary Hub: New York Mayor Mamdani is breaking his promise on library funding. (Feb 19th)

Gothamist: Taking page from Adams, Mayor Mamdani proposes NYC library cuts (Feb 19th)

La Voce di New York: Mamdani Proposes Cuts to Public Library Funding–Despite Campaign Promises (Feb 20th)

New York Daily News: Budget shortfall may close the book on Mamdani’s library funding promise

FOX 5: Clip_Budget Cuts.mp4  (Feb 19th)

The New York Post: Mamdani wants to slash NYC library budgets by $30M— despite calling similar cuts by Adams ‘cruel’ (Feb 20th)

Here are some details on NYC PLAN's recent assembly event:

https://nycplan.org/peoples-assembly-march-21-2026/

And a slide deck from part of the event: Public Library Funding in NYC (Queens, March 2026)

https://www.librariansequalliteracy.org/

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We’re joined by the authors of Organize Your Library to talk about library labor, the future, the ALA union drive, and more!

 

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Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers https://alastore.ala.org/oryrlib

ALA union letter: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v8ACD_ltC3ZW1JBJX6qdheD11xq7tBdR/view 

ALA union announcement: https://afscme31.org/news/american-library-association-employees-forming-union-afscme 

WNBA players association agreement signed https://www.wnba.com/news/wnba-wnbpa-tentative-cba-deal-2026 

NYC Plan https://nycplan.org/

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This week we’re joined by Steph to talk about fashion and librarianship: how it works, how they intersect, and how fashion is interdisciplinary. We also learn about how you get into this gig!

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Good general article: Frederiksen, Linda. “Fashion by Design.” Library Journal, vol. 131, no. 10, June 2006, pp. 79–81. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=297645b9-2580-3b4f-bdae-8ee2344a2633.

Costume Institute article: Kazmi, Sahar. “A CENTURY OF FASHION: Library Collections Reflect the Evolution of 20th-Century American Style.” Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 13, no. 1, Jan. 2024, pp. 14–19. EBSCOhost, https://www.loc.gov/lcm/pdf/LCM_2024_0102.pdf 

ARLIS article: King, Lindsay M., and Russell T. Clement. “Style and Substance: Fashion in Twenty-First-Century Research Libraries.” Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, vol. 31, no. 1, Mar. 2012, pp. 93–107. EBSCOhost, doi.org/10.1086/664912  

Library Journal's September By The Numbers focused on fashion libraries: “Fashion and Beauty.” American Libraries, vol. 56, no. 9/10, Sept. 2025, p. 11 https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/09/02/by-the-numbers-fashion-and-beauty/ 

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