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2 episodes with emily drabinski
2 episodes with emily drabinski
2 episodes with emily drabinski
2 episodes with emily drabinski
It's Monday, April 14th, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 125 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Adam McManus U.S. missionary abducted at gunpoint while preaching in South Africa Josh Sullivan, a U.S. Baptist missionary, was kidnapped at gunpoint as he preached Thursday evening at Fellowship Baptist Church in Motherwell, South Africa, reports International Christian Concern. According to police, four masked gunmen entered the church late last night during a prayer meeting with about 30 attendees. The assailants stole two cell phones before abducting the 45-year-old pastor and taking him in his own vehicle, a silver Toyota 4Runner. The car was later found abandoned about a mile from the church. A husband and father of six, Sullivan has been a missionary in South Africa since 2018. Sullivan and his family are members of Fellowship Baptist Church, an independent Baptist church in Maryville, Tennessee, where Sullivan has been on staff. His wife and children are among those who witnessed the kidnapping. Here at The Worldview, we're reminded of the inspiring words of Christ following Peter's bold affirmation. In Caesarea Phillipi, Peter said that Christ was “the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” That's when Jesus said in Matthew 16:18, that upon that revelation, He would build His church, and “the gates of Hades will not overcome it.” Join me and pray that the Lord would honor Josh Sullivan's preaching and safely restore him to his family. China raises duties on US goods to 125% Last Friday, China hiked its tariffs on imports of U.S. goods to 125%, hitting back at Donald Trump's decision to single out the world's No.2 economy for higher duties, while dismissing the U.S. president's tariff strategy as "a joke," reports Reuters. Investors had been waiting to see how Beijing would respond to Trump's move on Wednesday to effectively raise tariffs on Chinese goods to 145% while announcing a 90-day pause on tariffs on dozens of other countries' goods. Last year, China purchased $150 billion of U.S. goods. White House Press Secretary prays to Jesus before briefing White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is the youngest person to ever serve the president in that capacity at the age of 27. Not only is she an articulate champion for President Donald Trump and the “Make America Great Again” agenda, but she is also an unashamed follower of Jesus Christ. Listen to this simple, powerful, and unapologetic prayer to her Savior just moments before she walks into the lions' den of the White House Press Briefing. LEAVITT: “Lord Jesus, please give us the strength, the knowledge, the ability to articulate our words, have fun, and be confident. In Jesus' name, Amen.” Gone are the days that a lesbian God-hater stands at that podium. Judge: Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported Last Friday, an immigration judge in Louisiana ruled that Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil can be deported from America because he is a national security risk following his pro-Hamas demonstrations at Columbia, reports the Associated Press. Immigration Judge Jamee Comans gave the green light to the Trump administration's desire to deport Khalil. Without such deportation, the government contended that his presence posed “potentially serious foreign policy consequences.” Colorado Governor signs anti-gun law Democratic Colorado Governor Jared Polis, a self-professed homosexual who has entered into a faux marriage with his “husband,” has dealt a heavy blow to Coloradans' Second Amendment freedom by signing Senate Bill 3 into law, reports the Colorado State Shooting Association. This oppressive permit-to-purchase scheme is a direct attack on their Second Amendment rights, afflicting Coloradans with bureaucratic hurdles to block their God-given liberties, President George Washington declared, “The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference—they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.” RFK, Jr vows to know causes of autism epidemic by September As he sat in Trump's Cabinet meeting, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke to the autism epidemic and what he proposed to do about it. KENNEDY: “The autism rates have gone from one in 31 from one in 10,000 when I was a kid. At your direction, by September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic.” Kennedy noted that HHS has “launched a massive testing and research effort that's going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world.” Once they have identified the causes, hopefully by September, HHS will advocate for the elimination of those exposures. Libraries partner with Planned Parenthood to offer free sex health resources And finally, if you thought the library was a place to borrow books for a research paper or read the local daily paper, think again! Twelve Sacramento, California Public Libraries now feature “sexual health resource cabinets” inside public libraries to give the public, including children, access to items like condoms, Sexually Transmitted Diseases tests, and pregnancy tests, reports CBS News. These cabinets are being stocked by none other than Planned Parenthood, America's Abortion Giant, which killed 392,715 pre-born babies in 2023 alone. In fact, QR codes on the free literature not only enables library patrons to easily find their local Planned Parenthood affiliate, but also to get their immoral worldview through their God-forsaken website. Michael Reed, a parent, was disturbed by the easy access to the sexual health resource cabinets, especially for kids. REED: “It's a little shocking. It seems a little inappropriate just to target children that way.” But Todd Deck, the community engagement services manager for Sacramento Public Libraries, thought the libraries were doing something wonderfully noble. DECK: "We want to remove the stigma around these resources. Libraries are essential to healthy, thriving communities. So, having resources that are of interest and needs of that community is really critical. I do believe it is our responsibility to help have an informed community regardless of the topic -- that way people can make informed decisions about their health." Greg Burt, Vice President of the California Family Council, rejected the librarian's absurd worldview. BURT: “Now parents would have to be concerned. Instead of coming back with a book, they're going to come back with a condom. “This is really about cutting parents out. It's about sexualizing our kids at younger and younger ages.” In Matthew 18:6, Jesus said, “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in Me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.” Not surprisingly, the cabinets have been re-stocked multiple times since being installed six weeks ago as they have been set up both in the library's main hub and in the adult section. Elizabeth Johnston, a Christian mother of 10, is not surprised by the hostility to a Judeo-Christian worldview at the library. The American Library Association's one-time president Emily Drabinski, who served from July 2022 to 2024, was a self-avowed “Marxist lesbian.” She wrote a paper on “queering the catalogue” and said wildly inflammatory things about parents who do not want their children to read sexually inappropriate literature. So, keep in mind, the library is no friend of the family. Enter with caution. Close And that's The Worldview on this Monday, April 14th, in the year of our Lord 2025. Subscribe by Amazon Music or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Or get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.
In America is in the Heart, Carlos Bulosan describes his good fortune at landing a job in a library where he could be close to books: “I was beginning to understand what was going on around me, and the darkness that had covered my present life was lifting.” Ursula Le Guin writes of a library's sacredness: “its accessibility, its publicness.” She calls the public library a public trust, and continues: “A great library is freedom,.” We're honored to be joined in conversation with Emily Drabinski, past president of the American Library Association, and a brilliant and intrepid defender of the public square.
In this episode, we discuss the challenges libraries face in an era of shrinking democratic space, following Donald Trump's recent election victory. We explore trends in the U.S. and Sweden, highlighting similarities and differences, and consider how Swedish librarians can navigate today's social and political climate. Joining the conversation are Emily Drabinski, former president of the American Library Association, and Anna Troberg, president of the Swedish trade union DIK is your host.
Join Brittany and Claire for a bonus episode with ALA President Emily Drabinski! They talk all things libraries and what to look forward to at the 2024 ALA AnnualConference & Exhibition coming up on June 27 – July 2, 2024 in San Diego. For more information about Checked In: A Davenport Library Podcast, visit our LibGuide!
Qudsiya shared her love of libraries with Emily Drabinski, the president of the American Library Association. They chatted about ALA's innovative Libraries Transforming Communities program, which is dedicated to providing libraries with the tools and resources they need to be more accessible for people with disabilities, and to enhancing the capacity of small and rural libraries to address the needs of their communities. Visit our website for transcripts. -- Loving Down to the Struts? Support the team behind the podcast with a donation. Follow us on Instagram @DownToTheStruts. Let us know what you think in the Spotify Q+A, or leave a review on Apple podcasts. Subscribe to Qudsiya's newsletter, Getting Down To It
Libraries are a haven of free access to books, movies, magazines, and even social supports. But those spaces have faced attacks and an unprecedented number of book bans – 4,349 instances of book bans across 23 states – in just the last half of 2023. Reset talks with Emily Drabinski, the head of the American Library Association, on why the county is divided between attacking and protecting libraries. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
It's a new trend: GOP legislatures are advancing bills that place onerous new kinds of restrictions on public and school libraries in states like Idaho, Alabama, Georgia and others. On the front lines of taking on this trend is Emily Drabinski, the president of the American Library Association, who also grew up in Idaho and is openly gay. So we invited Drabinski on to the show to shed light on what it takes to battle the book banners targeting LGBTQ materials in states like her own, and what sort of toll this is taking on communities across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's a new trend: GOP legislatures are advancing bills that place onerous new kinds of restrictions on public and school libraries in states like Idaho, Alabama, Georgia and others. On the front lines of taking on this trend is Emily Drabinski, the president of the American Library Association, who also grew up in Idaho and is openly gay. So we invited Drabinski on to the show to shed light on what it takes to battle the book banners targeting LGBTQ materials in states like her own, and what sort of toll this is taking on communities across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's a new trend: GOP legislatures are advancing bills that place onerous new kinds of restrictions on public and school libraries in states like Idaho, Alabama, Georgia and others. On the front lines of taking on this trend is Emily Drabinski, the president of the American Library Association, who also grew up in Idaho and is openly gay. So we invited Drabinski on to the show to shed light on what it takes to battle the book banners targeting LGBTQ materials in states like her own, and what sort of toll this is taking on communities across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Emily Drabinski, President of ALA, discusses what ALA does, her role as President and why people should join ALA. During our conversation, she mentioned The Merritt Fund.
For this BCR program, we talked about that age-old American tradition – book burning – or more precisely – thought control. Our guests were two brave librarians – practicing a profession that is at the core of any effective democracy. Emily Drabinski heads-up the American Library Association [ALA] and Lauren Comito leads Urban Librarians Unite [ULU]. According to ALA findings efforts to ban books in this country are growing at a high rate and the groups engaged in this activity probably do not have children. Librarians and authors fight back, but it is an exhausting struggle. Lauren Comito talked about how the ULU keeps parents and children and the performers safe at Drag Story Hour -- popular among parents -- but potentially dangerous as groups -- such as The Proud Boys -- protest violently near and in our libraries.This conversation was recorded at Gebhard's Beer Culture Bar.Alan Winson -- barcrawlradio@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Brittany and Stephanie for a special bonus episode as they sit down and talk with ALA President Emily Drabinski about LibLearnX, books, and the amazing things Libraries are doing!
Ali Velshi is joined by Judge J. Michael Luttig, Fmr. Federal Judge at U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Prof. Laurence Tribe, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School, Diana Buttu, Fmr. Palestine Liberation Organization Spokesperson for Negotiations Support Unit, Melissa Murray, Professor of Law at NYU, Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor at Slate, Jena Griswold, Colorado Secretary of State, Noah Bookbinder, President & CEO for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, David Ignatius, Award-winning Foreign Affairs Columnist at The Washington Post, and Emily Drabinski, President of the American Library Association
During her keynote address, Emily Drabinski stated that iibraries around the world do good work. Whilst highlighting the opportunities to innovate in the future, the President of ALA added that times ahead will not be too challenging for libraries.
The Dean's List with Host Dean Bowen – As the American Library Association wields quiet power across the nation, its current president, Emily Drabinski, a self-proclaimed Marxist, attends the Socialism 2023 conference, advocating for socialist organizing in libraries. With states distancing from the ALA, and growing concerns about educational content, it's crucial for citizens to be aware and protect our educational traditions. Stay informed.
Nefarious groups, driven by hate, are challenging books in school and public libraries at an unprecedented pace. To discuss the problem, what's being done about it, and the state of this year's Banned Books Week, we've invited American Library Association President Emily Drabinsky on the show. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alyssa-milano-sorry-not-sorry/message
SAM FADDIS, Former Clandestine Operations Officer, CIA, Former Congressional Candidate, Editor, ANDMagazine.com, Author, “Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA,” @RealSamFaddis The recent conviction of Peter Navarro Is the United States losing “rule of law”? Who is Emily Drabinski? The American Library Association's impact on America's youth ROBERT CHARLES, Spokesman, Association of Mature American Citizens, Former Assistant Secretary, State at the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Author, “Eagles and Evergreens,” @RCharles4USA How long has the threat of Marxism existed in the United States? Is the U.S. military prepared to “fight and win”? The still-present threat of terrorism in the U.S. What to expect in the 2024 presidential election
Public libraries around the country have become major battlegrounds for today's culture wars. In 2022, the American Library Association noted a record 1,269 attempts at censorship — almost double the number recorded in 2021. Library events like drag story times and other children's programming have also attracted protest. How should we understand these efforts to control what stories children can freely access?Emily Drabinski is the president of the American Library Association and an associate professor at the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She is steering an embattled organization at a moment when libraries — and librarians themselves — are increasingly under fire.[You can listen to this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” on the NYT Audio App, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google or wherever you get your podcasts.]This conversation unpacks the political and cultural anxieties fueling the attacks on libraries. The guest host Tressie McMillan Cottom discusses with Drabinski how libraries are a bulwark against the increasing class divides of American life, how the “small infrastructure” of the public library differs from big infrastructure like highways and bridges, how library classification systems can entrench the status quo, the parallels between political attacks on the library and the U.S. Postal Service, how censorship attempts fit in the broader landscape of anti-queer and anti-trans legislation and much more.This episode was hosted by Tressie McMillan Cottom, a columnist for Times Opinion, a professor at U.N.C. Chapel Hill and the author of “Thick: And Other Essays.” Cottom also writes a newsletter for Times Opinion that offers a sociologist's perspective on culture, politics and the economics of our everyday lives.Mentioned:More information about Ezra's lecture at UC BerkeleyBook Recommendations:The Promise of Access by Daniel GreeneFlamer by Mike CuratoHow Beautiful We Were by Imbolo MbueThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Emefa Agawu. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld. Our senior editor is Annie-Rose Strasser. The show's production team also includes Rollin Hu and Kristin Lin. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Special thanks to Sonia Herrero.
Teamsters Local 320 Secretary-Treasurer Brian Aldes appeared on the America's Work Force Union Podcast and discussed the Local's new Collective Bargaining Agreement. Aldes also talked about the Local Union and the wins it gained within its recently ratified contract. Emily Drabinski, President of the American Library Association, joined the America's Work Force Union Podcast and talked about the ALA and attacks on libraries across America. Drabinski also spoke about the Unite Against Book Bans campaign and a tool kit for patrons to support their local library.
This week Tayla is joined by Astrid Drew from the Steamship Historical Society located in Warwick, RI. They talk about what the Steamship Historical Society collects and the recent work they've done to make their collection more diverse. They also discuss zombies, TV adaptations, and The Bear. During The Last Chapter they discuss: Do you annotate books or take notes in some way while reading? Podcast disclaimer Like what you hear? Rate and review Down Time on Apple Podcasts or your podcast player of choice! If you'd like to submit a topic for The Last Chapter you can send your suggestions to downtime@cranstonlibrary.org. Our theme music is Day Trips by Ketsa and our ad music is Happy Ukulele by Scott Holmes. Thanks for listening! Books Archives Power by Randall C. Jimerson Going Postal by Terry Pratchett Clementine Vol. 1 by Tillie Walden Leviathan Wakes (Expanse #1) by James S. A. Corey AV The Last of Us (2023- ) Old Gods of Appalachia (podcast) The Bear (2022- ) The Expanse (2015-2022) Wheel of Time (2021- ) Other Steamship Historical Society of America Episode 164 - State of Intellectual Freedom with Emily Drabinski and Deborah Caldwell-Stone
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 123 The American Library Association (ALA) is a fully captured institution headed by a Queer Marxist organizer named Emily Drabinski. That means it is time to do what we should have done a long time ago: break away from the American Library Association. The state of Montana has already done this at the state level, and other states should follow. Some already are. Local municipalities and districts, including school districts, should do so as well, as soon as possible. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay makes it more clear why. He takes you through an academic paper by Drabinski titled "Queering the Catalog" from 2013 (https://newdiscourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/drabinski2013.pdf), showing you exactly how Drabinski intends to use her American Library Association to make libraries sites of Queer Marxist grooming. Join him and start pushing everywhere for a breakup from the American Library Association. Get James Lindsay's new book, The Marxification of Education: https://amzn.to/3RYZ0tY Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2023 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #library
It's a bad news roundup pardner! We're talking public library leases, book ratings, and Montana being a shit to Emily Drabinski. Open letter in support of Emily: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fgz9ITvekfCCtVspicgbaCM0Go2YzkaSrYGtR6s9lHo/preview Sadie https://www.kcur.org/news/2023-07-11/a-kansas-town-is-threatening-again-to-kick-out-the-public-library-unless-it-removes-lgbtq-books Justin https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/business/texas-sexually-explicit-books-law/index.html OSTP memo https://docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/AP19/20230714/116251/BILLS-118--AP--CJS-FY24CJSSubcommitteeMark.pdf Jay https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/ala-responds-to-montana-state-library-commissions-withdrawal-of-membership/ https://dailymontanan.com/2023/06/22/library-commissioners-concerned-about-national-associations-new-marxist-lesbian-president/ https://jacobin.com/2023/07/american-library-association-emily-drabinski-montana-state-library-right-wing-homophobia-anticommunism Media mentioned
This week Tayla is joined by Emily Drabinski, incoming president of the American Library Association, and Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom. They get into the controversy of book challenges and censorship, which poses a threat to free expression and vital library services all over the United States. They also discuss cozy mysteries, trash TV, and balancing reading for work and for pleasure. This episode was recorded live at the 2023 Rhode Island Library Association Annual Conference, held May 24-25 at the Providence Public Library. Podcast disclaimer Like what you hear? Rate and review Down Time on Apple Podcasts or your podcast player of choice! If you'd like to submit a topic for The Last Chapter you can send your suggestions to downtime@cranstonlibrary.org. Our theme music is Day Trips by Ketsa and our ad music is Happy Ukulele by Scott Holmes. Thanks for listening! Books Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin Family Values by Melinda Cooper Libraries and the Global Retreat From Democracy edited by Natalie Green Taylor, Karen Kettnich, Ursula Gorham, and Paul T. Jaeger Burglars Can't Be Choosers (Bernie Rhodenbarr #1) by Lawrence Block Dog On It (Chet & Bernie Mystery #1) by Spencer Quinn Browse books by Connie Willis AV Shrinking (2023- ) Superstore (2015-2021) Summer House (2017- ) Maine Cabin Masters (2017- ) The Bachelorette (2003- ) Q-Force (2021) Other American Library Association ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom WisCon Science Fiction Convention LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund Rhode Island Library Association fREADom in Rhode Island
Chris and Jane (https://copyrightliteracy.org/) talk to incoming President of the American Library Association Emily Drabinski about critical librarianship and its relationship with copyright literacy. We hear about Emily's journey to library leadership, how she first encountered copyright questions, her plans for engaging with the library community and some weird facts about books. We also get to hear the song she commissioned to soundtrack her forthcoming presidency. Music video for Emily Drabinski Rocking the ALA Presidency: https://youtu.be/L1teapiZDVw Emily Drabinski's website: https://www.emilydrabinski.com/ Emily on twitter: https://twitter.com/edrabinski?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Emily Drabinski's pre-keynote talk for LILAC 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztq_tjtl4zg Press release when Emily became ALA President: https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2022/04/drabinski-wins-2023-2024-ala-presidency Emily on critical librarianship: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_pubs/537/ Laura Quilter: https://polsci.umass.edu/people/laura-quilter-0 Life story of Christine Jorgensen https://wams.nyhistory.org/growth-and-turmoil/cold-war-beginnings/christine-jorgensen/ Emily's presentation in 2021 at FestivIL - Teaching the Radical Catalogue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97IfrVFiKyc Radical Teacher journal: https://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ The film with Judith Butler 'Examined Life' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0HZaPkF6qE Commentary on Emily winning the ALA Presidency: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/drabinski-wins-2023-2024-ala-presidency/ Library Futures discussion with Emily: https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/four-questions-with-emily-drabinski-and-kelvin-watson Emily's Heroes Dean Spade founder of the Silvia Rivera Transgender Archives: http://www.deanspade.net/projects/sylvia-rivera-law-project/ Mariame Kaba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariame_Kaba and Million Experiments: https://millionexperiments.com/ Ruth Gilmore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Wilson_Gilmore Boise Idaho: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boise,_Idaho
"Parents fighting schools to protect their kids are heroes, not book-banners," Fox News tells us. Are Privatized Public Libraries So Bad?" asks CityLab. "Huntsville Public Library could be privatized in aftermath of pride display dispute," reports Houston Public Media. For decades, public libraries have been under attack. Repeatedly, influential rightwing and centrist individuals, corporations, and governments––from Phyllis Schlafly to Ron DeSantis––have coordinated campaigns to weaken one of the most beloved and least means-tested public institutions in the country. They seek to, at best, restrict the materials, functions, and decision-making power of public libraries, and at worst, destroy public libraries completely, tossing aside the people who depend on them for education, employment, and often survival. What is it about public libraries that inspires such contempt? What's responsible for the chasm between the US population's perceptions of public libraries––which are overwhelmingly positive––and policymaking that seeks to ruin those libraries? And who suffers when one of the few true public goods left in the US is targeted and seized by reactionary forces? On this episode, we examine the decades-long right-wing assault on US public libraries, the history of book bans and defunding, attendant efforts to privatize public libraries, and how these intersect with the labor struggles of librarians nationwide. Our guest is president-elect of the American Library Association, Emily Drabinski.
Across the county, librarians are fighting to keep libraries open and books on the shelves. On this week's show, hear what the American Library Association is doing to stand up to unprecedented challenges, and what a suit against the Internet Archive could mean for the future of e-books. Plus, how the legend of the ancient Library of Alexandria continues to inspire utopian projects today. 1. Emily Drabinski [@edrabinski], incoming President of the American Library Association, on the greatest threats to libraries today, and how to fight them. Listen. 2. Nitish Pahwa [@pahwa_nitish], web editor at Slate, on how a lawsuit against the Internet Archive could affect how libraries lend out e-books for good. Listen. 2. Molly Schwartz [@mollyfication], OTM producer, takes us inside the quest for a "universal library," from the Library of Alexandria to today. Listen. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
Across the county, librarians are fighting to keep libraries open and books on the shelves. On this week's show, hear what the American Library Association is doing to stand up to unprecedented challenges, and what a suit against the Internet Archive could mean for the future of e-books. Plus, how the legend of the ancient Library of Alexandria continues to inspire utopian projects today. 1. Emily Drabinski [@edrabinski], incoming President of the American Library Association, on the greatest threats to libraries today, and how to fight them. Listen. 2. Nitish Pahwa [@pahwa_nitish], web editor at Slate, on how a lawsuit against the Internet Archive could affect how libraries lend out e-books for good. Listen. 2. Molly Schwartz [@mollyfication], OTM producer, takes us inside the quest for a "universal library," from the Library of Alexandria to today. Listen.
Jess deCourcy Hinds is the solo librarian at the Bard High School, Early College library in Queens, New York. In 2010, she received a new order of books about the civil rights movement, but Hinds noticed something strange: all of the books had Dewey Decimal numbers in the 300s, meaning they were supposed to be shelved in the social sciences section. She thought that some of the books belonged in the 900s, the history section. Like books on President Obama. Because texts about the 44th President were classified as social science, he would be separated from all the other books about U.S. presidents in her library. It seemed like part of a trend. "When it came to the LGBTQ books, and the women's history books, and books on immigrant history, all of those were in the 300s as well," says Hinds. So she and her students decided to rebel, to put books about President Obama into the history section: "we just started moving them." The Dewey Decimal Classification System is a method that dates back to 1876 and is used by most libraries around the world. The second most popular system, the Library of Congress Classification System, was published in the early 1900s and based on the organization of Thomas Jefferson's personal library. These systems help patrons find books on the shelves and facilitate resource-sharing between libraries. But they also encode bias into the structure of libraries. To understand what that means for our current collections, On the Media producer Molly Schwartz spoke with Wayne A. Wiegand, a library historian and author of Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey, Caroline Saccucci, former Dewey Program Manager at the Library of Congress, Emily Drabinski interim chief librarian of the Mina Rees Library at CUNY, and Dartmouth librarian Jill Baron from the documentary Change the Subject. This segment originally aired in our September 3, 2021 program, Organizing Chaos.
Headlines about "book bans" have become more and more commonplace over the past months and years, targeting mainly works by Black and Queer authors, which they consider not to be "age appropriate" reading material for youths. Emily Drabinski, president-elect of the American Library Association for 2023-24, joins to discuss.
It's the end of the 50-year chapter known as Roe v Wade – the Supreme Court decision that was the only national legal underpinning for abortion in the country. In this episode, we hear from the front lines of the US abortion fight about why this battle doesn't end for anyone with one legal ruling and what could be next. In this episode: Dr. Richard Manning, obstetrician-gynecologist Jessica Williams, lawyer Jollene Levid (@jollenelevid), labor organizer and founding chairperson of AF3IRM Kristen Day (@ProLifeDem), Executive Director, Democrats For Life of America Anar Virji (@anarvirji), field producer for Al Jazeera English Deb Sica, librarian Episode credits: This episode was produced by Alexandra Locke, with Amy Walters, Ney Alvarez, Ruby Zaman, Negin Owliaei, and Malika Bilal. Special thanks to Amina Waheed and Emily Drabinski. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. This episode was mixed by Cheryl Ottenritter. Our engagement producers are Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou Gad. Connect with us: @AJEPodcasts on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook
Emily Drabinski and Trevor continue their conversation on American libraries and their larger cross-currents in history and politics. In this segment, Emily expands the possibility of class analysis and materialism when it comes to library work and how consensus and solidarity can strengthen communities. The conversation then pivots to other challenges such as climate change and censorship, brainstorming ways people can get involved themselves in their neighborhoods. American Library AssociationPresident's PageEmily DrabinskiMina Rees Library, Graduate Center, City University of New YorkPlatformNeoliberalism
In this episode, Trevor sits down with American Library Association President Elect, Emily Drabinski. Emily is is the Interim Chief Librarian at the Mina Rees Library at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She ran on a platform described as being for “collective power, public good”, advocating for where library workers and library patrons' interests meet. Drabinski's project is to advocate for libraries, but in doing so wants to change how we talk about libraries and how they're run—drawing on the vocabulary of social justice and intersectionality, but highlighting real Marxist, materialist concerns over empty virtue signaling. American Library AssociationPresident's PageEmily DrabinskiMina Rees Library, Graduate Center, City University of New YorkPlatformNeoliberalism
This is episode 10, and the whole gang came out to chat with Emily Drabinski, who recently won the election for ALA President starting in 2023. She chatted informally about some of her favorite librarians in fiction, what she'd do with $5 million to build a library from scratch, and how we can all work together and collaborate to make our common spaces work for us. ... Learn more about this episode, and Emily at LibraryLever.com. ... Music Credits: "Cheery Monday" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Thinking Music" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Doug speaks with Richard Seymour about the cultural politics of the war in Ukraine, Emily Drabinski about the war against libraries, and finally Annie Levin on the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Cold War fiction.Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Behind the News, 3/24/22 - guests: Richard Seymour on the cultural politics of the war in Ukraine • Emily Drabinski on the war against libraries • Annie Levin on the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the fiction of the Cold War - Doug Henwood
In the first part of this episode, Chris and Bob are joined by Emily Drabinski, Interim Chief Librarian at The Graduate Center, City University of New York and candidate for President of the American Library Association. The discussion focused on what Emily can bring to the office. In the interest of fairness, both Emily and […]
Last June, after more than a year of COVID-induced remote work, Emily Drabinski, interim chief librarian and critical pedagogy librarian at the CUNY Graduate Center, and her staff reopened the Graduate Center library to students and scholars on a limited basis. “Every student we saw, made my heart swell 18 sizes,” she says. The pandemic proved to her and others that the library is more than a portal to information. “The library is a space where you can go that is non-commercial and that is freely available to you,” she says. Drabinski is currently a candidate for president of the American Library Association, running on a platform of “collective power, public good.” She joins The Thought Project podcast to talk about why we need libraries and her priorities of openness and access for the Graduate Center library and for all libraries.
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Steve chats with the 2022 candidates for President of the American Library Association: Emily Drabinski, Critical Pedagogy Librarian and Interim Chief Librarian at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Kelvin Watson, executive director of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District. Read the transcript! Emily Drabinski is Critical Pedagogy Librarian and Interim Chief … Continue reading 218: ALA Presidential Candidates (2022)
This week, Shawn interviews leftist candidate for President of the American Library Association Emily Drabinski about the role, her goals in office, and labour issues facing Librarians today. Emily's website:https://www.emilydrabinski.com/ On Vocational...
It's been said many times, many ways before: If our public library system didn't already exist, there's no way we could create it in today's society. But for all the good libraries do, and for all the necessary services they provide, they have been under attack for many years—and the staff who make our library system work, as well as the people who depend on them, need help. As Emily Drabinski, who is running to be president of the American Library Association, argues in her campaign platform, “Decades of disinvestment in public institutions coupled with deep inequalities at the core of our profession have left our libraries without the resources necessary to advance our common mission of providing access to information in all its forms to everyone in our communities.”In the latest installment of Art for the End Times, Lyta speaks with Drabinski about her campaign, the decades-long assault on libraries as a public good, and the internal struggle to make the library system a more just, equitable, and socially progressive institution. Emily Drabinski is an Associate Professor and Critical Pedagogy Librarian at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center library, where she is also serving as interim chief librarian.Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/Pre-Production/Studio/Post-Production: Dwayne GladdenHelp us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer: Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-podSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/newsletter-podLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews
Things got interesting for the holy trinity on this week's Office Hours even before podcaster/psychedelic drug expert/former TV host Hamilton Morris showed up on Zoom. This is the free first half of Office Hours. Watch the full 2 hours including an interview with American Library Association presidential candidate Emily Drabinski, watch the Patrons Only WORLD PREMIER of DROP CONCERT II: BELLS & WHISTLES this Saturday and find much more at patreon.com/officehourslive Don't accept knock off junk! Get official Office Hours, Tim & Eric and On Cinema merch at timheidecker.merchcentral.com Find everything else at officialofficehours.com
A debate has been raging among the librarians of the world, and it's all about order. The Dewey Decimal System became our way of managing information long ago, but it may be time to reassess. Plus, how one man's obsession with ordering the natural world took a very dark turn. 1. Lulu Miller [@lmillernpr], author of Why Fish Don't Exist and co-host of WNYC's Radiolab, charts the quest of taxonomist David Starr Jordan to categorize the world. Listen. 2. On the Media producer Molly Scwartz [@mollyfication] takes a deep dive into one imposition of human order so commonplace most of us never notice: the library. But the famed Dewey Decimal System is not an unbiased ordering machine. Featuring: Jess deCourcy Hinds [@HindsJess] librarian at the Bard High School, Early College library in Queens, New York, Wayne A. Wiegand a library historian and author of Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey, Caroline Saccucci, the former Dewey Program Manager at the Library of Congress, Emily Drabinski [@edrabinski] interim chief librarian of the Mina Rees Library at CUNY, and Dartmouth librarian Jill Baron [@jillebaron] from the documentary Change the Subject. Listen. Music from this week's show: Nocturne For Piano in B flat minor- Frédéric Chopin Il Casanova di Federico Fellini Tomorrow Never Knows - Quartetto D'archi dell Orchestra Sinfonica Songs of War - US Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps The Dewey Decimal System - Jason Munday On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
A debate has been raging among the librarians of the world, and it's all about order. The Dewey Decimal System became our way of managing information long ago, but it may be time to reassess. Plus, how one man's obsession with ordering the natural world took a very dark turn. 1. Lulu Miller [@lmillernpr], author of Why Fish Don't Exist and co-host of WNYC's Radiolab, charts the quest of taxonomist David Starr Jordan to categorize the world. Listen. 2. On the Media producer Molly Scwartz [@mollyfication] takes a deep dive into one imposition of human order so commonplace most of us never notice: the library. But the famed Dewey Decimal System is not an unbiased ordering machine. Featuring: Jess deCourcy Hinds [@HindsJess] librarian at the Bard High School, Early College library in Queens, New York, Wayne A. Wiegand a library historian and author of Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey, Caroline Saccucci, the former Dewey Program Manager at the Library of Congress, and Emily Drabinski [@edrabinski] interim chief librarian of the Mina Rees Library at CUNY. Listen. Music from this week's show: Nocturne For Piano in B flat minor- Frédéric Chopin Il Casanova di Federico Fellini Tomorrow Never Knows - Quartetto D'archi dell Orchestra Sinfonica Songs of War - US Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps The Dewey Decimal System - Jason Munday
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