New Books Network Podcast

Library Science September 24, 2023

Archives of War

Technology, Emotion and History

Debra Ramsay

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

Archives of War: Technology, Emotion and History (Routledge, 2023) offers a comparative analysis of British Army Unit War Diaries in the two World Wars, to reveal the role played by previously unnoticed …

Library Science September 17, 2023

The Two Revolutions

A History of the Transgender Internet

Avery Dame-Griff

Hosted by Hallel Yadin

Avery Dame-Griff's The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (NYU Press, 2023) explores how the rise of the internet shaped transgender identity and activism from the 1980s to the present …

Library Science September 16, 2023

In Visible Archives

Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s

Margaret Galvan

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

In In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s (U Minnesota Press, 2023), Margaret Galvan explores a number of feminist and cultural touchstones—the feminist sex wars, the …

Library Science September 6, 2023

On the Digital Humanities

Essays and Provocations

Stephen Ramsay

Hosted by Hallel Yadin

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Stephen Ramsey's On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) is a witty and incisive exploration of the philosophical conundrums that animate the digital humanities. Since its inception …

Library Science September 2, 2023

A Queer Way of Feeling

Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood

Diana W. Anselmo

Hosted by Hallel Yadin

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In A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood (University of California Press, 2023), Diana W. Anselmo queers the earliest development of the "fangirl." Gathering an …

Library Science August 30, 2023

Ownership of Knowledge

Beyond Intellectual Property

Dagmar Schafer, Annapurna Mamidipudi, and Marius Buning

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

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Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society. Scholars of science, technology, medicine, and …

Library Science August 20, 2023

Trans and Gender Diverse Voices in Libraries

Kalani Adolpho, Stephen G. Krueger, and Krista McCracken

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

In the library profession, and in the world as a whole, the experiences of trans and gender diverse people often go unnoticed, hidden, and ignored. Trans and Gender Diverse Voices …

Burned by Books August 8, 2023

In Praise of Good Bookstores

Jeff Deutsch

Hosted by Chris Holmes

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Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In Praise of Good Bookstores (Princeton UP, 2022), Jeff Deutsch--the director of Chicago's Seminary Co-op Bookstores …

Library Science August 5, 2023

Foundations of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research

A Reader

Bianca Vienni-Baptista, Isabel Fletcher, and Catherine Lyall

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

Bianca Vienni-Baptista, Isabel Fletcher, and Catherine Lyall's Foundations of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research (Bristol University Press, 2023) is a groundbreaking reader designed to lower the barriers to interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in …

Library Science July 30, 2023

The Other Side of Empathy

Jade E. Davis

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

In The Other Side of Empathy (Duke UP, 2023), Jade E. Davis contests the value of empathy as an affective or critical tool. Whether focusing on technology, colonialism, or racism …

Library Science July 25, 2023

Picture Research

The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization

Nina Lager Vestberg

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

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Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization (MIT Press, 2023) focuses on how pictures were saved, stored, and searched for in a time before scanners, servers, and …

Anthropology July 18, 2023

Awkward Archives

Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum

Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius

Hosted by Adam Bobeck

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Awkward Archives: Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum (Archive Books, 2022) proposes a manual for academic teaching and learning contexts. An ethnographic research approach is confronted with the demands of …

Library Science June 25, 2023

Frances Burney’s “Evelina”

The Book, its History, and its Paratext

Svetlana Kochkina

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

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Evelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public. Tracing its publication history through 174 editions, adaptations, and reprints, many of them …

Library Science June 19, 2023

Integrated Library Planning:

A New Model for Strategic and Dynamic Planning, Management, and Assessment

Myka Kennedy Stephens

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

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Many library project plans, from small projects to institution-wide strategic planning committees, follow a linear trajectory: create the plan, do the plan, then review the outcome. While this can be …

Library Science June 17, 2023

White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture

Alexandra Dane

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

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Despite initiatives to 'diversify' the publishing sector, there has been almost no transformation to the historic racial inequality that defines the field. White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture …

Library Science May 24, 2023

For the Encouragement of Learning

The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law

Myra Tawfik

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

Myra Tawfik's book For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law (U Toronto Press, 2023) addresses the contested history of copyright law in Canada, where the economic and …

Library Science May 16, 2023

Holy Digital Grail

A Medieval Book on the Internet

Michelle R. Warren

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned preservation …

Library Science May 13, 2023

Prison Media

Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology

Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

Prisons are not typically known for cutting-edge media technologies. Yet from photography in the nineteenth century to AI-enhanced tracking cameras today, there is a long history of prisons being used …

Library Science May 5, 2023

Spoils of Knowledge

Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries

Emma Hagström Molin

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

In Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries (Brill, 2023), Emma Hagström Molin offers novel perspectives on document and book plundering. At the forefront of her study …

Scholarly Communication May 3, 2023

Scientific Research in Information Systems

A Beginner's Guide

Jan Recker

Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Jan Recker, Professor for Information Systems and Digital Innovation at the University of Hamburg, Germany and author of Scientific Research in Information Systems: A Beginner's Guide …