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About Jen Hoyer
Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology.Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology and organizes with the TPS Collective. She is co-author of What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom and The Social Movement Archive.
NBN Episodes hosted by Jen:
February 14, 2026
Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates
Whether print or digital, text or image, artistic or scientific, rare or common, historic or contemporary, most of the content we encounter contains a…
February 6, 2026
Bibliotactics
Libraries in French colonial Vietnam functioned as symbols of Western modernity and infrastructures of colonial knowledge. Yet Vietnamese readers purs…
January 27, 2026
Peculiar Satisfaction
As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Peculiar Satisfaction: Thomas Jefferson and the Mastery of S…
December 28, 2025
Conservation of Books
Editor Abigail Bainbridge and contributing author Sonja Schwoll join this discussion of Conservation of Books (Routledge 2023), the highly anticipated…
December 27, 2025
High School Students Unite!
In High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America (UNC Press, 2025), Aaron G. Fountain Jr. highl…
December 22, 2025
The Digital Medieval Manuscript
We increasingly encounter medieval books as digital facsimiles—zooming in on high-resolution images, clicking through virtual pages, or engaging with …
December 17, 2025
Budget Justice
Amid political repression and a deepening affordability crisis, Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities (Princeton UP, 2025) …
December 7, 2025
Trans Histories of the Medieval Book
Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect th…
November 12, 2025
Object-Based Learning
In Object-Based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education (UCL Press, 2025), Thomas Kador provides a concise overview of some of the mo…
October 30, 2025
The Politics of World Heritage
What does it take to construct humanity's cultural history and what do these efforts produce in the world? In The Politics of World Heritage (Oxford U…
October 23, 2025
Critical Data Storytelling for Libraries
In today’s polarized landscape, libraries face two key challenges: the difficulty of turning raw data into narratives that effectively advocate for li…
October 5, 2025
Ways of Knowing
Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create (Litwin Books, 2025) sits at the heart of the library project, shaping how materials are de…
September 25, 2025
Troubling Archives
Namibia’s colonial history casts a long shadow over the country’s present. Contemporary authors and artists confront the legacies of German and South …
September 18, 2025
Archival Research in Historical Organisation Studies
Archival Research in Historical Organisation Studies: Theorising Silences offers an accessible account of theorising the archive, contesting the narro…
August 30, 2025
Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo
Archives are not only sources for history but have their own histories too, which shape how historians can tell stories of the past. In Managing Paper…
August 14, 2025
Network Analysis for Book Historians
Researchers and archivists have spent decades digitizing and cataloguing, but what does the future hold for book history? Network Analysis for Book Hi…
February 10, 2025
Transmediation and the Archive
Building on the field of modern archival practice, Transmediation and the Archive: Decoding Objects in the Digital Age (ARC Humanities Press, 2024) ex…
February 2, 2025
Critical Management Studies and Librarianship
Critical Management Studies and Librarianship: Critical Perspectives on Library Management Education and Practice (Library Juice Press, November 2024)…
January 1, 2025
Ownership of Knowledge
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of…
December 27, 2024
Illustration and Heritage
In Illustration and Heritage (Bloomsbury, 2024), Rachel Emily Taylor explores the re-materialisation of absent, lost, and invisible stories through il…
December 18, 2024
Access to Special Collections and Archives
Since the early 20th century, American academic libraries have collected and championed rare and unique non-circulating materials now referred to as s…
December 11, 2024
Music Information Literacy
Becoming a more equitable librarian is an ongoing process. In the face of the last decade’s events and increased public awareness of issues of diversi…
December 8, 2024
Reading the Archival Revolution
The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the "archival revolution" due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact. W…
November 16, 2024
Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene
In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters (Harvard University Press, October 2024), Deborah Parker chronicles the m…