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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. Jen edits for Partnership Journal 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:

Library Science December 9, 2023

The Librarian's Guide to Learning Theory

Practical Applications in Library Settings

Ann Medaille

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Demonstrating how learning theories are applicable to a variety of real-world contexts, The Librarian's Guide to Learning Theory: Practical Applications in Library Settings (ALA Editions, 2023) will help library workers …
Library Science November 26, 2023

From Handwriting to Footprinting

Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis

Anne Baillot

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
How do we currently preserve and access texts, and will our current methods be sustainable in the future? In From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of …
Library Science November 23, 2023

Land in Libraries

Toward a Materialist Conception of Education

Lydia Zvyagintseva and Mary Greenshields

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
The question of land is largely absent in libraries. Deeply committed to the neoliberal project as a guiding ideology of the profession, libraries exist at once as ahistorical, atheoretical, and …
Library Science November 21, 2023

Decentering Whiteness in Libraries

A Framework for Inclusive Collection Management Practices

Andrea Jamison

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Decentering Whiteness in Libraries: A Framework for Inclusive Collection Management Practices (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) serves as a "how to" guide for evaluating and crafting collection development policies that will …
Library Science November 18, 2023

Archive Everything

Mapping the Everyday

Gabriella Giannachi

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
In Archive Everything: Mapping the Everyday (MIT Press, 2016; paperback edition, 2023), Gabriella Giannachi traces the evolution of the archive into the apparatus through which we map the everyday. The archive, traditionally …
Library Science November 8, 2023

Embracing Culturally Responsive Practice in School Libraries

Elisabet Kennedy

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
School librarians have always connected learners’ life experiences, cultures, and communities to materials, projects, and processes. As schools look to make these connections within the classroom and to the curriculum …
Library Science October 12, 2023

Serapis

The Sacred Library and Its Declericalization

Stephen Bales and Wendi Arant Kaspar

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
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The Greco-Egyptian syncretistic god Serapis was used by the 3rd century BCE Ptolemaic pharaohs to impose Greek cultural hegemony and consolidate political power. The Alexandrian Serapeum, sometimes referred to as …
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 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 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 …
Politics & Polemics August 26, 2023

Organizing Occupy Wall Street

This is Just Practice

Marisa Holmes

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) is the first study of the processes and structures of the Occupy Wall Street movement, written from the perspective of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Sociology May 7, 2023

Fearing Together

Ethics for Insecurity

Ami Harbin

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
In Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity (Oxford UP, 2023), Ami Harbin explores how fearing is a central part of how we relate to each other and the unpredictable world. Fearing …
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 …
Library Science April 30, 2023

Moroccan Other-Archives

History and Citizenship After State Violence

Brahim El Guabli

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence (Fordham UP, 2023) investigates how histories of exclusion and silencing are written and rewritten in a postcolonial context that lacks organized and …