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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:
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…
November 15, 2024
Contested Spaces
Contested Spaces: A Critical History of Canadian Public Libraries As Neutral Places, 1960-2020 (Library Juice Press, 2024) is the first comprehensive …
October 26, 2024
Averting the Digital Dark Age
In early 1996, the web was ephemeral. But by 2001, the internet was forever. How did websites transform from having a brief life to becoming long-last…
October 12, 2024
The Politics of Collecting
In The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property (Duke University Press, 2024), Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and c…
September 23, 2024
In Silence or Indifference
Librarians around the country are currently on a battleground, defending their right to purchase and circulate books dealing with issues of race and s…
September 22, 2024
Inclusive Cataloging
Filling a gap in the literature, Inclusive Cataloging: Histories, Context, and Reparative Approaches (ALA Editions and Core, 2024) provides librarians…
September 20, 2024
Space, Place, and Bestsellers
From airport bookstores to deckchairs, as audiobooks downloaded by commuters, and on Kindles and other portable devices, twenty-first century bestsell…
September 9, 2024
Museums, Archives and Protest Memory
In Museums, Archives and Protest Memory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), Red Chidgey and Joanne Garde-Hansen address the emergence of ‘protest memory’ as a…
September 7, 2024
Encyclopédie Noire
If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-M…
September 1, 2024
Indigenous Materials in Libraries and the Curriculum
In Indigenous Materials in Libraries and the Curriculum: Latin American and Latinx Sources (Routledge, 2024), Javier Muñoz-Díaz, Kathia Ibacache, and …
July 19, 2024
Archiving the Commons
“Stories of archives are always stories of phantoms, of the death or disappearance or erasure of something, the preservation of what remains, and its …
July 14, 2024
Grabbing Tea
This interview with Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz about Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations on Identity and Libraries and Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations on Ar…
June 15, 2024
Serving Hispanic, Latine, and Latinx Students in Academic Libraries
Serving Hispanic, Latine, and Latinx Students in Academic Libraries (Library Juice Press, 2024) is a collection of essays written by library workers t…
May 22, 2024
Scattered and Fugitive Things
During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American…
May 15, 2024
The Left Hand of Data
Educational analytics tend toward aggregation, asking what a “normative” learner does. In The Left Hand of Data: Designing Education Data for Justice …
May 12, 2024
Mmm... Manitoba
In 2018, Janis Thiessen, Kimberley Moore, and collaborator Kent Davies refashioned a used food truck into a mobile oral history lab. Together they emb…
May 7, 2024
Teaching the History of the Book
Edited by Matteo Pangallo and Emily Todd, Teaching the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press 2023) is the first collection of its kin…
April 26, 2024
The Specter of the Archive
We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more information is more available than ever before. In The Specter of the Archive: Poli…
April 18, 2024
Indigenous Archival Activism
The past several decades have seen a massive shift in debates over who owns and has the right to tell Native American history and stories. For centuri…
April 12, 2024
Archival Film Curatorship
Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital (Amsterdam UP, 2023) is the first book-length study that investigates film a…
March 30, 2024
The Experimental Library
Using techniques garnered from startups and quickly evolving technology companies, in The Experimental Library: A Guide to Taking Risks, Failing Forwa…
March 2, 2024
Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts
Mpho Ngoepe and Sindiso Bhebhe's Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts: Recalling the Pasts (Routledge, 2024) revisits the definition of a reco…
February 20, 2024
Stories of Our Living Ephemera
Stories of Our Living Ephemera: Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907 (Utah State University Press…
February 19, 2024
The Crown and Its Records
Archives are popularly seen as liminal, obscure spaces -- a perception far removed from the early modern reality. In The Crown and Its Records: Archiv…