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Episode 10: The Library as a Site of Repression, Part I

Episode 10: The Library as a Site of Repression, Part I

Anxiety in the Archives: A Podcast Dissertation · Elizabeth D. Headrick, MLS

April 21, 202431m 38s

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In which we discuss pornographic filth and printing presses… 

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Episode 10 Footnotes

  1. “Texas County Votes to Keep Library System Open.” YouTube, NBC News, 14 Apr. 2023, youtu.be/z2PviMgZbno?feature=shared.

  2. Stengle, Jamie. “Texas County Roiled by Book Ban Considered Closing Libraries.” AP News, AP News, 14 Apr. 2023.

  3.  Wagner, Bayliss. “Exclusive: Former Librarian, Fired after Refusing to Remove Books, Sues Llano County.” Statesman, Austin American-Statesman, 7 Mar. 2024.

  4. “Overton Window.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 2 Apr. 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window.

  5. Radford, Gary P., and Marie L. Radford. “Libraries, librarians, and the discourse of fear.” The Library Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 3, July 2001, pp. 299–329, https://doi.org/10.1086/603283.

  6. Cogman, Genevieve. The Dark Archive (The Invisible Library Book 7). Ace, 2020. 

  7. Cogman, Genevieve. The Untold Story (The Invisible Library Book 8). Ace, 2021.

  8. Hackwith, A.J. The Library of The Unwritten (A Novel from Hell’s Library Book 1). Ace, 2019. 

  9. Hackwith, Library

  10. Caine, Rachel. Paper and Fire (The Great Library Book 2). Berkley, 2016. 

  11. Caine, Rachel. Ink and Bone (The Great Library Book 1). Berkley, 2015. 

  12. Duncan, Rod. The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter (The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire Book 1). Angry Robot, 2014. 

  13. Duncan, Bullet-Catcher’s

  14. Anjirbag, Michelle Anya. “‘Endless Wonder’ for Whom?: Adaptation, Transformation, and Magical Libraries.” Adaptation, vol. 14, no. 1, 10 Mar. 2020, pp. 78–95, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apaa005.