Ah, yes, my favorite time of the semester where I am grateful to have scheduled guest lectures for my classes, but have also forgotten that I agreed to give guest lectures for others as well.

it was such a delight putting together this Homosaurus history and maintenance article with D (a fantastic steward), Keahi, @marikac4.bsky.social Michael, Crystal & @drtlwagner.bsky.social ! This is also the best recounting of the Homosaurus history to date--if we don't answer it here, let us know!

www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/seeking... this is absolutely INCREDIBLE work--reading 20 years of LC decisions!

I’m excited to be coordinating a new @ischoolui.bsky.social program The Summer Intensive will offer 6 courses over 2 weeks in May & June this year—SI weeks will also include a range of academic, professional, & social events—we are hoping to cultivate real "summer camp for LIS nerds vibes"

Excited to share our newest CFP! Library Trends 75.3: Evidence-based Practices for eLearning in Information Organizations Proposals are due April 3, 2026. The complete CFP, including information on how to submit a proposal, is available at tinyurl.com/mwk429vh

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Sure, Sartre was on to something with the whole "hell is other people" bit, but could you imagine explaining him to compliance-based ethics training?

Excited about this upcoming talk at Skeuomorph!

Ah, right, sometimes the heading of an email alone triggers a "hmm, I will wait till next week to reply to that" response.

Rewatching Tank Girl and realizing that like older video games some things are just meant to be seen on era specific hardware. The VHS version pops off of a CRT far more than a high definition bluray ever could on modern hardware!

This is perhaps the most damning evidence in the AI could never do X argument debate to date. No amount of LLM training could produce something so joyfully chaotic. Not to mention it would literally melt the ice away to try and do it.

please RT! if you've ever contacted a journal or publisher to have your name changed on a publication, a friend and colleague of mine wants to hear about your experience! drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #phdchat #academicchatter

As part of a New Year’s resolution to have a creative hobby I started doing some found object collaging. While I am not at all confident in the collages themselves I do really like some of the little guys I have made. The inspiration for a few of them may be a bit obvious 😅

In the inaugural “Media Necromancy” talk @skeuomorphpress.org, @drtlwagner.bsky.social asks “what does it mean to take seriously obsolescence as a fundamental part of queer archival work?”

I found the old 35mm slide for the cover for Neuromancer and had it scanned in for your pleasure. Enjoy!

I fear that I may have found my new favorite media artifact courtesy of a library book sale. I’m a bit afraid to pop it in a DVD player

I working on my slides for this and oscillating between the format of a media studies presentation and an information science presentation. The jury is still out on which side will win 👾📼🏳️‍🌈

Last summer I was the Rose Library’s LGBTQ Collections Fellowship at Emory University. The blog for the archive just posted my write up as part of the fellowship. It is part of a bigger project of mine, but here is a sneak peak of some of what I am exploring: scholarblogs.emory.edu/marbl/2026/0...

Sorry to say it y'all, but music peaked with the Battletoads (NES) Pause Music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRPX...

I gave a Rotman Lecture last fall about the my dissertation and book, specifically about the Kinseys (the man and the Institute) and the influence taxonomy has on the labels we use to describe ourselves (gender, sexuality, etc. It was recently uploaded to YouTube: youtu.be/KDwF_3ilkwM?... 🗂️🗃️📚📃📜

Join The Political Librarian tomorrow at 12:00 p.m. CST for a webinar with PhD student Evan M. Allgood and Assistant Professor Travis L. Wagner. They will discuss what federal directives targeting DEI mean for libraries, archives, and public memory. Watch live ▶️ bit.ly/3NE9pin

the "nostalgia" thread here may have particular salience to the #dhmakes & book lab crowds?

Strongly considering changing my entire aesthetic to the character from Sega Bass Fishing

I'm running a graduate reading seminar titled "Queering Information" this semester and we had our first meeting. The students came energized and engaged! I know it is likely to slow a bit as the semester grinds on, but if this keeps up it is going to be a true high point of my semester.

What is the German word for the upsetting feeling you get when accidentally locking eyes with someone who is mid vape pull?

Then later in February @drtlwagner.bsky.social will kick off a new "Media Necromancy" speaker series—we’re still chatting with folks about ideas, but are hoping for 1-2 more talks in this series over the spring semester, with more next year skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/our-research...

Please consider submitting to this conference if you're a community preservationist! The first Save the Games was a terrific place for the industry and community to meet together on their work

I’m found this unopened package of Kool-aid in a comic book from 1996. I’m pretty sure if I drank it I would immediately be dropped into eXistenZ

My New Year's resolution to take the stairs more isn't going well so far. Meanwhlie, my additional resolution of blocking/reporting every scammy AI add I get on my social media is going off without a hitch.

I got a device that lets me play Game Boy cartridges of all kinds directly on my computer. Recently, they updated the software to allow the Game Boy camera to work as well. I used it to take this era-appropriate image. Meanwhile, I am trying to figure out how to get Zoom to read it as my camera.

I love locations that aren’t on the map in RPGs

Halo 2 Skin for Windows Media Player 10

My partner and I watched Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas and I am happy to report that it led to me discovering my new favorite band The Riverbottom Nightmare Band m.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ3c...

New article out by me and @ashleyblewer.com titled “Each character you create requires a full 15 blocks!” Preserving Video Game Memory Cards in the Age of Cloud Storage." In it, we examine the sociotechnical challenges of preserving video game memory cards. Read it here: tinyurl.com/53pnv64b

I’m passing on a question from @drtlwagner.bsky.social & their students: Do you know of existing/in process book history work on clip art? I know Shep’s history of print emoji & anecdotally I know some early clip art remediated printer’s ornaments—as does the "font" Wingdings—anyone digging in more?

Truly stoked to have my favorite academic partner in crime continue teaching with us! I’m gonna insist all of our students take classes with Ashley!

Really excited to be both presenting as part of this series and to be helping @ryancordell.org conceptualize the series as well! More from me hopefully in the coming months on this intersection between queerness, archives, and format obsolescence!

📄'How do LGBTQ+ library catalog users talk about subject searching?'🔽 doi.org/10.1108/JD-1... #Library #Research #Catalogue #Metadata #LGBTQ

Proposing a society level resolution for the new year: Bands should only be able to cover “Hunger Strike” by Temple of the Dog

We did a thing! Thanks to the EveryLibrary team and to all of the wonderful contributors! p.s. a webinar series highlighting some of the articles is coming in early 2026. www.everylibraryinstitute.org/everylibrary...

Move over media archaeology we are trying to actively revive these skeletons 🧙📼💀

A new article is out in Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, where my colleague Karen Wickett and I explore how the LCSH "Conduct of Life" enacts, often anti-queer, ideological work on information objects. Read the article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just found out that Jimmy Cliff passed away. I guess it is time to give this song a ton of spins and watch the movie that gives it its namesake. There's truly nothing quite like it. youtu.be/BpQrLUopf-k?...

I think I have found what is officially the best name for a backup band ever: youtu.be/lc-pIH0CBxM?...

In my IS 308: Race, Gender, and Information Technology class, I asked students to make zines today about inclusive tech issues, and they insisted that I should also participate. I thought that was a fair request and took a swing at making my own (though I didn't finish)

Next in New Currents, @drtlwagner.bsky.social & Alison Harding use traditional analyses to examine work created using generative AI in ""Remember, love knows no boundaries and comes in many forms": The conceptualization of queerness within AI-generated fan works"! Read it in #TWC46:

Hit an important Google Scholar citation mark today 😈 #hailsatan

New survey researching how recent policy shifts within the U.S. in higher education are impacting DEI reparative metadata/cataloging efforts in academic libraries & archives in the U.S., Canada, or Mexico. 📚 #critcat uncg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Students in my Information Organization and Access course have an assignment where they make their own taxonomy on a topic of their choosing. One student did TV shows, and included I Think You Should Leave, and I felt obligated to include this comment.

Stoked to share my op-ed in The Hill that I wrote as part of The OpEd Project 2025–26 Public Voices Fellows at UofI. In it, I talk about historical trends in automation and how it might inform current understandings of anti-trans legislation. Check it out here: thehill.com/opinion/civi...