Ep 7 - Public Programming and Professionalization with Y Vy Truong

In this episode we got to sit down with Y Vy Truong, who is the librarian for joss paper library based in Vancouver’s Chinatown. We got to talk about public programming, professionalization, and what it means to build both collections and communities.

Read along with the transcript here.

Things mentioned this episode:
> Y Vy Truong: @YVyTruong

> joss paper library: @josspaperlib

> ARL Fellowship for Digital and Inclusive Excellence

> American Library Association and accreditation

> Loretta Ross

> Vocational awe

> Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection

> Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies program

The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.

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Om Podcasten

Because libraries and archives are never neutral. Taking a closer look at the relationships between organizing information and community organizing. We talk to information professionals, activists, and other insightful folks who have thoughts about what we mean when we say, “knowledge is power”. Hosted by two new librarians figuring things out as we go. We are based on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.