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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:
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…
January 28, 2024
Against the Carceral Archive
Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice (Fordham UP, 2023) is a meditation upon what author Damien M. Sojoyner calls the “c…
January 26, 2024
Transforming the Authority of the Archive
Featuring perspectives from educators, undergraduates, and archivists who are affiliated with community and institutional archives, the contributions …
January 24, 2024
The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema
In The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema (Duke University Press, 2024), Bliss Cua Lim draws on cultural policy, queer and feminist theory, mate…
December 25, 2023
Two Hundred Years
Home to the first two drafts of the U.S. Constitution, an original printer’s proof of the Declaration of Independence, and the earliest surviving Amer…
December 15, 2023
Conservation of Books
Editor Abigail Bainbridge and contributing author Sonja Schwoll join this discussion of Conservation of Books (Routledge 2023), the highly anticipated…
December 9, 2023
The Librarian's Guide to Learning Theory
Demonstrating how learning theories are applicable to a variety of real-world contexts, The Librarian's Guide to Learning Theory: Practical Applicatio…
November 26, 2023
From Handwriting to Footprinting
How do we currently preserve and access texts, and will our current methods be sustainable in the future? In From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text a…
November 23, 2023
Land in Libraries
The question of land is largely absent in libraries. Deeply committed to the neoliberal project as a guiding ideology of the profession, libraries exi…
November 21, 2023
Decentering Whiteness in Libraries
Decentering Whiteness in Libraries: A Framework for Inclusive Collection Management Practices (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) serves as a "how to" guide …
November 18, 2023
Archive Everything
In Archive Everything: Mapping the Everyday (MIT Press, 2016; paperback edition, 2023), Gabriella Giannachi traces the evolution of the archive into t…
November 8, 2023
Embracing Culturally Responsive Practice in School Libraries
School librarians have always connected learners’ life experiences, cultures, and communities to materials, projects, and processes. As schools look t…
September 24, 2023
Archives of War
Archives of War: Technology, Emotion and History (Routledge, 2023) offers a comparative analysis of British Army Unit War Diaries in the two World War…
September 16, 2023
In Visible Archives
In In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s (U Minnesota Press, 2023), Margaret Galvan explores a number of feminist and cu…
August 30, 2023
Ownership of Knowledge
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of…