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Abstract

In the summer of 2023, librarian and oral historian Kae Bara Kratcha interviewed three oral historians about their relationships to libraries and their dreams for what digital libraries could be. Then they played portions of each oral historian interview for a digital librarian and asked the librarian to speculate about what their jobs and lives would be like if they implemented the oral historians' ideas about digital libraries. “Speculative Telephone: Oral Historians and Digital Librarians on How Libraries Could Be” is eleven edited audio tracks of wide-ranging conversation on topics like public space, online communities, library anxiety, relationships with library workers, the future of scholarly communication, creativity in research, finding cosmic purpose, telling stories with archives, when knowledge should remain ephemeral, artificial intelligence, and more. The oral historian and librarian narrators are as follows, in order of appearance: Chris Pandza, Justin de la Cruz, Tamara Santibañez, Sheila García Mazari, Benji de la Piedra, and Sean Knowlton.

To stream each track of this podcast, navigate to JCDL volume 0, issue 2 and click on the tracks under the "Articles" heading.

Track 01. Intro. Speculative Telephone.mp3 (4991 kB)
Introduction

Track 02. Speculative Telephone. Oral historian Chris Pandza.mp3 (9818 kB)
Episode 2: ORAL HISTORIAN CHRIS PANDZA

Track 03. Speculative Telephone. Librarian Justin de la Cruz.mp3 (10832 kB)
Episode 3: LIBRARIAN JUSTIN DE LA CRUZ

Track 04. Speculative Telephone. Sipping the McLuhan Kool Aid.mp3 (4982 kB)
Episode 4: CODA: SIPPING THE MCLUHAN KOOL AID WITH CHRIS PANDZA

Track 05. Speculative Telephone. Artist and oral historian Tamara Santibañez.mp3 (9300 kB)
Episode 5: ARTIST AND ORAL HISTORIAN TAMARA SANTIBAÑEZ

Track 06. Speculative Telephone. Librarian Sheila García Mazari.mp3 (10598 kB)
Episode 6: LIBRARIAN SHEILA GARCÍA MAZARI

Track 07. Speculative Telephone. Things that don't quite fit.mp3 (8813 kB)
Episode 7: CODA: THINGS THAT DON’T QUITE FIT INTO ANY OF YOUR PURPOSES WITH TAMARA SANTIBAÑEZ

Track 08. Speculative Telephone. Oral Historian Benji de la Piedra.mp3 (10104 kB)
Episode 8: ORAL HISTORIAN BENJI DE LA PIEDRA

Track 09. Speculative Telephone. Librarian Sean Knowlton.mp3 (10892 kB)
Episode 9: LIBRARIAN SEAN KNOWLTON

Track 10. Speculative Telephone. Coda Charlie the AI Cat (Sheila Garcia Mazari).mp3 (11480 kB)
Episode 10: CODA: CHARLIE AND THE AI CAT WITH SHEILA GARCÍA MAZARI

Track 11. Speculative Telephone. Kae's Outro.mp3 (3796 kB)
Outro

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