plg returns! slowly but surely. watch this space for more details and future directions, but in the meantime visit the website and read our latest letter www.progressivelibrariansguild.org/content/news...

Columbia University Libraries is hiring an Instruction & Research Librarian! They will be a key contributor to reference and instruction in the Humanities & History unit. I'm on the search committee and can answer questions or point you to the right person. academic.careers.columbia.edu#!/180613

This is unreal. The 2026 code4lib conference has been cancelled unilaterally by Carnegie Mellon University because the Department of Education raised issues with the diversity scholarships: > An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]

If you're looking for a group of library workers who understand the power of labor organizing, social justice, & anti-racism, consider applying for the Library Freedom Institute. It's a 15-week program in privacy, intellectual freedom, & critical technology. libraryfreedom.org/institute/

Two folks (Fobazi and Elena) and their pup (Chloe) very deserving of any extra cash you have to toss their way! Fobazi's professional impact has been massive to many of us in the field and she's always been generous with her time and mind. Help them out through this intense, challenging time!

Applications for the Ask A Librarian Internship are open for one more week! This paid, remote, part-time internship is open to currently enrolled Library & Information Science students. Apply by July 16. library.columbia.edu/about/jobs-i...

Hey IL folks! If you thought censorship was just impacting school librarians, take a look at my new article in @timeshighered.bsky.social exploring what challenges to intellectual freedom mean for HE teaching librarians, too. How do we shift our work from overload to absence?

"At present, no miracle has happened. The WIU Librarians will be gone in under a month, as our layoffs take effect May 14." Western Illinois University will attempt to be a university without a library. It doesn't take a red state to destroy a public good. savewiulibrarians.org/message.php

About to present "Two Decades of Critical Information Literacy: A Review of the Literature." Here are the presentation slides: tinyurl.com/TwoDecadesACRL & full paper: tinyurl.com/TwoDecadesPaper #acrl2025

Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.

Heading to #acrl2025! I’m presenting a paper on “Two Decades of Critical Information Literacy” and on a panel about remote internships & supporting LIS students. Looking forward to seeing folks there.

I am thinking of every IMLS worker today.

Call for proposals! Pleasure and Play: Finding Joy in LIS Work. "It seems like every day a new disaster begins as older ones fester...In light of everything that feels bad in the world, ACRL/NY’s 2025 symposium theme asks: what feels good in LIS?" acrlny.marketinglibraries.org/2025symposiu...

📝 CfP 📝 @hellobrittparis.bsky.social & I are editing a special issue of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies on labor organizing in libraries and information fields. We greatly encourage contributions from library workers. More info here: journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...

support archives and archivists sufficiently in times of normal operation so we can do our jobs in times of crisis. read about ongoing efforts before your library of alexandria comparisons. respect the expertise of people who have been doing the work. fund permanent archival and preservation labor.

Happy New Year, y’all! If you’ve ever found my words helpful to you and your life, please read and share this post. Thank you, and I appreciate y’all in advance! :) fobaziettarh.com/2025/01/07/n...

✍️ Submissions are open for our upcoming special issue: "(More Than) A Decade of Critical Librarianship: Reflections and Speculations." Deadline for proposal submission is Jan. 17, 2025. See details: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

My latest for @truthout.bsky.social

Some thoughts of what we as librarians should be thinking about and doing before the darkness: open.substack.com/pub/aradical...

[kudos to my colleagues for writing this] "We fail to see how studying silently amounts to a disruption, and we reject the bans issued in response. We write to let study-in participants know that there are library workers who stand in solidarity with them." www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...

Dave Ghamandi's Eight Theses on Scholarly Communications (/Open Access). ♥️ ghamandi.hcommons.org/2024/07/26/e...

Go Penn libraries staff!!! pennlibrariesunited.github.io 📚📜

"including student employees as active participants in the hiring process is not only a valuable experiential learning opportunity, but also shifts power dynamics ... creating a better hiring process for student applicants." 📜📚 #libraries

I’m recruiting an MLIS student for a paid internship this Fall 2024 to work on a series of online tutorials. You can find more information here: library.usfca.edu/oisj_internshi…. Feel free to share! Apply by July 1! 📚

A powerful and damning account of Columbia leadership’s failures this year from the undergraduate Student Council of Columbia College. This is basically exactly how I would tell it too www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A collective of library workers at Columbia University Libraries published a statement regarding recent and ongoing events on campus: cu-librarians-free-palestine.cargo.site

Some of my colleagues at Barnard and Columbia have been working long hours since December to accompany students to increasingly draconian disciplinary hearings for alleged involvement in campus protests. Here’s an anecdote from one colleague, shared with permission. Wrong place wrong time? Too bad

Library Folks: A new article co-written by me dropped today - The Library is NOT for Everyone (Yet) Disability, Accommodations, and Working in Libraries. I hope you will take a look 👀 crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr...

The California Faculty Association, repping faculty, librarians & coaches across the 23 campuses of the California State University (CSU), is preparing for an unprecedented, systemwide strike Jan 22-26 w Teamsters Local 2010. The CSU is the largest public 4yr uni system in the US. This will be huge✊

Excited to share this article that @cudjoe.bsky.social and I have been working on for quite some time! "Working Conditions Are Learning Conditions: Understanding Information Literacy Instruction through Neoliberal Capitalism" pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/comminfolit/...

We received notice that a student lost their comfort lizard in the library yesterday, which is a new one for me.

Love this article from @jmloyer.bsky.social @poidivision.bsky.social & Sandy Littletree on Indigenous information literacy, especially their approach of defining and constructing through conversational interviews with Indigenous librarians. doi.org/10.11645/17....

Not one but two exciting library-oriented part time remote jobs are open! Public Library People’s Assemblies Coordinator at FTP Leftist Library Project: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Marketing Program & Outreach Coordinator for @calmconference.bsky.social: employment.ucsd.edu/marketing-pr...

EVENT! "Preserving Palestine: Cultural Heritage Under Settler Colonialism" This online roundtable will feature librarians, archivists, and scholars, and is hosted by Librarians & Archivists With Palestine and the Middle East Librarians Association. Registration: rb.gy/b379h3 *pls share widely!*

Fantastic, forensic, actionable work here from Becky Yoose and SPARC. "Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Elsevier's ScienceDirect" zenodo.org/records/1007...

Great event coming up! "Intellectual Freedom, Social Responsibility, and Praxis in Librarianship and Education" with Robin D.G. Kelley, Nicole Cooke & more on Nov. 15th. Register at: ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Hey library folks! I'm co-editing a special issue on Libraries and/as Extraction, and the CFP is available. Proposals are due 12/18. Questions? Email the journal email in the CFP or me. cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

We Here is distributing Bluesky invite codes to community members and we currently have more requests than codes! if you have extras, you can share them with us here. forms.gle/1ygU6Tg59yoA...

Seriously, tax the rich.

Hello! I’m excited to be talking about critical information literacy at this online event hosted by the Frick Collection Library on Oct. 12--registration reopened by popular demand! Hope to see you there. www.frick.org/calendar?tru...