It's the hope that kills you.

Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.

'Cannon Street Railway Bridge' (2022) by Marc Gooderham marcgooderham.co.uk

"How can you not be romantic about baseball?"

folks when we find a guy who's saying a bunch of dumbass shit can we get back to blocking them instead of screenshotting them and talking about their dumbass shit? these losers are not worth our time & when we let them waste it we insult the revolution

New on ACRLog... Questions Middle Managers Ask: Ways of Seeing Everyday Work "Framing management and leadership as questions to ask offered a simple yet significant shift for my thinking." - Jennifer Jarson bit.ly/49WYFUG

Hey @themountaingoats.bsky.social, just wanted to put on your radar that this excellent painting is named after a line of yours.

I just teared up as I was telling a colleague about Raul Jimenez scoring at the Azteca yesterday. #sports

My revelation of the past week, as it relates to the past nine months, is that urgency as a trauma response makes applying slow management principles in an organization with legacy toxicity incredibly challenging.

If you missed my CALM Keynote, Slow Management in a Fast World, it's now available on YouTube fully captioned. youtu.be/frkgyhEERfs?...

Want to present at ACRLNY'S ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM? Our theme this year: "Staying Present in Times of Crisis and Possibility: Showing Up for Communities" Submit for a panel, poster, lightning talk, or individual presentation. Deadline Extended to June 12th! Full info: acrlny.org/annual-sympo...

I have some news to share:

It doesn't work Sam!

'Friday Night', Hammersmith (1958) by Ruskin Spear (De Beers Art Collection)

I screamed when Reedy scored this goal and immediately texted @cudjoe.bsky.social to bask in the glory of my Cottagers beating his Reds by a final score of 2-2.

I hope this email finds you well and thinking about a better way to spend the rest of your life.

Submitted a thing. 😎

I should have also noted that I have some incredible people in my life without whom I would be lost. But I'm not lost! I know where I am, and more importantly, I know where I'm going. This summer is going to be great!

It's been a difficult two weeks after a difficult eight months after a difficult eight years. For now I'll just say that it's wild how life catches up with you, and how hardship reveals priorities. Tally-ho.

The perfect mug for your paintbrush water. eatf.art/mugs

SLUGGO’S THOUGHT FOR THURSDAY

Been away from home too long, but the magnolias welcomed me back.

Overheard on campus: “You simmer it in butter… for, like, an hour… and then you use THAT to make the brownies.“

When I teach print history, I have a repository of little facts I share to help both demystify very old objects and ask students to resituate the codex as technology. It's ✨️ cute little fact time ✨️ The space between lines is called "leading" in Adobe because metal pieces physically separated text.

If not Bruno? Raya or Semenyo. #SoccerOpinions

Spent some time this morning reading about the Justice Department's decision to delay the Title II Accessibility rule for one year. You can find it here: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

I currently have my email open on four different tabs, spread across two windows on two different monitors, just in case anyone's wondering how it's going.

No problem! This should make it easier to grasp: it's way more complicated than this but it gets the general idea across.

Registration for 2026 CALM opens Monday, April 13 at 12 noon Eastern time 🎉 www.conferenceonacademiclibrarymanagement.com #LibCALM

Having flashbacks to staffing the reference desk in Pueblo on Friday afternoons. I was the Friday closer for a few years c. 2012 to 2014 and got so much work done during those shifts.

I just printed out a draft of the revised ACRL Info Lit Framework and plan to read it while staffing a service desk this afternoon. It feels like 2014 was a lifetime ago, and yet.

Our Information Literacy Framework Review and Revision Task Force is pleased to announce that the first draft of the revised Framework is ready for feedback from the community. Details on feedback opportunities, including two webinars this month, are available on ACRL Insider. https://bit.ly/4vmkWUF

We're excited to announce our 2026 CALM featured speakers, Meredith Farkas and Silvia Vong! More info at www.conferenceonacademiclibrarymanagement.com/calm-feature...

Drone Panic in New Jersey (ambient/downtempo, Editions Mego, 2026) Side A: Faceless in Bordentown, Learn to Commute, Hoboken Waterway Sutra, Turnpike Follies Side B: Passed Out on the Shark River Golf Course, Born to Doze, Regional Jet, Long Drone for Thomas Edison

New York Movie, by Edward Hopper, 1939, 📸 by Carlos Fyfe

"Moon's haunted"

'Hammersmith Bridge at Sunset' by Tushar Sabale tusharsabale.com

I wonder if @themerl.bsky.social has any examples of Ideal English Rabbits?

Faith Bradham, @mauraseale.bsky.social , and I have a new article out! The Illusion of Opportunity: Reimbursement Policies and the Academic Librarian furthers our research into the costs of professional enagement activities. (spoiler: reimbursement culture sucks) doi.org/10.1353/pla.... 📚📜

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

Unsolicited Friday advice for people working in higher education: Be respectful to administrative assistants and people who have a lot of keys on their keyrings.

Check out the new website for the Library Freedom Journal, published by the folks at the Library Freedom Project. journal.libraryfreedom.org They're looking for submissions for articles, reviews, hot takes, zines, & artwork focused on privacy, intellectual freedom, information democracy, & more! 📚

'Canary Wharf, London' (1991) Carl Laubin carllaubin.com

have any libraries successfully cut ties with lexisnexis because of their ICE contract? or are in talks to do so? #skybrarians

I'm planning on writing a blog post about how to support laid off library workers. I'd be excited to hear your ideas or examples! 📚

I sometimes think my primary job as a middle manager is to be mostly patient and thoughtful and careful so that if I really go HAM people know to pay attention

Feeling this from Sam.