Come hear me read on April 24! loft.org/events/mento...

New from me on ACRLog, Supporting Library Workers Who Have Lost Their Jobs. If you don't know what to say or do when your coworker or colleague gets laid off or fired, here's a list of action items. 📚 acrlog.org/2026/03/21/s...

Seeking Approval, Confronting Objectivity: Neutrality in the Library of Congress Subject Headings Approval Process by Allison Bailund, Deborah Tomaras, Michelle Cronquist, and Tina Gross www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/seeking...

University of Minnesota Provost with an after 5pm, during Spring Break, newsletter reminding us that our public research university has an arbitrary limit in scope. provost.umn.edu/about-evpp/c... My thoughts as a research librarian at UMN:

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Still warming up since returning from the protest on Veterans Memorial Bridge between Fargo and Moorhead today. Organizer who came by counting people with a clicker told me I was number 584!

New issue of Critcatenate now available, featuring news about critical #cataloging. cataloginglab.org/2025/11/30/c... #critcat Metadata & cataloging librarians, please consider taking the surveys shared to help your colleagues! 📚

Here's Sandy Berman's whole self-interview lowereastsidelibrarian.info/interviews/s... He starts with "Q: Should ALA really be celebrating its 150th anniversary?" "A: No. Instead, it should be devoting its energy and resources to atoning for its checkered history" and continues in that vein.

The American Library Association Core Subject Analysis Committee's Working Group on Local Headings seeks to survey libraries, archives, museums and associated institutions about their involvement in the work of revising subjects, genres, and other authority data in their local catalogs.

When the right to organize is under attack at the federal level, it is more important than ever to fight for and to protect that right with every tool at our disposal. We all deserve dignity and respect in our workplace. I was proud to join @seiumn.bsky.social today. kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

I left some rambling comments on the Draft PCC Guiding Principles for Use of AI and Machine Learning Technologies in Cataloging and Metadata Work. (Find the link in the "what's new" section wiki.lyrasis.org/display/PFCC...) Encourage other #cataloging folks to give feedback; deadline: August 8th.

This is why it’s ok to compare you to nazis btw

New blog post on ACRLog, "AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide." Got a lot of comments during a recent presentation that people hadn't heard of the concept of AI refusal, so here's some places to start. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...

I am quite psyched to have two poems in the new issue (#49) of Meridian. (I don't think they are on BlueSky or I'd tag them...) www.readmeridian.org/view/49/#pag....

Not to pile on, but every 'c' in 'Pacific Ocean' is pronounced differently.

A petition you should sign! chng.it/Lffr4rjXsb

Reposting to bring this to the attention to various library friends who I think would appreciate it-- a great summary of the dilemma, and the list of "green flags" is awesome!

I'm psyched to have three poems in the latest (No. 15, Winter 2024) issue of Exacting Clam (@exactingclam.bsky.social), including one I wrote about my niece (growing up and) learning to drive. **sniff**

📣 New zine!! "A Librarian Against AI; or, I Think AI Should Leave" is a 40-page zine about why we should think twice about using & supporting generative AI. violetbfox.info/against-ai/ #noAI #zines

I'm thrilled that my poem "Ways to Gauge How Windy It Is" appears in the new issue (#26) of @JetFuelReview. Whee! www.jetfuelreview.com/tina-gross-f...

I highly recommend this recent talk (hosted by @Librarians2Pal) with Sim Kern and Rashid Khalidi: youtube.com/live/Y9z6SdKDv…#GreatBookRobberyry

I actually had not realized before watching this film that Palestinian prisoners (like Mohammed Batrawi) were forced to do this "work." #GreatBookRobbery

Before you say something mean about Henry Kissinger, take a breath and see if you can think of something meaner

Please join @aboutness.bsky.social & me on Mon Dec 4th for a watchalong of The Great Book Robbery (2012), a documentary about the 70,000 Palestinian books that were looted during the Nakba in 1948. The 57-minute film is available free at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdtCrCsKlw0 #GreatBookRobbery

Delighted as heck to have three poems in the second issue of Lost Pilots @lostpilotslit !! Including a typographical #oulipo one, beloved nerds.