Hi y'all. Jaena here. I am the program manager of SF Public Library's Filipino American Center. All things Filipino, all the time. Say hi! sfpl.org/locations/ma...

We've published some exciting archives-related articles this year and would like to accept more submissions like these, but we need your help! Please share this call for volunteers to serve on the editorial board with your #archives colleagues

Mahjong at the library went really well! We played HK and Filipino-styles. Join our newsletter to find out about the next mahjong day! @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social libraryaware.com/4321/Subscri...

Proof of life: In which the author reflects on a year filled with joy, travel experiences in Japan and Germany, personal milestones, and significant growth in mental health, emphasizing gratitude and commitment to embrace life further. jaenarae.com/2026/05/08/p...

It's not too late to register! Workshop: Musings and Mahjong Play 🗓️ Saturday, May 9 🕑 2 - 5 p.m. 📍Latino/Hispanic Room, Lower Level, @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social sfpl.org/events/2026/...

Workshop: Musings and Mahjong Play 🗓️ Saturday, May 9 🕑 2 - 5 p.m. 📍 @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social, Latino/Hispanic Room, Lower Level

Discuss Filipino immigration with Emil Amok this Saturday at @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social! sfpl.org/events/2026/...

Looking for volunteer opportunities? Consider volunteering for the Filipino American International Book Festival in October! Details here: filbookfestival.org/volunteer

📣 Calling all Filipino American voices and storytellers! FilBookFest 2026 is officially accepting author/panel proposals! Visit our website filbookfestival.org SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 31, 2026

Re-reading this piece helped me think through some things today. I'm sharing in case it can help someone else.

Another Way of Knowing: Resisting Eugenic Propaganda Through Community Archiving by Jess Petrazzuoli-Gallagher and Ashten Vassar-Cain www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/resisti...

"Even when disabled people appear in the archive, they appear as objects of intervention rather than witnesses to their own lives. When disability materials are [viewed] according to the medical model, the archive reproduces the very framework that justified confinement and cure" #CripLib

Hot. Library. Scholarship. 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Equity > "neutrality" (scare quotes mine, but "neutrality" really must always be in quotation marks, amirite?) 📚

on archival death

'In a way, the archive may act akin to the institution itself, dressing harm and isolation in the language of “care,” and participating in epistemic injustice against people with disabilities and their many “ways of knowing.”' #CripLib

#DailySkeletor #affirmation

Learn all about mahjong: the history, the variations, and the rules! Saturday May 9, 2-5pm. @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social sfpl.org/events/2026/...

Try your hand at kalat poetry for National Poetry Month! In Tagalog, kalat means clutter. It's a word often used to describe the messy spaces we're told to hide. 🗓️ Saturday, April 25 🕑 11 a.m. - 12:30 pm 📍@sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social, Hormel Center, 3rd floor

Curious about the language app, Mango Languages? We'll show you how to use it to access Filipino lessons + more as part of Tech Week! @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social sfpl.org/events/2026/...

Hey literary crowd! Please consider helping to fund this Kickstarter that blends Filipino and German folklore. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lau...

Happy National Librarian Day!! Thank a librarian who has had a positive impact in your life. It helps.

📣 Calling all Filipino American voices and storytellers! FilBookFest 2026 is officially accepting author/panel proposals! Visit our website filbookfestival.org SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 31, 2026

OK, that might be enough library and literary promotion for today. EXCEPT! It's the highly celebrated NIGHT OF IDEAS at @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social tonight! nightofideas.org/san-francisco/

Hey literary crowd! Please consider helping to fund this Kickstarter that blends Filipino and German folklore. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lau...

Try your hand at kalat poetry for National Poetry Month! In Tagalog, kalat means clutter. It's a word often used to describe the messy spaces we're told to hide. 🗓️ Saturday, April 25 🕑 11 a.m. - 12:30 pm 📍@sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social, Hormel Center, 3rd floor

Curious about the language app, Mango Languages? We'll show you how to use it to access Filipino lessons + more as part of Tech Week! @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social sfpl.org/events/2026/...

Learn all about mahjong: the history, the variations, and the rules! Saturday May 9, 2-5pm. @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social sfpl.org/events/2026/...

How did radical women navigate Bengal's 'age of fire'? Oyeshi Ganguly explores what oral history can tell us about the female revolutionaries who took up arms against British rule.

We have a part-time library associate role at the Englewood Public Library(CO)! This would be a great role for someone with customer service and/or library experience. Schedule: Mon - Thur: 2 - 7:30 pm; Saturdays 9-5 $22.31 - $33.47/Hourly Apply by April 23 recruiting2.ultipro.com/CIT1034EGW/J...

With support from major publishing houses, New York Community Trust, and author David Baldacci, PEN America is developing a U.S. Author Safety Program to help protect writers facing harassment and threats in retaliation for their work, their identities, and their advocacy: pen.org/press-releas...

Y’all know what really helps with how you view/feel about your body? Having A LOT of tattoos you are happy with.

@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social has been straight up cooking lately

From Sarah Lamdan and @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social: "Librarianship at the Crossroads of Ice Surveillance" (2019): www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-sur... #indielib26

"The definition of neutrality that LC, and by extension LCSH, seems to favor is one of passivity. Neutrality as indifference to social realities..." #CritCat

"... the neutrality justification appears to be a smokescreen to cover up discomfort with a term that called out white racism; mandating neutrality in this case meant privileging being inoffensive to white people over acknowledging a widely accepted critique of systemic racism." #CritCat

Operationalizing Minimal Computing Values Through Shared Computing-Platform Development: A Case Study of DigitalArc and Opaque Publisher by Kalani Craig,Michelle Dalmau and Sean Purcell www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/digital...

It was a joy and honor to serve as the internal reviewer for this thoughtful #DigitalHumanities piece by @kalanicraig.bsky.social @mdalmau.bsky.social and Sean Purcell

Big thanks to @acls1919.bsky.social's Digital Justice grant for supporting DigitalArc and giving us the space to publish one of what we hope will be a few more articles/presentations focusing on the DigitalArc toolkit & platform.

Part 2 is out! Big hugs to my friends & coauthors, @kalanicraig.bsky.social & Sean Purcell. We grow so much from @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social 's open peer review process. Big thanks to @quinnanya.me @plach.bsky.social & @schomj.bsky.social for being awesome reviewers & editors.

"DigitalArc (DA), was designed to support the creation of low-cost sustainable digital exhibits and archives built by and for communities who want to control how their histories are presented online."

Call for archives professionals Link to full call: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Making Sense of GenAI Amidst AI Hype and AI Personalization by Sarah Morris www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/ai-hype...

"What does it mean to critically engage with something in the midst of being inundated with outlandish propaganda? ... Within a hype cycle, embracing a critical approach involves not just information and understanding but the confidence and knowledge to make and share critical views and arguments."

"While it is important for learners to understand AI, I feel that it is also key for learners to be able to reflect upon and identify how AI is making them feel and how they are responding to AI, increasingly important given how persuasive AI hype and personalization can be."

"concern about being qualified... was not the main barrier to [non-Māori librarians' willingness to engage with Māori issues]... much of the time, the knowledge required was at the level of attempting a basic reference desk request or consulting an online dictionary."

Super proud to be the publishing editor of this article!

Fear and Burnout At the Interface of Librarianship and Māori Knowledge in Aotearoa New Zealand by Kathryn Oxborrow Vambe www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/librari...

"... being committed to ongoing engagement with Māori knowledge can be personally rewarding as well as contributing to creating a more welcoming profession for Māori librarians. Creating opportunities for non-Māori librarians to share those positive experiences ... could be a really powerful tool"

Looking for volunteer opportunities? Consider volunteering for the Filipino American International Book Festival in October! Details here: filbookfestival.org/volunteer