JOB POSTING! Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FSL_Em...

You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was. You made a difference—so much of a difference. Rest always in peace, and always in power.

I’m heartbroken to read this news. Alice was an amazing light and important voice. She will be missed by many. 💔

Statement from #ZLuC2025 Organizers: “We are sad to report that the Zine Librarians unConference was attended by a non-zine librarian in bad faith. She recorded the event without permission and posted her recordings. Please read the organizers’ statement about the violation.”

We (Wesleyan University) are hiring a Social Sciences Librarian, with an emphasis on economics, philosophy, religion, the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, and the Center for Prison Education. More info here: wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career... #LibJobs #LISJobs

This week has already turned us every way but loose and it ain’t even Wednesday, omg.

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚 --- UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’ www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

My teaching librarian friends, how are you doing? It’s been a lot. What a time to be out here trying to teach critical thinking and information literacy.

Every time I am at the library function my algo starts showing me the cutest sweaters.

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

a really fucking exhausting thing about this current moment is that any good faith efforts to reform or acknowledge short comings of knowledge producing and sense making institutions is promptly weaponized by people who want to burn the entire thing down and drown us in avalanche of bullshit

Librarian pals, have you experienced students filming themselves the entire time during open search time? First time for me and I have never seen that before. Is it like body doubling but with yourself?

JUST IN: An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 jolted the San Francisco area awake shortly before 3 a.m. on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

People are wondering how this'll look in action since 'Antifa' is an ideology not a centralized organization but remember when every baby, child & medical practitioner in Gaza was secretly Hamas for the past 23 months? So I think it'll look like whatever's convenient to jam you up at any given time

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Very excited to be a subscriber!!! We need independent and worker owned media so much right now.

The @newrepublic.com actually does very useful and helpful REPORTING. How about @propublica.org? Excellent. The @51st.news is doing excellent actual reporting. So is @thetriibe.com in Chicago. There are so many other places to get actual useful news.

Librarians (and honestly, everyone). Block and/or watch out for this account, which appears to be gathering posts critical of Charlie Kirk/right wing ideology. Note the misspelling of the handle.

Right winger gets murdered: he was the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived Right winger ends up being the murderer: he was also the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived

So excited about this!!! Congratulations @dorothyjberry.bsky.social!!!!

In response to a man being shot at Utah Valley University, a school with a ONE PERCENT black enrollment, threats are being made against HBCUs. You take the high road. I'm swinging.

‘New York Times’ Announces New Columnist Will Contribute Nothing To Society 3 Times A Week

And absolutely nothing will be done to prevent gun violence in this country. Instead I expect justification for more violence against people.

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

US Citizens have had their car windows smashed out and been dragged away to spend hours, sometimes days, in ICE detention. Very few have "promptly" gone free after being run down by heavily armed masked men jumping out of Penske trucks Let's be fucking real here

Regular reminder that there are some public libraries that HAVE been privatized and run by Library Systems and Services, and their communities overwhelmingly regret these privatizations.

It’s all an attitude of being fine with authoritarianism, just not in their preferred cities. High crime rates in Republican-led states isn’t a gotcha! It’s a tragedy and a canary in a coal mine about what systemic racism and poverty beget. Do better, y’all. Not one city should be occupied.

As book banning sweeps across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, brave librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy. A film by Kim A. Snyder. Opens UK 9/26 @berthadochouse.bsky.social, US 10/03 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social, rollout to follow. Tix: TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings

I'm looking for pitches for @MotherJones' print culture section, Mixed Media! These are ~2,000-word essays that combine reporting, cultural criticism, historical research, and/or personal narrative. More details in our pitch guidelines here: www.motherjones.com/contribute/w...

FYI…they don’t know when BART will be back up yet.

My book is absolutely great. My book is absolutely great. This is my mantra as I read it for the nth time while doing copyedit corrections. Please you guys preorder this book because I have suffered to deliver it to you lolsob (actually it really is great I’m just tired, please preorder)

Dear Chicago, the only liquid you should give the jagoffs from Texas is Malort.

Call for submissions - We are now open to academic articles, notes from the field (briefer and less formal than full articles), and creative works! cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/vol2/...

THEY VOTED TO RESTORE THE IMLS FUNDING. This isn't the end. It's nowhere near the end. But the House and Senate subcommittees voted to restore the IMLS in their budget markups. Full House budget markup is tomorrow.

Same here

We’re seeing what happens when you combine multiple generations raised amidst the War on Terror™️ in a conservative political culture, saturated by TV copaganda, real life guns, right wing conspiracies across all facets of social media, lack of history taught in schools, and poor job prospects.

Rutgers LIS is hiring in information policy, ad here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258... Applications due 10/15. Rutgers - in NJ - is a good place ot be, given the state of things. Strong union. Close to NYC and Philly. Holler if you have questions.

Here are the Lehigh Valley’s largest employers. Gonna be great for post-industrial economic development when all the hospitals, the school districts, local federal offices, & Lehigh & Lafayette have mass layoffs due to the dismantling of the entire federal government.

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now. www.weherepress.org

It's important to understand that he singles out Black women because there are few negative consequences for him when he does. It's his most frictionless lane for bullying. The broader public has shown him few, if any, will step up to defend us, and it's only ramped up since his first term.

sooo brave and honorable to be a white republican

This will end the Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) program (schools with >25% Latino undergrads). For reference, current flagships that are HSIs include Arizona and Arizona State, 5 UCs (Irvine, Riverside, Merced, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz), Rutgers, U New Mexico & NM State, UT Austin & UT El Paso

Chicago is one of the most important art history departments in the world. This is brutal.

🚨🚨🚨NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS HAS CANCELED ALL FY26 LITERARY FELLOWSHIPS PLEASE HOLLER AT ME IF YOU ARE A WRITER WHO GOT THE EMAIL TODAY🚨🚨🚨

Okay ALA…okay.

Here, fixed it.

His earning call last quarter was so flagrantly smug that I actually had faced the audio. So smug. Even for a CEO.

We deserve much better.

I saw "Together" in theatres. What a bad fucking movie, my god LOL. I could write a novel on my gripes with this film. I had fun seeing it with friends and having an in-depth yap session in the car after. But wow. Just awful.