"This article speaks to the cultural context of the harm that racism and colonialism cause for Indigenous peoples that they encounter in institutions of higher education, including libraries." www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/more-th...

Winds may roar and seas may rise, But the heart of Jamaica never dies. Strong in spirit, brave, and true— The world stands hand in hand with you.🧡 Paws In for the Land of Wood and Water.🐾🙏 #HurricaneMelissa #hedgewatch

10 book censorship posts to revisit, plus this week's roundup of book censorship news. Y'all, it's been a DOOZY of a week. bookriot.com/10-book-cens...

FROM THE CARIBBEAN TO CALEDONIA Lorna Goodison, the former Poet Laureate of Jamaica, in conversation with Scotland's Makar, Peter Mackay. Recorded outdoors beside the River Nith at the Robert Burns Ellisland Farm & Museum. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/podcast/from...

Can't make it to the live talk? Go ahead & register to receive a link to the recording!

The International Day of Sign Languages celebrates the linguistic identities of the Deaf community and all who use sign language. John Bulwer was the first person in Britain to advocate for the education of deaf people. His 1644 book explores the communicative and rhetorical power of hand gestures.

Received the print copy of my book (out next week!). Obligatory shot with @theul.bsky.social in the background.

"Layered both literally and figuratively on top of the future pathway of the Google internet infrastructure, the sugarcane railway tracks evoke the longevity of colonial infrastructures as well as the ideologies underlying them." – @emmaquilty.bsky.social datasociety.net/points/confr...

Yet another demonstration that AI is not a labor-saving device; it merely displaces the cleanup and mitigation (in realms where care, caution, accuracy, etc., actually matter) onto other people

One more week to complete this survey (closing 15 Sep). So far v few responses from #IrishLibrarians - would be great if @victoriarend.bsky.social could capture insights on linguistic diversity and #Gaeilge provision in #Éire & #TuaisceartÉireann #LeabharlannaPoiblí #PublicLibraries #LanguageRights

All the ascendant instances of fascism, imperialism, oppression, and death-making we're seeing globally are interconnected, feeding on and gaining strength from each other. The ways we oppose those forces need to be equally interconnected and mutually empowering.

From @theguardian.com: 📜📚 ‘State-driven censorship’: new wave of book bans hits Florida school districts www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A number of people who have read "Let This Radicalize You" are unaware that we made numerous resources and tools to accompany the book. You can find all of them here including a workbook, discussion guide, zines and more. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

💯 liberals love a bit of legislation but have no care for whether the actual problem is addressed

🤦‍♀️ Library books dumped on pavement 'unacceptable' www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happy #NationalLibrariansDay and Happy 133rd Birthday to the Godfather of #LibraryScience #SRRanganathan ! #LibrariesAreMadeofPeople #LibraryWorkers #TheLibraryIsAGrowingOrganism www.isibang.ac.in/~library/por...

Still time to contribute to this important UK-based #publiclibrary study by @victoriarend.bsky.social - do share with relevant networks and communities! #LibraryLanguages

Gaza is now single deadliest conflict for journalists in history. This is not only an attempt to extinguish a whole people, it is also an attempt to extinguish the story of their genocide. “One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Egyptian-Canadian writer, Omar El Akkad. #Gaza

Have you done some fun work with museums/archives/cultural spaces (anything beyond the academy, essentially) and want to tell people about it? Please do consider writing something for @socialhistsoc.bsky.social’s Community Exchange blog! #SHSConf2025

Award-winning, open access article on the absurdity of anti-immigration populism from my collage James Hampshire: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New collections added, pt 1 • Afghanistan Today (English language magazine, 1987-88) • De As (Dutch anarchism) • The State Adversary (New Zealand) • Variant Magazine (UK radical arts, 1980s-90s) • Unidade e Luta (PAIGC, Cape Verde) hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

"Thinking is difficult. That is why people prefer to judge." Jung

Out in paperback now and cannot recommend highly enough: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

never ever let someone tell you that libraries are neutral & apolitical (nor are museums, nor archives, nor art centres, nor histories..)

In this post I compiled a literature review of research about such gendered service disparities. These dynamics contributed to my resignation from a tenured full professorship last week.

Here's what me and my cat #Lilliput think of this ominous storm in a #library teacup. #TransLiberation #QueerLiberarion #LibrariesForEveryone #CatsForQueers #TruthToPower

This piece on Elsevier's stranglehold on academia pairs well with Sarah Lamdan's Data Cartels and Eliza Bettinger, et al's "Disrupting the Digital Status Quo: Why and How to Staff for Privacy in Academic Libraries," which we've been reading in my class this week ecommons.cornell.edu/items/3ef46e...

Groundbreaking new #LIS study on how #publiclibraries serve #multilingual and #heritagelanguage communities by @victoriarend.bsky.social. UK-based public library workers: please consider participating and circulating! #LibraryResearch #LinguisticJustice #KnowledgeEquity #IntangibleCulturalHeritage

Once you see clearly that many UK universities long ago ceased to be critical parts of state infrastructure, and became debt vehicles for the banks and other financial intermediaries, you see the situation a lot more clearly. Saves a lot of confusion and angst. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...

SCA are hosting a workshop as part of ‘Divergent Minds in the Archive’, an EDI Caucus-funded project investigating neurodivergence and archives. Find out more and apply to take part: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/call-...

Love the notion of the library as a "transdisciplinary collider space" articluated by Jonathan Bengston in his #LKFS2025 talk on ‪@uvic.ca‬ and the #KULAacademy - some impressive 'Liberating Knowledge Partnerships' going on there.

"there are 5 men with extractive control of most of the world's information ... that's the opposite of open, community-centred library values" Amina Shah of National Library of Scotland #LKFS2025

"the internet is just the sound system for the ideas in libraries" Christopher Smith of AHRC / UKRI #LKFS2025 @christophersmith.bsky.social did I remember it right?

Prof. Bridget Bennett showing us a circulating library along with potential knowledge futures in the closed book. The unquiet library - a disquiet & uncomfortableness leading to “libraries containing the possibilities of extraordinary liberating power” - a powerful statement #LKFS2025

This is SUCH a Huge problem that most people aren’t even aware of. All our sites have been affected by this at one time, & not just our archives but things like our open access journals we host. Our dev team are working on putting everything behind a firewall. But that’s no easy task.

The National Archives — The What and Why #library #archives 📚 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

This is a good thing. I can't tell you how my mental health improved when I had medical professionals agreeing I was NOT being weird, mildly obsessive, disorganised, wildly anxious, and messy 'on purpose' out of 'laziness'.

The Tax Justice Network lists three former British colonies, now overseas dependencies, as the most complicit jurisdictions in global tax abuse. They help deprive governments of $87bn per year, over 5 times the UK’s aid programme: www.declassifieduk.org/the-empire-n...

“We refuse to allow trans people to be the collateral of a right-wing culture war and while they continue to experience violence at home, in the workplace and on the airwaves, we will stand by them": bravo @ucu.org.uk. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

This is a brand new letter by “Not in Our Name - Women”, a collective group of cisgender women who support the transgender community and object to the false divide between women’s rights and transgender rights. If you’re a cis woman you can sign your support here ⤵️

This zine on racial literacy is an amazing resource to understand the critical grammar of ‘race’ & cognate concepts. It’s available online. I had the privilege to receive it from one of the authors herself. Helpful resource for coursework. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/asset/12880/...

If this arrives by my birthday (1 June) I will be happiest history person alive. And those of you trying to get reading into KS3, here's your Y8 answer. Stories, sources, scholarship all built in, not bolted on. Disciplinary journeys integrated by rich narrative. Magical planning by a fab team. ❤️

Eye-opening keynote on how the Library of Congress is basically controlling how information is managed & shared using their #SubjectHeadings internationally 🤯🤯 This may be a tough nut to crack... #CALC25 #InformationEquity

@iflaglobal.bsky.social #FAIFE Advisory Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression is "tracking closely developments in the United States that affect information freedom, which pose a systemic risk to the global information environment." www.ifla.org/news/ifla-fa...

In this week’s #Frontiers 🎙️Talking about Methods podcast🎙️Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Silvana Tapia Tapia about doing participatory research from an anti-colonial perspective. 🎧 Listen to the full podcast here:   frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/participator...

“What Enoch Powell says today, the Conservative Party says tomorrow, and the Labour Party legislates on the day after.” A. Sivanandan. Image source: @irrnews.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

Working on my censorship chapter in this timeline feels weird. Especially given the common misconceptions about #EarlyModern #Inquisition period & perceived civilization-barbarism dichotomy (people in the past were stupid & barbarian; religious ppl are barbaric). #BookHistory #BookBurning

A. Sivanandan 🔊“What Enoch Powell says today, the Conservative Party says tomorrow, and the Labour Party legislates on the day after.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... @rajeevsyal.bsky.social