This Thursday (Dec 11) from 10-11 MST (9am Pacific, noon Eastern) join us for an informational webinar about this position. Attendance won't be taken + info is in the link below

Job: the University of Arizona Libraries is hiring a Librarian with focus on Instructional Strategies and STEM (assistant/associate) to join our new cohort model of liaisons arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

How can Thanksgiving feel novel and engaging every year? We combed through The Post’s archives for Thanksgiving recipes that stood the test of time.

“The School of the Art Institute of Chicago on November 12 terminated three out of five employees at its Video Data Bank,… permanently eliminating their positions. The SAIC additionally announced major cutbacks to the international video art distribution organization.” 😢

Citing financial strain attributed to changes in enrollment, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago laid off 20 workers last week, including three of the five positions in the Video Data Bank.

It was a great panel! Thank you to everyone on the panel and the great questions from our attentive audience! Hopefully this starts a bigger conversation about the importance of studying (and teaching) geographic and spatial information in the field of informations studies.

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.

Content you purchased online shouldn’t disappear if a publisher and a tech company get into a fight. www.digitalrightsbytes.org/topics/wait...

Why Tucson rejected Amazon's attempt. theconversation.com/data-centers...

I've been the "Design Indexer" in rez at the Cooper Hewitt library this 😎. On Sept 10 we'll explore library resources that frame the INDEX itself — the Index of 🇺🇸 Design (the prjct's namesake), the index card, the manicule 👈, etc — as a material, designed thing, esp contra AI's indexical flattening

A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.

did some reporting on the impact of DOGE's cuts to the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the court cases that are preserving the agency (for now), Trump's threats to slash federal arts spending, and the importance of IMLS to libraries and schools everywhere: slate.com/life/2025/05...

This semester, all of my federal grants were terminated. In a new blog post, I write about the importance of federal funding for academic research and the impact of these cuts. @WebSciDL #NEH #IMLS #NSF ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/05/2025...

I’m not saying anything novel, but this is just so massively depressing to me. We were told by a student panel that classes are obstacles to internships, and that cost-benefit analyses legitimate and necessitate AI use. “We’re here to learn so we can drop the ‘L,’” one student said…

"Alleging Illegal Dismantling of National Endowment for the Humanities." Very important action here.

The judge in #ALA v Sonderling handed down a narrow TRO restraining the #IMLS from actions, including canceling more grants and terminating staff. Screen shot attached. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I’m happy to announce the publication of our article “Volumetric video: Preservation and curation challenges of an emerging medium,” in the International Journal of Digital Curation, with co-authors, Bryan Carter and Rashida Braggs, zacklischerkatz.com?p=660 PDF: doi.org/10.2218/ijdc...

Thank you to everyone who wrote a letter to the editor in support of libraries during National Library Week! Your voices make a big difference. bit.ly/3Ewqd6x via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Rampant use of police surveillance tech “really comes down to a question of, do we want to live in a city where all of us – all of us, not just 'criminals,' but all of us - are watched & listened to everywhere we go?” EFF's @joshrichman.bsky.social told @nbcbayarea.com.

Trump attacked Federal Funding for Libraries. We need Americans like you to take action today! Please sign and share the petition before it's too late! action.everylibrary.org/eoimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social Everyone loves libraries, archives and museums!

⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️ STARTING TOMORROW. Nevada. Arizona. Colorado. You, me, and Bernie. Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙 See you there 💪🏽🌞

Gutting IMLS is devastating. There’s funding to states that help provide access to the internet, electronic resources, programs that are meant to help the community. I don’t think people realize how big of a digital gap there is and how much libraries and museums supplement educational needs.

This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The library and the post office are the only two systems we have that circulate things widely and to everyone, no matter who they are or what they believe. The library is the only one that, for now, is not forced to pay for itself at point of sale. Attacks on IMLS are attacks on every one of us.

Re: new EO ✂️ the Institute for Museum + Library Services to its “statutory functions”: public libraries are mostly locally funded, but state libraries, tribal libraries, interlibrary loan, etc, rely heavily on IMLS www.infodocket.com/2025/03/15/e... action.everylibrary.org/what_does_fe...

Underfunding of public goods like public libraries requires many to apply for grants to agencies like IMLS. IMLS does important work that enables libraries, archives, and museums to serve us all.

This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔

EveryLibrary—the national political action committee for libraries—strongly opposes the proposed Fiscal Year 2026 budget cuts to the South Dakota State Library. www.everylibrary.org/statement_pr... via @everylibrary.bsky.social

VICTORY! After over a decade, a federal court has declared that warrantless backdoor searches of US person’s communications collected under Section 702 of FISA is unconstitutional.