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Maura Smale 😷💉

@maurasmale.bsky.social

Chief Librarian at Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, proud resident of the CUNYverse, striving for #critlib/antiracist practice, posts = my own. she/her maurasmale.com also maurasmale@mastodon.social

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Prisonculture@prisonculture.bsky.social · last wk.

I would like to suggest that seeking election or appointment to your library board is a very good way to address book bans. Applications for our 2027 cohort are now open for those interested: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... - we need leftists to engage in governance.

FTP Library Elections & Appointments Training Cohort

Hello! You're filling out this form because you've expressed interest in running for or seeking appointment to a local library board seat in your community (or because you're a serving trustee who'd l...

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Unite Against Book Bans@uabookbans.bsky.social · last wk.

Banned Books Week starts today! This year’s theme is: #LetBooksBe What do you think books should be? Share your answer in the comments: ✨ Let Books Be Free 🎉 Let Books Be Fun 🌎 Let Books Be Diverse 💡 Let Books Be Thought-Provoking ❤️ Let Books Be Themselves

Drawn image of a woman reading, surrounded by books, birds, flowers, clouds, vines, stars. Text reades: Protect the Freedom to Read - Let Books Be - Banned Books Week, Oct. 4-10, 2026. American Library Association. ala.org/bbooks
Roxanne Shirazi@roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's graduation day, so I get to celebrate all of our new dissertations and theses in this massive year-in-review post! The work is never easy, but to cross that finish line during our omnicrisis is even more impressive. Congratulations to all of our grads, from the @minareeslibrary.bsky.social! 🥳

Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2025–26 - Graduate Center Library Blog

Today is Commencement Day at the Graduate Center, and we are again marking the occasion by celebrating the culminating works of our graduates, most of which are deposited in the Mina Rees Library to b...

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Honey & Wax Booksellers@honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Six weeks to go to apply for the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, $1000 for an outstanding book collection built by a woman, aged 30 or younger. See details & past winners on our website! This is the tenth and final year of the prize, so if you’ve been holding off on applying, seize the day.

A young woman reads a book under a tree, with the heading: Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize 2026.”
CUNY Digital History Archive@cdha.bsky.social · 6mo ago

✨ May 4, 6-8pm ✨ We are thrilled to co-sponsor this timely conversation on the new McCarthyism on campus, with Mariame Kaba, Jeanne Theoharis + archivists/student journalists from Brooklyn College and WKCR 89.9FM. Join us @ CUNY Grad Center! @prisonculture.bsky.social @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social

We Know It Well: Red Scare at CUNY and the Archival Politics of Dissent - Center for the Humanities

Join archivists, activists, and scholars for an evening of study and strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses. This panel discussion features Mariame Kaba, Jeanne Theoharis, ...

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Kaetrena@kaetrena.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It's National Library Week! As we celebrate libraries, don't forget to make some time for employee care and care practice. Next week, join Nicole A. Cooke, Jaena Alabi, & me for iREAL's "Considering Collective Care and Radical Empathy in Library Workplaces." Register at: tinyurl.com/yrr293kc

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Considering Collective Care and Radical Empathy in Library Workplaces. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

iREAL faculty members Jaena Alabi, Nicole Cooke, and Kaetrena Davis Kendrick will explore frameworks that identify barriers and pathways to care and empathy in library work and collegial networks. Att...

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Violet Fox 🦊@violetbfox.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I wrote about some of the unreasonable requests I've gotten as a candidate for library jobs, and how employers might make the interview process less dehumanizing. acrlog.org/2026/02/05/m... 📚

Making the Academic Librarian Interview Less Painful - ACRLog

To be unexpectedly unemployed in the U.S. is to be in a state of desperation. If you haven’t been out of work lately, it’s a particularly challenging time. The labor market is cooling, and people are ...

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