Alice Corble
@dralicecorble.bsky.social
Transdisciplinary scholar-activist-educator working on anticolonial library and archival praxis at UCL. Neurospicy Queer. Always (un)learning. Own views not my employer's etc.
Commission an immediate public inquiry to ensure we never see a tragic death like Dr Arday's again. goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Rest in Peace Dr Jason Arday. Such devastating and abhorrent news. Deepest condolences to his family, loved ones, and all have been touched by his intellect, insight, integrity, humility, and humanity. #RacismKills #AcademiaKills #MediaKills #BlackLivesMatter #BlackAutismMatters #NoJusticeNoPeace
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
New CILIP website is a mess of AI slop images. Check out the images of senior professionals and try and imagine the prompt that generated them. All backed by walls of fake books that look like the ones sold by the yard to furnish pubs www.cilip.org.uk/learn-develo...
Chartered Fellowship - FCLIP
A mark of highest distinction and visionary leadership. You’ve shaped the profession. Now, join its most prestigious ranks. Fellowship (FCLIP) is the highest level of professional registration awarde...
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I had a wonderful chat with @bmitra.bsky.social about the promising potential of atproto for creating emancipatory information access systems - check out @jedi-workshop.bsky.social and arxiv.org/abs/2601.09600 So much valuable know-how that would be amazing to apply for search/IR on atproto ✨ >
Information Access of the Oppressed: Freirean Design for Emancipatory Information Access
Online information access (IA) platforms are targets of authoritarian capture. We explore the question of how to safeguard our platforms and ensure emancipatory outcomes through the lens of Paulo Frei...
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Happy Librarians Day everybody. Here's my colleagues - #PublicLibrarians from #CapeTown. youtu.be/ztprrqbKLrQ?
City marks South African Librarians Day by welcoming 23 new library leaders
YouTube video by City of Cape Town
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Calling all UK & US #publiclibraryworkers! Please consider completing this timely and important research survey by my UCL Department of Information Studies MA student @juliagmac.bsky.social, examining #publiclibrary "neutrality" amid cuurent cultural-political polarisation. #critlis #librarysky
@juliagmac.bsky.social · 2mo agoReaching out to US+UK public librarians with a survey! Public libraries are increasingly navigating complex social issues. This study examines how librarians apply neutrality in such contexts. Please share! qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... #library #critlib #libraries @dralicecorble.bsky.social
An interview with @dlocaribbean.bsky.social was just published in @archivoz.bsky.social. "The Caribbean in the Open: Inside the Digital Library of the Caribbean," is in English (www.archivozmagazine.org/en/) & Spanish (www.archivozmagazine.org).
About us - Archivoz
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Hot off the press! Check out our newest dLOC handbook, co-authored by @chancyms.bsky.social & @katielcoldiron.bsky.social! dloc.com/AA00115422/0...
"You cannot hope to benefit from a “shared history” with someone if you completely refuse to entertain, even for a second, just what their experience of that history was." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reform’s temper tantrum about slavery reparations shows it doesn’t understand Britain’s place in the modern world | Kojo Koram
The party’s talk of visa bans for countries seeking reparative justice is not just undemocratic – it displays staggering ignorance about geopolitics, says professor of law and political economy Kojo K...
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#MustRead from Giroux “A society that embraces cruelty as virtue, ignorance as governance and violence as destiny risks losing its capacity for judgment. Under such conditions, democracy does not simply erode. It is obliterated, giving way to forces that make #fascism possible.” #CulturalStudies
McMaster Faculty of Humanities@mcmasterhum.bsky.social · 4mo agoProfessor Henry Giroux warns of Trump's dangerous fusion of militarism, spectacle, authoritarian politics and religious fundamentalism. https://news.mcmaster.ca/analysis-donald-trumps-profane-and-menacing-threats-against-iran-expose-the-unhinged-language-of-war/
Please sign and share this petition to set up an independent inquiry into the unfair placement of West Indian children into Educationally Subnormal (ESN) schools from the 1950s to the early 1970s. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
Petition: Set up an independent inquiry into West Indian children placed in ESN schools
We want the Government to commission an independent inquiry into the unfair placement of West Indian children into Educationally Sub Normal (ESN) schools from the 1950s to the early 1970s. This inquir...
petition.parliament.uk
#OTD in 1942, Walter Rodney was born. In this post I reflect on his life through one of his most popular works, "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa". I consider the imperative of the continuous process of learning and unlearning and a Sankofa state of mind. folukeafrica.com/walter-rodne...
Walter Rodney: Illuminating the road from mental slavery
The mind achieves freedom last.
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dLOC endorses the Freedom School Spring 2026 Webinar Series from our friends at Archiving the Black Web. For more information, including registration links, please visit www.archivingtheblackweb.org/events/
1/3 There is and End of Days feel about Western Hegemony right now. A half millennia in which the West hoarded much of the world’s wealth, plundering, colonising and burning through fossil fuels, is ending in a paroxysmal, Trumpian blunder. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Antony Beevor: Trump shows signs of dementia. He can’t be controlled
The bestselling historian, 79, has written about some of humanity’s darkest moments — and believes the West is totally unprepared for the threats it faces
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“The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.” —Muhammad Ali on refusing to fight in Vietnam No to War, No to Empire: An Anti-Imperialist Reading List
No to War, No to Empire: An Anti-Imperialist Reading List
“The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.” —Muhammad ...
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One of the things I talk about in my work is how we erroneously believe that the passage of time is what brings about change. In actual fact, it is our action to change things that brings about the passage of time. Otherwise, we are trapped in repeating and expanding patterns.
Siddarth Soni starting his keynote with a Jesse Shera quote contextualising his idea of activist librarians and radical librarianship. #CopimConference
“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.” —Ursula K. Le Guin
Latest additions to the Studies in Imperialism series: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/studi...
The BBC removed part of Akinola Davies Jr.’s winning speech at last night’s #BAFTAs: “Archive your loved ones. Archive your stories yesterday, today, and forever. For Nigeria, for London, the Congo, Sudan, free Palestine.” (deadline.com/2026/02/bbc-...)
If you weren't around at the time and never heard what Jackson's oratory was like, this is what it was like. If you heard it before, you know you want to hear it again.
Shannan Clark@shannanclark.bsky.social · 6mo agoRocks just laying around...
Extremely interesting case relating to responsibilities for providing access to colonial archives that have a significant commercial relevance ... giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Belgian museum caught in row over trove of DR Congo mineral records
KoBold Metals and DR Congo are pushing a Brussels museum to release records that would help map valuable metals
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I get so angry with people (the usual suspects) having a go at organisations like the RNLI or National Trust. One claimed that the lifeboats were for the use of English people only. Sorry nothing could be further from the truth. The original resolutions of the Royal National Lifeboat 1/3
This is a fab explainer of many of the issues HE is facing. Solidarity to our @unisonmmu.bsky.social colleagues who are fighting for us all. Brilliant to see the student support and solidarity too. youtu.be/uIqntto9TdY?...
“Universities Are On Fire”: Staff Strike at MMU Over Pay
YouTube video by The Northern Rose
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every single librarian on this site whether they work primarily with academics or the public or practitioners has had to patiently explain — while their expertise is questioned — that hardly anything is digitized, actually.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 6mo agoA lot of people really don’t realize that there is a vast amount of information out there that is not online and plausibly never will be, or can’t be.
Racism is not a mental health condition or a cognitive issue, it is simply racism. Implying that it is a form of pathology is a great distancing tactic to avoid engaging with your own role in it!
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6mo agoJust want to say, I see all the comments saying it’s a sign of his senility or mental decline. You could be right but I have a thing about linking racism to mental acuity. Not sure it needs to be, most of the time, and I don’t like the idea of racism as deviant, for a lot of reasons.
