Metro NY Library Council's Cross-Reference Coalition — an experimental school connecting librarians, archivists, grad students, artists, designers — is accepting applications for our fall class exploring PUBLIC STUDY: alternative/radical/progressive schools, lrng communities... crc.metro.org/apply/

We are welcoming applications for the paid, remote, part-time Ask A Librarian Internship at Columbia University Libraries, for fall 2026 and spring 2027! The internship provides LIS students with hands-on experience in academic librarianship. Apply by July 19th: library.columbia.edu/about/jobs-i...

plg returns! slowly but surely. watch this space for more details and future directions, but in the meantime visit the website and read our latest letter www.progressivelibrariansguild.org/content/news...

Columbia University Libraries is hiring an Instruction & Research Librarian! They will be a key contributor to reference and instruction in the Humanities & History unit. I'm on the search committee and can answer questions or point you to the right person. academic.careers.columbia.edu#!/180613

This is unreal. The 2026 code4lib conference has been cancelled unilaterally by Carnegie Mellon University because the Department of Education raised issues with the diversity scholarships: > An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]

If you're looking for a group of library workers who understand the power of labor organizing, social justice, & anti-racism, consider applying for the Library Freedom Institute. It's a 15-week program in privacy, intellectual freedom, & critical technology. libraryfreedom.org/institute/

Two folks (Fobazi and Elena) and their pup (Chloe) very deserving of any extra cash you have to toss their way! Fobazi's professional impact has been massive to many of us in the field and she's always been generous with her time and mind. Help them out through this intense, challenging time!

Fobazi M. Ettarh@fobettarh.bsky.social · last yr.

Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena gofund.me/c8485b58

Applications for the Ask A Librarian Internship are open for one more week! This paid, remote, part-time internship is open to currently enrolled Library & Information Science students. Apply by July 16. library.columbia.edu/about/jobs-i...

Hey IL folks! If you thought censorship was just impacting school librarians, take a look at my new article in @timeshighered.bsky.social exploring what challenges to intellectual freedom mean for HE teaching librarians, too. How do we shift our work from overload to absence?

Katherine Stiles@katherinestiles.org · last yr.

“The substantial challenges that authoritarian ideology poses to knowledge exchange mean that researchers must be prepared to safeguard their commitment to empirical insight.” 🖊️ @alisonhicks0.bsky.social via @timeshighered.bsky.social #US #HigherEducation #AcademicSky #EduSky #Censorship

"At present, no miracle has happened. The WIU Librarians will be gone in under a month, as our layoffs take effect May 14." Western Illinois University will attempt to be a university without a library. It doesn't take a red state to destroy a public good. savewiulibrarians.org/message.php

About to present "Two Decades of Critical Information Literacy: A Review of the Literature." Here are the presentation slides: tinyurl.com/TwoDecadesACRL & full paper: tinyurl.com/TwoDecadesPaper #acrl2025

Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.

Heading to #acrl2025! I’m presenting a paper on “Two Decades of Critical Information Literacy” and on a panel about remote internships & supporting LIS students. Looking forward to seeing folks there.

I am thinking of every IMLS worker today.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.

Call for proposals! Pleasure and Play: Finding Joy in LIS Work. "It seems like every day a new disaster begins as older ones fester...In light of everything that feels bad in the world, ACRL/NY’s 2025 symposium theme asks: what feels good in LIS?" acrlny.marketinglibraries.org/2025symposiu...

📝 CfP 📝 @hellobrittparis.bsky.social & I are editing a special issue of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies on labor organizing in libraries and information fields. We greatly encourage contributions from library workers. More info here: journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...

support archives and archivists sufficiently in times of normal operation so we can do our jobs in times of crisis. read about ongoing efforts before your library of alexandria comparisons. respect the expertise of people who have been doing the work. fund permanent archival and preservation labor.

Happy New Year, y’all! If you’ve ever found my words helpful to you and your life, please read and share this post. Thank you, and I appreciate y’all in advance! :) fobaziettarh.com/2025/01/07/n...

New Year, New Problems

The good news is that after a month in the hospital, I’m finally going home! The bad news is that I spent a month in the hospital, including Christmas and New Years, and some of that time I don’t e…

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✍️ Submissions are open for our upcoming special issue: "(More Than) A Decade of Critical Librarianship: Reflections and Speculations." Deadline for proposal submission is Jan. 17, 2025. See details: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

My latest for @truthout.bsky.social

Truthout@truthout.org · 2y ago

As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.

Some thoughts of what we as librarians should be thinking about and doing before the darkness: open.substack.com/pub/aradical...

What is to be done now, libraries?

Last Friday, I travelled to New York City for a meeting.

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[kudos to my colleagues for writing this] "We fail to see how studying silently amounts to a disruption, and we reject the bans issued in response. We write to let study-in participants know that there are library workers who stand in solidarity with them." www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...

Dave Ghamandi's Eight Theses on Scholarly Communications (/Open Access). ♥️ ghamandi.hcommons.org/2024/07/26/e...

Go Penn libraries staff!!! pennlibrariesunited.github.io 📚📜

"including student employees as active participants in the hiring process is not only a valuable experiential learning opportunity, but also shifts power dynamics ... creating a better hiring process for student applicants." 📜📚 #libraries

In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 2y ago

Not Business as Usual: Incorporating LIS Student Perspectives in the Apprenticeship Hiring Process by Estefania Eiquihua, Karen Adjei, Janelle Lyons, and Megan E. Welsh

I’m recruiting an MLIS student for a paid internship this Fall 2024 to work on a series of online tutorials. You can find more information here: library.usfca.edu/oisj_internshi…. Feel free to share! Apply by July 1! 📚