I highly recommend Pagowsky’s dissertation to any librarian who has felt like abstract metrics are taking over our instruction work. I’m only part way through, but it’s already given words to many misgivings I have about the increasing surveillance assessment we are being coerced into.

Nicole Pagowsky, Ph.D.@nope4evr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Materializations of the Value Gaze: A Poststructural Analysis of Academic Library Instruction Value Discourse in Policy & Practice (dissertation) is now available to read repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150... keywords: critical policy studies; discourse analysis; library instruction; library value

these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions

In a new executive order, Trump has targeted the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients. www.everylibrary.org/statementiml...

Statement on Trump's Attack on Federal Funding for Libraries

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Schumer needs to be out of Democratic leadership. Dude doesn’t have a backbone. In fact, most of the leadership needs to go and be replaced with people who have integrity.

This video essay on how a bunch tech bros want to tear down the government to remake it as something serving them, and are well underway, is worth watching youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no

DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America

YouTube video by Blonde Politics | The Silly Serious

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Every 4 years, a team of libraries & research organizations work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. 🗳️ Get the latest on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive @eotarchive.org ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/u...

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence and neutrality. Our work in numbers from 2023:

What you would see if Andromeda was brighter in the night sky

Any academic library or writing center accounts here? Looking for my people