Evri: Knock Knock. Me: Who's there? Evri: 🏃...........💨 📦 Me: ........who's there...? ...
🦇🤘 Miscreant Jennie 🔶️🏳️🌈@rigg.lgbt · 6d agoWeird. *I* had a joke about Evri but my delivery was terrible
Darren Flynn (he/him/his)
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Lecturer in Library and Information Studies at UCL. PhD student researching social class in the academic library workforce. Co-organiser of Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference (CALC) and member of Fair Library Jobs.
🦇🤘 Miscreant Jennie 🔶️🏳️🌈@rigg.lgbt · 6d ago
IR should reconnect with its roots in library and information sciences that engages w/ liberatory concerns. Libraries have been at the forefront of antifascist and decolonial resistance throughout history across the globe. (Shout out to @patchedelbows.bsky.social for inviting me to #CALC26!) 48/
Was just having this conversation with colleagues - surely if we're meant to be a membership organisation and you need photos - involve the membership (or at least photos from conferences that the organiation has put on etc). It is really not that difficult!
Mashed Libraries 2008, me trying to sign up to the venue WiFi so still relevant today 😅 (credit @huddersfield.exposed) #CILIPGetReal flic.kr/p/5EJsbF)
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Darren Flynn (he/him/his)@patchedelbows.bsky.social · 2w agoI'll tell you what's especially sad; there's lots of great *real* photos of library-land out there that could have been crowd-sourced and used instead. May I respectfully submit LILAC2016 me doing my past faux-coy and camp "oh hello there" to the photographer. Source: www.flickr.com/photos/lilac...
I'll tell you what's especially sad; there's lots of great *real* photos of library-land out there that could have been crowd-sourced and used instead. May I respectfully submit LILAC2016 me doing my past faux-coy and camp "oh hello there" to the photographer. Source: www.flickr.com/photos/lilac...
AlanFricker@alanfricker.bsky.social · 2w agoNew 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...
I guess I should also share that @patchedelbows.bsky.social has been hard at work too, meaning you can watch Maria Planansky and Kevin Adams' talk on procurement and the prison industrial complex, also from #CALC26 🎉 youtu.be/oKVM_0_jlOE?...
Maria Planansky & Kevin Adams - Procurement and the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC)
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A thoughtful post on the value of the MLIS in response to an IHE article by a library administrator proposing alternative credentialing for library roles acrlog.org/2026/06/25/t...
The MLS Is Not the Problem: A Response - ACRLog
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Ben Rawlins, Associate Dean for Outreach, Engagement and Collections at the University of Kentucky Libraries. Bryn Geffert's recent Inside Higher Ed es...
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18 years together and we finally went ahead and did it! 💕🤵🤵🌈 Absolute joy to share an amazing weekend with my family and friends. Just about down from the clouds to get back to regular life ☁️
'We seek a humanities- or social‑science‑led researcher whose work examines how people experience, interpret, and are shaped by social and cultural aspects of the digital.' Ignore the ranking patter but do read the advert. Could this be you? 1/2 #Skystorians
Jane Winters@jfwinters.bsky.social · 2mo agoPermanent, full-time Lectureship in Digital Culture and Society at UCL. Closing date 28 June www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
That email coming at the very end of the day was a bit much. I continue to wonder what unifies university administrators that leads to this kind of decision making. It’s gotta be a class thing, right? They like AI because it mimics the output of the PMC?
Really pleased to share our next #CALC26 recording. This is our first keynote from Rodney E. Freeman Jr. discussing his journey of discovery in the history of Black Librarianship in the USA and his new film 'Are You a Librarian?' #CritLib #LibrarySky #Skybrarians 📚 youtu.be/7PBLdGVPW9U
Keynote1: Rodney E Freeman Jr ; May Day!
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Just reread this, and feels wrong to brag but I am really, really proud of it, on pay and the state of the sector sites.google.com/view/fairlib...
Fair Library Jobs - Pay and Grey Areas
26th October 2025, by Kirsten Elliott At Fair Library Jobs we’ve had a few jobs brought to our attention recently because they pay badly. While we’ll call out pay that is lower than the Real Living ...
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FairLibraryJobs@fairlibraryjobs.bsky.social · 2mo agoReminder: we have a newsletter! Very occasional posts, but if you'd like to here about manifesto changes etc. sign up here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Our new survey for neurodivergent library staff is out now! If you have a mo, we would really appreciate the feedback 😀 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
NLISN Evaluation June 2026
NLISN.org is completing our annual plan for 26/27, and we would like to know your thoughts. If you are neurodivergent and work in the library and information sector, then we would appreciate it if you...
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Next #CALC26 recording is out, this one is Julia Dielmann presenting her MA dissertation research 🌈'The Rainbow Point of View: LGBTQ+ identity, outness and their impact on the professional practice of German librarians' 🌈 #CritLib #Skybrarians #LibrarySky youtu.be/EEdotbJwxp0
Julia Dielmann - The 'rainbow point of view'
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Along with these beautiful visuals, really pleased to share the now-captioned recording of @bmitra.bsky.social's keynote talk 'Information Access of the Oppressed' from #CALC26. youtu.be/lW8LNlYcdpQ #LibrarySky #Skybrarians #CritLib 📚
Keynote: Bhaskar Mitra; Information Access of the Oppressed
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Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র@bmitra.bsky.social · 3mo agoSuch a wonderful visual summary of my recent keynote 🎤 at #CALC26 📚 conference. Huge thanks to Becky Ullah (Sketchnotes UK) for capturing this so brilliantly, and to @patchedelbows.bsky.social and @michelleab.bsky.social for inviting me to the conference. 🙏🏽 Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/17qM5...
Here's a 30 min speed run through some of the many issues w/ AI in Education. #AiIsTheProblem #AiIsCrap #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLSkyChat #SchoolLibrary
Darren Flynn (he/him/his)@patchedelbows.bsky.social · 2mo agoFirst of our #CALC26 recordings is out! 🥳 In this session @drtlovesbooks.bsky.social makes a strong case for 'Why School Librarians Should be Luddites'. Really interesting and energetic session discussing tech, GenAI and school libraries 📚 #CritLib #LibrarySky #Skybrarians youtu.be/XB6MzhCupwU
First of our #CALC26 recordings is out! 🥳 In this session @drtlovesbooks.bsky.social makes a strong case for 'Why School Librarians Should be Luddites'. Really interesting and energetic session discussing tech, GenAI and school libraries 📚 #CritLib #LibrarySky #Skybrarians youtu.be/XB6MzhCupwU
Steve Tetreault - Why school librarians should be Luddites.
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Such a wonderful visual summary of my recent keynote 🎤 at #CALC26 📚 conference. Huge thanks to Becky Ullah (Sketchnotes UK) for capturing this so brilliantly, and to @patchedelbows.bsky.social and @michelleab.bsky.social for inviting me to the conference. 🙏🏽 Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/17qM5...
very delighted that I can now announce the Homosaurus was successful in two seperate #SSHRC applications. First up is a $50,000 Connections Grant "A Community de communautés: supporting the Québécois Homosaurus" which supports the implementation of the #Homosaurus in QC-FR
Thanks very much, both for the kind words amd the invite to share with #CALC26 attendees! I hope a few folks will start thinking of themselves as Luddites, and encourage others to critically examine new Ed tech, esp the current AI push.
This was an awesome session, can't wait to get the recording up for folks to see #CALC26 Reminder also of @drtlovesbooks.bsky.social's chapter in Radical School Librarianship 📚 www.facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/...
Radical School Librarianship
When facing a rapidly changing, frequently reactionary, and unknown future, school librarian leaders from around the globe are taking radical approaches to protecting and teaching the foundational cor...
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Judi Moreillon, PhD@judimoreillon.bsky.social · 3mo agoCheck out #CALC26 Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference session by @drtlovesbooks.bsky.social Steve Tetreault "Why school librarians should be Luddites." Steve asks #TLSky #EduSky to be thoughtful as we consider the uses of AI in K-12 ed. #RadicalLibrarianship drive.google.com/file/d/1tZ9R...
Fantastic keynote 👏 So glad you could join us
Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র@bmitra.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt was a real privilege to present a keynote address this morning titled "Information Access of the Oppressed: Envisioning Emancipatory Information Access Platforms" at the The Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference (CALC) 2026. #CALC26 Slides: bhaskar-mitra.github.io/files/Inform...
I have been really enjoying the different conference sessions; it's been particularly exciting given IR's roots are in library and information sciences. #CALC26
