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Violet Fox

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Very excited to announce the publication of the "Disorientation Guide to Librarianship"!! Featuring 48 pages & 23 contributors, this zine is a guide to recognizing oppressive structures in libraries. Printable and web-readable versions available: violetbfox.info/disorientation/

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“There can be no love without justice. Until we live in a culture that no only respects but also upholds basic civil rights for children, most children will not know love.” bell hooks instagr.am/p/CoQcfltNKJy/

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Happy (Early) Valentine Day! Here are a few ASL signs in a Valentine theme. There have video of ASL example in the comment. To learn more ASL, check out our website with all Deaf teachers and social media that teach ASL. 58creativity.com/learnasl

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Currently 0° F (-18° C) so we're trying out the new dog sweater. Her tail is wagging so vigorously in anticipation of a walk that it's unphotographable. #CricketSnoppy

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Excellent analysis of problems with

and Indigenous history by

Ph.D. student Kyle Keeler.

How Wikipedia Distorts Indigenous History

Native editors are fighting back.

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Aisha “Dr. Archivist” Johnson

@ElizabethADill

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, and I are collecting data for “More than a Checkbox: A Rubric to Assess Academic Librarian Job Applicant Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statements.” For more information and to complete the anonymous survey: usccmcis.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2b

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Library workers at ⁦

⁩ deserve a fair contract! ⁦

⁩ needs to bargain with essential library workers in good faith. #afscmestrong ⁦

⁩ #wemakechicagowork #faircontractnow

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Beautiful music being played during David's memorial, including some that he composed, arranged, and recorded.

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A packed room for David's memorial, despite the frigid temperature outside.

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Archival Workers' Collective / #AWEFund2020

New blog post: Remembering Anna Clutterbuck-Cook:

awefund.wordpress.com

Remembering Anna Clutterbuck-Cook

Dear friends,It is with sorrow that we share the news that Anna Clutterbuck-Cook has passed on. Anna joined the AWE Fund organizing group in its first days and was a brilliant, principled contribut…

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Librarians, we can do this...right?

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"Seed Funding Secured for NIKLA's Respectful Terminologies Project": new national platform for respectful Indigenous terminology, sponsored by the National Indigenous Knowledge and Language Alliance nikla-ancla.com/post/seed-fund #critcat

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Seed Funding Secured for NIKLA’s Respectful Terminologies Project

[English follows] COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE: lundi 30 janvier 2023 Financement de démarrage obtenu pour le Projet pour une terminologie respectueuse de l’ANCLA Camille Callison et Stacy Allison-Cassin,...

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Looking for feedback from library people! Working on an #LCSH proposal for "Body positivity movement" and would like other thoughts on our approach to adding it to the existing hierarchy. Any thoughts or questions are welcome! cataloginglab.org/kb/body-positi #cataloging #critcat

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Looking for feedback from library people! Working on an #LCSH proposal for "Body positivity movement" and would like other thoughts on our approach to adding it to the existing hierarchy. Any thoughts or questions are welcome! cataloginglab.org/kb/body-positi #cataloging #critcat

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PilsenCommunityBooks

@PilsenCommBooks

🐛NEW TOTE ALERT🐛 Designed by Landon Sheely and printed by Bearwood Editions, $5 from the sale of each bag will go to

to support activists facing repression. pilsencommunitybooks.com/?q=p.totes

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I’m assigning Homosaurus terms to the book Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. There’s “LGBTQ+ comics”, “Queer comics”, and “LBGTQ+ graphic novels”. I put in LGBTQ+ graphic novels but I’m still going back and forth on my decision. Advice? #critcat #cataloging #librarytwitter

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Reminder about the call for proposals for an upcoming

book: "Inclusive Cataloging: Philosophical Questions and Case Studies in Reparative Cataloging" sites.google.com/view/inclusive Proposals due Weds Feb 8. It's gonna be a great book to be a part of! #critcat #cataloging

sites.google.com

Call for Proposals

Inclusive Cataloging: Philosophical Questions and Case Studies in Reparative Cataloging

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Join APALA this Monday, February 6, at 2pm ET for a virtual presentation: “Incorporating the Experiences of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in LIS Education: A New Resource.” More info & registration: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist

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Heartbroken to hear of Anna's passing. Crafty in all the best ways, thoughtful, and intentional, she was a brilliant

organizer who organized the best craft auctions. Her critical and insightful vision for archives and archivists was inspiring. She will be so missed.

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This morning, the world lost a shining beacon of justice, equality, and love. Anna Clutterbuck-Cook (@feministlib) was brilliant, beautiful, fierce, gentle, generous, creative, strong, funny, incredibly intelligent, curious, and powerful.

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Why don’t rare book professionals wear white gloves when handling books? Short answer: to protect them! 🙌 To learn more about why – and where the white glove myth came from – check out my new episode of #BiteSizedBookHistory 📚 youtu.be/cDMpuIlxKPg

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This morning, the world lost a shining beacon of justice, equality, and love. Anna Clutterbuck-Cook (

) was brilliant, beautiful, fierce, gentle, generous, creative, strong, funny, incredibly intelligent, curious, and powerful.

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Reminder about the extended deadline for the #LISMentalHealth zine. Please consider submitting something, even if it's small. Excited to publish our last issue! #zines

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EXTENDED DEADLINE: submissions to "Reserve & Renew," the #LISMentalHealth zine, now open through January 31! This will be our LAST ISSUE, so NOW is your chance to share your words or artwork on mental health and mental illness in our work in LIS! lismentalhealth.org/reserve-and-re

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Visited the Mold-a-Rama exhibit at

this weekend; they have ten working machines to choose from! I went with the Chicago skyline option.

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Big news! We are re-opening on Feb. 25th!!!! We’ve been closed since March 2020 & just running the virtual library. So excited to be able to open the physical library!You have a Zine you’d like to put in our library? DM us! #zines #zinelibrary #austintexas #austintx #austinevents

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So many congrats to

on her Pura Belpré honor for TUMBLE!

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Chicago Zine Fest

@chicagozinefest

Super excited to announce the date of Chicago Zine Fest 2023: Saturday May 20th! We'll be returning to Plumbers Hall in the West Loop on Saturday and planning an online event the evening of Friday May 19th. More details: chicagozinefest.org/2023/01/chicag #czf2023 #zines #ZineFests

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More about the history & purpose of the #CatalogingLab: libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=c I hope library folks see this project as an example of the idea that if ALA or LC (or whoever!) isn't doing what you want it to do, just do the thing yourself.

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This month marks five years since I launched the Cataloging Lab. cataloginglab.org I'm grateful for those who have contributed and those who have seen the value in what I'm trying to do—it's all about transparency and collaboration. #cataloging

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In this world of ashes, dust, and seeds, I am teaching a week-long observational practice course. June 19-23, in Maine, immensely slow, careful looking, listening, moving, markmaking. I would love to have you join:

Observational Practice - Maine Media Workshops + College

As a writer or visual artist, develop, support, renew or awaken your creative life through Observational Practice with Éireann Lorsung.

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My girl! 😍 #CricketSnoppy

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@CRT_collective

Are you a neurodivergent academic librarian or work with one? The

is look for interview participants. Email neurodiversity@uw.edu with questions or interest.

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When someone doubts the systemic nature of police violence, I always think about how two of three officers convicted as accomplices in George Floyd’s murder had sociology degrees from the U of MN. They claimed to join the force to fix it and stood by as a superior killed a man.

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@foundbysara on insta

meet your neighbors, meet your neighbors, meet your neighbors I know talking to strangers is hard, but you can do it

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𝒩𝒶𝑜𝓂𝒾 𝐿𝒜 𝒮𝓂𝒾𝓉𝒽

As a Black Library instructor no one prepares you for how nerve wrecking it is to talk to a large lecture theatre full of predominantly white students about critical social justice issues.

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@timothycsimons

so now we have to dress like dan flashes just to get some goddamned privacy?

This Clothing Line Tricks AI Cameras Without Covering Your Face

An AI camera may think you're a zebra.

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Kelly Doyle Kim

Help increase the representation of Black women in food and drink history on #Wikipedia with

@amhistorymuseum

! We will be joined by

in conversation with

. Join us on February 1st at 1pm EST #SmithsonianFood #BecauseOfHerStory eventbrite.com/e/wiki-focus-b

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@pacscl@glammr.us

Continuing in the category of #betterlatethannever, here is Pt. 2 of

's April 2022 PACSCL workshop "Incorporating Reparative Description into Your Archival Workflow." loom.ly/l_JxUuk With thanks to

for their support!

Incorporating Reparative Description into Your Archival Workflow,...

This workshop, presented in April 2022 by Jessica Tai, the Resident Processing Archivist at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, provided an overv...

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In the category of #betterlatethannever, here is

's April 2022 PACSCL Workshop (Pt. 1) "Incorporating Reparative Description into Your Archival Workflow." loom.ly/IujD9XQ With thanks to

for their support!

Incorporating Reparative Description into Your Archival Workflow,...

This workshop, presented in April 2022 by Jessica Tai, the Resident Processing Archivist at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, provided an overv...

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If you'd like to see the full results: embk.me/cricket933. I guess none of you looked at the hashtag or remembered me tweeting about her partly blue left eye, which is how we had already guessed that she's part husky!! Where are the Cricket Super Fans??! 😄

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Thanks to everyone who played along! Congrats to everyone who guessed beagle, and special award to

@LotusLibrarian

, the only person to correctly suss out that Cricket is part pit bull!! (🤯!!!!)

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