I've observed that my profession is pretty evenly divided between people who love helping and want to help everyone who uses the library get what they need, and people who love working in a library and want everyone who uses the library to leave so they can be left alone to work in the library

I'm heartily sorry to every faculty member who has ever reached out to me for a simple answer about fair use or copyright and has instead found they've accidentally activated the World's Most Boring Special Interest

just incredibly normal signage to see at your place of employment

We've published two new blog posts today, reflecting on #OpenAccess, academic freedom & censorship -- one from our team, and another from one of our authors, Ash Lierman.

Our team: blogs.openbookpublishers.com/defending-ac...

Ash: blogs.openbookpublishers.com/defending-ac...

#DefendResearch

Oh, wow - I am absolutely humbled to see that my book, The Struggle You Can’t See: Experiences of Neurodivergent and Invisibly Disabled Students in Higher Education, received an extremely kind Essential review as this week's featured Choice review: www.choice360.org/choice-pick/...

AERA always like (IN SESSION) Wow having these high-level liberatory discussions of intersectional queer and disability justice are so deeply nourishing my soul! (LEAVES SESSION) I have immediately experienced 8 million different ambient microaggressions with such speed and intensity I am now dead

Sometimes being a librarian really sucks, and other times you get to check out The Wind in the Willows to an undergrad who had never heard of it before.

c'mon man

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More than I care about who you vote for in the upcoming @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social election, I care about the future of ALA as a means to ensure library workers are appropriately respected and compensated. Wrote a piece about it for Katina Magazine. Show up for ALA to show up for library workers.

OUT NOW: The Struggle You Can’t See by Ash Lierman — a vital resource on higher education experiences of neurodivergent and disabled students. Lierman integrates UDL, design thinking, and the neurodiversity model to highlight pathways for equity in higher ed. Read it here: https://buff.ly/3UFxJAX