+1 Been on several searches at MPOW lately which have been limited/uncompetitive. I've been surprised to see so few LIS grads in said pools, despite the gig being aligned to new librarians. I think many folks discount the ad because MPOW isn't a big destination state, despite its beauty & COL.

Equally grateful to you both, for setting off the spark that culminated in this rebuttal & shepherding it through a long journey. I couldn't have persisted otherwise!

It was so disillusioning to me to discover that library admins in particular loved buzzwords & popular ideas (back then it was “innovation”) but weren’t actually serious about DOING librarianship the best & most ethical way. Glad I’m not trying to figure out how to teach info lit in the “AI” age.

I want library leaders who can conceive of resistance, who can imagine different futures, not who say "welp, this is the world, guess we have no choice" at every single turn of politics or technology.

Faster science is sloppier science. Don't we already have more than enough useless studies, retracted papers, and junk journals floating around?

The last thing we need is AI enabling people to produce more.

We need a slow research movement and we need it yesterday.