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Reposted by Eamon Tewell, Nancy K. Baym, Meredith Farkas

fobettarh.bsky.social
Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena

gofund.me/c8485b58
Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
gofund.me
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by Eamon Tewell

eamontewell.bsky.social
Applications for the Ask A Librarian Internship are open for one more week! This paid, remote, part-time internship is open to currently enrolled Library & Information Science students. Apply by July 16. library.columbia.edu/about/jobs-i...
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by Alison Hicks — Reposted by Eamon Tewell, Alison Hicks

alisonhicks0.bsky.social
Hey IL folks! If you thought censorship was just impacting school librarians, take a look at my new article in @timeshighered.bsky.social exploring what challenges to intellectual freedom mean for HE teaching librarians, too. How do we shift our work from overload to absence?
katherinestiles.org
Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · Jun 5
“The substantial challenges that authoritarian ideology poses to knowledge exchange mean that researchers must be prepared to safeguard their commitment to empirical insight.”

🖊️ @alisonhicks0.bsky.social via @timeshighered.bsky.social
#US #HigherEducation #AcademicSky #EduSky #Censorship
Strategic silencing: how censorship is reshaping scholarly discourse
Restrictions to US databases and scholarly work mean that researchers need new approaches to navigate research absences and silences rather than the more typical information overload, writes Alison Hi...
www.timeshighereducation.com
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by Alison Hicks — Reposted by Eamon Tewell

katherinestiles.org
“The substantial challenges that authoritarian ideology poses to knowledge exchange mean that researchers must be prepared to safeguard their commitment to empirical insight.”

🖊️ @alisonhicks0.bsky.social via @timeshighered.bsky.social
#US #HigherEducation #AcademicSky #EduSky #Censorship
Strategic silencing: how censorship is reshaping scholarly discourse
Restrictions to US databases and scholarly work mean that researchers need new approaches to navigate research absences and silences rather than the more typical information overload, writes Alison Hi...
www.timeshighereducation.com
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by Eamon Tewell

eamontewell.bsky.social
No idea how that happened! But the calendar informs me it’s 2025 so I have to believe it.
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Reposted by Eamon Tewell

edrabinski.bsky.social
"At present, no miracle has happened. The WIU Librarians will be gone in under a month, as our layoffs take effect May 14."

Western Illinois University will attempt to be a university without a library.

It doesn't take a red state to destroy a public good.

savewiulibrarians.org/message.php
savewiulibrarians.org -- Message -- Spring 2025
savewiulibrarians.org
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by Eamon Tewell — Reposted by Nancy Foasberg

eamontewell.bsky.social
About to present "Two Decades of Critical Information Literacy: A Review of the Literature." Here are the presentation slides: tinyurl.com/TwoDecadesACRL & full paper: tinyurl.com/TwoDecadesPaper #acrl2025
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Reposted by Eamon Tewell

illdottore.bsky.social
Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.
A group of students holding signs saying Jews against ice and free Mahmoud now sitting inside a university gate A close-up of a student whose hands are changed to a gate. Next to a sign that says release Mahmoud Khalil now Students holding signs that say “Jews against ICE”
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by Eamon Tewell

eamontewell.bsky.social
now I have a reason to go to the exhibit hall! I’ll be sure to stop by.
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by Eamon Tewell

eamontewell.bsky.social
thanks for saying so, Jess!

by Eamon Tewell

eamontewell.bsky.social
of course! I’ll definitely be sharing out slides and the paper
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by Eamon Tewell

eamontewell.bsky.social
Has been driving for four years already!
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by Eamon Tewell

eamontewell.bsky.social
Heading to #acrl2025! I’m presenting a paper on “Two Decades of Critical Information Literacy” and on a panel about remote internships & supporting LIS students. Looking forward to seeing folks there.
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by Eamon Tewell

eamontewell.bsky.social
Wait, you didn’t get the contract for appearing in the new series “Librarians Talking About Their Research in Vans?” I’ll have to talk to my manager
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Reposted by Eamon Tewell

marisakabas.bsky.social
NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.
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by Eamon Tewell

eamontewell.bsky.social
Call for proposals! Pleasure and Play: Finding Joy in LIS Work. "It seems like every day a new disaster begins as older ones fester...In light of everything that feels bad in the world, ACRL/NY’s 2025 symposium theme asks: what feels good in LIS?" acrlny.marketinglibraries.org/2025symposiu...
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Reposted by Eamon Tewell

emmamay.bsky.social
📝 CfP 📝 @hellobrittparis.bsky.social & I are editing a special issue of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies on labor organizing in libraries and information fields.

We greatly encourage contributions from library workers.

More info here: journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...
CfP Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies (JCLIS) Special Issue Strike Wave: Changing Tides of Labor Organizing in Libraries and Information Fields | Journal of Critical Librar...
journals.litwinbooks.com
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Reposted by Eamon Tewell

saggiotipo.bsky.social
Librarians, check out "OPINION: A librarian’s summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement" by @siobhanh.bsky.social www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...

#AcademicSky
OPINION: A librarian's summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement - UKSG
Siobhan Haimé takes a look at detail the Clarivate announcement and its practical (and possibly unintentional transformational) effects.
www.uksg.org
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Reposted by Eamon Tewell

ehkopin.bsky.social
support archives and archivists sufficiently in times of normal operation so we can do our jobs in times of crisis. read about ongoing efforts before your library of alexandria comparisons. respect the expertise of people who have been doing the work. fund permanent archival and preservation labor.
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by Eamon Tewell

eamontewell.bsky.social
BUY A LOTTERY TICKET IMMEDIATELY!
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Reposted by Eamon Tewell

fobettarh.bsky.social
Happy New Year, y’all! If you’ve ever found my words helpful to you and your life, please read and share this post. Thank you, and I appreciate y’all in advance! :)
fobaziettarh.com/2025/01/07/n...
New Year, New Problems
The good news is that after a month in the hospital, I’m finally going home! The bad news is that I spent a month in the hospital, including Christmas and New Years, and some of that time I don’t e…
fobaziettarh.com
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Reposted by Eamon Tewell

cjalrcbu.bsky.social
✍️ Submissions are open for our upcoming special issue: "(More Than) A Decade of Critical Librarianship: Reflections and Speculations." Deadline for proposal submission is Jan. 17, 2025. See details: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...
CJAL Special Issue: Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship
cjal.ca
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by American Library Association — Reposted by Eamon Tewell

truthout.org
As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.
Facing Cuts Likely to Worsen Under Trump, Academic Librarians Urgently Organize
As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.
truthout.org
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Reposted by Eamon Tewell

cudjoe.bsky.social
Some thoughts of what we as librarians should be thinking about and doing before the darkness:
open.substack.com/pub/aradical...
What is to be done now, libraries?
Last Friday, I travelled to New York City for a meeting.
open.substack.com
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Reposted by Eamon Tewell

mimosaishere.bsky.social
[kudos to my colleagues for writing this]

"We fail to see how studying silently amounts to a disruption, and we reject the bans issued in response. We write to let study-in participants know that there are library workers who stand in solidarity with them."

www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
We’re Harvard Library Workers. We Stand in Solidarity with the Study-Ins. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
We library workers call on Harvard libraries to lift the library bans on students, faculty, and staff, and implore Harvard libraries to refrain from disciplining those who study together, united not i...
www.thecrimson.com
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Reposted by Eamon Tewell

astrobri.bsky.social
Dave Ghamandi's Eight Theses on Scholarly Communications (/Open Access). ♥️
ghamandi.hcommons.org/2024/07/26/e...
Eight Theses on Scholarly Communication – By Every Means Necessary
ghamandi.hcommons.org
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Reposted by Eamon Tewell

zinelib.bsky.social
Go Penn libraries staff!!! pennlibrariesunited.github.io 📚📜
PENN LIBRARIES UNITED
The unionization effort at Penn Libraries
pennlibrariesunited.github.io
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Reposted by Eamon Tewell

libraryleadpipe.bsky.social
Not Business as Usual: Incorporating LIS Student Perspectives in the Apprenticeship Hiring Process by Estefania Eiquihua, Karen Adjei, Janelle Lyons, and Megan E. Welsh
Not Business as Usual: Incorporating LIS Student Perspectives in the Apprenticeship Hiring Process – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
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Reposted by Eamon Tewell

anniepho.bsky.social
I’m recruiting an MLIS student for a paid internship this Fall 2024 to work on a series of online tutorials. You can find more information here: library.usfca.edu/oisj_internshi…. Feel free to share! Apply by July 1! 📚
https://library.usfca.edu/oisj_internshi…
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Reposted by Eamon Tewell

illdottore.bsky.social
A powerful and damning account of Columbia leadership’s failures this year from the undergraduate Student Council of Columbia College. This is basically exactly how I would tell it too www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We Columbia University students urge you to listen to our voices | Columbia College Student Council and Columbia Engineering Student Council
Please, listen to us – not political figures, radical fringes and misguided media
www.theguardian.com
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