#Librarianship

Sara Manus

moto_librarian

Confession time, library friends. When I entered music librarianship, I believed that it was a calling. I believed that by virtue of my career, I was doing special, important work,

hyperbolbri

astrobri

Important stats from this #claps2020 session: 11% of undergrads, and 5% of grad students have a disability (oh gee, why the drop off?). But only about 23% of those students

just a smalltown ghoul

eminencefont

I've been distraught by the idea that libraries are neutral since even before I was a baby librarian. I was a college IT person looking to volunteer in a public

Erato

BookitoCat

When @JamesMarriottYT says Librarians are boring and puts them low in the food chain... Wait I'm trying to get my diploma in librarianship and believe me dude, this shit is

JCASLKY

JCASLKY

Congratulations to the recipient of JCASL's inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award, Janet Lanham. @lmsjanlan Here are just a few of the wonderful things shared by her colleagues about this incredible woman...Beginning

Police Out Of NYC Libraries

CopFreeLibrary

Libraries should be safe spaces for everyone. But, coded language in institutional policies makes it so that as library workers we have to police and exclude certain individuals and communities.

Katherine Locke

Bibliogato

[THREAD] A week ago, @ElanaKArnold and I wrote a letter to @jewishlibraries about the exclusion of COLOR ME IN by Natasha Diaz from a list called Love Thy Neighbor #7:

PC Sweeney

pcsweeney

You know, I really wish we'd stop thinking that simply telling good stories about the impact and benefit of #libraries will save them. The sad truth in the world is

Devin Fitzgerald

DevinFitzger

In case anyone is curious about why I'm working so hard at Persian, Armenian, etc. This is your occasional reminder that UCLA has about 15,000 Near Eastern Manuscripts with descriptions

Fobazi Ettarh

Fobettarh

I want you & @sglassmeyer to really think about why the public processing of your pain is somehow more important than the people he hurt/is actively hurting. I know BIPOC

Miss Library

heisereads

Here's your periodic reminder that just because a picture book read aloud is posted on YouTube, that does NOT mean it complies with copyright! Many of them violate copyright &

Stacy, Librarian-in-Residence

DarkLiterata

Some people aren't listening. Why could that be? Vocational awe ≠ calling library workers who want to keep their jobs ignorant. Of course they want their jobs. That isn't the

cynthia, MLIS official 🎓

DrMCScrewhammer

For National Library Week, I’m making some embroidery to creatively express how I’ve been feeling about the whiteness in my MLIS program and profession, anxiety of graduating in 4(!) weeks,

Mx. Jessica Schomberg

schomj

Below is a definitely-not-exhaustive reading list about diversifying librarianship primarily related to including more people of color and addressing our whiteness problem.Sharing here in case it's of use to folks

LaJennie❤🇺🇸💪🏾🗽

librarianjennie

I wasn’t hired as the Latino Studies librarian but it’s ended up being in my wheel house. I really wanted to work On tech and accessibility https://www.chronicle.com/article/higher-ed-has-a-silicon-valley-problem?fbclid=IwAR3YSYsp4P3nuO

Adriana White, MLIS

Adriana_Edu

Hello! If you've found me through @DiverseBooks, then you might want to check out some of my work on autism!My presentation on #Neurodiversity for #SpEd teachers:"Autism, Neurodiversity, and More" -http://bit.ly/AWAutism