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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:
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Your library is cool but does it have a 12 foot tall crow eating french fries in its parking lot??
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@cxprio
Because it's a waste of police resources: it prevents them from doing their real work of shooting dogs and making up lies about fentanyl.
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I found out today I was laid off. I am still in shock, but I'll be starting a job search for a cataloging position soon, so please keep me in mind if you hear about openings. Thanks in advance for your support, it means so much to me.
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I've now changed about 150 articles in
#Wikipedia
to replace or remove the wording "wheelchair bound," (and gotten a few thanks for it, which is nice!), but this one editor keeps reverting my edit on one article, saying "wheelchair bound" is correct, and wow is that irritating.
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@DFrye333
No puns, but the maze is dinosaur themed so there were some fun dinosaur signs around the festival grounds, and a guy in a dinosaur costume.
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I've got a personal goal of 100 Wikipedia articles about African-American librarians: we're now at 83! Let me know if you'd like to help.
New
#Wikipedia
article for Virgia Brocks-Shedd (1943-1992), head of the
@TougalooCollege
Library &
@PWS1909
alumna. Audre Lorde encouraged her to submit her poetry to Tougaloo's literary journal; she encouraged a love of poetry in generations of students.
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@yasmine_hafez
Resharing with alt text for accessibility. Full statement available at .
#AltTextPalestine
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Things that matter in library school:
* building relationships
* creating supportive community of peers
* exploring areas of interest
* understanding history of LIS
* preserving your mental & physical health
Things that don't matter in library school:
* maintaining a 4.0
#MLIS
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"Gender-nonconforming people"
#LCSH
was approved!! Thanks to all who helped me with the proposal!
#smallvictories
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We often talk dismissively about what we didn't learn in library school. What did you learn in library school that you didn't/wouldn't have learned on the job? (Please take snark & discussion about degree requirement/costs elsewhere.)
#MLIS
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"librarians"
• ambiguous and maybe exclusionary (are you just talking about MLIS-degreed folks or ...?)
"library workers"
• encourages separating our work from our identity
• recognizes our membership within the working class
• solidarity with each other & other workers ✊
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What if we started a "Librarian X" twitter account? Each week, a library worker from around the world could take over the account so we could learn more about what they do. It'd be outreach to each other & non-library folks alike.
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The advice to "just apply to everything!" that I've gotten several times recently really doesn't take into account how much work I put into applications, into screenings, into multi-day interviews. And how painful it is to get rejected over and over again.
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Absolutely not. SPL threw their transgender & nonbinary employees under a bus and damaged their credibility with the LGBTQ community in Seattle this year by allowing a hate group to speak.
Library Journal has named us 2020 Library of the Year, recognizing exceptional commitment to community service, innovation and centering equity in our work.
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@JMiller1789
Reposting with alt text for accessibility for people with visual disabilities. Please use alt text!
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Embarrassingly I completely forgot about two meetings today. In my defense, today we adopted this perfect, adorable puppy.
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Excited to announce the launch of a new project, 23 Linked Data Things!! It's a self-paced, online learning program that provides structure for investigating linked data projects & obtaining hands-on experience in creating linked data.
#23LinkedDataThings
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I feel frozen by shame at being unemployed again, it feels impossible to do any of the things I need to do. I'm also embarrassed about feeling ashamed, because it's not the "right" thing to feel. 😖♾
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@BikeSlutty
C'mon, that's not what she's saying. Watch the clip from 3:00 on, the "attack" is Trump threatening a veto, not Trump offering $2,000 checks.
Delete this post.
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I don't know how to get over being rejected so often over the past eighteen months of job searching. It's been devastating to my sense of self-worth.
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Love this beautiful "Defend public libraries" design! 🌼🐝📚 Purchase of the shirt supports
@WeLoveBPLibrary
's campaign for permanent funding for
@BoulderLibrary
.
#LibraryTwitter
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I made a minizine to hand out and I give it to people I meet (like a business card but cool?). Hoping to start a trend!
as an adult, is there any way to make friends with people other than saying "HELLO, LET'S BE FRIENDS"
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Are libraries radical? No, or else they wouldn't be permitted to exist within our society. Right now, libraries mask inequity more than they reveal it. But libraries *do* provide a model which can help us reimagine a more just, equitable society, in a time when that's necessary.
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Ok folks. This isn't over. Changing our catalogs to add the term "Illegal immigration" is not progress. LC's move is an attempt to defang this effort to
#DropTheIWord
, to assuage conservative lawmakers so they don't come after libraries.
#critcat
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My spouse reminding me of my one legacy: having created the Dewey number for pickleball.
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My library is making Election Day a meeting-free day, to ensure people have the schedule flexibility they need to vote in person. Maybe you could encourage your library to do something similar?
#LibraryTwitter
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No one will care about this but me, but for transparency's sake: I'm presenting for Library Journal next week, but I haven't forgiven/forgotten their awarding of 2020 Library of the Year to a library that unapologetically hosted transphobic speakers.
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What would you like to tell folks that are new to the field about the less-than-sunny-side of librarianship? I'm looking for submissions for the "Disorientation Guide to Librarianship," a zine about how libraries don't always live up to our ideals.
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Married this guy five years ago today. It's been wonderful. 💘
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Former ALA president E. J. Josey criticizing ALA policy: "We care more about intellectual freedom than we do about human freedom, or human aspirations. We have to be as concerned about human rights as we are about intellectual freedom."
#critlib
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@StuartSyvret
@bigu
@MayorGinther
Why would you be surprised by anything U.S. police do, no matter how cartoonishly evil?
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I wrote about what I accomplished in the 2 years & 4 months I was an editor of the Dewey Decimal Classification: . I'm proud of what I was able to do and hope that people will continue to consider me a resource for classification questions.
#critcat
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😍 Free minizine: "Did Someone Say the Prison Industrial Complex?"! Created by the Abolitionist Librarian Association's Working Group on Divestment from the Prison Industrial Complex, with info on fighting against exploitative prison labor in
#libraries
.
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Just thinking about how a journalist reached out to me last week and I couldn't talk to them because OCLC wouldn't give me a severance payment (2 months salary) after laying me off unless I signed a non-disparagement contract. But now I can talk to the press. Feels great, man.
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Open letter to
@libraryjournal
asking for the 2020 Library of the Year award to be revoked from Seattle Public Library & the $10,000 prize donated to
@GenderJusticeWA
: . Please add your name to the open letter via this form: .
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Throwback Thursday photo of me as a copy cataloger in the year 2000. Note the copy of AACR2R 1998 on the shelf and the dot matrix printer on my desk. 💀
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Every time I hear "I didn't learn this in library school" I'm going to promote the call for submissions for my new compilation zine: "Disorientation Guide to Librarianship". This is your chance to share info with folks new to librarianship!
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U.S. libraries: it's too soon to have patrons in your buildings. Don't contribute to an outbreak in your area.
#ProtectLibraryWorkers
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While I'm tweeting about ALA, I've just about had it with men in my professional organization having secret meetings/keeping information from me, dismissing my professional experience & my position as chair of the relevant group, & assuming they know best without members' input.
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At a cataloging conference in 2014, I met someone wonderful. Yesterday, dear Twitter friends, I married him.
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Also, why the fuck does "Glee" need a
#Wikipedia
article for every episode?? Is it such a cultural touchstone??? 😒
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I have a cataloging joke, but you'll need to pay $195/year to access the toolkit that has the instructions to piece it together yourself.
i have a library employment joke, but i'm going to need 3 years of unpaid service work before i can tell it to you
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#alamw20
I dropped off "support precarious workers" and "precarious labor is bad for libraries" buttons at the ribbon bar near registration! Show your support of our colleagues!!
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the people at work are congratulating me on a conference presentation acceptance instead of complaining about what a hassle I'm creating for them or accusing me of self-promotion what's happening???? 😭
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Steal this look:
This is the greatest thing i've ever seen and now I can die pleasantly. (it also answers why I saw a bunch of orders in the past 24 hours.) CONGRATS
@violetbfox
!!
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Everyone sharing what topics you could talk about for 30 minutes without prep: write a zine about it!! Put your little nerd interests into tangible form and give it to people!!
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I desperately regret providing any of my personal credibility to an institution. Seeing that credibility live on beyond my own worth to that institution is painful. I don't know how to move past this regret.
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Witness this incredible act of optimism in titling this spreadsheet "job search 2020" and not "job search 2020/2021."
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Hey
@StanfordLibs
, your disclosure policy breaks the fundamental library concept of right to privacy in borrowing materials.
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I'm pleased to share two resolutions for
#ALACouncil
regarding the "Illegal aliens"
#LCSH
and the LCSH revision process in general. They were written by
@aboutness
,
@jillebaron
, and me: folks who have been involved in this situation for more than five years (!).
#critcat
#alaac21
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Although I'm tweeting out a lot of
#LibraryLayoffs
, there are even more than what I'm tweeting. We're tracking furloughs & layoffs at this doc: .
Sorry to be Captain BringDown, but we need to know so we can
#ProtectLibraryWorkers
.
#NationalLibraryWeek
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So I'll be donating my $600 honorarium for speaking to Gender Justice League, a Seattle-based organization fighting for the rights of trans and queer people. (You might recall Gale donated $10,000 to this organization after our petition.)
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Just a reminder that no one can "decolonize Dewey". (No, not even Dorothy Porter.) Dewey is an inherently colonial product and a colonial project. No one will ever "revamp the whole thing," so stop waiting for that to happen.
#critcat
"That’s right: the bedrock cataloging system that you learned in elementary school has a major racism issue."
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@ZoneNature03
@christibelcourt
Not only is this fake, but you're hiding replies that point out it's fake? 😩
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If you have the book "We are water protectors" in your library, check to see if your catalog has the term "myths" in the subject headings. That term has now been removed from WorldCat records
#1232928373
&
#1090865323
, but may persist in your local catalog.
#critcat
TFW you see a record using subject headings like myth & mythological fiction to describe an Indigenous kids book inspired by Indigenous-led movements. I deleted those terms from my local record
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Conference ribbons I need:
🍍 I apologize for my face blindness
🍍 Introvert, despite all appearances
🍍 Please stop talking to me about RDA
#ALAac19
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Library mentorship program but the mentor just tells me to stop volunteering to do new things.
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Just realized prosecco and prosciutto are two different things? They were jumbled together in a mental file labeled "Too fancy for me".
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I just put up the third set of signs (after the first two have been stolen). Guy in the house across the street just said to me: "Get the fuck out of here, I'm gonna shoot you one of these days."
#Minnesota
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I don't regret getting my MLIS. Before going to library school I was making $32k/yr & my job was reviewing pornography websites (content moderation).
I make a little over 2x that now (it all goes to DC rent & student loan payments 💸) & feel like I'm making a small difference.
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Gonna need someone to embroider this on a pillow for me.
Turns out metadata is both kind of fun and incredibly boring holy shit
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Oh shit y'all better set up notifications on my tweets because I have Things. To. Say.
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Very pleased to announce the publication of issue 5 of "Reserve and Renew: the LIS Mental Health zine"!! Issue 5 includes contributions from 21 library & archives workers, including poems, comics, photos, and illustrations.
#LISMentalHealth
#LibraryTwitter
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When the registration form makes "job title" a required field but work's not paying...
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My controversial library opinions are Too 🔥 Hot 🔥 For 🔥 Twitter, which is why you should invite me to speak at your conference.
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Multiple people have assumed my wearing a purple mask is related to my employer's school colors, apparently overlooking the fact that my name is Violet. I'm representing *myself*!
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Cajoled my spouse into going outside in the cold last night to look for the northern lights and he was skeptical, but he took this photo in St Cloud,
#Minnesota
. 🤩
#AuroraBorealis
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Now planning the Library of Congress Choco Taco Tour during
#ALAac19
: instead of showing off cultural treasures, I'll take you through the tunnels & show you the places you can purchase Choco Tacos. Get the authentic LC employee experience of living like a mole!!
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As a librarian at
@NorthwesternU
, I support the rights of students to peacefully protest and encourage Northwestern admin to work together with the students and reject any efforts to bring police force to the campus.
#NUSupportOurStudents
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This is a my spouse appreciation tweet. I don't talk about him onhere much because he is too precious to me, but he's a very good man, and I'm so grateful to be his partner in life.
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Less than 40 hours later, both signs are gone from our front yard. More signs ordered.
There's now three houses on our block with antivax lawn signs, taking that as an invitation to add our own signs.
#Minnesota
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Really big, radical news out of PCC today! The new recommendations for name authority records are to *not* record gender though a MARC code, and to delete gender codes from the authority file system-wide.
#critcat
#cataloging
Thanks to the DEI Advisory Committee and the Task Group, PoCo approved the following: “Do not record the RDA gender element (MARC 375) in personal name authority records. Delete existing 375 fields when editing a record for any other reason.” Full report:
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I am a reformer by nature but I don't think ALA is reformable at this point; the inertia & conservatism is too heavy. I'll still be working w/in ALA b/c that's where cataloging concerns live, but excited to support new organizations that strive to make librarianship more radical.
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If you see me at
#alamw18
, please remember I'm unemployed & hustling. Now accepting: hugs, high-fives, compliments, job offers, and/or mixed drinks. 🍹
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I guess I'm gonna be the asshole who's going to point out they could have changed it all along. Five years ago, in fact.
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Y'all are saying such cute things, "feel joy" or "pet an animal" or whatnot. As for me: I demand you raise $25,000 for one library worker (preferably a single mom) of your choice. You heard me: $25,000 cash money, or I'll haunt every last one of you. I'll do it, motherfuckers.
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Hey, it's my birthday! 🎈
Help me celebrate by joining me in donating to
@BlackVisionsMN
to help support their efforts to
#DefundMPD
, because
#BlackLivesMatter
. Minneapolis can show the way to
#DefundThePolice
!
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Thinking of ALA Midwinter five years ago when I was seven months past graduating with my MLIS, no job prospects, living off the last of my student loans. Humbling and lonely. If you need a pal (or a meal) at
#ALAmw19
, please let me know, my DMs are open.
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Absolutely trolling you all by not letting you respond.
We are excited to welcome Violet Fox and Lindsey O’Brien as our new Cataloging and Metadata Librarians at Galter Library! Learn more about them and the way their work supports the research of the
@NUFeinbergMed
community:
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