Dr. André Brock is kicking off this year's Baker Lectures by talking about #Black technoculture! Friday, 2023-09-22, at 3pm Eastern / 12pm Pacific.

This presentation will be "Distributed Blackness: Black Online Culture, Blackfishing, and Digital Blackface."

To register (yep, you'll want to do that) and get more info, check out the Baker Lectures site at: https://sites.google.com/view/bakerlectures/baker-diversity-series/dr-andr%C3%A9-brock #critLib #libraries #culturalStudies

Dr. André Brock is kicking off this year's Baker Lectures by talking about #Black technoculture! Friday, 2023-09-22, at 3pm Eastern / 12pm Pacific.

This presentation will be "Distributed Blackness: Black Online Culture, Blackfishing, and Digital Blackface."

To register (yep, you'll want to do that) and get more info, check out the Baker Lectures site at: https://sites.google.com/view/bakerlectures/baker-diversity-series/dr-andr%C3%A9-brock #critLib

As a #librarian and one of the few people still masking in my library/on campus, I really appreciate this essay: “Dominant COVID Narratives and Implications for Information Literacy in the ‘Post-Pandemic’ United States”

#InformationLiteracy #InfoLit #CritLib #CripLib

https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2023/covid-narratives/

@critlib @librarians #critlib ☝️

@flexnib

Forgot #CritLib! Come be my Data & Visualization Services Associate Head! Please share widely. https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/185272

I finally finished Melissa Adler's Cruising the Library earlier this week and I've been rotating the epilogue about masochism & library users as masochists in my head for days now.

Academia is bad most of the time but (I am discovering) sometimes it's about how you can be a horny weirdo in the face of problems. That bit's alright.

#critlib #currentlyreading

Support small, scrappy academic journals

#academicJournals #journal #library #archives #SpecialCollections #critLib

Excited to see the #SlowLibrarianship conversation continuing! #critLib

Here's a CFP for presentations, lightning talks, panels, and posters for the ACRL NY 2023 Symposium: https://acrlny.org/2023symposium/

Proposals are due 2023-06-15, the presentations will be in person on 2023-12-01.

‼️Reminder ‼️
10 days till the proposal deadline for our Special Issue, “Turning It off and Back On Again: Speculative Digital Librarianship”

#libraries #libraryTwitter #archives #critLib #criticalCataloging #digitalHumanities #dh #digitalScholarship

More details 👇

@noyovo #Critlib

"Help us build community with fellow lefty library workers by helping us build a 'left track' of programming for those attending #ALA. Let us know about sessions that will highlight worker organizing in libraries, social justice themes, and libraries as essential public goods."

#ALAAC23 #CritLib #LibraryWorkers #Chicago

🔗 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdh0Ev9ctl0mpSuV7bdCEpZl9rJrIq1qZRJV8h8pmX5IuyOPQ/viewform

please boost! ! The Queer Metadata Collective is looking for feedback from #catalogers #metadata workers #critcat #critlib #archivists #dh #histsex folks on questions or dillemmas they have encountered while describing individuals/communities/items

Some hypotheticals from working groups:

Classification:
* Some classification systems separate books about gay, lesbian, bisexual (etc) groups into different areas of the library. Should local practices override that in order to group them together?

@TeamMidwest @dsalo Overall this is one of the best (externally-written) articles about librarianship I've read in quite while!

The one thing that does strikes me as deeply weird is that, despite having so many links in the article, there isn't one to an article or talk by Fobazi.

The Willa Cather Archive (an institution) gets a link, and a collective response to a bad example of journalism does, as do more historical librarian-written things like Dee Garrison's work.

But a current librarian making noteworthy intellectual contributions? An individual in the field who could benefit from citation counts & prominence? Why accidentally reinforce the article's point by doing this exact same type of omission? #CritLib

Call for proposals from up//root. "This collection aims to convey the multifaceted nature of (un)belonging to place, people, and self through critical and/or queer of color critique perspectives. up//root asks that contributors’ submissions interrogate coloniality, white supremacy, patriarchy, white feminism, and/or racial capitalism as they impact archives, libraries, information workers, LIS education, and/or the information landscape."

https://www.uproot.space/homecfp

#CritLib #Libraries #LIS #CFP

Streaming now (and accessible to watch after the event concludes):

Essential to the Public: Libraries at the End of the World, featuring #EmilyDrabinski and moderated by #MariameKaba

#PublicLibraries #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #critlib

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcPEEy6bBfo

"A clip from the sound composition Sounding the Radical Catalog, created from our recording sessions with Catalogers at Work, listen to the entire composition here" https://soundcloud.com/user-490938359/sounding-the-radical-catalog

via @belantara on the bird site

I'm one of the radical catalogers! ✊🏻 ⌨️ 🏳️‍🌈

#lcsh #critcat #critlib

Early bird tix now availale for the one-day, online Data4Justice conference from the Institute for the Quantitative Study of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity. The Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal is keynoting. Will there be any other #DataLibrarians there?
https://qsideinstitute.org/data4justice-conference-2023/

#EthicalAI #AI #DataScience #Conferences #CritLib #Data4BlackLives #DecolonizeData #Data4Justice

Trying to get back in the habit of writing quick "weekly notes" posts.

This one somehow lead to me writing briefly about #InformationHumanities (or maybe #CriticalInformationHumanities?), a notion that's been on my mind ever since I started to see how strongly GLAM practices are biased toward mistaking counting for meaning. #critLib

I'd love to get people's feedback on which term makes more sense to them! https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/weekly-assemblage/wa-2023-week-09

What aspects of human relationships to what we regard as "information" might change if instead of "discovery layers" these things were referred to as "encounter layers"?

Where else can inaccurate, ahistorical uses of "discovery" be removed from LIS work? #critLib #criticalLibrarianship

QUEER BIBLIOGRAPHIES
instructor: J. D. Sargan

See full course description and apply using QR code or link in bio!

#queerbibliography #bibliography #bibliographer #queerarchives #documentingqueerhistory #queerhistory #digitalarchives #queerarchives #libraries #archives #criticallibrarianship #critlib #LGBTQIA2S+ #textualobjects #books #papers #histories #criticaltheory #literature #biography #queer #summerschool #continuingeducation