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Britt Paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Register for our AAUP webinar for the 3rd segment of our Toolkit series on intervening in institutional procurement TODAY Wednesday 10/7 at 3pm ET introducing our "Strategy Playbook for Addressing AI at Work" resource with Cynthia Conti-Cook! www.aaup.org/event/strate...

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Strategy Playbook for Addressing AI at Work

This webinar spotlights a strategy procurement playbook that outlines various tools and strategies for workers in higher education to democratize procurement practices around AI and other technologies...

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Metro NY Library Council's Cross-Reference Coalition — an experimental school connecting librarians, archivists, grad students, artists, designers — is accepting applications for our fall class exploring PUBLIC STUDY: alternative/radical/progressive schools, lrng communities... crc.metro.org/apply/

Screenshot of the website featuring a cubist image of three figures engaging in art experiments; title: Fall 2026: Public Study; text Our Fall course, “Public Study,” will examine the past, present, and future of popular, alternative, and radical education — particularly as they shape the intellectual, political, and cultural landscape of New York City; and as they’ve intersected with established cultural heritage and educational institutions. Applications are due August 7 at 11:59pm ET.

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Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We are welcoming applications for the paid, remote, part-time Ask A Librarian Internship at Columbia University Libraries, for fall 2026 and spring 2027! The internship provides LIS students with hands-on experience in academic librarianship. Apply by July 19th: library.columbia.edu/about/jobs-i...

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Progressive Librarians Guild (PLG) @plguild.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

plg returns! slowly but surely. watch this space for more details and future directions, but in the meantime visit the website and read our latest letter www.progressivelibrariansguild.org/content/news...

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Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Columbia University Libraries is hiring an Instruction & Research Librarian! They will be a key contributor to reference and instruction in the Humanities & History unit. I'm on the search committee and can answer questions or point you to the right person. academic.careers.columbia.edu#!/180613

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Academic Search and Recruiting

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ink @ink.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

This is unreal. The 2026 code4lib conference has been cancelled unilaterally by Carnegie Mellon University because the Department of Education raised issues with the diversity scholarships: > An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]

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Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

thank you! I'm pleasantly surprised they invited me and am looking forward to it!

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

If you're looking for a group of library workers who understand the power of labor organizing, social justice, & anti-racism, consider applying for the Library Freedom Institute. It's a 15-week program in privacy, intellectual freedom, & critical technology. libraryfreedom.org/institute/

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Institute – Library Freedom Project

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Rufus Cornpone @thegnarrator.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Two folks (Fobazi and Elena) and their pup (Chloe) very deserving of any extra cash you have to toss their way! Fobazi's professional impact has been massive to many of us in the field and she's always been generous with her time and mind. Help them out through this intense, challenging time!

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Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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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Alison Hicks @alisonhicks0.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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?

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Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

No idea how that happened! But the calendar informs me it’s 2025 so I have to believe it.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

"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

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savewiulibrarians.org -- Message -- Spring 2025

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Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

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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Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

now I have a reason to go to the exhibit hall! I’ll be sure to stop by.

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Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

of course! I’ll definitely be sharing out slides and the paper

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Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Has been driving for four years already!

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Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

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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Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

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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Annie Pho @anniepho.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I am thinking of every IMLS worker today.

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Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

📝 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...

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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...

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Emily Higgs Kopin (spooky) @ehkopin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

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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Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

BUY A LOTTERY TICKET IMMEDIATELY!

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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

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...

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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…

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CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

✍️ 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...

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CJAL Special Issue: Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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cudjoe @cudjoe.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Some thoughts of what we as librarians should be thinking about and doing before the darkness: open.substack.com/pub/aradical...

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What is to be done now, libraries?

Last Friday, I travelled to New York City for a meeting.

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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

[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...

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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...

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hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

Dave Ghamandi's Eight Theses on Scholarly Communications (/Open Access). ♥️ ghamandi.hcommons.org/2024/07/26/e...

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Eight Theses on Scholarly Communication – By Every Means Necessary

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In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

"including student employees as active participants in the hiring process is not only a valuable experiential learning opportunity, but also shifts power dynamics ... creating a better hiring process for student applicants." 📜📚 #libraries

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Annie Pho @anniepho.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

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! 📚

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 04/05/2024

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...

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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

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Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

thank you! Our first library-wide email specifically about the events informed everyone in the main library that they need to exit through an adjacent building to get off campus, due to NYPD mass arresting students. So that kind of summarizes things for us.

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Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

A collective of library workers at Columbia University Libraries published a statement regarding recent and ongoing events on campus: cu-librarians-free-palestine.cargo.site

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Concerned Librarians @CUL for a FREE PALESTINE

Solidarity Statement representing library workers across the Columbia University Libraries system

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Some of my colleagues at Barnard and Columbia have been working long hours since December to accompany students to increasingly draconian disciplinary hearings for alleged involvement in campus protests. Here’s an anecdote from one colleague, shared with permission. Wrong place wrong time? Too bad

I accompanied a Barnard student to her inquiry meeting just now. The “evidence” that she had “participated” in the unsanctioned demonstration on April 4th was two security camera pictures of her walking on Columbia campus. I was asked at the end if I had any questions, so I said I was stunned that that alone was considered evidence of a violation of university policy.

“So, if I had walked across campus that day, I could be regarded as having participated in the demonstration?” The Vice Dean conducting the interview said yes.

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Nicollette @literaryjones.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Library Folks: A new article co-written by me dropped today - The Library is NOT for Everyone (Yet) Disability, Accommodations, and Working in Libraries. I hope you will take a look 👀 crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr...

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

The California Faculty Association, repping faculty, librarians & coaches across the 23 campuses of the California State University (CSU), is preparing for an unprecedented, systemwide strike Jan 22-26 w Teamsters Local 2010. The CSU is the largest public 4yr uni system in the US. This will be huge✊

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Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

flashback to us making detailed plans in january 2020, lol

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Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Excited to share this article that @cudjoe.bsky.social and I have been working on for quite some time! "Working Conditions Are Learning Conditions: Understanding Information Literacy Instruction through Neoliberal Capitalism" pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/comminfolit/...

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