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Your friendly Fil-Am Librarian in (Academic) Access Svcs. You've seen me on campus, Zoom, social media, or in the LISsphere. Views are my own, NOT my employer's. Shares and likes ≠ endorsements. #IsangBagsak

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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I recognize so many people from various library communities here, and the insights are spot on. It captures the work, the pressures, and the purpose that shape our profession right now. -- www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Librarians Discuss the Challenges and Triumphs of Running a Library Today (Gift Article)
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL
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Dwayne Kwaysee Wright @genesis4genius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Working Class Face a ‘Class Ceiling’ in Elite Occupations www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...
nytimes.com
The Working Class Face a ‘Class Ceiling’ in Elite Occupations
Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.
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Asian Pacific American Librarians Association @apalaweb.org · 28/09/2026
Sex. Lies. Schadenfroth. (Schadenfreude, if you're nasty.) Our latest review explores Rejection by Thai American writer Tony Tulathimutte, whose National Book Award-finalist story collection turns dating, desire, and humiliation into wickedly funny fiction.
Book cover for Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte, featuring yellow text on a dark multicolored gradient background and a National Book Award longlist emblem.
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Asian Pacific American Librarians Association @apalaweb.org · 17/09/2026
APALA's Mid-Atlantic Chapter recently visited the Smithsonian's How Can You Forget Me: Filipino American Stories exhibit, exploring Fil-Am immigration, labor, resilience, and community. You can now read member reflections on our site: www.apalaweb.org/mid-atlantic... Photo Credit: Mieko Palazzo
Museum display featuring an embroidered cloth that reads “HOW CAN YOU FORGET ME,” framed beneath cropped exhibit text.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And working-class students academic subjects? What's class got to do with whether students "should" be directed down one route or another? What is education for?
thetimes.com
Lucy Powell: Middle-class children should take vocational subjects
The education secretary says that curriculums tailored to the needs of the local economy should not be rejected because of snobbery
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AAUP @aaup.org · 21/08/2026
“The ever-increasing reliance on faculty members holding contingent appointments & grad student employees — all of whom have less job security, remuneration, & institutional support — weakens academic freedom, faculty governance, & the integrity of faculty work.” —Glenn Colby, AAUP Senior Researcher
highereddive.com
Colleges made deep staff cuts while adding tenure-track faculty last year
The latest survey of higher education employees from CUPA-HR found the biggest spike in tenure-track professors since at least 2016.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/08/2026
“It seems like the new strategy now is to threaten litigation, and then to move the institutions into negotiations.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
axios.com
Trump's higher ed shakeup starts a new semester
Universities are raising red flags about proposed changes to federal assistance.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 22/08/2026
🤖 Long before PCs were commonplace, software like ELIZA & Little Computer People used clever programming to create the illusion of machines that could think, talk & act on their own. Examples? Explore the new Vintage Artificial Intelligence collection! blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/v... 🧵
Screenshot of a grid of items from the Internet Archive's Vintage Artificial Intelligence collection, showing eighteen software title thumbnails including Eliza C64, Pisko, Hidden Agenda, SimLife, Robotwar, Abuse, Eliza 3.1, A Mind Forever Voyaging, A.I., Alter Ego, Worms, Talking Sam, The Dream Machine, Law of the West, Racter, and 64luff, each with view, favorite, and comment counts.
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I am a faculty academic librarian. I exist in both the worlds of academic freedom and anti-censorship. This situation involves neither. Cofnas deserves to be fired.
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Asian Pacific American Librarians Association @apalaweb.org · 20/08/2026
Missed the Early Bird deadline? You're in luck! Early Bird registration for #JCLC2026 has been extended to August 31. Secure your spot, and we'll see you in Spokane, October 7-11!
Aerial view of a concrete bridge over a river with a city in the background. Text overlay announces "Early Bird Rates Extended to August 31." The JCLC Logo is centered at the bottom with the event information.

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EARLY BIRD RATES
EXTENDED TO AUGUST 31
October 7-11, 2026 | Spokane, WA
A Conference for ALL
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Jack Phoenix (a comics librarian) @comicslibrarian.com · 12/08/2026
I once told a coworker how much I was making, and you’ll never believe what happened next… She used it to negotiate higher pay for herself, and the employer was angry with me for sharing, not my coworker. 📚
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AAUP @aaup.org · 07/08/2026
“A lot of things in the new compact are red herrings for conservative priorities. Reform needs to happen through the channels of faculty governance...We’re disappointed in the lack of transparency in President Daniels involvement." – Ahmed Ragab, Hopkins AAUP chapter vice-president
thebanner.com
Johns Hopkins president helped craft Trump’s new higher education framework
Ron Daniels, the longtime leader of Johns Hopkins University, helped the Trump administration craft its new higher education call to action
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/08/2026
“Good news!” Robin announces, setting down a ceramic owl. “She must be worth something.” “We're starving,” the villagers reply. Robin nods sympathetically before handing an orphan three decorative soaps and a laminated loyalty card for a frozen yogurt chain that no longer exists. buff.ly/VA5DpmF
mcsweeneys.net
Robin Hood, Prince of Compulsive and Pointless Theft
“He steals from the rich to give to the poor, which sounds generous until you learn what he steals. The people of Sherwood do not need six unmatched salt sha...
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Access Services ≠ disability services. Access Services ≠ just circulation. It's the work of connecting people with library resources, spaces, and services. Glad to see ACRL's revised Framework for Access Services Librarianship approved at ALA Annual. acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/...
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New and Revised ACRL Standards, Statements, and Frameworks on Access Services, Status of Academic Librarians
The ACRL Board of Directors approved a revision of "A Framework for Access Services Librarianship" (PDF) at its June, 27, 2026, meeting. Developed by the ACRL Access Services Interest Group (ASIG), th...
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"Those of us whose work is rooted in equity, inclusion, justice, belonging, access and student thriving are living through a deeply complicated moment. For many of us, this is not simply professional work. It is personal, intellectual, ethical and spiritual work."
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"The greatest danger confronting universities today is not simply that certain viewpoints may receive greater attention than others; it is that political authorities increasingly seek to determine which viewpoints may legitimately exist at all." truthout.org/articles/hig...
truthout.org
Higher Ed Can’t Be Neutral in an Age of Brutality. It Must Choose Democracy.
Contemporary proponents of “institutional neutrality” fail to grasp that universities have never been outside politics.
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Heads up. He's back at it. 🧵 (Eugh...)
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The most egregous parts may be gone, but the heart of the issue remains: this still doesn’t uphold the university as a public good, and it keeps narrowing who belongs.Glad to be an associate member of the AAUP. We keep pushing, together. #HigherEd
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Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬 @drkarenpinder.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Yeppers. I am no longer going to conferences in the U.S. And I am not alone.
insidehighered.com
Detentions of International Scholars at Airports Raise Alarm
A Johns Hopkins University researcher was detained at an airport by immigration officials and later released. Cases like hers make travel fraught for foreign scholars.
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I am no longer an MLIS student but I also will not apply to a job without a salary listed.
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I always love the whole “we strive to create a diverse, welcoming environment and encourage people from marginalized identities to apply” paragraph right after the shamefully low salary.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My MLS students would like you to know that if you don't post a salary with your job posting, they aren't likely to apply.
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Bumping...
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Library friends: I'm planning a blog post about negotiating during a job offer. Will you share with me what you negotiated? Or what you wish you would've negotiated? I'd like to give people a sense of the range of things they can ask for. 📚
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The most egregous parts may be gone, but the heart of the issue remains: this still doesn’t uphold the university as a public good, and it keeps narrowing who belongs.Glad to be an associate member of the AAUP. We keep pushing, together. #HigherEd
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
So Trump and McMahon now are trying the velvet glove approach to get universities to submit. It’s just a watered down version of the compact they tried to impose last year. No self-respecting university should comply. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
nytimes.com
After Colleges Reject ‘Compact,’ Trump Officials Try a Letter (Gift Article)
The open letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon fell far short of the attempt at a compact last year that dangled research money in return for embracing the Trump administration’s agenda.
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Heads up. He's back at it. 🧵 (Eugh...)
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"The greatest danger confronting universities today is not simply that certain viewpoints may receive greater attention than others; it is that political authorities increasingly seek to determine which viewpoints may legitimately exist at all." truthout.org/articles/hig...
truthout.org
Higher Ed Can’t Be Neutral in an Age of Brutality. It Must Choose Democracy.
Contemporary proponents of “institutional neutrality” fail to grasp that universities have never been outside politics.
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"Those of us whose work is rooted in equity, inclusion, justice, belonging, access and student thriving are living through a deeply complicated moment. For many of us, this is not simply professional work. It is personal, intellectual, ethical and spiritual work."
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Access Services ≠ disability services. Access Services ≠ just circulation. It's the work of connecting people with library resources, spaces, and services. Glad to see ACRL's revised Framework for Access Services Librarianship approved at ALA Annual. acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/...
acrl.ala.org
New and Revised ACRL Standards, Statements, and Frameworks on Access Services, Status of Academic Librarians
The ACRL Board of Directors approved a revision of "A Framework for Access Services Librarianship" (PDF) at its June, 27, 2026, meeting. Developed by the ACRL Access Services Interest Group (ASIG), th...
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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“Indoctrination occurs when choices are eliminated, not when people are free to choose what they learn about. Having the opportunity to choose what you read for yourself is what makes libraries work so well for so many, despite being full of books with so many different and contradictory ideas.”
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Lies About Libraries (Part One)
Welcome to the first in a series of posts dedicated to debunking false claims used to undermine trust in libraries and attack those who work in them.
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US appeals court strikes down key part of Florida law restricting campus race and gender discussions
Ron DeSantis’s Stop Woke Act suffers another legal setback, with the state accused of ‘puppeteering’
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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
*kisses fingers*
@dietaryfay.bsky.social, riffing with @ceej.bsky.social about Bluesky Batman

COMMISSIONER GORDON: Bluesky Batman, why did it take you so long to reply to my bat signal?

BLUESKY BATMAN: Maybe next time add some alt text. 

@thurmanmunson.bsky.social: come on dude alt text jokes are not chill
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
How did this one get disconnected from the thread? What Moms for Liberty's doing? That is their own shame talking. If we don't tell them the truth, they will get the wrong story. #ALAAC26
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
And pictures coming at the end since they would not come up immediately. I'm in line for a signed copy of Backalker and am excited to meet Professor Crenshaw in person. #ALAAC26
Two women seated on stage at the ALA Annual Conference, one in a white dress and the other in a teal dress, with a large screen displaying the event name behind them.Presentation slide featuring Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, her name in bold text, a headshot of her smiling, and the book cover of "BACKTALKER."
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Paolo Jasa, Library Professional @pbjasa.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Patron explains to someone else's kids that they went to Spain for vacation, while I'm more than a little hesitant to go through any checkpoints crawling with ICE. Guess what color his skin is!
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Categorization does a lot of the work of oppression. #ALAAC26
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Not fighting back is part of what they want And this is something I gave control over. This gives Prof. Crenshaw energy. #ALAAC26
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"A dog will not bark at a parked car." #ALAAC26
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The arc of the world bends towards justice because we humans make it so. We do the work. It will not bend on its own authority. #ALAAC26
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Life wasn't something that just happened to you, it involves how you interact with your community. Your environment. #ALAAC26
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Who we see as representative sometimes excludes the whole story. #ALAAC26
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Lorene @lorene9.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Kimberle Crenshaw! #alaac26
Speakers seated on a stage in front of a giant screen with ALA conference logo.
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The best is telling you you are heading in the right direction. Things that do not have value will not come under fire. #ALAAC26
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I probably will also be resharing because, I totally forgot what I was starting to type out... #ALAAC26
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Boards of trustees can learn from librarians. Law forms can learn from librarians .. #ALAAC26
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Whose story are we focusing on? What will look worse? Crenshaw is discussing the Whitewashing of history as well as the College Board. #ALAAC26
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
When we live in a society that allows and responds with censorship, we will not know who we truly are. #ALAAC26
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