ALT: Conan O'Brien Tries Hot Sauce

Wendell Berry championed small farms, agrarianism and conservation for decades.

ALT: Jalen Brunson Knicks Celebration

I entered this profession just as the storm clouds of the current book-banning push were starting to gather; now I’m in the middle of it.

Vocational awe describes the set of ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries as institutions are inherently good, sacred notions, and therefore beyond critique. I argue that the concept of vocational awe directly correlates to problems within librarianship like burnout and low salary. This article aims to describe the phenomenon and its effects on library philosophies and practices so that they may be recognized and deconstructed.

Last night, while making dinner, something hit me.

Nancy Floyd began taking a self-portrait each morning in 1982 and sustained the practice on and off for nearly four decades.

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Alt: A man in a stained white tank top and dorky khaki hat is standing on a boat off the coast of Mississippi. He is grinning and waving his left arm in the goofiest possible manner at his friend, Lieutenant Dan.