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Maura Smale 😷💉

@maurasmale.bsky.social
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Chief Librarian at Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, proud resident of the CUNYverse, striving for #critlib/antiracist practice, posts = my own. she/her maurasmale.com also maurasmale@mastodon.social

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I would like to suggest that seeking election or appointment to your library board is a very good way to address book bans. Applications for our 2027 cohort are now open for those interested: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... - we need leftists to engage in governance.
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FTP Library Elections & Appointments Training Cohort
Hello! You're filling out this form because you've expressed interest in running for or seeking appointment to a local library board seat in your community (or because you're a serving trustee who'd l...
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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s that time — meet the winners of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize! themillions.com/2026/09/meet...
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Meet the Winners of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize - The Millions
In 2017, Honey & Wax Booksellers established an annual prize for American women book collectors, aged 30 years and younger. Our goal, at the time, was to expand the popular perception of who book coll...
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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Two weeks to apply for the tenth and final Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize! $1000 for an outstanding book collection built by a woman, aged 30 or younger. The Knicks did it – now it’s your year! #honeyandwaxprize #honeyandwaxbookcollectingprize
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
People should know that NYPL alone has 100 vacancies and that this doesn't include the 160 vacancies at BPL & QPL. Library workers also need higher pay. Meanwhile the libraries ARE NOT RECEIVING ENOUGH FUNDING. We need @mayor.nyc.gov and the @council.nyc.gov to fund libraries at 0.5% of budget now.
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I’m excited to shared draft AI Guidelines for the CUNY Graduate Center community @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Importantly, they embed a right of refusal for faculty, staff, and students where reasonable alternatives exist.
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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Temporary soccer voting tattoo! 😍
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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
It's graduation day, so I get to celebrate all of our new dissertations and theses in this massive year-in-review post! The work is never easy, but to cross that finish line during our omnicrisis is even more impressive. Congratulations to all of our grads, from the @minareeslibrary.bsky.social! 🥳
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Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2025–26 - Graduate Center Library Blog
Today is Commencement Day at the Graduate Center, and we are again marking the occasion by celebrating the culminating works of our graduates, most of which are deposited in the Mina Rees Library to b...
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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Ooh lovely!
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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Six weeks to go to apply for the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, $1000 for an outstanding book collection built by a woman, aged 30 or younger. See details & past winners on our website! This is the tenth and final year of the prize, so if you’ve been holding off on applying, seize the day.
A young woman reads a book under a tree, with the heading: Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize 2026.”
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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
New keychain thanks to the fundraiser for the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Child Care Center! 💚
Set of door keys on a brown table with a green and yellow beaded keychain
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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
😍😍
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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Happy AAPI Heritage Month! Learn about some of the Graduate Center scholars of AAPI heritage who are influencing culture and conversation www.gc.cuny.edu/news/aapi-sc... @silviacho.bsky.social @eesgccuny.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social
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CUNY Digital History Archive @cdha.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
✨ May 4, 6-8pm ✨ We are thrilled to co-sponsor this timely conversation on the new McCarthyism on campus, with Mariame Kaba, Jeanne Theoharis + archivists/student journalists from Brooklyn College and WKCR 89.9FM. Join us @ CUNY Grad Center! @prisonculture.bsky.social @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social
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We Know It Well: Red Scare at CUNY and the Archival Politics of Dissent - Center for the Humanities
Join archivists, activists, and scholars for an evening of study and strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses. This panel discussion features Mariame Kaba, Jeanne Theoharis, ...
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Kaetrena @kaetrena.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It's National Library Week! As we celebrate libraries, don't forget to make some time for employee care and care practice. Next week, join Nicole A. Cooke, Jaena Alabi, & me for iREAL's "Considering Collective Care and Radical Empathy in Library Workplaces." Register at: tinyurl.com/yrr293kc
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Considering Collective Care and Radical Empathy in Library Workplaces. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
iREAL faculty members Jaena Alabi, Nicole Cooke, and Kaetrena Davis Kendrick will explore frameworks that identify barriers and pathways to care and empathy in library work and collegial networks. Att...
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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Another great CUNY libraries job! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
CUNY library faculty are unionized and represented by @psc-cuny.org. Those hired as Instructor have 5 yrs to earn a 2nd graduate degree which can be tuition-free at CUNY. CUNY librarians and libraries are amazing! Happy to answer questions.
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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Academic librarians, join us at CUNY! Several tenure track library faculty jobs just posted at Queensborough CC, Hostos CC, John Jay College: cuny.jobs/queens-ny/in... cuny.jobs/queens-ny/in... cuny.jobs/bronx-ny/lib... cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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Jobs | City University of New York
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Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) @ala-acrl.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
New on ACRLog... A bit about ADA Title II preparations "The ADA has been in place since 1990—it isn’t new—but there have been some recent changes, especially with regard to electronic resources, that we’ve been paying attention to." - Zoë McLaughlin bit.ly/4busHjs
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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It's that time! lithub.com/announcing-t...
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Announcing the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.
For the tenth year in a row, Literary Hub is pleased to announce the opening of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, which awards $1,000 to an American woman, aged 30 or younger, to acknowled…
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Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) @ala-acrl.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
New on ACRLog... Tribute Post for Fobazi Ettarh "With immense sadness, the writers of ACRLog acknowledge the passing of Fobazi Ettarh, library worker and influential LIS scholar." bit.ly/3MFuZmA
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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Come be my colleague in the CUNYverse! Join the fantastic library faculty & staff at Brooklyn College as their next Chief Librarian. CUNY libraries are amazing & collaborate across our 26 campuses. If folks have questions, hmu! Review begins 4/6. cuny.jobs/brooklyn-ny/...
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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
So so great! I am often a person who resists written reflections when a book recommends them but I did them all for this book and they were so useful for me. 💚
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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Another academic librarian job posted at CUNY, Cataloging/Reference with my stellar colleagues at Bronx Community College! Unionized and represented by PSC-CUNY.org. Join us in the CUNYverse! cuny.jobs/bronx-ny/ins...
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RenewersLIS @renewerslis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Renewers, I'm excited to reconnect with you live this year - here are my first speaking engagements of 2026. Learn more at tinyurl.com/uxxf9duc, and I hope to see you all soon!
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Libraries for the People @librariesftp.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
A form of #resistance is supporting & strengthening something positive, like #libraries, a rare & true commons in this privatized society. Come to our Friends & Foundations Network Open House Feb 19 to learn how to protect this important shared space! www.librariesforthepeople.org/events/ftp-f...
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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Join us in the CUNYverse! Work with my amazing colleagues at CUNY’s Office of Library Services as OER Manager! This unionized staff position is represented by the PSC-CUNY. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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GCTLC @gctlc.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Join us Feb 20! Campus Crisis Toolkit launch @CUNY Grad Center. 12 pm: Lunch & Learn with authors. 5:30 pm: Panel "University & Polycrisis" w/ Kevin Gannon, Lisa Di Bartolomeo & more (livestreamed). cuny.is/cctk-lunch lnkd.in/eyviU7vp
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The Librarians premiers on Independent Lens on Feb 9! @heykellyjensen.bsky.social has advice about how to support your local libraries: bookriot.com/how-to-suppo... + bookriot.com/gifting-with...)
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The Librarians | Book Policies Documentary | Independent Lens
The Librarians follows librarians and citizens responding to restrictions on library content across the United States.
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I wrote about some of the unreasonable requests I've gotten as a candidate for library jobs, and how employers might make the interview process less dehumanizing. acrlog.org/2026/02/05/m... 📚
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Making the Academic Librarian Interview Less Painful - ACRLog
To be unexpectedly unemployed in the U.S. is to be in a state of desperation. If you haven’t been out of work lately, it’s a particularly challenging time. The labor market is cooling, and people are ...
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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Just gutted by this news, rest in power Fobazi. Please donate/share.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
If you RTd the news of Fobazi's passing, work in LIS, or have ever uttered the phrase "vocational awe", it's time to put your money where your mouth is. We owe her that much at least. Please donate.
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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Part 2 now published on ACRLog too, thanks so much @kaetrena.bsky.social for these posts: acrlog.org/2026/01/15/r...
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Reconsidering Rest: Interruptions and Invitations (Part 2) - ACRLog
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, MSLS, Founder, Renewals. (Activation notice: This post shares information about harmful workplace experiences and impacts on t...
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Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) @ala-acrl.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
New on ACRLog... Reconsidering Rest: Interruptions and Invitations (Part 1) "Workers are often excluded or retaliated against when they engage in health-centered practices – even when they do so within the parameters of their workplace’s stated policies" - Kaetrena Davis Kendrick bit.ly/3YvMV5o
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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
That last one! 😻
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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
And one more staff job at City College: Admin Coordinator at City College: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Also unionized staff jobs in CUNY libraries, all CUNY employees are eligible for tuition remission, library-interested folks could get an MLS while in these jobs: Public Services Specialist cuny.jobs/queens-ny/pu... and Extended Day/ILL Coordinator cuny.jobs/queens-ny/ex... at LaGuardia CC
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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Library faculty are unionized and represented by the PSC. These are not my campuses but I’m happy to answer any questions. CUNY librarians are fantastic!
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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Academic library folks: 2 faculty jobs in the CUNYverse, come join us! Revised Head of Tech Services at Hunter College cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/.... Collections/Acquisitions Libn at City College cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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Kaetrena @kaetrena.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
"As library worker exposure to library values rejection, systemic harm, and compromised safety continue ... we need to revisit and to acknowledge the very real interruptions to rest practices – especially for truamatized workers and those with historically ignored identities." - tinyurl.com/2jw76hjv
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Reconsidering Rest: Interruptions and Invitations (Part 1) - ACRLog
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, MSLS, Founder, Renewals. (Activation notice: This post shares information about harmful workplace experiences and impacts on t...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Amidst all that is destructive and demoralizing, we're meeting to celebrate civic culture + public knowledge and build solidarities. Open to NYC info workers (librarians, archivists), grad students, artists, designers. Apps are due Wednesday, Jan 7, end-of-day! Confirmed sessions include:...
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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Very excited to share this! The new special issue of @jitp.bsky.social is on Minimalist DH Pedagogy. Co-edited by @danicasavonick.bsky.social @palermog.bsky.social @veritas44.bsky.social Patricia Belen and me. LOTS of great stuff in here. cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit...
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Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, no. 27 | Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy | Manifold @CUNY
<h3>Edited by Patricia Belen, Stefano Morello, Gregory J. Palermo, Danica Savonick, and Brandon Walsh</h3> <p>“More students in a single classroom; fewer instructors to engage them. Extravagant AI co...
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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Stuff those stockings with ideas. 🎁✨ Our latest roundup features new books by Graduate Center authors — perfect for the thinkers, readers, and revolutionaries on your list www.gc.cuny.edu/news/brighte...
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Brighten the Season With New Books by Graduate Center Authors
From new takes on World War II and the revolutionary roles of Black-owned bookstores to bilingual poetry collections, books by our faculty and alumni make great gifts for readers of all tastes.
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Luke Waltzer @lukewaltzer.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Still plenty of time to put together an application. Three scholars held this role previously. Each of them made a significant impact working with graduate student instructors at CUNY, and then moved on to a tenure-track position at other universities.
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Lady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Director of Barnard Archives and Special Collections barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Staff/... Salary range: $120,000–$125,000 annually, commensurate with experience. Please submit your application by January 5, 2026 to be considered. PASS IT ON 📚 📜
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Director of Barnard Archives and Special Collections
If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Director of Barnard Archives and Special Collections Position Summary The Director o...
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Luke Waltzer @lukewaltzer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The CFP is now open for the second cohort of faculty fellows in the Critical AI Literacy Institute @gctlc.bsky.social. We’re recruiting in 3 tracks. 1. Critical Foundations of AI 2. Ecological Implications of AI 3. T(h)inkering with AI Read the full call here: cuny.is/cali2-cfp
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Call for Participation 2026 – Critical AI Literacy Institute
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