Category: librarianship
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after National Librarian Day
It’s Easter, if you celebrate it on the western calendar, and also the midst of Ramadan, and right around Passover too. It is also, apparently, the day after National Librarian Day, and I have about as many feelings about that as I always have around National Library Week. Events like National Library Week and National […]
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on the classes I actually remember from my mslis
I’m in a semi-functional haze today, as I try to hold down chat and work like a functioning adult despite having trouble sitting upright (you would not believe how I react to COVID boosters, holy shit), and so when I stumbled across a tweet about memorable classes from library school (or a lack thereof), it […]
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thoughts on getting a library degree, part II
Two years ago I wrote a two-part series about getting a degree in librarianship (I didn’t exactly recommend it) and finding a job in the library and information science field (I suggested starting as soon as possible and looking outside the field). The year before, I’d written about my own job hunt, a miserable, soul-sucking […]
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why I really hate those we don’t deserve librarians memes
In the same week as the SLJ cover that centered whiteness1 during Black History Month, a meme—or, rather, a screenshot of a tweet—has been going the rounds again, positing that “we don’t deserve librarians.” The tweeter meant well, and the people sharing the meme mean well, and the thing being shared is, at its heart, […]
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that SLJ cover
On the second day of Black History Month, School Library Journal posted a photo and a headline article highlighting white people, and edging into blackface territory. I archived the tweet, because to be honest, I’m not sure if they’ll continue to leave it up. It’s a bad take, but it’s so much more: a whole […]
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On Reading Critically
I’ve noticed some interesting misinformation going the rounds, of late. Some of it is built around daylight savings time, which seems random. I mean, I hate daylight savings time with the fire of a thousand dying suns, which is also my general thought on time changes, but it’s a time change. Who cares? Except that […]
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On the Job Hunt: Library Edition
So you’ve got that Master of Science in Library and Information Science (that’s mine), or maybe you’ve got the Master of Library Science, and you’re on the job market. (If you’re not yet in school, consider all sides of that degree before you apply.) Now what? Well, like, now you hunt for jobs. My job […]
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Should You, Dear Reader, Get an MSLIS?
I don’t really mean you, dear reader: I mean all those people out there, wondering if they should go to library school/dreaming of a career where they read all day/thinking that since they can’t get a job, they should try an MSLIS. I’m talking to them, both because somebody ought to, even if it’s just […]
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when the (first) academic year is over
In August—early August, I think, unless it’s early-mid—I will have been a full-time academic librarian for a full year. In early May, however, I completed my first full academic year as a full-time academic librarian (and liaison to like half the school), and, as anyone in academe knows, the academic year is really the way […]
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Information Literacy Summit 2019
On the first Friday of April, I was fortunate enough to attend the 2019 Information Literacy Summit, hosted by Moraine Valley Community College and put on by Moraine and DePaul together. It was amazing, and I was very happy, which is probably in part because my mentor/hero—the amazing Dr. Nicole Cooke—presented the keynote and because […]
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