Tag: I AM A LIBRARIAN!

• May 16, 2020

  Cook County, Queens County, & Raw Numbers as Obfuscation

  Everyone has a different reaction to stress, and I am well aware that one of mine—getting pickier (and more prickly) about information accuracy—is not a normal one. Because I know and accept that my responses are in no way normal, and that I get colder as I get more stressed, I try to be understanding […]
• November 27, 2019

  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 […]
• December 18, 2018

  Musings on an Almost-Four Year Academic Job Hunt

  I spent nearly four years—beginning in November or December of 2014 and ending in August of 2018—on the academic job market. It’s numbing, and soul-sucking, and hugely time-consuming, a full-time job for which one gets no money and nothing but existential despair and criticism. (And I’m not talking about the rejections.) Back in 2014, around […]
• January 9, 2018

  Using Language as a Professional & Other Arbitrary Musings

  When I was in library school, I had the opportunity to take a course with Dr. Emily Knox, one of the world’s experts on intellectual freedom and its cousin, censorship. It was, and remains, one of the most foundational courses I have had the opportunity to take. Intellectual Freedom & Censorship is the sort of […]