Tag: 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 serving preservice teachers during a time of book banning
Mine is a wildly varied job, one where I spend a large part of my time giving directions (printer’s over there, bathroom’s yonder, oh sorry you want the men’s bathroom that’s thataway, yeah we finally have a color printer again it’s yonder) and then can bounce in a moment to doing intensive research and hunting […]
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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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A Year of Pandemic
As I write this, it’s been a little more than a year that we in the U.S. have been living under the shadow of COVID-19. Our country’s federal response was disastrous, leaving individual states to cope, or not, as they and their governors and legislators were able. Some didn’t cope at all. Some put on […]
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a good vaccine rollout doesn’t require tech skills
There’s a lot of talk, of late, about vaccine rollouts, and whether or not the U.S. is doing a good job. Some folks think it’s an unmitigated disaster; others point out that rolling out a large-scale vaccine campaign isn’t easy (although they always manage to forget that, in Ye Olden Days, we somehow managed large-scale […]
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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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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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