Hey #Library folk check out this #LGBTQIA resources account for library, knowledge & information workers 📚📜

4. Thinking about new approaches to critical information literacy for all of my liaison areas which encompass ethnic, area, cultural, and gender studies.

3. I would love to replicate the bibliography approach to support teaching and research around topics for the Social Transformation Research Collaborative Symposium or Conference on Student Activism and Social Change (which I unfortunately missed this week).

2. I learned about an open journal I wasn’t familiar with (Feminist Pedagogy) and was not yet discoverable in our catalog. I also picked up physical back issues of A Feminist Review, which “reviews print, video, and digital resources for research and teaching in gender and women’s studies”

How I’m connecting this all back to librarianship:

1. A common theme throughout the conference was challenging traditional research methods, especially the notion of extraction from communities. I’m planning to add a Feminist Research Methodologies page to my WGS LibGuide

But I attended such amazing sessions about feminist leadership, transnational feminisms as they relate to Global Asias and Latin America, disability studies, Indigenous feminisms and story work, digital feminist praxis….

On a personal note, I want to eventually do my Ph.D in Information Sciences focusing on Black feminist practices in librarianship. I say it out loud often because it’s very rare I’ve said a thing I wanted to do and NOT done it.

(Except get my drivers license 💀)

This was my first time attending a subject specialty conference as a librarian. As I’m newly the Women & Gender Studies and LGBTQ+ Studies liaison, plus a graduate of WGS, I was curious about where the field is currently. #Skybrarians #LibrarySky 📚

This title is at the convergence of transnational feminism and disability studies.

“Bears witness to disabled survivors of violence in Iran from war, incarceration, acid attacks, and torture”

#Skybrarians #LibrarySky 📚

Heading home from the Women & Gender Studies Consortium Conference. Academic librarians, your collection NEEDS Disabling Relations: Wounded Bodyminds and Transnational Praxis. #Skybrarians #LibrarySky 📚

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Interesting piece.

Research librarians can't ignore AI tools, as they're popping up everywhere (& in existing products) & researchers want to use them. Need to know about them whether you're pro or anti (or in my case, pragmatic... when they could be used helpfully & when they shouldn't be used). 📚

a close up of a young boy 's face with a sad look on his face . Alt: a close up of a young boy 's face with a sad look on his face .

I was just appointed on the ODLOS Advisory Committee for this year so that kind of sucks for me but ya know... we do what we gotta do #ALACouncil

Discontinue Office for Diversity, Outreach, Literacy, Advisory Committee (relocate core committees to Committee on Diversity)

Discontinue Public and Cultural Programs Advisory Committee

Change composition of Policy Monitoring Committee from 11 to 5 members

Motions 1-10 Pass #ALACouncil

Merge Committee on Professional Ethics and Intellectual Freedom Committee

Merging Leadership Development Committee and the Council Engagement and Training Committee

Merge Publishing Committee and American Libraries Advisory Committee

#ALACouncil

1st vote Committee on Organization's 10 motions to discontinue, merge, etc. various committees. These include:

Change everything about the Budget Analysis and Review Committee into a Finance Committee.

Move Committee on Status of Women in Librarianship under Committee on Diversity. #ALACouncil

Today's the first Winter #ALACouncil Meeting! I will try to post updates as we move through business. Not only does it help me process/remember what's happening I hope it's engaging for those who can't tune in live.

I pray I’m NEVER, in this lifetime or the next, someone who could serve in a high level leadership role and be too cowardly to stand behind the decisions I make.

Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo 🙏🏾

Obsessed With Stranger Things Season 5? You’re Missing Half the Story Without This Comic Discover the true meaning of family and friendship in this pulse-pounding comic book saga

Obsessed with Stranger Things season 5? @screenrant.bsky.social suggests picking up #StrangerThings and Dungeons & Dragons: Rise of Hellfire, especially if you're missing a certain character. Details: https://bit.ly/4oWzara

I’m glad that students now know what staff have lived with for months now. The last couple weeks have been so deeply sad. Receiving farewell emails from colleagues last week was devastating.

*blocked

It's giving

🥳🥳🥳

The university is so bad at letting us know a staff or faculty member has passed away. The man been here 25 years! I should’ve had email in my inbox today at 8am.

Text from Publishers Marketplace, above: Area X by Jeff VanderMeer Imprint: Abrams. Jeff VanderMeer's Area X: The Southern Reach Files, an expansion of the Area X story by way of a hidden metal box full of secret images and documents, purporting to be the last report of a Central agent; a full-color book spanning the 30 years of Southern Reach expeditions, reaching into the past and the future, pitched for Area X completists while adding to the narrative begun with the first four novels, to Michael Sands at Abrams in an exclusive submission, by Joseph Veltre at Gersh Agency and attorney Alex Kohner (world). Text submitted to Publishers Marketplace: An epic and mind-blowing expansion of the Area X story by way of a hidden metal box full of secret images and documents purporting to be the last report of the Central agent Karen Hargraves. Spanning the 30 years of Southern Reach expeditions, reaching into the past and the future, this full-color book will satisfy Area X completists while adding to the narrative begun with the first four novels, to Michael Sand at Abrams, in an exclusive submission, by Joseph Veltre at Gersh Agency and attorney Alex Kohner (world).

Thrilled to announce this ground-breaking new book, Area X: The Southern Reach Files! The Central agent in question is, of course, Hargraves from Absolution. The book includes some new ways of approaching storytelling, and also I hope will be satisfying in lots of other ways. More in a thread. 1/?

Columbia sister school Barnard College lays off dozens of employees weeks after antisemitism suit settlement The layoffs come on the heels of Barnard settling settle a lawsuit brought by Jewish students claiming the Columbia-affiliated school failed to properly address campus antisemitism.

"Barnard College has made a “painful” announcement that it will lay off nearly 80 full-time employees as part of a “college-wide staff restructuring,” school officials said." - NY Post

Note the quotation marks around the word "painful." Are they questioning the suffering of the school officials? 😆

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The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched

"...the culprit is a content‑filtering layer imposed by Azure OpenAI, the service that underpins Summon Research Assistant and its Primo cousin." 📚 aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...

Same! I’ve also never submitted an article or paper anywhere before so all of this is new to me too!

Considering submitting which meant reading that privacy of thought article in its entirety and taking notes. It exhausted me. I still have so many pages left 😭

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
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