I completely understand and profoundly sympathize with both perspectives but also

I've observed that my profession is pretty evenly divided between people who love helping and want to help everyone who uses the library get what they need, and people who love working in a library and want everyone who uses the library to leave so they can be left alone to work in the library

ME: So it turns out this thing you thought had a clear-cut numerical answer is actually a complex, deliberately ambiguous judgment call with inherent risk of legal liability! Isn't that cool???

INSTRUCTOR, JUST TRYING TO DEAL WITH THEIR COURSE READINGS:

I'm heartily sorry to every faculty member who has ever reached out to me for a simple answer about fair use or copyright and has instead found they've accidentally activated the World's Most Boring Special Interest

(Whatever they're doing with the bees is probably pretty cool in all seriousness. But also.)

multiple signs on an outdoor patio reading LIVE HONEY BEES AHEAD

Gob from Arrested Development saying Bees?!

just incredibly normal signage to see at your place of employment

Defending Academic Freedom in an Age of Censorship: Why Open Access Matters More Than Ever We believe OA publishing is crucial, because it is an act of resistance against censorship and control. When knowledge is published OA, it can be accessed in many places with no restriction. When know...

We've published two new blog posts today, reflecting on #OpenAccess, academic freedom & censorship -- one from our team, and another from one of our authors, Ash Lierman.

Our team: blogs.openbookpublishers.com/defending-ac...

Ash: blogs.openbookpublishers.com/defending-ac...

#DefendResearch

(The review also means extra much to me as an academic librarian who uses Choice literally every week for my own decision-making!)

The Struggle You Can’t See: Experiences of Neurodivergent and Invisibly Disabled Students in Higher Education This book offers a comprehensive review of current research on the higher education experiences of neurodivergent undergraduate students and those with invisible disabilities. Grounded in principles o...

I do note that the e-book is open access (a major value of mine as a librarian) and free to download here: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... Of course, print copy purchases also help support my stellar Diamond OA press, Open Book Publishers, in the incredible work they do!

The Struggle You Can’t See - Choice 360 This week’s review analyzes literature on disabled students’ experiences in higher education and examines barriers that bar inclusion.

Oh, wow - I am absolutely humbled to see that my book, The Struggle You Can’t See: Experiences of Neurodivergent and Invisibly Disabled Students in Higher Education, received an extremely kind Essential review as this week's featured Choice review: www.choice360.org/choice-pick/...

If comparably-sized library conferences are maybe very marginally better with its environments, it's more just that they're also marginally worse in terms of the quality of the actual content, so the tonal whiplash doesn't feel quite as severe, if you see what I'm saying

To be clear and fair, it's not that AERA is doing a bad job in being accessible/inclusive, relatively speaking; on the contrary, I see good faith effort from the organizers. It comes much more from venues, other attendees, & just the general experience of existing while trans and disabled in public

and I'm even white, so like I can just imagine

AERA always like (IN SESSION) Wow having these high-level liberatory discussions of intersectional queer and disability justice are so deeply nourishing my soul! (LEAVES SESSION) I have immediately experienced 8 million different ambient microaggressions with such speed and intensity I am now dead

Sometimes being a librarian really sucks, and other times you get to check out The Wind in the Willows to an undergrad who had never heard of it before.

a set of doors at the top of a staircase with a push button for wheelchair users, which is circled

c'mon man

Toward Inclusive Academic Librarian Hiring Webcast Series Join ACRL this February for the four-part webcast series "Toward Inclusive Academic Librarian Hiring" to learn strategies for welcoming all job candidates, reducing barriers by centering invisible and...

Join us this February for the four-part webcast series “Toward Inclusive Academic Librarian Hiring” to learn strategies for welcoming all job candidates, reducing barriers by centering invisible and visible identities, and more. Learn more on ACRL Insider and register today!

Why the American Library Association Still Matters A candidate for president of the American Library Association makes the case that a strong ALA is the most powerful tool library workers have in the face of broad challenges and threats.

More than I care about who you vote for in the upcoming @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social election, I care about the future of ALA as a means to ensure library workers are appropriately respected and compensated. Wrote a piece about it for Katina Magazine. Show up for ALA to show up for library workers.

OUT NOW: The Struggle You Can’t See by Ash Lierman — a vital resource on higher education experiences of neurodivergent and disabled students. Lierman integrates UDL, design thinking, and the neurodiversity model to highlight pathways for equity in higher ed. Read it here: https://buff.ly/3UFxJAX

hmm, Bluesky already rife with misinformation, I see (💕)