An image of the Artemis II NASA SLS rocket. The launch vehicle is outlines in blue with the caption 'in the sea'. The service module is red with caption 'took them around the moon then burned up' At the tip the Launch Escape System is outlined red saying 'burned up' Second stage fairings are outlines black saying 'aerodynamic fairings that also burned up. Finally the re-entry vehicle is outlines green stating 'came home.

No problem!
This should make it easier to grasp: it's way more complicated than this but it gets the general idea across.

Registration for 2026 CALM opens Monday, April 13 at 12 noon Eastern time 🎉
www.conferenceonacademiclibrarymanagement.com #LibCALM

The fact that it dropped on a Friday afternoon feels weirdly fitting?

Next month marks 21 years of staffing desks in academic libraries.

I'm thinking a lot about how I got into this work, where I am now, and what I really want at this point.

Might get a little misty as I'm logging into Alma today at 4 p.m.

Having flashbacks to staffing the reference desk in Pueblo on Friday afternoons. I was the Friday closer for a few years c. 2012 to 2014 and got so much work done during those shifts.

Just released it today!

I just printed out a draft of the revised ACRL Info Lit Framework and plan to read it while staffing a service desk this afternoon.

It feels like 2014 was a lifetime ago, and yet.

Our Information Literacy Framework Review and Revision Task Force is pleased to announce that the first draft of the revised Framework is ready for feedback from the community. Details on feedback opportunities, including two webinars this month, are available on ACRL Insider. https://bit.ly/4vmkWUF

We're excited to announce our 2026 CALM featured speakers, Meredith Farkas and Silvia Vong! More info at www.conferenceonacademiclibrarymanagement.com/calm-feature...

Headline from Apple news. Rolling Stone: what really happened with last year’s drone panic in New Jersey. Accompanying illustration may be of a drone, I can’t really tell. A gray parking lot from overhead with some green shape in the foreground.

Drone Panic in New Jersey (ambient/downtempo, Editions Mego, 2026)

Side A: Faceless in Bordentown, Learn to Commute, Hoboken Waterway Sutra, Turnpike Follies

Side B: Passed Out on the Shark River Golf Course, Born to Doze, Regional Jet, Long Drone for Thomas Edison

I started as a shelver in a reference collection (back when reference collections were large enough to have dedicated shelvers) and there were just. so. many. union catalogs.

New York Movie, by Edward Hopper, 1939, 📸 by Carlos Fyfe

"Moon's haunted"

'Hammersmith Bridge at Sunset' by Tushar Sabale
tusharsabale.com

I wonder if @themerl.bsky.social has any examples of Ideal English Rabbits?

Faith Bradham, @mauraseale.bsky.social , and I have a new article out! The Illusion of Opportunity: Reimbursement Policies and the Academic Librarian furthers our research into the costs of professional enagement activities. (spoiler: reimbursement culture sucks) doi.org/10.1353/pla.... 📚📜

Strong same.

(I recognize this very likely applies outside of higher education as well, but I can only speak from my experience.)

Columbia University Libraries is hiring an Instruction & Research Librarian! They will be a key contributor to reference and instruction in the Humanities & History unit. I'm on the search committee and can answer questions or point you to the right person. academic.careers.columbia.edu#!/180613

Unsolicited Friday advice for people working in higher education: Be respectful to administrative assistants and people who have a lot of keys on their keyrings.

Check out the new website for the Library Freedom Journal, published by the folks at the Library Freedom Project. journal.libraryfreedom.org

They're looking for submissions for articles, reviews, hot takes, zines, & artwork focused on privacy, intellectual freedom, information democracy, & more! 📚

'Canary Wharf, London' (1991) Carl Laubin
carllaubin.com

Frame #8500 from S06 -E25 - Crab-629308

have any libraries successfully cut ties with lexisnexis because of their ICE contract? or are in talks to do so? #skybrarians

My FPOW, Auraria, cut vendor ties during the first administration. Some of my colleagues from back then wrote it up for Lead Pipe:

www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2021/ethical...

Such a good record.

I'm planning on writing a blog post about how to support laid off library workers. I'd be excited to hear your ideas or examples! 📚

I sometimes think my primary job as a middle manager is to be mostly patient and thoughtful and careful so that if I really go HAM people know to pay attention

Feeling this from Sam.

When it pains, it roars.