Starting July 1 there will be new limits on student loans for MLS students under the limited understanding of what fits as a "professional" degree.

This limit is going to further restrict access to the field.

I haven't seen anywhere near enough discussion of this (truthfully, none) by pro orgs. 📚

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The #EpsteinFiles meet #TheUList.

Universities with ties to #Epstein now revealed daily at buff.ly/OLXy3C7

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Why neurodivergent lady leaders must stop confusing overfunctioning with stewardship if they want to build teams that truly grow There is a kind of leadership exhaustion that many neurodivergent women know well. It is not just the exhaustion of responsibility.

"Many neurodivergent lady leaders are not only leading people and priorities. They are also navigating sensory load, communication fatigue, context-switching, and the invisible labor of self-regulation."

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Re-thinking the work-ready agenda: teaching for effective communication on the job “Work-ready graduates” has become a defining expectation of higher education. Governments emphasise it, policy frameworks measure it, and universities are expected to deliver it. But what if employ…

New blog post! 🚨

'Re-thinking the work-ready agenda: teaching for effective communication on the job' by Pat Strauss and Judy Hunter

#HigherEducation #WorkReadiness #Communication

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"...choosing not to do something that is burning you out and isn’t supported isn’t a betrayal of your patrons. If this work is that important, it’s your institution that has betrayed patrons by not adequately supporting you."

@librarianmer.bsky.social 📚

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Woah....Congrats!

DEI Didn’t Fail; Institutions Did (opinion) The anti-DEI campaign was never premised on a principled critique of strategies and methods.

"This work was never about political ideology. It was always about making institutions function as they claim to: as places where talent is recognized and opportunity is real, regardless of who you are or where you started."

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Are You a Current or Future School Librarian?

The Philadelphia Alliance to Restore School Librarians (www.restorephillylibrarians.org) started a list of candidates to hopefully fill libraries across Philly!

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#SchoolLibrarians #TLSky #TLChat #TLSkyChat #EduSky

What committees miss when they judge merit Diversity and equity policies are often dismissed as a numbers game: too many white men at the top, so institutions try to balance the…

I wrote a short piece on what funding and hiring committees often overlook when assessing merit.

@academic-chatter.bsky.social

I am happy for her because she is an excellent scholar and teacher, but I'm sad that CUNY has lost another academic to another university.

It is one thing for unis to hire POC professors and an entirely different matter to keep them.

An empty lidded mason jar sits on a desk. A post-it note atop designates it as a container for "emergency desk chocolate"

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Some offices have swear jars.
During a tour of WRC, I spotted a chocolate jar on someone’s desk. Sadly, it was empty.
Counselor Troi was right — “Chocolate is a serious thing.”

The darker, the better. 🍫

Little workplace details like this always make the day.

I’d follow the money with the folks pushing it.
And from both my parent brain and my informationist brain, “argh” barely scratches the surface...

This is the same company whose other AI toy was telling children how to start fires a few months ago futurism.com/artificial-i...

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A "...champion of diversity, equity, and inclusion, data management, and equitable scholarly communication...", APALA is proud to endorse Yasmeen Shorish (she/her) as @ala-acrl.bsky.social 's presidential candidate for 2027-2028.

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APALA members—it's time to vote for your next Executive Board! 🎉 Choose the next VP/President-Elect, Secretary, Treasurer, and 2 Members-at-Large.

Voting ends on March 30, 2026 (11:59 PM ET)

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A reflection from APALA 2025 Travel Grant Recipient, Joe Lee:

"Attending the ALA Conference has reminded me of the importance of community and the power of our unique voices, especially through the written word—now, more than ever."

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We're excited to announce that applications are now open for two scholarships: The APALA Scholarship and the JCLC NALCo LIS Student Scholarship!

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Applications are due on March 23rd, so don't delay!

ED’s DEI Guidance Is Dead, but Trump’s Crackdown Isn’t Diversity advocates say the courts have been clear—Trump has no justification to ban DEI. But other legal experts say the administration has plenty of other tools it can use to accomplish the same goa...

This government has already demonstrated in the past year that they push through and do whatever they want, in spite of the courts.

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Hard agree. And a prime example of why I state doing more with less.

A group of Hindu students were seen forming a human chain to protect Muslim students praying at India’s Lucknow University after authorities locked the campus mosque.

I spend a bit of time thinking about higher ed finance. If departments can find ways to fill upper-level classes with non-majors to support a small number of majors, they're passing any reasonable financial test. But it's more complicated than using the simplest metric...degrees.

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

Howard County parts ways with 55 librarian support staffers The Howard County Library System has quietly terminated 55 support staffers who primarily stack shelves, drawing a sharp rebuke from the system’s employees union.

As if those in the support staff ranks are Star Trek Original Series red shirts... Never mind that the librarians, are, again expected to do more with less.

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Correct

Also worth considering how many universities caved in advance, either proudly and loudly or quietly

"But recent statements and actions from the Trump administration suggest the effort to end all diversity, equity and inclusion programs is far from over. And other legal experts with more separation from the court cases warn that ED and other federal agencies still have a variety of other tools"

And pull whichever tools there see as fit for their aims...

ED’s DEI Guidance Is Dead, but Trump’s Crackdown Isn’t Diversity advocates say the courts have been clear—Trump has no justification to ban DEI. But other legal experts say the administration has plenty of other tools it can use to accomplish the same goa...

This government has already demonstrated in the past year that they push through and do whatever they want, in spite of the courts.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Most Conservative Students Don’t Feel Persecuted on Campus A new survey of college students contradicts Republican rhetoric that campus culture is hostile to right-wing views.

"Despite widespread political rhetoric claiming that colleges suppress conservative viewpoints, new data shows that most college students feel free to express themselves regardless of their political affiliation. " #HigherEd

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FATHER SHANLEY: HANDS OFF ST. JOHN’S FACULTY UNIONS! We are shocked by President Rev. Brian J. Shanley, O.P.’s recent attack on the two faculty labor unions at St. John’s University. On Thursday, February 19, 2026, Father Shanley informed faculty via em...

St. John's University has withdrawn recognition from the faculty union, 234 days since contract expiration. Shocking assault on labor rights.

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