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That's part of what I was thinking/wondering. Reference in academic libraries doesn't really take place at a desk anymore. It didn't even when we still had a ref desk at my library. All we did was fix the printer and point at the circ desk. But public library are still hopping, I think?
the descriptor "nazi agnostic" is kinda brilliant
Public library peops: how has reference changed in the past 5-10-20 years? Or has it not changed that much? 📚
Apparently theft is rife at the US Open. Think twice before you spend time around rich, white people!
I bet they’re Republetarians. Crap politics, but care about privacy—for everyone
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re: teaching & learning, I'm discovering that my philosophy is Less Reading, More Understanding. Go deep on 30 pages instead of skimming 100. Also--no all-white readings and no-all male readings in a given week. #pedagogy #DEfuckingI
Right? And actually, this article by the Other Buckland (Michael K.) is pretty good, if dated. sci-hub.st/https://doi.... It's making me marvel again that NFTs were ever a thing.
This other Buckland quotes a lady information scientist, Madame Documentation, Suzanne Briet, "("Cantilope cataloguee est un document initial et les autres documents sont seconds ou derives." (Briet, 1951, p. 8)." #TheCatalogedAntelope #LIS #InformationScience #MeaningMaking #Information
When you're catching up with the readings on a course you're teaching but didn't design and you learn that Buckland on your syllabus isn't @jambina.bsky.social but...a cis man person!
Barnumbia also has a disguide linktr.ee/barnumbiadis...
"Solidarity not austerity" from tinyurl.com/dukedisozine25 wherein Duke students call for the highest paid executives to cut their salaries instead of their staff. #DisorientationGuides #DisGuides #DisoZines via @kwooten.bsky.social
"...the AI sometimes makes mistakes... “A human expert should be part of the vetting process” before any action is taken..." So is it really saving time and effort worth the cost of tool development, maintenance, and all the associated labor and environmental costs?
Lucky students!!!
It’s not my syllabus, so let me check!
What are you teaching?!?
Starting tonight, I'm teaching Fundamental of Library and Information Science. I'm using the syllabus provided to me with one exception: adding #Zotero. Can you even be a librarian if you're not smug af about automating your bibliography? 📚 It's possible I'll also bring up the myth of neutrality.
I love tabouli, and I love kale, but this looks like the 2025 version--unrecognizable to democracy.
Thinking about all the universities (incl. mine) with higher ed admins who bought the hype to selfishly boost their careers, now leaving the rest of us to foot the bill amidst slashed budgets.
"Also, I've had librarians and especially zine librarians; they're super radical and super awesome, and they'll contact me and be like, "Hey, so we have your old zines, but we're going to file them with your new name. Is that okay?" I was like, "Oh yeah, this is awesome!""
gender.libsyn.com/episode-32-a... Listen at 20 minutes in where @babywrist.bsky.social shouts out zine librarians for reaching out and asking how they wanted their previous name and pronouns to be handled.
You should read my friend @oshycapey.bsky.social's newsletter. It's helpful for managing/fighting off despair. open.substack.com/pub/oceancap...
In our pluralistic democracy, a politician doesn't "placate the left by moving left". A politician either actively defends the inherent human rights & dignity of every single last person—or that politician demonstrates that they don't believe in America's mission statement. This isn't difficult.
Library worker thought experiment: what could you get done if you didn't have to constantly explain what you do and justify your library or department's existence? 📚📜
ZINEDUMP is a new Toronto #zinefair that aims to provide a venue for the open expression for independent publications, radical art and ideas. The inaugural fest will be held on Nov. 9th between 12-5pm at the Cecil Community Centre. Applications are due August 31st!!! zinedump.fyi #zines #zinesdiy
Email zines@barnard.edu for scans. (personal and research purposes only, not to be reproduced, consent/copyright etc.)
"In Israel, I am not restricted from criticizing my country or protesting its actions; my Palestinian peers are. Will Columbia be privileging my voice in a manner consistent with Israeli policy, or will it censor our speech equally?" op-ed by Israeli Columbia student Aharon Dardik 🇵🇸 🎓
They’re doing a great job dismantling Barnard tbh
While I can’t recommend visiting the US, we do have at least 86 working class zines at Barnard in NYC clio.columbia.edu/catalog?q=Zi...
Join a Palestine solidarity group to meet the best people
The Trump admin made it official: they are coming after the University of California. What is at stake is not just research grant funding for UCLA, but the future of federal funding for the UC system, California’s political autonomy, and public higher education across the U.S. @ucaft.bsky.social
Good thing you have extra!
Zohran should propose “Cuomo’s Law”, a law that bars sex offenders from being mayor of New York City
I'm thinking about how many Palestinians and reporters and health care workers and others in Gaza have "If you see this..." messages. Imagining people even writing and recording them is just devastating. 😭 🇵🇸
Fussbudget take on this but "revolutionary conservative" can't be a thing.
On July 31, 77 Barnard staff members were laid off. Here are a mutual aid fundraiser you can contribute to barnardstaffmutualaid.betterworld.org, an Ig handle to follow www.instagram.com/barnardstaff..., and a photo from Laura Rosenbury's inauguration that is worth 1,000 words.
"This became my form of quiet rebellion from superficial content. We're not here to chase trends. We're here to write with feeling, to remember, to resist." says Divya Desai, a zine maker from Goa. www.heraldgoa.in/cafe/less-sc...
Brad Lander & Zohran Mamdani is the bromance I didn't know I needed.
personally I think Andrew Cuomo should give his apartment back to the person who really needed it: his adult daughter whom he turfed out of an $8000+/month midtown Manhattan apt bc he actually lives in Westchester but needed to claim residency for psychosexual reasons (running for mayor)
Adjuncts of the World: is it typical not to get paid until your class has been over for one (1) week? I guess maybe until you turn in your grades?
Dusting off my old hypothes.is account to improve this article www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w... #TeamBuffalo
![article text: The victim [annotation: predator], Asher Watkins, 52, a Dallas real estate executive who sold ranches, was pursuing one of the horned buffaloes in Limpopo Province, the northernmost province in South Africa, when the attack happened, Coenraad Vermaak Safaris said in an email on Thursday. ... “Asher was fatally injured in a sudden and unprovoked [annotation: hmm] attack by an unwounded buffalo he was tracking together with one of our professional hunters and one of our trackers,” [annotation: that sounds provocative to me] Hans Vermaak, whose family runs the safari company, said in a statement.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:apw5oj2sravjfhmubeeiepb3/bafkreihmd5izr6vkabxpfjwv4qt4uksstiwfak5bkzbab3mubelppd4f3m@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Library workers go to great lengths to protect your reading privacy, but if you want to mail your kids' summer reading list to the government, you do you. What could go wrong? www.whitehouse.gov/read/ 📚
So many of us have benefited from Fobazi's work. Here's a chance to give back.
Demand that all AI datacenters are powered by renewables and not allowed to pull from existing sources. make them build a global clean energy network for their AI BS. they owe this to the world for stealing our output to train their monsters. and when AI bubble bursts, something useful is left
say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
My credit card company keeps trying to get me to switch to a miles card. Dude, who wants to fly anywhere these days? Read the room!
Total obliteration: A report on the destruction of heritage monuments, sites, and artifacts in Gaza - Debbi Min static1.squarespace.com/static/5aaca... <-- starts on page 98 Via Librarians and Archivists with Palestine 🇵🇸 📚 📜
Did you know James Baldwin was anti-Zionist? Some folks at NYPL did, and they made a zine about it. laborforpalestine.net/wp/wp-conten...
"The layoffs have been justified by referencing budget concerns, yet faculty are aware that executive salaries are 25% of all salary expenditures at the College, while the layoffs today represent a much smaller portion of that pie." -- Barnard AAUP
"In all, 77 staff members were culled, none of them faculty or ➡️ from instructional services ⬅️." nypost.com/2025/07/31/u... Hey @nypost.com Two librarians and an archivist, all of whom regularly teach were "culled." 📚 📜
"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? 😆
I love that so much!!!
You *are* an iconic 90s zinester!
"sorry this is late..." said every perzinester ever... so even though we missed the end of International Zine Month by a couple of days, we're still stoked to share this "What Kind of Queer Zine Are You" quiz that QZAP intern @bluespringwrites.bsky.social made: gittings.qzap.org/quiz-what-ty...
I got arrested at my genocidal senators’ offices, and all I got was a T-shirt, summonses for trespassing & failure to disperse, and solidarity with Gaza and my fellow anti-Zionist Jews. (Kind of a lot, actually) STOP STARVING GAZA! 🇵🇸 PS did you know Sara Ramirez can sing their face off?
Also, disability justice zine microgrants are back for fall! This time I'll be giving out three $250 grants. Any kind of zine is welcome but I am giving a priority to perzines this time. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
That does feel appropriate. Thank you!
Text if you want, and feel welcome to contact your favorite BC administrator and ask how librarians and archivists don't qualify as instructional staff
12 of the positions have already been listed on the BC job site, if you're looking to scab* *don't be looking to scab
77 Barnard staff laid off today including two librarians and an archivist. Also 30 union members. Zine library staff are still here.
NEW — 10 members of Congress are now calling it “genocide.” Here is a list of the politicians, nations, human rights organizations, and experts calling Israel’s genocide a “genocide.” You’ll want to bookmark this one, as we will keep updating it.
Staff in higher ed: download any files and contacts you care about right now. Switch the email addresses for services you need access to, and fill your transit card. Unlike with an HSA, you will lose your transit $ when you get "staff reduced." And FREE PALESTINE. 🇵🇸 🎓
That's so awful, Violet--and your former coworkers. 😡
Extended, messy commute culminating in a local train without AC, jealous of the perimenopausals with hand fans
Please feel welcome to reach out to me (and my coworker, Claudia) directly for suggestions and connections! zines@barnard.edu. I know the zine librarians at MSU and UM, and they're both responsible and caring stewards of their collections.
You can look through the attached list. My guidance for finding the right library, archives, or other institution to donate your zine collection to is in this lil article academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/... (it's olde, so ask if you want newer recs) @lazycrinklememo.bsky.social
I can add you to the Barnard Zine Library's duplicate/out-of-scope zines distro list (starting at the top). Email your postal address to zines@barnard.edu.
Live feed is down 😬
Watch the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social livestream. www.instagram.com/gazafreedomf... All eyes on Gaza! 🇵🇸 ⛵
Re: Columbia, what if it’s not about courage, but about Zionists on the board? They’ll dismantle higher ed for the lie that is protesting genocide = antisemitism (when highly at-risk minoritized groups are told to man up) 🇵🇸🎓
Thank you to @monachalabi.bsky.social for this powerful graphic, which starkly pictures the severity of the Israeli government’s policy of mass death through forced starvation.
Is education lowkey criminalized now? Asking for higher ed
Didn't have room to tag @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social or make sure the cover art was included
My friend Lauren Kehoe (of @zinelibraries.bsky.social fame) & her editing partner Julie Hornick have a book out on critical information literacy in libraries. I contributed a lesson plan for overthrowing the ten-page paperarchy. Start overthrowing with homework assignments & progress from there! 📚🎓✊
By negotiating with the Trump administration, Columbia is giving in to political pressure and failing to resist the current, widespread assault on academic freedom and higher education.
"Expulsion as Pedagogy "A deep dive into how removing student leaders promotes intellectual vibrancy. Final project: Write a grievance that won’t be read." You *can* make this stuff up, but they didn't!
today is lolsob it's not funny because it's true www.cuimcstandsup.org/specter/post-5 #Barnard #Columbia #FreePalestine #FreeSpeech 🇵🇸🎓🩺
Here's a list of digital zine libraries (additions welcome). I'll add that building your reputation, trust, and readership takes time and care. Reading & commenting on other people's zines goes a long way. Reach out to the folks at Wellcome, a zine library in the UK that specializes in health zines.
Exactly! I just re-checked "all past interactions," as well
It's wild to me that some folks don't have their Venmo set to private account.venmo.com/settings/pri.... But I guess if you're not a politician paying teens for sex it's okay? Do people truly use Venmo as a social app? (I'm not trying to be a scold--I really wonder)
www.startribune.com/minnesota-st... via @roxanegay.bsky.social's newsletter. "One month after the incident, Jefferson Lines issued the driver a verbal warning for deviating from the company’s seating policy." Same thing happened to a parent & toddler; they were kicked off the bus in a random town.
All the office supplies, really
Finally! Somebody said it! Zines are a cash grab and long arm staplers are the grabber
I nominate the pope to board the next Freedom Flotilla 🇵🇸⛵️
Closely related to "the primary source is not readable without its context"
I’M SO CONFUSED. WOULD ANY OF TRUMP’S SUPPORTERS CARE IF TRUMP WAS THE NUMBER ONE CREEP ON THE EPSTEIN LIST? BEING A RAPIST AND OGLING HIS TEEN DAUGHTER ARE NO BIG, SO???
Task forces I would like to see at Barnard/Columbia: 📹anti-surveillance task force 🌱mental health task force 🥾anti-fascism task force (antifa? yes, please!) 🐦pigeon task force 😭staff quality of life task force 🌡️HVAC task force 🏁critical race theory task force 📋administrative oversight task force
I mean, you could cancel Paramount and support @pbs.org instead.
"'We were supposed to be a light unto the nations, and look at us?' I and my family, in America and in Israel, are alive because of the opportunities that Zionism and Israel created for us. At the same time, Zionism, as enacted, has been and continues to be a source of suffering.." Zionism Zine 5781
This zine may really be of comfort to Zionist and anti-Palestinian feminist Jews at Barnumbia. The authors are really grappling. One author asks, re: Israel, "How could a place that I was taught to love also harbor so much hate?"
I downloaded this zine for my library with the intention of reflecting back some students' perspectives on Gaza. I expected it to be Israel Uber Alles, but it's this. I don't mind that my attempt to find a pro-Gaza genocide zine has so far failed.
"Yet Zionism can feel out of our hands--whether because we see Israeli leadership to horrible things in its name..." Zionism Zine, published by Habonim Dror, a Progressive Labor Zionist youth movement in 5781 So you CAN criticize Israel and not be an anti-Semite? Today in #ZineCataloging
"Change is always difficult. I think small businesses learn to adapt. While we're completely sympathetic to the fact that people go through difficult times* that's simply not [...blah blah condescending bs]." - city official to a small business owner whose rent increased from $15k to $40k/month
The author of the quotation is Charles Barron (not the zine creator)
Here's the author/artist www.instagram.com/p/DJpIcEXuqA...
"'Community experts' were in charge of deciding such things. They were not members of the community & their expertise was in banking." Today in #ZineCataloging a quote abt gentrification that wks for academic bds of trustees Gentrification Explored Through the Documentary "My Brooklyn" by BiiggMacc
A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.
"It’s important to note that Kenneth Stern, the lead drafter of the IHRA definition, has condemned the use of this definition as the basis for a campus speech code."
wrt to Columbia adopting IHRA "...if someone believes that Zionism fundamentally calls for a nation in which Jews have rights that other citizens of the nation do not have, and that this is inherently racist, do they not have the right to express this and to make the argument for their position?" 🇵🇸🎓