STARTER PACKS for #critlib #critarch #critlib and #GLAMS Studies (below)
literally just creating these to get it established! have a couple of appointments and I'll get really adding this afternoon! go.bsky.app/BkSyTAU
literally just creating these to get it established! have a couple of appointments and I'll get really adding this afternoon! go.bsky.app/BkSyTAU
November 15, 2024 at 5:23 PM
STARTER PACKS for #critlib #critarch #critlib and #GLAMS Studies (below)
literally just creating these to get it established! have a couple of appointments and I'll get really adding this afternoon! go.bsky.app/BkSyTAU
literally just creating these to get it established! have a couple of appointments and I'll get really adding this afternoon! go.bsky.app/BkSyTAU
Two years of work, nearly 1000 people, and 6394 emails later: Best Practices for Queer Metadata is live!
zenodo.org/records/1258...
zenodo.org/records/1258...
Best Practices for Queer Metadata
This document is the result of two years of work by a group of nearly one hundred knowledge organisers, cataloguers, librarians, archivists, scholars, and information professionals with a concerted in...
zenodo.org
June 29, 2024 at 4:17 PM
#CFP: Critical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Librarianship
sites.google.com/view/critlib...
#libraries #librarians #ai
sites.google.com/view/critlib...
#libraries #librarians #ai
Crit Lib AI Book - Call for Proposals
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
sites.google.com
August 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
#CFP: Critical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Librarianship
sites.google.com/view/critlib...
#libraries #librarians #ai
sites.google.com/view/critlib...
#libraries #librarians #ai
#critlib 📚 📃 📜
So the spirits of the Connecticut Four are sitting on my shoulder and asking me: if the feds rolled up to your library and asked you to generate a list of patrons with Hispanic last names, with maybe their addresses and current checkouts, could you do that?
i think it's bad if you can do that 📚
i think it's bad if you can do that 📚
July 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
#critlib 📚 📃 📜
And it’s out, this paper has been in the making for a long while! ‘Beyond the Single Story of Climate Vulnerability: Centring Disabled People and Their Knowledges in “Care-Full” Climate Action’: doi.org/10.13169/int...
Beyond the Single Story of Climate Vulnerability : Centring Disabled People and Their Knowledges in “Care-Full” Climate Action
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d344597e164">Health. Disability. Vulnerability. These words are often used when discussing the
risks o...
doi.org
December 3, 2024 at 8:48 AM
JAN 29: Interference Archive’s Library Cataloging Party, 314 7th St in #Brooklyn. 6:30-8:30PM. Help catalog the book collection at this radical archive and community space in Park Slope. No experience needed. To RSVP, see the post at the link: www.instagram.com/interference... #critcat #critlib #NYC
January 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
JAN 29: Interference Archive’s Library Cataloging Party, 314 7th St in #Brooklyn. 6:30-8:30PM. Help catalog the book collection at this radical archive and community space in Park Slope. No experience needed. To RSVP, see the post at the link: www.instagram.com/interference... #critcat #critlib #NYC
📚 Hello skybrarian feed and critical librarians: would you be interested in a Critlib feed with a contributor list for Critical Librarianship-type discourse on here?
Ahead of that, here is a feed aggregating #Critlib and #critcat skeets: bsky.app/profile/did:... (add takes to make it less bare)
Ahead of that, here is a feed aggregating #Critlib and #critcat skeets: bsky.app/profile/did:... (add takes to make it less bare)
September 28, 2023 at 3:46 PM
📚 Hello skybrarian feed and critical librarians: would you be interested in a Critlib feed with a contributor list for Critical Librarianship-type discourse on here?
Ahead of that, here is a feed aggregating #Critlib and #critcat skeets: bsky.app/profile/did:... (add takes to make it less bare)
Ahead of that, here is a feed aggregating #Critlib and #critcat skeets: bsky.app/profile/did:... (add takes to make it less bare)
An excellent, timely read for the #MedLibs, especially. 🦀 A critique of the transphobic Cass Review but more than that, Lockmiller suggests our reliance on evidence-based practice reinforces the false neutrality of neoliberalism. #critlib
"This paper explores the relationship between EBP as a system of knowledge governance, its implementation in library work, and the means by which librarians’ value-neutral commitments to EBP consequently serve the interests of oppressive regimes."
False Positive: Transphobic Regimes, Ableist Abandonment, and Evidence-Based Practice by Cat Lockmiller📜
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/false-p...
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/false-p...
March 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
so excited for people to read this article and share their thoughts! 🥳 #criticalracetheory #scholcomm #critlib #libraries
Interest Convergence, Intersectionality, and Counter-Storytelling: Critical Race Theory as Practice in Scholarly Communications Librarianship by @mariayakira.bsky.social and @chiuchiutrain.bsky.social
Interest Convergence, Intersectionality, and Counter-Storytelling: Critical Race Theory as Practice in Scholarly Communications Librarianship – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
August 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
so excited for people to read this article and share their thoughts! 🥳 #criticalracetheory #scholcomm #critlib #libraries
Sam Helmick, the American Library Association President Elect is on bluesky y'all! @samhelmick.bsky.social #critlib #glams
January 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Sam Helmick, the American Library Association President Elect is on bluesky y'all! @samhelmick.bsky.social #critlib #glams
CALC is back! Absolutely incredible programme #critlib
It's out folks!
Conference programme, list of abstracts and tickets for #CALC25.
All details here 👇
sites.google.com/view/calccon...
#LISResearch #LISConference
Conference programme, list of abstracts and tickets for #CALC25.
All details here 👇
sites.google.com/view/calccon...
#LISResearch #LISConference
CALC - CALC2025
CALC2025 will take place online from Tuesday 13th May - Thursday 15th May 2025. Tickets are available from Monday 3rd March as well as the bursary lottery for attendees from underrepresented and/or ma...
sites.google.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
CALC is back! Absolutely incredible programme #critlib
.... on this day, 8 years ago
Or, y'know, Friday...
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Or, y'know, Friday...
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March 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
.... on this day, 8 years ago
Or, y'know, Friday...
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Or, y'know, Friday...
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📚 The recent introduction of hashtags to Bluesky makes this #Critlib and #critcat feed more useful for your critical librarianship takes:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
March 2, 2024 at 11:03 AM
📚 The recent introduction of hashtags to Bluesky makes this #Critlib and #critcat feed more useful for your critical librarianship takes:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
As a library worker without a library degree I have always felt a good deal of imposter syndrome about that identity and my ability to do it justice. One of the critiques the text got during peer review asked me to dig deeper into #critlib conversations if I wanted to claim it.
September 22, 2026 at 2:45 PM
As a library worker without a library degree I have always felt a good deal of imposter syndrome about that identity and my ability to do it justice. One of the critiques the text got during peer review asked me to dig deeper into #critlib conversations if I wanted to claim it.
Folks, CALC (Critical Approaches to Librarianship Conference) tickets are on sale today and the programme is 🔥🔥🔥
Massive congratulations to @patchedelbows.bsky.social and @michelleab.bsky.social for putting this together!
sites.google.com/view/calccon... #critlib 📚
Massive congratulations to @patchedelbows.bsky.social and @michelleab.bsky.social for putting this together!
sites.google.com/view/calccon... #critlib 📚
CALC - CALC2025
CALC2025 will take place online from Tuesday 13th May - Thursday 15th May 2025. Tickets are available from Monday 3rd March as well as the bursary lottery for attendees from underrepresented and/or ma...
sites.google.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Folks, CALC (Critical Approaches to Librarianship Conference) tickets are on sale today and the programme is 🔥🔥🔥
Massive congratulations to @patchedelbows.bsky.social and @michelleab.bsky.social for putting this together!
sites.google.com/view/calccon... #critlib 📚
Massive congratulations to @patchedelbows.bsky.social and @michelleab.bsky.social for putting this together!
sites.google.com/view/calccon... #critlib 📚
📚📜 If you’ve ever held a temporary librarian or archivist position, we (@lundys21.bsky.social and I) invite you to participate in our anonymous research survey about your experience: forms.gle/UcvgtgXnY8bo...
#libraryjobs #libraryjob #LISjobs #libjobs #critlib
#libraryjobs #libraryjob #LISjobs #libjobs #critlib
October 16, 2023 at 2:31 PM
📚📜 If you’ve ever held a temporary librarian or archivist position, we (@lundys21.bsky.social and I) invite you to participate in our anonymous research survey about your experience: forms.gle/UcvgtgXnY8bo...
#libraryjobs #libraryjob #LISjobs #libjobs #critlib
#libraryjobs #libraryjob #LISjobs #libjobs #critlib
Excited to share @cjalrcbu.bsky.social special issue, Libraries and/as Extraction, that I co-guest edited w/ @mauraseale.bsky.social @librarianrafia.bsky.social & Karen Nicholson - see our intro: cjal.ca/index.php/ca... & the full issue: cjal.ca/index.php/ca... #Libraries #AcademicSky #CritLib #OA
Editorial: Libraries and/as Extraction
| Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship
cjal.ca
December 17, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Excited to share @cjalrcbu.bsky.social special issue, Libraries and/as Extraction, that I co-guest edited w/ @mauraseale.bsky.social @librarianrafia.bsky.social & Karen Nicholson - see our intro: cjal.ca/index.php/ca... & the full issue: cjal.ca/index.php/ca... #Libraries #AcademicSky #CritLib #OA
okay I've added everyone whose used #critlib recently, now time to check authors in the www.critcat.org db against bsky handles!
November 16, 2024 at 6:07 AM
okay I've added everyone whose used #critlib recently, now time to check authors in the www.critcat.org db against bsky handles!
Challenging the still persistent “libraries / #GLAMs are neutral” argument ⬇️
Huge congratulations @redheadtalking.bsky.social
#libraryhistory #GLAMs #critlib #criticallibrarianship #canadianlibraries
Huge congratulations @redheadtalking.bsky.social
#libraryhistory #GLAMs #critlib #criticallibrarianship #canadianlibraries
Contested Spaces
A Critical History of Canadian Public Libraries as Neutral Places, 1960-2020
Author: Whitney Kemble
#publicLibraries #canandianLibraries #libraries
4/6
A Critical History of Canadian Public Libraries as Neutral Places, 1960-2020
Author: Whitney Kemble
#publicLibraries #canandianLibraries #libraries
4/6
November 22, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Challenging the still persistent “libraries / #GLAMs are neutral” argument ⬇️
Huge congratulations @redheadtalking.bsky.social
#libraryhistory #GLAMs #critlib #criticallibrarianship #canadianlibraries
Huge congratulations @redheadtalking.bsky.social
#libraryhistory #GLAMs #critlib #criticallibrarianship #canadianlibraries
So grateful for this published response! Sharing it everywhere, hope it gets widely read and discussed. Thank you, @librarianmer.bsky.social! #critlib
My College & Research Libraries News article about the terrible cost of open offices (a response to
Steven Bell's pro-open office propaganda in the same publication) is out! "Neither open nor equitable" crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
Steven Bell's pro-open office propaganda in the same publication) is out! "Neither open nor equitable" crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
Neither open nor equitable: The high cost of open offices | Farkas | College & Research Libraries Ne...
Neither open nor equitable: The high cost of open offices
crln.acrl.org
December 7, 2023 at 10:57 PM
So grateful for this published response! Sharing it everywhere, hope it gets widely read and discussed. Thank you, @librarianmer.bsky.social! #critlib
colleague & I submitted a proposal for the Illinois Information Literacy Summit, to present a roundtable on #criticalAI & #CritLib.
we’re trying to gather other IL-based library workers that are not interested in AI as the all-encompassing answer to mitigating our relationship with tech & power
we’re trying to gather other IL-based library workers that are not interested in AI as the all-encompassing answer to mitigating our relationship with tech & power
January 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
colleague & I submitted a proposal for the Illinois Information Literacy Summit, to present a roundtable on #criticalAI & #CritLib.
we’re trying to gather other IL-based library workers that are not interested in AI as the all-encompassing answer to mitigating our relationship with tech & power
we’re trying to gather other IL-based library workers that are not interested in AI as the all-encompassing answer to mitigating our relationship with tech & power
Welcome to all the Bsky newcomers! One useful tip for this place is to learn how Feeds work, so you can see what all your favorite Skybrarians are up to! 📜
#CritLib #CripLib #LisResearch
#CritLib #CripLib #LisResearch
bsky.app
February 7, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Welcome to all the Bsky newcomers! One useful tip for this place is to learn how Feeds work, so you can see what all your favorite Skybrarians are up to! 📜
#CritLib #CripLib #LisResearch
#CritLib #CripLib #LisResearch
Check out CALC #CALC2025, an excellent event on critical librarianship #critlib and critical library practices. Early CFP for those from under-represented groups ⤵️⤵️
🚨CfP Reminder 🚨
Just one week left to submit session proposals in the Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference 2025 (CALC) stage 1 CfP
Stage 1 is reserved for sessions led by presenters from underrepresented or marginalised groups.
forms.gle/9jY9UHxoPEns...
#LibrarySky #Skybrarians #AcademicSky
Just one week left to submit session proposals in the Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference 2025 (CALC) stage 1 CfP
Stage 1 is reserved for sessions led by presenters from underrepresented or marginalised groups.
forms.gle/9jY9UHxoPEns...
#LibrarySky #Skybrarians #AcademicSky
CALC2025 Call for Papers Stage 1 (Underrepresented & Marginalised Groups)
This form is to submit an abstract to present at CALC2025. The first stage of the CfP is reserved for groups that are underrepresented and/or marginalised in academia, librarianship and traditional co...
forms.gle
October 18, 2024 at 6:58 AM