The Luddite Tribunal Technology is on trial, and you’re the jury. It’s hammer time!

an excellent event brought to you by my favourite  merri-bek libraries comrades ✊️ www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-luddit...

team little penguin 🐧 vote now www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

oh no its not looking good for the satin bowerbird ... surely they've got a few fans among librarians and archivists 🥹🤓vote now! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

on a related note, have you read Emily Austin's fiction ? she is a trained librarian, and the main character in her next book is a librarian 👀 www.emilyaustinauthor.com/copy-of-we-c...

The following thread contains 201 open access articles, books, chapters & reports written and led by First Nations’ researchers. We write our own research across all areas. The order is random and ranges across disciplines, because of course it does.
#201FirstNationsArticles

I'm doing a keynote at this year's SAGE conference in Sydney. Lots of changes happening at universities right now. I'm pleased to be a part in talking about what that means in relation to equity and the work that leading bodies can do to effect change.

the cover of Censorship is a Drag: LGBTQ Materials and Programming Under Siege in Academic Libraries which is red with the text appropriately covered over / censored with black marker. There is a cataloguing action sheet inside it.

she has arrived - complete with cataloguing action sheet ✊️

Guest Post - Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs - The Scholarly Kitchen The renaming of "Mount Denali" and "Gulf of Mexico" to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley" and "Gulf of America" reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where mean...

Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/25/g...

This will have devastating impacts on the social infrastructure of American cities and towns, especially in rural communities where the library is often the only game in town.

Please donate to help preserve and update Professor Gary Foley's KooriWeb if you can
🖤💛❤️✊️ www.gofundme.com/f/preserve-u...

looking forward to this book, especially after this @librarypunk.bsky.social episode ✊️ www.librarypunk.gay/e/148-censor...

the homosaurus logo; a black brontosaurus in front of a rainbow and the words HOMOSAURUS

hi folks! big changes happening at the #Homosaurus that have been in the works for a year+. We're moving towards an entirely community-owned and led model to invite more people in, decentralize leadership, invite broader participation and translation. The #HomosaurusCollective is the result

Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks.From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the

For those just learning about LibGen because of the reporting on Meta and other companies training LLMs on pirated books, I’d highly recommend the book Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education (open access: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...)

"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."

Reusable and Accessible Public Interest Documents Decades of digitisation have made a wealth of digital cultural material available online. Collection interfaces currently wheel out miserly lists, one page at a time. We are looking to deliver greater generosity of access to Public Interest Documents such as: •Federal and State Hansards •Public Inquiry and Royal Commission submissions •Freedom of Information documents Sponsored by QUT, Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation, Language and Data Commons, University of Queensland

Are you a researcher (academic, professional, hobbyist) who would like an Australian Public Interest Document system that is more accessible?

Join a co-design workshop to tell us what that looks like for you.

Day: 25th February
Time: 11 am to 12.50 pm AEDT
Register: ardc.edu.au/event/ardc-c...

a black and white tuxedo kitten lying in a basket and holding his teddy tightly

this kitten is growing up so fast but still loves the gingerbread teddy I got him for Christmas 😭😻🧸

Queer Histories Queer Futures Welcome to Queer Histories, Queer Futures, an audio journey into the stories of our LGBTQIA+ communities in Merri-bek, past, present and future.From pubs to squats, protests to parties, discover Merri...

the queer histories / queer futures project we all need right now 💖🏳️‍🌈📚✊️
www.3cr.org.au/queerhistori...

Librarians aren't going to save us. Librarians aren't superheroes.

They're just people trying to keep largely underfunded and overwhelmed public services going.

Praise is nice; realistic expectations are better; material support is best.

Running list of library related Starter Packs on Bluesky I joined Twitter 13 years ago and it was a fantastic window to global librarianship and over the years I connected with so many great people and ideas. Anyway you all know the sad story about how T…

Hi all

I've made a running list of library related Starter Packs to get everybody connected christianlauersen.net/2024/11/17/r...

Thx to everybody who made the Starter Packs @mattlibrarian.bsky.social @wehere.bsky.social @openresshef.bsky.social @jregensb.bsky.social @nvbinder.bsky.social

more epic train delays... maybe the universe is trying to tell me to finally get my license in 2025... or finally find a job with a short commute 🫠

train delays and replacement buses on the way home from my first day back at work 😢 at least it'll mean I'll probably finish a good audiobook! 🥲

Greenfield Public Library has had to cancel Hoopla access after being quoted a **452%** increase now that the Milwaukee County Library system isn't handling the subscription.

www.facebook.com/share/p/1B2p...

clare wearing a penguin shirt and santa hat lying down with eyes closed and tuxedo kitten also napping

post christmas feast nap 😴 😺✨️

There's a lot of queer museums analysis that hasn't asked people what they think (incl. from us!)... so we decided we should! PhD candidate Alana Blakers and the Saving Lives team (ARC funded) is asking YOU (whoever you are) what you think of queerness in museums!
mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Academics check out this excellent looking call for submissions on “The Future of Nonbinary” for a special issue of Continuum, edited by CQ Quinan and Claude Kempen

(posting on behalf of) Alana Blakers who is doing a PhD on queer museums as part of my ARC project titled Saving Lives: Mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ creative artists. Any and all participation is appreciated

mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

a very small tuxedo kitten with pleading eyes looking through some grass

tuxedo kitten playing with shoelaces

sleepy tuxedo kitten

purrfect tiny friend 😭🥹😻🥰💜

OutHorse Your Email Disconnect from work and let the horses of Iceland reply to your emails while you are on vacation. (Seriously)

You've heard of outsourcing but have you heard of out-horsing? 🐎

Just before you go on leave for the holidays, and you're setting your 'out of office' message, consider this:
outhorseyouremail.com

(Link via @drmeagantyler.bsky.social )

#AcademicSky #PhDsky #HigherEd

I don't really swear that often, but just did so out loud when reading about this on the train 🤬

ooh this makes me think you might be tempted by this role 🤓 🌿 careers.vic.gov.au/job/technica...