Call for proposals for this year’s Radical Librarianship Track at the Allied Media Conference is now up! Deadline is March 11. Please spread the word far and wide!
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LIS Mental Health Week 2016
So, about a year ago, I saw this blog post by Cecily Walker calling on libraryland to hold a mental health week to encourage conversations about how mental health affects library workers.
We are making it happen. So, mark your calendar for the week of January 18. If you want to post to your blog, talk about it on your podcast, or if you host a Twitter chat, think about how to engage library folks in conversation about mental health.
In the meantime, feel free to add to the resource list here: http://tiny.cc/LISmentalhealth, and contact me or Cecily with any questions or ideas.
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Librarians with personal commitment, a “code,” do not play follow the leader. They do not take orders as hacks, apologists, or nitpickers. Their responsibility is not to any power structure at all, but to the patron and to the profession. True professionalism implies evolution, if not revolution; those who “profess” a calling have certain goals and standards for improving existence, which necessarily means moving, shaking, transforming it.
Celeste West, Revolting librarians (1972) - Introduction (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
Source: users.ox.ac.uk
Big spoon and little spoon.
Looks like I'm getting back into yoga. (at Catfe Lounge)
Fifer loves Foucault.
Romantic weekend getaway at queer archives. (at Anderson Library-University of Minnesota)
I don't love working on Halloween.
Nixon meets Elvis
Buddha Dharma Sangha
He's a chihuahua and I'm a Mexican.
Buy/Sell
NOT CULTURAL APPROPRIATION. We are Mexican, it's ok.
Good mail day.
Red Star librarian picnic (at Dearborn Public Library)