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Head of Circulation & Access

Thursday, September 9, 2021 - 08:07

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The Maloney Library at Fordham Law School, located at Lincoln Center in New York City, seeks energetic and innovative applicants for the position of Head of Circulation and Access. We are looking for a professional with a public-service oriented attitude that is comfortable in a fast-paced work environment. The Head of Circulation and Access will j…

Director – Massanutten Regional Library (VA)

Thursday, September 9, 2021 - 08:05

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Director – Massanutten Regional Library (VA) The Massanutten Regional Library (MRL) seeks its next Director to fulfill the organization’s mission of being an engaging community partner providing programs and services that bring people together, foster creativity, and encourage lifelong learning. The ideal candidate will embrace the library visio…

Metadata Operations Specialist

Thursday, September 9, 2021 - 08:03

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Columbia University Libraries seeks a temporary Metadata Operations Specialist to support the Audio and Moving Image Preservation Mellon grant. Using discretion and independent judgement, the Metadata Operations Specialist will provide operational support in maintaining cataloging and metadata records management. This is a full-time temporary posi…

Library Bytegeist

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Library Bytegeist features audio stories from the libraries, archives, and museums of New York City and beyond. Over the course of 14 episodes, Library Bytegeist covered topics ranging from smart cities to love letters to Tor relays to people watching pornography in public libraries. Library Bytegeist was born out of Molly Schwartz’s project for th…

Keeping Collections

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We launched the Keeping Collections project to ensure the sustainability and accessibility of New York State’s archival collections as part of the New York State Archives Documentary Heritage Program. Keeping Collections provides a variety of free and affordable services to any not-for-profit organization in the metropolitan New York area that coll…

Critical Pedagogy Symposium: Crowdsourcing a Critical Information Syllabus

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 12:21

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Imagine you are going to teach a first-year seminar, semester-long class that looks critically at the information systems students will encounter in their research. What content would you like to cover in the syllabus? Problematic subject headings? Academia’s discouragement of non-traditional publishing? In this workshop, attendees will brainstorm …

Critical Pedagogy Symposium: Telemedicine for Researchers – Creating a Virtual Reading Room Service

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:32

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Stephanie Arias is the Reference Services Manager in Reader Services Department at The Huntington Library. Stephanie assisted in developing The Huntington’s “Virtual Reading Room” service, and she enjoys finding ways to enhance library users’ experiences both remotely and in person.

Critical Pedagogy Symposium: Critical Research and Information Studies: Adventures in Pandemic and Anti-Racist Pedagogy

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:32

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This presentation will discuss the presenter’s experience in building an original credit-bearing research and information literacy course for undergraduate students. I will explore my context as a resident librarian and contingent worker, and the use of research justice and anti-racist pedagogical practice and design in the development and facilita…

Critical Pedagogy Symposium: Overthrow the 10-Page Paperarchy: Making Manifesto Zines

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:32

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The ten-page research paper has its value, but there are many other ways to demonstrate knowledge. By creating a zine (or podcast or activist campaign, or timeline, etc.), students can explore and show facets of themselves that highlight skills beyond those recognized and valued by an academy built by the ruling class to train its own to self-repli…

Critical Pedagogy Symposium: Using Critical Information Literacy to Engage Faculty and Create Community via Zoom

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:32

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Imagine you are going to teach a first-year seminar, semester-long class that looks critically at the information systems students will encounter in their research. What content would you like to cover in the syllabus? Problematic subject headings? Academia’s discouragement of non-traditional publishing? In this workshop, attendees will brainstorm …

Critical Pedagogy Symposium: Community not Commodity

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:32

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As one of the last community spaces where individuals are invited to exist without spending money, libraries are institutions that are naturally positioned to resist capitalism. Yet, as challenges to library funding intensify with each passing year, libraries have increasingly turned to capitalist language and techniques as central elements of thei…

Critical Pedagogy Symposium: Accessing the somatic: chair yoga for everybody and every body

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:32

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When we connect to our embodied selves, we take a step towards a liberatory way of being that we can bring to our library selves. Embodied practice helps us to make choices for our own bodies and helps us learn from our own bodies. This session is a safe and accessible movement and breath workshop that is intended for all bodies and everybody. No p…

Critical Pedagogy Symposium: "Womanist Pedagogy: A Digital Archive Learning Experience; Race-Centered & Trauma-Informed…

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:32

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Philadelphia-based Womanist Working Collective (WWC) has formed community resources for the past six years through media literacy, cooperative economics, and wellness workshops for Black women, femmes, and AFAB gender non-conforming people. The WWC Archival Fellows have created a digital archive on Omeka, including an oral history collection to inc…

Critical Pedagogy Symposium: Silenced and Siloed

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:32

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The organizational structure of academia is by nature hierarchical and colonialist. While librarianship remains a feminized field, the few men employed hold leadership positions. Additionally, whiteness is the default. Adherence to traditional power structures afford faculty access to networks unavailable to frontline staff. Across all strata of so…

Critical Pedagogy Symposium: The MLIS and Social Justice Education

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:32

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Recent studies have shown that social justice education is still lacking, if not absent across MLIS programs. As a gatekeeping tool into the profession, the content taught in MLIS programs has substantial implications for the future direction and focus of the work in the field. Additionally, what is learned through each program can radically transf…

Critical Pedagogy Symposium: Dismantling the Echo Chamber

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:32

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In response to the media rhetoric surrounding Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, and the 2020 election, librarians, in partnership with the First-Year Writing Program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, created a Quote-Tracing assignment for English 101 as part of a larger Critical Media Literacy for Writing and Rhetoric Unit. In this activity…

Critical Pedagogy Symposium: Breaking Bureaucracy and the Status Quo: A Conversation about the the Systems that Shape Library…

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:32

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Anthropologist and activist David Graeber called bureaucracy “the water in which we swim,” and Max Weber, a century before him, used the metaphor of an inescapable “iron cage.” Bureaucracy manifests as “dead zones of the imagination,” and props up the status quo, and yet, a phenomenon called “the iron law of liberalism,” states that any effort to l…

Critical Pedagogy Symposium: Plurality of Critical Pedagogies

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:32

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As Joy James has articulated the need for the term abolitionisms, wherein she distinguishes academic abolitionism from radical abolitionism, Sandy Grande has similarly described the existence of multiple critical pedagogies in her text Red Pedagogy. As we saw this past summer during the uprisings, social justice is an expansive term that can mean p…

Critical Pedagogy Symposium: Tuesday Lightning Talks

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:32

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Critical Pedagogy Symposium: AntiCarceral Librarianship through Reference by Mail

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:32

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People who are incarcerated’s ability to access information is heavily constrained. They may not have access to leisure materials, educational materials, and most often are deprived access to the Internet. Reference by Mail provides a practical opportunity for incarcerated people to access library services to meet their life-affirming information n…

Critical Pedagogy Symposium: Being Critical About Being Remote: a Workshop and Conversation

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:32

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In this workshop, two librarians from Pace University will discuss how their team pivoted to remote learning in Spring 2020 and collaborated to engage students in this new environment. We’ll discuss the challenges that we faced when we first changed modalities (i.e. moving from in person one-shots to synchronous and asynchronous online classes and …

Critical Pedagogy Symposium: The LORDS (LibGuide Open Review Discussion Sessions) Work

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:32

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The LibGuides Open Review Discussion Sessions (LORDS) Project works towards cultivating a community across California State University Libraries that provides space for critique, conversation, and criticality. In using critical race theory to acknowledge structures of publishing, libraries, and reference, this LibGuide review system works towards h…

Critical Pedagogy Symposium: Monday Posters

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:32

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‘LGBTQ’ Cataloging for Inclusion or Exclusion Creating Under Pressure: Online Critical Pedagogy and Re-envisioning Library Instruction Practices During a Pandemic Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Trainings: Do They Benefit Ethnic and Racial Minority Public Librarians? Defined by Absence: Situating the Public Library Within the American Neoliberal C…

Critical Pedagogy Symposium: Monday Lightning Talks

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:32

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Engaging Conversations: Foregrounding Twitter Feeds in Library Guides as a Way to Critically Promote Discussions of Social Justice If All Lives Matter, Wear a Mask: The Amplified Vulnerabilities of Public Library Staff during a Politicized Pandemic Cruising the Classroom: Contact and Desire in MLIS Critical Librarianship Reading Group: An MLIS Stud…

Twig Templates and Archipelago

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:32

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Archipelago leverages the Twig templating system to transform in realtime the open schema metadata that lives in every strawberryfield as JSON into close to any fixed schema (DC, MODS, IIIF Manifests, etc.) you may need. Twig templating is fast, cached, and versatile. During this workshop, we will review the core role Twig templating plays in Archi…