Lisa Hooper

Couldn't be more over the moon to have contributed to this important book! Check out the details in the original post

I did a thing with a lot of other really smart people with really important things to say about libraries and platform power. We're even doing a virtual book launch. Registration link is below in the original post, I really hope to see some of you there and I expect all of you to go read this book😁

Upcoming book launch: Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations on Identity in Libraries & Archives. July 16, 12pm Eastern

Cover of Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations on Identity and Libraries

Cover of Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations on Archives and Practice

Book Launch!!!!!!!!

Join us July 16, 2025 at 12pm Eastern for virtual book launch for the Grabbing Tea, volumes 1 & 2 with editors Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz and Sara A. Howard

Don't miss this!

More info and Registration: litwinbooks.com/book-launch-...

#bookLaunch #books #queer #libraries #archives

Letters: As advocates of free speech, we want attacks to stop We’re writing to correct misinformation about our lawsuit against Robert Judge.

"Our community deserves leaders who protect public expression, not suppress it." Where would we be without our public libraries y'all www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

I am short on words beyond where is Congress? Aren't they supposed to be involved in this?

Super honored to have a chapter in such an important book! This is such a timely volume, can't recommend it enough

NOLA friends, there's a lot to choose from this Sunday but prioritize Breakthrough Health Film Festival. Free and open to the public. This incredible full length feature will be preceded by 4 powerful documentary shorts. Find all the details for all 3 days here: bit.ly/BreakthroughHealthFilmFest

Event is free and open to the public so come be in community with me and all the brilliant people making the festival happen. Breakthrough Health Film Festival

Date: Apr 6 • 1:00 pm

Location: 1440 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70112

www.eventbrite.com/e/breakthrou...

There's nothing quite like film to help us understand experiences and realities that aren't ours. The 3-day line-up couldn't be happening at a more pivotal moment. Each one speaks to many of the issues politicians are currently debating and law making on.

If you're in or near the amazing city of New Orleans then come to one or all 3 days of Breakthrough Health Film Festival hosted by
@p4hnetwork.bsky.social and co-sponsored by my delightful workplace Tulane University Libraries. .

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Academic Databases and the Art of the Overcharge Clarivate, Elsevier, and the American Chemical Society are comfortable pursuing a strategy of pricing discrimination. But libraries don’t have to go along with it. This data can help.

A must read for academics. Faculty, it's always a good time to talk to your librarians to learn about options for open access scholarly communication #skybrarians katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

How long before deeply dangerous political mandates make their way into this company's curation decisions? Hopefully never, but definitely feeling very possible after this shake up 😕

The reminder this article gives that this is purely a financial decision is so chilling. Money hungry tech giants like this one are flocking to T's honey trap and along the way they're making horrible, horrible decisions.

Thanks for sharing! Ostensibly inclusion/exclusion of title in the collection is determined by the distribution agreement bw clarivate and the rights holder as well is curation by librarians (as if librarian involvement has ever been a cure for harmful bias in collection development).

Episode 3 of Literacies, a 4-part Audio Series is live! When we recorded this episode last summer we had no idea what the data environment would be during our planned release for #LoveDataWeek Turns out, we couldn't have planned it better. Enjoy this quick listen!
youtube.com/watch?v=jfKF...

Hey my data-using friends! If you're worried about continued access to important data sets and you haven't found them yet, now is the time to engage the many resources of the @datarescueproject.org they do good work y'all

*My Sister and the Prince*, a historical drama with a thriller plot twist.

*Romance*, a delightful romance story.

*Obon*, a moving animated recounting of how one found deeper familial ties in the midst of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

*Kapaemahu*, an animated telling of the spiritual history of four venerated stones on Waikiki Beach, imbued with the healing spirits of four legendary mahu (third-gender)

Tulane University Libraries and Tulane SLA's Language Learning Center have teamed up again for another super fab International Short Film Festival. @tulaneu.bsky.social friends, come sit in community with us February 18, Lake Theater. Doors open at 5, films at 5:30

a cartoon of a woman sneezing in a garden of flowers ALT: a cartoon of a woman sneezing in a garden of flowers

Sincerely, a Sneezy, sniffly, itchy eyed, allergy-medicated friend.

Choose kindness this spring and enjoy all your perfumes once allergies have settled.

Dear perfume wearers,
It's spring in New Orleans, which means it's also allergy season. If you wear perfume, be kind to us seasonal allergy folks and don't. A brief scent of your chemical perfumes burns our noses and leaves us sneezing, congested, and generally ick feeling for the next hour.

After 138 years, a Black composer's magnum opus finds a stage Morgiane, perhaps the oldest opera by a Black American, finally receives its full public performance, shedding light on the forgotten heyday of opera in New Orleans.

What an amazing weekend for New Orleans music! The magic weaving Tank and the Bangas are coming home with a Grammy 🔥and New Orleans based Opera Creole is updating music history by introducing the world to the 138 year old opera by New Orleans very own Edmond Dédé
www.npr.org/2025/02/03/n...

My job increasingly puts me in a place where I get to support incredible events. Finding joy in my privilege of bring Tulane University Library's support to Breakthrough Health Film Festival. I've seen the draft line up and it 💯🔥Keep watching @partners4he.bsky.social to catch the details!

Hmmm. Guess I'm gonna have to librarian this one. Maybe next week ...

Mostly for you @mergerson.bsky.social but also any weather smart folks too

Question: does everyone ever conducted research that tries to discover if there are any correlations between the weather and the mood that people bring to their steering wheel?

Scenario and then a question for all my weather nerd friends. Yesterday The skies were gray, it was overcast, it was cold, and people were incredibly selfish drivers. Today the skies are an amazing blue, the sun is warm but not hot, the temperature is perfection, people were driving with kindness.

All my trans friends and people I know but don't know are trans: strength and solidarity friends, strength and solidarity.