In the Library with the Lead Pipe

A great read from @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social 'The old and the prudish: an examination of sex, #sexuality, and #queerness in #Library of Congress #Classification'
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"The affirming and healing potential of this work helps us understand our own histories and helps us reframe the problems and issues we experience–in this case, within higher education." 👏 👏 👏 Much needed in the current moment. Thank you for sharing your work and yourselves with the world.

"In our book club pláticas, we exchanged knowledge, and sometimes it felt like we were building new knowledge of navigating that crosswalk between home and higher education. This meant that our pláticas were healing..."

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I've mentioned before an article on @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social in 2020, by Nicola Andrews on resisting Imposter Syndrome:

"The lack of belonging I felt did not stem from a lack of self-esteem, but from the knowledge that libraries and academia as institutions never intended I belong."

"embedded and concerned with the history, needs, and aspirations of the community .... The PRAXISioner is continuously studying and sharpening their analysis ... understands the affirming and healing potential of their work especially through historizing, problematizing, and reframing"

"...we remind ourselves and each other that we need to keep supporting our cultural selves, as Latine educators and cultural workers in higher education, to be able to welcome and support our racially and ethnically diverse students."

Very proud of this article I edited! I am hoping to explore a pláticas methodology when I return from my unpaid parental leave on….Friday! 😱

"our collaboration on the book club project acted as a vehicle to hold culturally informed pláticas and ... allows us the space to come together with our own experiences as teachers and learners... to dive into new concepts and ideas about our culture that we had not discussed before"

Book Club Pláticas: Reflexiones on Culturally-centered Methodologies by Daisy Muralles and Vanessa Varko Fontana

Coming out next Wednesday -

Book Club Pláticas: Reflexiones on Culturally-centered Methodologies by Daisy Muralles and Vanessa Varko Fontana

"culturally sustaining co-curricular collaborations and spaces on a university campus"

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The very idea of "always update to new tech or get left behind" is itself so incredibly 1990's.

My entire career as a librarian has had the drumbeat of “innovate or die” in the background. But innovation has largely been whatever the tech hype cycle has been pushing, rather than anything library workers have developed for ourselves.

at an all-staff meeting, a leader flippantly complained that they were "being accused of killing a dolphin every time they used genAI images" in their presentations so they reluctantly used real ones instead, and I was just stunned at how deeply cynical and uncritical our profession has become

I've never felt more validated by a journal article, phewwwwwww.

Word.

Great piece from our friends at @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social!

This is so so good

This article helped me articulate something I've been thinking about in regards to AI hype but didn't quite have words for. "Feeling rules" show up so much in all areas of ed tech/libraries and GenAI has turned the dial up to 11

Fantastic article! A must read for librarians.

"what if emotional responses like “AI anxiety” are in large part deeply intelligent...? What if the cognitive dissonance that many of us experience when reading articles about AI anxiety or the necessity of AI adoption is worth our attention and curiosity?"

"... an especially powerful strategy for shutting down critique of GenAI is the construction and imposition of “feeling rules”: social expectations about the appropriate ways to feel and display emotion in a given context"

"those who want to take a slower... cautious approach to GenAI are frequently criticized as holding the profession back, resisting the inevitability of technological change, inhibiting progress, neglecting to prepare students for the future, denying reality. Such criticisms have a silencing effect"

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Excited to share this thoughtful piece about the "feeling rules" around GenAI use+AI literacy. It examines how dominant GenAI/AI literacy discourse can stifle critique among those who want to slow down & imagine diff futures. So proud to serve as the Publishing Editor and help shepherd this through

Honoured to have served as an external reviewer on this great piece by Andrea Baer out today!