A rare photo of me with my eyes open! Thanks so much for coming and hope you enjoyed the rest of the day!
I was honoured to chair this standing room only panel this morning -some really rich conversations and collaborations are emerging!
Called out (and dealt with) the miserable f*%;ers who were bullying me at a time when I felt unable to 💪🏼
A fantastic interview with Amelia, and great insight into doing a dissertation as part of an MA too!
Hmm, good question! Will have a think but nothing immediately comes to mind. It’s all just a bit ai literacy/plagiarism heavy at the moment.
Yeah, and probably not even a group tbh- most of the things I have seen have been just 1 angry/irrational voice 😢
“Very often this is happening behind closed doors, sometimes on the request of just one parent" - Index's @katiedd.bsky.social speaking to @theferret.scot about the rise of book bans in school libraries in #Scotland⬇️
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Same! And it was so engrained with me that the first time I had to do ‘brackets’ in my skating class, I immediately thought of Lalla and her inter silver test or whatever it was… (also brackets as a real, still testable thing!)
Job Opportunity! We're looking for a Graduate Trainee Librarian
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The @infolitgroup.bsky.social & @ucl.ac.uk Department of Information Studies are proud to announce the return of the Information Literacy Award at #LILAC26 The award is open to all practitioners, researchers & academics working in #infolit in the UK. Nominations close 6 Feb (17:00 GMT).
*Funded Phd Opportunity* Ulster University - How can public libraries in NI support children with SEN & their families? Please share with anyone who might be interested in applying. #PhDResearch #PublicLibraries #SEN @ulsteruni.bsky.social @librariesni.bsky.social
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Agh, can’t believe I didn’t mark that in the editorial! My apologies, Jess!
Yes, Amelia! And may it be the first citation of many!
Tonight at UCL, the Information Studies department, in collaboration with CILIP SLG and the Library Services Trust, hosted a screening of the @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social documentary on book censorship and banning in the US. Barbara Band from SLG is talking about censorship in UK school libraries.
Have an interest in Information Literacy and want to get started in academic publishing? JIL is looking for Associate Editors! journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/announce... this is a great opportunity to be mentored by Alison, and to see the inner workings of journals and research.
EXCITING THINGS ARE AFOOT (Check your LIS-LINK).
The Journal of Information Literacy has announced a new special issue on information literacy and censorship- please consider submitting your work! Given political tensions, we will be permitting pseudonymous submissions. Please contact me or @bookelf.bsky.social with questions- DMs open!
Seminar 2 of the LIS Research Seminar Series is now confirmed. Come and hear @patchedelbows.bsky.social talk about his brilliant research on HE librarians & social class. Some of you probably even contributed 😉
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Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t.
And the blocking of content…
or the toll that the reconfiguration of professional work is having on core functions and long-term viability. Part of my wider project exploring information literacy and censorship, the paper is available free and open access in the journal of librarianship and information science!
Given that censorship creates legal, financial and employment risks for school librarians + risks to young people (eg driving reading into unregulated online spaces), I argue that framing the work of school librarians in terms of risk uncovers the hidden costs of censorship…
New paper alert! ‘Shelves under siege: School librarians as (temporary?) risk workers’, uses the concept of risk work to explore the impact that the risks of censorship are having on professional school librarianship journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
"It’s never been more important for us to ensure that libraries have the resources and support to create and defend diverse collections" Read @katiedd.bsky.social’s response to Reform’s attack on books:
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Did you know that although Section 28 was repealed in 2003, Kent County Council was the only council in England which voted to uphold their own version of section 28 all the way up until 2010. Way before Reform existed.
Groundbreaking new #LIS study on how #publiclibraries serve #multilingual and #heritagelanguage communities by @victoriarend.bsky.social. UK-based public library workers: please consider participating and circulating! #LibraryResearch #LinguisticJustice #KnowledgeEquity #IntangibleCulturalHeritage
This is a horrifying move. Books for children have been through a thorough vetting process, and these collections have been curated for their communities.
The school library censorship convo has hit the House of Lords!
Really pleased to see this conversation, following my @indexoncensorship.org investigation.
We do this at @jinfolit.bsky.social in the editorial- will see if we can integrate into the PDF too!
Restrictions to US databases and scholarly work mean that researchers need new approaches to navigate research absences and silences rather than the more typical information overload, writes @alisonhicks0.bsky.social: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/strat... #AcademicSky #EduSky
