Maura Smale 😷💉

Good gig alert! Great folks at UofG!

Oh Violet, I am so very sorry.

On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt - ACRLog I don't know the right metaphor to make you understand how this much debt physically feels. What it actually feels like is a pressure on my chest and shoulders, but maybe that's not evocative enough. ...

ACRLog has published 1,800 posts over twenty years but I guess I'm the first person to write a post about student debt?? 🤷‍♀️

"On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt" acrlog.org/2025/07/24/o...

My fantastic colleagues in CUNY’s Office of Library Services are hiring! Come join us in the CUNYverse as our next University Director of Collections and Metadata Strategy! Review begins 7/24, more info: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/... (boosts appreciated!)

Application extended, review begins 7/28. Come join the fantastic librarians in the CUNYverse!

Save the Dates for ThriveLib: A New Conference on Creating Workplaces that Foster Well-Being, August 12, 13, 14 — ThriveLib Mark your calendars for ThriveLib: Reclaiming Joy, Balance, and Boundaries in Libraries , a virtual conference dedicated to supporting the emotional, psychological, and organizational well-being of l...

Hello friends! It’s been a minute, but I am doing a keynote! It’s for ThriveLib: Reclaiming Joy, Balance, and Boundaries in Libraries from Aug 12-14. There will be some a bunch of other amazing speakers too. Save the date! :) www.thrivelib.com/news/save-th...

PETITION: Tell Trump, Hands Off the National Archives! The National Archives safeguards our collective history, protects the public's right to know, and ensures transparency and accountability in government.

The National Archives safeguards our collective history, protects the public's right to know, and ensures transparency and accountability in government.

action.everylibrary.org/nationalarch... follow @everylibrary.bsky.social to support libraries.

New York City Funds Archives Center at the Graduate Center City Council Member Keith Powers and Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine support an initiative to preserve and share CUNY history.

We’re thrilled to announce a $600K NYC grant for a new Archives Center that will preserve and share vital @cuny.edu and New York history. Thanks to @keithpowersnyc.bsky.social and @marklevinenyc.bsky.social for their support! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-yor...
@joshbrumberg.bsky.social

Thanks Eileen!

Untapped : Why Craft Schools Matter : By Michelle Millar Fisher Sites of craft education train and shape the makers we admire—and everyday people, too.

"I have spent the past four years traveling across all 48 lower U.S. states to more than 150 [craft schools].... Each site of craft education I visited had its own unique slant on place, pedagogy, and the people who taught and learned there."

Thanks James!

If you can count to five, you can do ranked choice voting. It's really not complicated and you don't have to do the math yourself.

Despair is a Tool of Our Enemies, a limited edition letterpress notebook — Blackbird Letterpress Blackbird Letterpress - Despair is a Tool of Our Enemies, a limited edition letterpress notebook in collaboration with Mariame Kaba. A fundraiser - 50% of proceeds will be donated to REBUILD, The Find...

50% of proceeds from the sale of this handmade notebook goes to support REBUILD's work. You get a great notebook and also get to support a terrific program: www.blackbirdletterpress.com/limited-edit...

DHNow’s relaunch is so great to see

The Center for LGBTQ Studies and MoMA have a fabulous writing event this Friday, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ! "Experiment with writing as a means of drawing connections between theory and practice, art and activism...through the lenses of queerness and feminism." Register here: buff.ly/AGcDZm6

Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.

This is the sort of program that I wish didn't need private donors, but helping people who've been incarcerated dealing with their trauma can help them in their return to their communities. Join me and @prisonculture.bsky.social in support.

www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...

Join my terrific colleagues at City College CUNY as Head of Technical Services, Assoc or Asst Prof! Apps reviewed beginning 6/28: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Hand-painted cigarette advertisement, part of an promotional concertina produced for a provincial French stationer in the 1920s.

May short list of paintings, prints, and illustration from Honey & Wax: www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pdfs/May2025...

Hey @olinj.bsky.social need to make sure you see this important content.

Colleagues, I'm honored to be part of Dr. Nicole A. Cooke's inaugural and critically necessary course, "History of Black Librarianship," and thrilled to be in good company as we explore Black Librarian Futures. If you've enrolled in the course, I'm looking forward to seeing & talking with you!

Open Letter to CRL from the academic wing of #CripLib - ACRLog Editor's note: We welcome a guest blog post from the academic librarians of #CripLib, which focuses on the intersection of disability and library work. Note: The focus is on our concerns about the qua...

Open Letter to College & Research Libraries from the academic wing of #CripLib

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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

TLC staff and fellows have run over one hundred workshops that are now openly licensed, reusable, and remixable. Visit our Workshops Archive at cuny.is/tlc-workshops.

Authors Against Book Bans - ACRLog Editor's note: We welcome a guest post from Jessica Olin, who was in the library field for close to twenty years, both as a librarian and a library director. For eight of those years, they were also r...

Thanks, @maurasmale.bsky.social, for letting me write about @authorsabb.bsky.social for ACRLog.

🚨Deadline Extended: June 1st🚨
Looking to bring your imagination, creative thinking, and commitment to the research and creating digital practices? It’s not too late to submit your application to join our M.A. Program in Digital Humanities at CUNY Graduate Center!

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🌕 Reminder that the library is offering extended hours for finals this weekend:
Saturday May 17, 10am-10pm
Sunday May 18, 12pm-10pm
As always, you can find our Library hours here: gc-cuny.libcal.com/hours

New on ACRLog... Turning to the compassionate present: a counter bit.ly/3H8wOF8

My ACRLog colleagues publishing such fantastic pieces lately, I am so grateful to work with them.

So great! 💚