The labor librarian

Statistics are here: www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11...

Less than 16% of librarians are nonwhite, and that is for all gender identities. So maybe an acknowledgment of the homogeneity of our industry would be nice on International Women’s Day

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, librarianship is 84.9% women and 84.6% white. 7.5% of librarians identify as Black, 9% as Hispanic or Latine, and 4.2% as Asian. The percentage who identify as Indigenous is so small that it isn’t even noted, but I’ve seen .2% quoted elsewhere.

NYU cancels live school graduation speakers - Washington Square News Graduation speakers will no longer give live remarks at school-based ceremonies and must instead record their statements for a video, in compliance with a policy NYU is rolling out this year. The tran...

1 / I’ll have more to say about this soon—in fact, there’s a fair amount in The Overseer Class about the role I probably played in leading to this farce…. www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Dominated by *white* women, @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social.

This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.

Limiting access because the city refuses to address issues that ARE NOT THE LIBRARY'S RESPONSIBILITY is a major step on the path to losing the public library altogether.

Sound dramatic? I don't think so.

This is why it is neither accurate to entirely place the blame on Israel nor accurate to say this is solely America's war. It is a symbiotic relationship and one that the US consents to repeatedly, under both parties, for reasons increasingly untethered from the reality of US interests.

And when they bombed other people's houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house. I took a chair outside and watched the sun. In the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war. ilya kaminsky, "we lived happily during the war"

The story behind the BBC refusing to air a documentary about Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals Two veteran journalists produced a documentary that showed evidence of war crimes in Gaza. But the BBC refused to air the film. Why?

Two veteran journalists made a documentary about Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals, but the BBC later refused to air it.

This week on Reveal, we team up with @kcrw.com to investigate why and what it says about the future of journalism:

Picard creativity tip: By all means, draw from your own experience, but also find enough empathy to draw from the experiences of others.

Young woman touches train operation equipment in 1973.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! Today, we're celebrating Marion McAllister, the first woman train operator in the #NYCsubway system!

A poster with a red background showing part of a classical library building. Text reads: March 18th. Fund our public libraries. Budget meeting. Register to testify. More here: https://bit.ly/4b1ze3H.

Please sign up to testify in person or on zoom about the NYC preliminary public libraries budget on March 18. Everything you need to know to do so is here: bit.ly/4b1ze3H

Cataloguers, do you have any recs about where I can get a sense of the landscape of the field? What % of original records come from what orgs, what the balance of copy v original cataloguing is done at different kinds of institutions, etc.?

NOT looking for info about MARC, RDA, or other standards

The library is here for you. We've always been resisting subjection.

The Luddite Renaissance is already upon us.

Heck, I lived in a MAJOR metropolitan area in a place that is investing in their public transit (Seattle) and it still took twice as long to get places in the city via bus as it did by driving. To get to my friend’s house was a 10-minute drive or a 40-minute bus ride

Pictured is a field of blue with text and a picture. The text is on the left side and reads "Employer: Whitman College; Unit Size: 322 Employees; Filed: March 5, 2026; Location: Walla Walla, Washington; Industry/positions: Education. Staff and faculty." On the bottom there is text that reads "Made by @UnionsElections; @unionelections.bsky.social. Logo property of AFT." On the right side is the logo of AFT.

NEW: 322 staff and faculty at Whitman College in Washington are unionizing with @aft.org

It's hilarious that "working class" now applies exclusively to the racist failsons of regional car dealership owners but every unemployed trans person is an "elite".

I truly wish more people would read science fiction and not just watch big-budget adaptations. SF authors have thought about the ethics of the creator vs. the (technological) creation / created ever since Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein.

Knowing humans, perhaps long before then.

I grew up Catholic but studied Judaism extensively in my late teens/early 20s (thought for a long time about converting) and I still remember learning this for the first time. As a former Catholic, it blew open my whole understanding of faith (in a good way).

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

Lmao I was living in Seattle when that podcast thing happened. People had ✨thoughts✨.

Paperback edition of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone

Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out.

It's arriving in a country once again waging war—a country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness.

Let's take stock of where we are.

Now I’m off to give my dean heads up before I fire off a response to this professor.

Anyway, all those folks working in public libraries out there deserve safe jobs that pay them enough to live. If you want to support libraries, don’t just post on social media about how great libraries are. Fight for the rights of your library staff.

I never had to break up old men fighting over the newspaper but we did have a couple close calls.

And that doesn’t even count the anonymous threatening emails I used to get when I was union president.

I’ve had knives pulled on me over computer use. I’ve had cops threaten to arrest me if I didn’t show them someone’s borrowing history. I’ve had to ban someone for shitting on the floor. You think I’m going to be cowed by your elitist hissy fit? Lol get real.

A good lesson for faculty is that if you’re trying to bully an academic librarian who used to be a public librarian, it’s not going to work out for you.