Aja McCarthy

If a person's desire to *be* the change outweighs their desire to *see* the change, be cautious of them no matter how virtuous the cause they're leading the charge on

They may want credit more than progress

Academic Staff Need Academic Freedom, Too (opinion) Colleges cannot continue to operate as if all staff work is identical, Aaron Stoller writes.

This. Absolutely this.
"While much has been written about the vulnerabilities of contingent faculty, there has been almost no discussion of the academic freedom needs of one of higher education’s most rapidly growing workforces: third-space professionals." #HigherEd #Staff #AcademicLibraries

“Before you can privatize an economy, you have to privatize psyches. You have to convince people we have nothing in common, there’s no benefit to shared public resources, public space, public transportation, public libraries, public health, public healthcare...” endoftheworldshow.org/episodes/the...

All library workers, regardless of job title or status, deserve a good wage, academic freedom, and support for any research and publishing they would like to pursue. Library classism is damaging to individual people and to the field collectively.

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

After Congress stripped away funding for @npr.org and @pbs.org, a lot of us are wondering how we can best support the most vulnerable stations. My former NPR colleague Alex Curley created this "Adopt A Station" website to help you find (and donate to) the stations most at risk. adoptastation.org

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⭐ Sign the petition!
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We can't do this without you - every little bit helps!

What is National Library Workers Day? NLWD is a day for library staff, users, administrators and Friends groups to recognize the valuable contributions made by all library workers. On January 25, 2003, a resolution was proposed: That in order to recognize the hard work, dedication, and expertise of library support staff and librarians that the Tuesday of National Library Week be designated National Library Workers Day; and, that on that day, interested library workers, library groups, and libraries should advocate for better compensation for all library workers and, if the day coincides with Equal Pay Day, these individuals, groups, and libraries should recognize both days together.

today is National Library Workers Day, and i am asking you to support library workers by

-using your library (it matters!);

-defending library workers against the ongoing efforts to intimidate, silence, and criminalize them;

-advocating for better pay for them. 📚

The library is the only place that Americans experience the fullness of what it means to remove goods from the market. It pings our consciousness. Hey we could love differently!

Tell the Ohio House Now: Don’t Cut My Library! Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library stands to lose $14.5 million of our state funding and we need your help. Use the links below…

Happening now OH/Cincinnati: chpl.org/blogs/post/d...

Congress has the power to restore funding to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Join me in calling your reps!

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Let me never become so jaded as to think acts of resistance are pointless.