Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · Aug 7

Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena

gofund.me/c8485b58

Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard

Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant

gofund.me

10 170 140

Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · Jul 9

Applications for the Ask A Librarian Internship are open for one more week! This paid, remote, part-time internship is open to currently enrolled Library & Information Science students. Apply by July 16. library.columbia.edu/about/jobs-i...

9 8

Alison Hicks @alisonhicks0.bsky.social · Jun 5

Hey IL folks! If you thought censorship was just impacting school librarians, take a look at my new article in @timeshighered.bsky.social exploring what challenges to intellectual freedom mean for HE teaching librarians, too. How do we shift our work from overload to absence?

Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · Jun 5

“The substantial challenges that authoritarian ideology poses to knowledge exchange mean that researchers must be prepared to safeguard their commitment to empirical insight.”

🖊️ @alisonhicks0.bsky.social via @timeshighered.bsky.social
#US #HigherEducation #AcademicSky #EduSky #Censorship

Strategic silencing: how censorship is reshaping scholarly discourse

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 Alison Hi...

www.timeshighereducation.com

1 19 18

Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · Jun 5

“The substantial challenges that authoritarian ideology poses to knowledge exchange mean that researchers must be prepared to safeguard their commitment to empirical insight.”

🖊️ @alisonhicks0.bsky.social via @timeshighered.bsky.social
#US #HigherEducation #AcademicSky #EduSky #Censorship

Strategic silencing: how censorship is reshaping scholarly discourse

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 Alison Hi...

www.timeshighereducation.com

3

Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · May 23

No idea how that happened! But the calendar informs me it’s 2025 so I have to believe it.

1

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · Apr 25

"At present, no miracle has happened. The WIU Librarians will be gone in under a month, as our layoffs take effect May 14."

Western Illinois University will attempt to be a university without a library.

It doesn't take a red state to destroy a public good.

savewiulibrarians.org/message.php

savewiulibrarians.org -- Message -- Spring 2025

savewiulibrarians.org

7 150 270

Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · Apr 3

About to present "Two Decades of Critical Information Literacy: A Review of the Literature." Here are the presentation slides: tinyurl.com/TwoDecadesACRL & full paper: tinyurl.com/TwoDecadesPaper #acrl2025

2 12 65

Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · Apr 2

Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.

A group of students holding signs saying Jews against ice and free Mahmoud now sitting inside a university gate

A close-up of a student whose hands are changed to a gate. Next to a sign that says release Mahmoud Khalil now

Students holding signs that say “Jews against ICE”

53 2.1K 7.2K

Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · Apr 2

now I have a reason to go to the exhibit hall! I’ll be sure to stop by.

1

Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · Apr 2

thanks for saying so, Jess!

Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · Apr 2

of course! I’ll definitely be sharing out slides and the paper

1 2

Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · Apr 2

Has been driving for four years already!

3

Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · Apr 2

Heading to #acrl2025! I’m presenting a paper on “Two Decades of Critical Information Literacy” and on a panel about remote internships & supporting LIS students. Looking forward to seeing folks there.

6 3 57

Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · Mar 21

Wait, you didn’t get the contract for appearing in the new series “Librarians Talking About Their Research in Vans?” I’ll have to talk to my manager

1 5

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Mar 19

NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.

130 620 1.3K

Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · Mar 7

Call for proposals! Pleasure and Play: Finding Joy in LIS Work. "It seems like every day a new disaster begins as older ones fester...In light of everything that feels bad in the world, ACRL/NY’s 2025 symposium theme asks: what feels good in LIS?" acrlny.marketinglibraries.org/2025symposiu...

12 31

emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · Mar 3

📝 CfP 📝 @hellobrittparis.bsky.social & I are editing a special issue of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies on labor organizing in libraries and information fields.

We greatly encourage contributions from library workers.

More info here: journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...

CfP Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies (JCLIS) Special Issue Strike Wave: Changing Tides of Labor Organizing in Libraries and Information Fields | Journal of Critical Librar...

journals.litwinbooks.com

31 28

DSG @saggiotipo.bsky.social · Feb 20

Librarians, check out "OPINION: A librarian’s summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement" by @siobhanh.bsky.social www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...

#AcademicSky

OPINION: A librarian's summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement - UKSG

Siobhan Haimé takes a look at detail the Clarivate announcement and its practical (and possibly unintentional transformational) effects.

www.uksg.org

22 27

Emily Higgs Kopin S. Pumpkins @ehkopin.bsky.social · Feb 6

support archives and archivists sufficiently in times of normal operation so we can do our jobs in times of crisis. read about ongoing efforts before your library of alexandria comparisons. respect the expertise of people who have been doing the work. fund permanent archival and preservation labor.

10 260 1.1K

Eamon Tewell @eamontewell.bsky.social · Jan 22

BUY A LOTTERY TICKET IMMEDIATELY!

2

Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · Jan 7

Happy New Year, y’all! If you’ve ever found my words helpful to you and your life, please read and share this post. Thank you, and I appreciate y’all in advance! :)
fobaziettarh.com/2025/01/07/n...

New Year, New Problems

The good news is that after a month in the hospital, I’m finally going home! The bad news is that I spent a month in the hospital, including Christmas and New Years, and some of that time I don’t e…

fobaziettarh.com

1 25 22

CJAL / Rcbu @cjalrcbu.bsky.social · Dec 11

✍️ Submissions are open for our upcoming special issue: "(More Than) A Decade of Critical Librarianship: Reflections and Speculations." Deadline for proposal submission is Jan. 17, 2025. See details: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

CJAL Special Issue: Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

cjal.ca

2 6

Truthout @truthout.org · Nov 17

As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.

Facing Cuts Likely to Worsen Under Trump, Academic Librarians Urgently Organize

As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.

truthout.org

8 94 190

cudjoe @cudjoe.bsky.social · Nov 12

Some thoughts of what we as librarians should be thinking about and doing before the darkness:
open.substack.com/pub/aradical...

What is to be done now, libraries?

Last Friday, I travelled to New York City for a meeting.

open.substack.com

3 11

MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · Nov 7

[kudos to my colleagues for writing this]

"We fail to see how studying silently amounts to a disruption, and we reject the bans issued in response. We write to let study-in participants know that there are library workers who stand in solidarity with them."

www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...

We’re Harvard Library Workers. We Stand in Solidarity with the Study-Ins. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

We library workers call on Harvard libraries to lift the library bans on students, faculty, and staff, and implore Harvard libraries to refrain from disciplining those who study together, united not i...

www.thecrimson.com

2 2

hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · Jul 26

Dave Ghamandi's Eight Theses on Scholarly Communications (/Open Access). ♥️
ghamandi.hcommons.org/2024/07/26/e...

Eight Theses on Scholarly Communication – By Every Means Necessary

ghamandi.hcommons.org

3 8

my views do not represent those of my employer @zinelib.bsky.social · Jun 22

Go Penn libraries staff!!! pennlibrariesunited.github.io 📚📜

PENN LIBRARIES UNITED

The unionization effort at Penn Libraries

pennlibrariesunited.github.io

1 38 130

In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · Jun 12

Not Business as Usual: Incorporating LIS Student Perspectives in the Apprenticeship Hiring Process by Estefania Eiquihua, Karen Adjei, Janelle Lyons, and Megan E. Welsh

Not Business as Usual: Incorporating LIS Student Perspectives in the Apprenticeship Hiring Process – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org

1 4

Annie Pho @anniepho.bsky.social · Jun 4

I’m recruiting an MLIS student for a paid internship this Fall 2024 to work on a series of online tutorials. You can find more information here: library.usfca.edu/oisj_internshi…. Feel free to share! Apply by July 1! 📚

https://library.usfca.edu/oisj_internshi…

1 12 8

Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · May 4

A powerful and damning account of Columbia leadership’s failures this year from the undergraduate Student Council of Columbia College. This is basically exactly how I would tell it too www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We Columbia University students urge you to listen to our voices | Columbia College Student Council and Columbia Engineering Student Council

Please, listen to us – not political figures, radical fringes and misguided media

www.theguardian.com

2 180 350