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Kelly
@kellymce.bsky.social
Librarian, unionist, occasional zinester
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Calling all higher ed library workers!

HELU is hosting a library workers organizing call next Wednesday, Aug. 20th at 4pm MST. You can register for it at bit.ly/HELU_LW_Aug25
August 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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"sorry this is late..." said every perzinester ever... so even though we missed the end of International Zine Month by a couple of days, we're still stoked to share this "What Kind of Queer Zine Are You" quiz that QZAP intern @bluespringwrites.bsky.social made:

gittings.qzap.org/quiz-what-ty...
August 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Out now! Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers from @alaeditionsns.bsky.social

Grateful for all the library unionists who spoke to us for the book, and to co-authors @kellymce.bsky.social @mkahn.bsky.social and Angelo Moreno!

alastore.ala.org/oryrlib
Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers (Critical Cultural Information Studies series)
alastore.ala.org
August 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Like many others I am dismayed by the effort to end IMLS. I know IMLS matters to so many people. I put together the following site to collect and share stories of how "IMLS matters" to people. Please consider submitting a story.

forms.gle/MAocZZMsoUu7...

imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/
IMLS Matters
Responses to this form will be published at https://imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/
forms.gle
April 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Reminder
March 28, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Make sure you’re inviting the right person to your Signal group!

To help confirm someone’s identity and keep track of your contacts, @signal.org offers nicknames and information about the groups you share in common with your contacts.

Learn about Signal’s identifiers:
Understanding every one of Signal’s identifiers
We’ve heard some questions about the difference between Signal usernames, phone numbers, profile names, profiles, and nicknames. Let’s talk about it.
freedom.press
March 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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🧵 IN SHOCKING MOVE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRES UNION PRESIDENT ONE DAY BEFORE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN, IN FURTHER CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH
March 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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No amount of complicity is going to save you from fascism, so you might as well fight.
March 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Would you like free registration to the American Library Association conference #ALAAC25 in Philly this June? Volunteer for a 3-hour shift at the Zine Pavilion and we'll get you in! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
March 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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After five months of turning down invitations to talk about AI, I'm gonna talk about AI.

Join me Weds March 19th for a free webinar through @mediaedlab.bsky.social, "Questioning Generative AI Through Zinemaking."
mediaeducationlab.com/events/quest...
Questioning Generative AI Through Zinemaking | Media Education Lab
Read here about our full webinar series on Leading from the Library.
mediaeducationlab.com
March 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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This is part of a long term strategy to bypass libraries in Clarivate’s revenue model entirely, even if this isn’t explicitly the intent now.
As part of its new 'transformative' access model for libraries, "...Clarivate will also phase out one-time perpetual purchases of digital collections, print and digital books for libraries."
clarivate.com/news/clariva...
Clarivate Unveils Transformative Subscription-Based Access Strategy for Academia | Clarivate
New approach enables broad, simple and affordable access to trusted scholarly content for learning and research
clarivate.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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How does a nation even conceive of recovering from having all the private taxpayer data of its citizenry stolen by Nazis? Any ideas?
February 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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🚨 RED CARD UPDATE 🚨

Due to unprecedented demand, our original Red Card portal is backlogged and these are not available for order via the non-profit and private firm portals right now.

However, this 🔗 guides you to the raw Red Card page you can print for 🆓 RIGHT NOW 👇🏽

ilrc.org/red-cards
Red Cards / Tarjetas Rojas | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC
All people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The ILRC’s Red Cards help people assert their rights and defend them...
ilrc.org
January 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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I feel like we're always 48 hours away from an "All Social Security Numbers Accidentally Deleted" headline now
February 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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There's interest in this again, so I'm sharing @eff.org's complete publicly available and open source map of border surveillance infrastructure so people can see the constant surveillance border communities are under as well as the money and resources put to the great nationalist boondoggle.
Border Surveillance Towers (Spring 2025) - Google My Maps
(Updated 11/21/2024) Click the datapoints for links to Google/Bing satellite and Google Streetview images, as well as source materials, when available. Credit: Electronic Frontier Foundation This ...
www.google.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Some useful Surveillance Self Defense links for people who want to lock their shit down right now:

Attending a protest: ssd.eff.org/module/atten...

How to Use Signal: ssd.eff.org/module/how-t...

Security starter pack: ssd.eff.org/playlist/wan...
How to: Use Signal
Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.0. iPhone: 7.0 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time...
ssd.eff.org
February 3, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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redesign of the piece that has gotten me restricted/suspended at least 4 times 😇
December 10, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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hey yeah just a quick question, what the fuck is happening
January 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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On April 17, 2025 @aaup.bsky.social will bring together major higher ed unions, trade unions, student groups, and allied organizations in the fight to “Free Higher Education.” LEARN MORE: www.dayofactionforhighered.org?source=twitt...
A National Day of Action for Higher Ed
On April 17, higher ed unions, AAUP chapters, and student organizations across the U.S. are coming together to fight back against the coordinated assault on teaching and learning, and to mobilize for ...
www.dayofactionforhighered.org
January 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Libraries as they try and embrace gen AI
January 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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They cant get my data if i am Fully Dissolved in a bath tub full of sodium hydroxide
January 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.

➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠
January 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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The Society of American Archivists is seeking volunteers for an Archival Labor Task Force. Interested in shaping a worker-centered future of the field? Info here:

www2.archivists.org/governance/h...
Archival Worker Labor Task Force | Society of American Archivists
Society of American Archivists
www2.archivists.org
December 13, 2024 at 8:13 PM