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ciliplgbtq.bsky.social
📄Chaper 'The Hidden History of Queer Subject Access' from 📗'Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front'
edited by K.R. Roberto
#Cataloguing
#Cataloging
#Metadata
#CritLib
#LGBTQ

tinyurl.com/mr3tarfd
Radical Cataloging
This collection of critical and scholarly essays addresses the state of cataloging in the world of librarianship. The contributors, including Sanford Berman, Thomas Mann, and numerous front-line libra...
books.google.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
brimwats.com
might i interest anyone who's written on #critlib"/hashtag/critlib" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#critlib #critarch or #critcat in zooming with the @IUBloomington @iuils #critlib reading group next week? we've decided to move online and there was interest in chatting with an author :)
November 8, 2024 at 4:39 AM
brimwats.com
2. the practice of “cultural competency” when considering historic identities, items, or groups or the use of “ethical outreach” when dealing with still-living identities, items, or groups
#critcat #critlib #metadata
November 7, 2024 at 3:04 PM
preater.com
ICYMI: ahead of our #LILAC24 panel on Weds @ 9.30am (be there!) we're interested in your hot takes, spicy takes, & cool, considered takes on our provocations on social class: bit.ly/493J81P
#Critlib #CritInfoLit
With @jencrate.bsky.social, @rosiehare.bsky.social, Darren Flynn & Ramona Naicker.
March 25, 2024 at 10:21 AM
brimwats.com
For accessibility: the slides of my presentation to @robdmontoya's #critlib #complib class. Today, I'm talking about Diversity in/and/or Libraries. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lt2MSK5Kd9ls-CyFOPA13eyCJHlQm6qS8L64LcyzDCk/edit?usp=sharing
DiverseLibraries
Diversity (in/and/or) Libraries Brian M. Watson Before I begin: it is important that I’m coming at this as a white person, of settler heritage, raised in an overwhelmingly white state that’s voting today. I have tried to foreground Black voices and the voices of authors of color in this presentat...
docs.google.com
November 8, 2024 at 5:32 AM
jennybruxvoort.bsky.social
📚📜 If you’ve ever held a temporary librarian or archivist position, we (@lundys21.bsky.social and I) invite you to participate in our anonymous research survey about your experience: forms.gle/UcvgtgXnY8bo...
#libraryjobs #libraryjob #LISjobs #libjobs #critlib
October 16, 2023 at 2:31 PM
pauljewell.bsky.social
‘Libraries & archives embracing indigenous ways of knowing: bringing a social justice lens to build reciprocal relationships, truth telling, emotional wellbeing & care to transform the colonial project.’

Awesome insights from @kirstenthorpe.bsky.social #IndigenousLibrarianship
#Libraries #CritLib
May 7, 2025 at 2:59 AM
noethematt.bsky.social
.... on this day, 8 years ago

Or, y'know, Friday...

📚 🫠
FB memory from 2017 My post of a tweet screenshot from Jonathan Senchyne that reads Today's proposed elimination of US IMLS goes out to all the librarians/students who "just don't want to be political all the time" #critlib
March 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
roxanneshirazi.bsky.social
I'm looking for any controlled vocabularies, thesauri, usage guides related to disability studies, especially for library cataloging purposes. I found this language guide from the National Center on Disability and Journalism. Others?

I'm new to this, appreciate all suggestions! #critcat #critlib
Disability Language Style Guide | National Center on Disability and Journalism
ncdj.org
October 11, 2024 at 6:00 PM
brimwats.com
tell me your secrets @librarycongress #histlib #critlib #critcat
November 8, 2024 at 8:42 AM
ryanpatrickrandall.com
Last night's critical pedagogy / librarianship ( #critLib ) provocation / earworm:

What if when educators use "literacy" metaphorically (I'm esp. thinking of information literacy / #infoLit ),

what's actually being discussed is more like "acculturation into the socially dominant ways of thinking"?
October 17, 2024 at 2:24 AM
ginamurrell1.bsky.social
Registration is now open for the 2025 Critical Pedagogy Symposium, its theme "Decentering the West." The FREE symposium is online ("We have a LARGE Zoom capacity!") Tuesday, June 10 through Thursday, June 12, 12 noon-4PM EST each day. criticalpedagogysymposium.org/registration... #critlib #libraries
Screenshot of wording, against a white background, that says: "Critical Pedagogy Symposium: Decentering the West. Registration Now Open!" A multicolored border frames the wording.
June 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
anniepho.bsky.social
I remember putting potato gifs in a lightning talk as an easter egg at the critlib unconference as a joke. But yes I think we should actually do this.
November 15, 2024 at 3:22 PM
brimwats.com
#critlib
November 7, 2024 at 3:49 PM
brimwats.com
So with...y'know the whole pandemic thing, it turned out to be a bit harder to keep up with it all, but I finally posted them all yesterday! So here are the 12 blog posts I made for the incredibly niche #cataloging #critcat #critlib people who might actually read this all
November 8, 2024 at 3:59 AM
vlparkinson.bsky.social
...how we should handle future challenges that may be less clear cut. Two questions for my library colleagues:
1) do you have a process for how you handle it when users point out potentially offensive material on your catalogue? Is it published? How did you decide it? 2/? #critlib 📚
October 22, 2024 at 9:02 PM
ginamurrell1.bsky.social
Kaba was why many (like myself) registered (1,080 RSVPs). I hadn't previously heard of Wallace, who authored The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity, published in 2019 by the University of Chicago Press. www.lewispants.com/the-view-fro... #books #critlib #libraries
Screenshot of a 2025 Critical Pedagogy Symposium slide titled "Why attend Critical Pedagogy Symposium?" The slide notes there were "1080 RSVPs" and that many attendees were "excited for Mariame Kaba's keynote."
June 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
camillemarys.bsky.social
Live from Gaza: the Archives & Heritage for Palestine seminar series continues on Feb. 26 with Dr. Abdul Latif Abu Hashim, showcasing Gaza as a centre of history, culture and learning. 🔗 Register: rb.gy/hp4bum #Archives&Heritage4Palestine #CritArch #CritLib #GLAMs 📜
Rectangular poster with a beige background and ornamental tatreez dark red accents. The poster includes black and dark red text that reads “Archives and Heritage for Palestine Seminar Series presents: Dr. Abdul Latif Zaki Abu Hashim hosted by Dr. Jamila Ghaddar and Tam Rayan. Live from Gaza. February 26. 6PM Jerusalem/Beirut, 11AM Toronto (Tkaronto), 8AM San Francisco (Ohlone). Arabic with live English interpretation. Register now.” The poster then includes a registration link, a photo of the speaker wearing a black shirt and glasses, a photo of a Palestinian home with a tree, and the event’s sponsors logos at the bottom.”
February 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
brimwats.com
.@archivy and Sayward Schoonmaker have a new #critlib #critcat #critarch article out 🤩🤩🤩

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3313831.3376307
November 8, 2024 at 3:36 AM
mattlibrarian.bsky.social
I skeeted at the site maintainer to add CritLib to Libraries (hope that is ok)
November 26, 2024 at 10:51 PM
patchedelbows.bsky.social
We're up to 107 registrations for #CALC25! 🥳

Join us for 3 days exploring #CritLib in all its many and varied forms. We've got a huge programme of sessions and tickets are only £15 with bursaries available.
#LibrarySky #Skybrarians #LISConference 📚

sites.google.com/view/calccon...
CALC - CALC2025
CALC2025 will take place online from Tuesday 13th May - Thursday 15th May 2025. Tickets are available from Monday 3rd March as well as the bursary lottery for attendees from underrepresented and/or ma...
sites.google.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
schomj.bsky.social
Call for proposals:
CJAL Special Issue: Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship

(i am not affiliated, just reposting because it looks interesting #CritLib 📚)

cjal.ca/index.php/ca...
As with most social and political movements or tendencies, it is impossible to pinpoint the exact origins of critical librarianship. The movement is far from homogeneous, and " each practitioner occupies a particular position with respect to their precursors within the profession, and to the broader social and political theories and praxis in which they are engaged. However, critical librarianship has been coherent enough to (self-)identify work in particular areas within the field, encompassing information literacy, library instruction, Queer critiques of cataloguing and description, critical race analyses of professional power dynamics and inequalities, Marxist accounts of ideology and intellectual freedom, criticisms of library labour hierarchies, librarianship's relationship to the state, to white supremacy, to empire, to heteronormativity, patriarchy. ableism, and much else. Given the plurality and variety of its positions and approaches, what - if anything - constitutes critical librarianship? Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship seeks to critically reflect on the history of critical librarianship, interrogate its continued usefulness and viability as a descriptor, and imagine library futures with or without critical librarianship in its current form Examples of topic areas might include (but are not limited to): • historiographies or genealogies tracing the trajectory of critical librarianship and what it means now • topics viewed, looking forwards or looking back, with a lens of critical librarianship (e.g. critical approaches to AI, IL, collections) • areas of professional practice that have witnessed the institutionalization of critical librarianship speculations on the future and potential of critical librarianship Interested authors are asked to submit their proposal (maximum 800 words plus bibliography) as an email attachment (Word document or PDF) to can.j.acad.lib@gmail.com by January 17th, 2025 at the latest.
December 5, 2024 at 2:07 AM
preater.com
📚 The recent introduction of hashtags to Bluesky makes this #Critlib and #critcat feed more useful for your critical librarianship takes:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
March 2, 2024 at 11:03 AM
phoenixashes76.bsky.social
There’s a critlib movement feed that gets maybe one post a month tbh. If you know of a better place I could look I’d love to hear about it
February 3, 2025 at 6:04 AM
brimwats.com
somehow I've been pushed into considering a #critlib #critarch #histbook article from the point of view of the show @harlotsonhulu by @archiviststan 🤔

the fact that I'm now making a list of sources I know I can cite probably does not bode well for my future huh
November 8, 2024 at 8:42 AM