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This talk addresses the idea of 'safe space' and what it means to be in 'ally'. What is at stake when we commit to being an ally in the LGBTQIAA community? How…
My talk for the New Hampshire Library Association spring conference 2017.
Hashtag #Syllabi, Knowledge, & Power
Repositioning Collective Knowledge to Decolonize Information
Through #Hashtags and Grassroots Digital Activism
Intersectionality is interconnected social identities. Using an understanding of oppression as a matrix of power, often these syllabi are created to annotate, document and validate the intersectional experiences that mainstream academia and media simplify and commodify.
Is the focus of bibliography an act of information (organization and description), or is it an act for the people?
Last Fall, I made this FAQ zine about the library with my colleague Madeline Veitch. These have been wonderful as handouts for student, who connect to the handmade style more than polished “official” brochures.
This is huge! It's not often that ILL is thought of as political. This is a warehouse full of inter library loan material for the State of Vermont. In 2013, when I worked at a small rural public library 18 miles from Burlington, the State Department of Libraries in Vermont told a group of Chittenden County librarians that they couldn't sustain a State-wide book delivery system. That we needed to stick with the postal service, even as rural post offices were cutting back hours. Then, a young man seeking job experience through the Howard Center--with a love for libraries and a mini van--asked us if there any volunteer work that he could do. The Chittenden County librarians organized a pick up, drop off and gas reimbursement schedule so he could distribute inter library loan books and get paid. All volunteer labor, I ran his invoices for 6 months and wrote a report to the State Department of Libraries demonstrating proof of concept that inter library loan delivery could work at the scale of Vermont public libraries. Well, now my old pal from throwing queer dance parties is working as a courier for a delivery service that VT hired to deliver the books and here's what it looks like from behind the scenes. Goes to show that community needs can be relevant and necessary, beyond the limits of what others envision.
Here is a selection of #blacklivesmatter related library, teaching, and community resources. It was originally posted here on 7/8/16, and on 7/11/16, it was replaced with a google doc version for easier updating and maintenance. Contact us with any additions or comments.
Black Lives Matter #herstory and guiding principles
Black Lives Matter Syllabus
Charleston Syllabus
Ferguson Syllabus
Curriculum for White Americans To Educate Themselves on Race and Racism–From Ferguson To Charleston
Black Lives Matter web archive (Archive-It.org)
Black Lives Matter collection (Internet archive)
Teaching With the News: Black Lives Matter, Continuing the Civil Rights Movement
Talking to Kids about Racism and Justice (Oakland Public Library)
Black Lives Matter Booklist for Teens (Hennepin County Public Library)
Black Lives Matter Resource Series (Oakland Public Library)
Picture Books to Help Kids Talk about Racism
Picture Books about Civil Rights
Racial Equity in the Library
Inclusive Library: More than a Diverse Collection
We Need Diverse Books
New York Public Library Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Libguides:
Teachers for Social Justice
San Francisco Public Schools
Wellesley College
Duquesne University
Gustavus Adolphus College
Arizona University
Michigan State University
Madison Area Technical College
University of Southern California
Northfield Mount Hermon School
Framingham State University
University of South Carolina Upstate
Police Encounter Rights and Safety Resources:
What to do instead of calling the police Syllabus/guide
ACLU Know Your Rights: When you are stopped by police
ACLU Know Your Rights: Demonstrations and Protests
ACLU Know Your Rights: Taking Photographs
What to Say When the Police Tell You To Stop Filming Them
Anti-Violence Project Safety Tips for Police Violence and Hate Violence
Staying Safe and Sexy at the Queer Beach
Bearing Witness Guide: Filming Police Encounters
Stop and Frisk Watch App
Contact Your Elected Officials
Organizations and Activism:
CampaignZero
Audre Lorde Project
Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Live Free
FaithForJustice
Urban Cusp
SayTheirNames
Color of Change
Racial Equity Tools
Black Youth Project
Police Reform Organizing Project
Southern Poverty Law Center
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Fierce NYC
Communities United for Police Reform (NYC)
Thrive Washington
Race Conscious
Showing Up For Racial Justice
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Advancement Project
Self-Care, Trauma, and Understanding Tragedy in the News:
ColorLines Self-Care Resources
Helping Kids Cope With Media Coverage of War and Traumatic Events
Resources for Talking With Kids about Tragedies
Activist Trauma Support
Breaking News Consumers’ Handbook on Active Shooting Incidents
Self Care for People of Color after Psychological Trauma
In honor of Throw Back Thursday and National Radio Day enjoy this 1940s photo of Bard College students performing a radio show at their college station, WXBC. Check out all of the WXBC photos in the Bard College Collection at Hudson River Valley Heritage!
I had a radio show in college on WXBC. It was called “The Radio Heads” and we played songs based on a weekly theme, including songs about #yermom or songs about #radio.
Building a Library Resources Block in Moodle (That Students Will Actually Use)
Back in June 2015, I presented these quick slides in the LITA Lightning Round talks at ALA in San Francisco. I’m currently working on a book chapter with Meghan Dowell, Beloit College, for a book about using libguides apps in Moodle.
I spoke about designing an embedded library resources block in moodle that will connect students and instructors to the relevant research guides for their disciplines and course content is a constant struggle for hybrid and online courses. Students can miss a link to a course guide in a syllabus, the instructor may be unaware of the full scope of library resources available, and research guides may not be connected at all in a one shot to the day-to-day flow of the 15 week semester and student life. the goal is to put the goods up front and center, where students already are.
The block is built so that there are default settings to the block that sync w the appropriate discipline of the course. If you're in an environmental science course, the default should be an environmental science research guide. librarians roles in moodle have administrative access to aligning the list of departmental disciplines of courses on campus to default research guides to be displayed. in the event that there is not a research guide for a course (for instance, we have a 1 credit critical research skills class, and we don't have an LIS department on campus), then there is a default link to a list of all research guides from the library website.
Instructors can add multiple additional research guides (from libguides, our spring share software), as well as links to citation guides online. Faculty can also change the name of the guide link that appears, and work w liaison librarian to include other resources as they wish. If an instructor wants to create a custom guide, there is a link to contact the liaison program coordinator.
Putting the course in the top right of the course site. the block is in there--the instructor can choose to hide or delete, but it's there, already linked to your discipline
Reads to honor Charleston, South Carolina
"Hold onto your anger and use it as compost in your garden." -@bellhooks paraphrasing Thích Nhất Hạnh
I grew up in South Carolina. It is my home and where I am from; South Carolina shaped my tongue and remnant of an accent. The politics of South Carolina defined my perspectives on race, gender, and class, and rooted in me a lifelong commitment to social justice and perseverance as an activist. These last few days have been so sorrowful for the loss of African American community leaders in Charleston, South Carolina, and deeply disturbing for the continued resurgence of hate. It is time for Columbia to not just move the flag from the Statehouse steps as they did in 1999, but to get rid of it entirely.
In no particular order, here’s a list of reading flowing through my mind in the aftermath of the shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Denmark Vesey: The Buried Story of America’s Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It. David Robertston
The Middle Passage. Charles Johnson
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68. Taylor Branch
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans. Kadir Nelson.
The Atlantic Sound. Caryl Phillips
Slaves in the Family. Edward Ball
The Gullah People and Their African Heritage. William S. Pollitzer
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Paul Gilroy
Linda Brown, You Are Not Alone. The Brown v. Board of Education Decision. Joyce Carol Thomas & Curtis James
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. Drew Gilpin Faust
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Michelle Alexander.
Porgy. DuBose Heyward
Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching. Paul J. Giddings
The Secret Life of Bees. Sue Monk Kidd
South Carolina: A History. Walter Edgar
Rest in Power: Cynthia Hurd, 54; Susie Jackson, 87; Ethel Lance, 70; Rev. DePayne Middleton-Doctor, 49; Hon. Rev. Clementa Pinckney, 41; Tywanza Sanders, 26; Rev. Daniel Simmons Sr., 74; Rev. Sharonda Singleton, 45; Myra Thompson, 59.
PARTY GIRL (June 9) - It’s not only the 20th anniversary of Parker Posey emergence as the off-Hollywood It Girl, but also of this landmark movie of the indie scene.
On June 9, 1995 the ultimate librarian movie was released. Celebrate its 20th anniversary by watching it again.
Social Media as Game Strategy: Twitter in the #infolit Instruction Session
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the State University of New York (SUNY) Library Association Conference (#SUNYLA2015) at SUNY Purchase College. I’ve attended SUNY conferences before on technology, online learning, instructional design and copyright topics, but this was my first SUNYLA. It was so wonderful to connect with librarians across New York State, working in a variety of institutions--from research universities to community colleges and to comprehensive/liberal arts colleges--and to realize that we’re all dealing with the same stuff. Because Purchase is so close to NYC, a lot of folks came up from the City and from within the City University of New York (CUNY) system, and other colleges downstate.
I presented a poster with a CUNY Queens College Librarian, my friend and colleague, Electronic Resources boss Kelly Blanchat. There’s a link to the poster above on figshare and a screenshot of the basic levels of the game below that align with critical information literacy concepts.
The lesson plan uses twitter as a gaming platform to engage students in topic exploration and strategic searching by using hashtags as controlled vocabularies.
Once students get a handle on the concept of how to search using hashtags in social media, they start to collect related hashtags to create a concept map.
Next, we introduce students to the library databases where the conceptual experience with hashtags is used to introduce and apply searching strategically for keywords and subject terms.
This transition from popular to scholarly searching allows students to apply connect the conversations from social media which are relevant to their lives to research expanding on their lived experiences in scholarly formats.
The key to this lesson plan is a conversation about how to translate twitter hashtags to library subject terms. This inevitably involves student discussion of the meanings behind common terms, casual and slang language, and the implications of translating vernacular and community-based knowledge to a higher education institutional framework.
Students may have to codeswitch from the hashtags they found in online conversations to the acceptable research terms for library databases: but then, isn’t that what we all had to do at some point in our careers?
While the game exposes the gap between communities of affinity online and scholarship as a conversation in research, it creates discussion and moments of analysis for students and instructor to expand the deeper meanings and ideas underlying those 140-characters bursts into fuller and richer contexts supported by strategic and specific search terminology.
If you’re curious for more about this lesson plan, I’m also super stoked to announce that Kelly Blanchat and I are writing a chapter on it for the #critlib book on critical pedagogy edited by Nicole Pagowsky and Kelly McElroy for ACRL Press. Look for it in 2016.
Yesterday I attended a technology forum at Fletcher Free Library (FFL), the largest public library in Vermont. Facilitated by Jessamyn West, tech industry folks, public education & higher education folks, non profit leaders and select librarians, were invited to vision the future of tech needs for Burlington. One of our biggest tasks was to imagine the fullest uses of the one gigabyte per second Internet that makes FFL among rare company in libraries in America right now. After the forum, FFL Collection Development librarian Christine Webb took myself, Nate Herzog of StoryHackVT, and Jessamyn on a tour of the basement of this Carnegie Library. Here are some pictures! I kept the Angela Lansbury video.
Thanks for everyone who made our very first LIS Microaggressions zine a great success!
LIS Microaggressions is soliciting Post-it submissions to be collected and included in the second issue of our LIS Microaggressions zine, which will be distributed at the upcoming APALA Symposium and ALA…
Get ready for our next party in San Francisco at ALA Annual on SF Pride Weekend!
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Doors 6pm / Show 8pm-close The Make Out Room 3225 22nd Street & Mission, San Francisco $10 / 21+ with ID
Entertainment brought to you by EveryLibrary:
DJ MARC Records
DJ Rapid Fire
DJ Chelsea Starr
All proceeds benefit the GLBT Historical Society
RSVP on Facebook, and stay tuned for more information!
There are lots of other great events happening during #alaac15, too:
Thursday, June 25:
8:00pm-Midnight: alathinktank Pre-Party and Fundraiser for the Center for Sex and Culture (Center for Sex and Culture, 1349 Mission Street)
Friday, June 26:
8:30am-Noon: GLBTRT Pre-Conference: Rolling out the Rainbow Carpet: Serving LGBTQ Communities (Moscone Convention Center-132-N)
3pm Trans Stage and Rally Dolores Park
6pm Trans March starts in Dolores Park
Saturday, June 27:
12pm Dyke March Rally in Dolores Park
3:30pm Dyke March Rally, starting in Dolores Park
Noon-6:00pm: San Francisco Pride Celebration (Civic Center)
1:00-2:30pm: Curating Activism in LGBT History (Moscone Convention Center-3005-W)
1:00-2:30pm: The History and Evolving Acceptance of Collecting LGBT Materials in Libraries (Hilton Union Square-Golden Gate 2)
3:30-5:00pm: Transgender People at the Library: Moving from “Them” to “Us” (Moscone Convention Center-3005-W)
6:30-8:30pm: GLBTRT Social (Harvey Milk Branch of SFPL)
Sunday, June 28:
All day: “Show Your Pride” Sunday in the Conference Exhibits (Moscone Convention Center)
10:30am-?: San Francisco Pride Parade kickoff
11:00am-6:00pm: San Francisco Pride Celebration (Civic Center)
4:30-5:30 “But We’re Neutral!” and Other Librarian Fictions Confronted by #critlib (Moscone Convention Center-2016-W)
8:00pm-2:00am: QUE(E)RY at the Make-Out Room!!
Monday, June 29:
10:00am-noon: Stonewall Book Awards Program (Moscone Convention Center-3005-W)
Friday-Monday: there will also be a special GLBTQ Pavilion on the Conference Exhibit floor in celebration of GLBT Book Month (Moscone Convention Center)
See you there!
Links to bookmark:
OurTownSF Pride Community Events Calendar
ALA Annual 2015 #partyhard map
One of the projects that I undertook as part of my Visiting Assistant Librarian role at SUNY Plattsburgh, was project management of a library resources block in our campus learning management software, Moodle. Well, after lots or coordination, collaboration and effort by a team of programmers, networking/systems folks and instructional designers, it’s now live! The Library Resources block in Moodle has customizable link options that provide research tools relevant to the given course’s discipline. Instructors can choose from multiple libguides and style guides to help student find and cite sources.
Other than the proximity of the two New England states, the library systems of Connecticut and Vermont don’t have much in common. They don’t share similar funding arrangements or infrastructure. But both states are facing potential budget reductions that could significantly impact their public libraries, and both have called on residents and legislators alike to speak up for their library services.
I’m always down for some library activism: The People Make the Library.
Citation workshop bingo hand out!!!
LIBR 1101 with Angela Pashia
This course site is an inspiration and motivation! Such great, reflective library research assignments are in here.
