Some librarians are also teachers and some teachers are also librarians.  But a librarian isn’t necessarily a teacher, and they may not want to be, even though some of their duties include teaching. ​An interesting article from 1979, ​Librarians as Teachers: The Study of an Organization Fiction by Pauline Wilson, which I discovered via this website and author.  ​Pauline…

Codes exist and codes are needed. Rules are needed.  We wish they weren’t; we wish everyone could be trusted to be appropriate and respectful in shared space, but we can’t. Whether or not we used to be able to do this better as societies on the whole is a different matter, as is the possible causes…

“The marginalized library worker is subject to inequities, while the white/heteronormative worker has the luxury of choosing whether or not to engage or interrogate inequities.” (Ferretti 142) This article is written by the woman who graciously shared her syllabus readings with me – as she has done willingly and openly with many others. ​Ferretti, J. A.…

Whooo has it taken me a while to get back to here.  “Here” being this writing space and “here” being the place where I reside internally, where I know who I am and how I can be useful.  It’s been a long pause but I feel ready to participate again. I’ve taken the initiative to…

Currently reading other people’s insights.

​From late 2019 to May 2020, I spent my free time working on a large personal data management project. The first stage was clean up, which took the longest. It began with deleting social media and ended with cleaning out my online storage. I never imagined clean-up would take a focused three months of work,…

I’ve just returned from attending a terminology conference, where the focus was  “minority languages,” like Irish, Basque, Romanian, etc.  This was my first conference on the subject, so I approached it like a two-day intensive. The conference focused on three themes related to terminology work: Making, Methodology,and Measurement,  and each session had 3-4 speakers discussing their…