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This post was written by Laurier Cress. Laurier Cress is a graduate student at the University of Denver studying Library Science with an emphasis on digital collections, rare books and manuscripts, and social justice in librarianship and archives. In addition to LIS topics, she is also interested in Medieval and Early Modern European History. Laurier … Continue reading An Intern’s Investigation on Decolonizing Archival Descriptions and Legacy Metadata →
From banking to civil services to education, the internet intersects every part of our lives in a way that was unthinkable 20 years ago. And yet the web remains inaccessible to vast swathes of peop…
Bundle of Newspaper Lot from Pikrepo Primary source searching is hard. It has always been hard. First there was the problem of extremely limited access (unless you had travel funding and archives a…
A zine by Rigoberto Lara Guzmán and Sareeta Amrute
If there’s one thing Americans are doing right now, it’s talking. Talking even more than usual when schools are out and many are still working from ...
Companies are getting applauded and pilloried for public comments about race. Marketing guru Bonin Bough says it's not about how much compassion you feel.
Using examples drawn from interviews with refugees who have arrived in Europe since 2013, and an analysis of the impacts of the 2016 EU-Turkey deal on migration, this paper analyzes how the vast amount of data collected from refugees is gathered, stored and shared today, and considers the additional risks this collection process poses to an already vulnerable population navigating a perilous information-decision gap.
The Inclusive Description Working Group was formed in May 2019, and we are one of several working groups within the Archival Description and Processing Team (ADAPT) at Princeton University Library …
Guest post by Ken Mathis, Simmons University Library No library has a perfect system of organization and occasional checks of the stacks are necessary. It's important to check on how the collection has grown and understand when it needs to...
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How non-profit organizations can frame impact stories without falling into common pits.
CW: brief allusions to violent crimes near the bottom of the post “What does it matter if I have your location pings?! We delete them after 24 hours!” privacy. fucking. matters. We live in an age where privacy should be more important than ever. An age when we have the technologies to track and surveil with alarming precision. And that all exists in a regulatory framework that is—to put it as mildly as possible—totally fucking incapable of protecting the privacy of the average citizen.
Recognizing white privilege begins with truly understanding the term itself.
Opens with a rather useful glossary.
Kalamazoo Public Schools is running into controversy as the district seeks to diversify books in elementary classrooms. On Tuesday KPS confirmed that