“Defeating Bullies and Trolls in the Library: Developing Strategies to Protect our Rights and Personhood,” a daylong conference held March 8 at Skokie (Ill.) Public Library, provided first-hand testimony from librarians on incidents of bullying, doxxing, and harassment as well as ways that libraries can prepare for it and, hopefully, prevent it altogether.

Writings about libraries, technology, and the Web by Matthew Reidsma.

At some public libraries across the United States, "male" and "female" are vanishing from library card applications and gender data is being bypassed.

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"Witnessing other visitors’ vastly different relationships to it made the experience so intense, and at times painful."

The axiom to “do more with less” in university research libraries is increasingly untenable, as budgets continue to shrink and demand for novel services continues to rise. The impacts of such existential uncertainties are self-evident and widely discussed in the current literature—staff burnout, lowered morale and increased toxicity, weakened local collections, and limited capacity for ambitious and genuinely innovative work. Like many institutions, the University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries has found itself reinventing many of its services and initiatives to meet the increasingly technical needs of students and researchers in our campus community. New services and positions for research data services, GIS librarianship, discovery services, and digital scholarship are all popular and increasingly central to the information service mission of the Libraries. Like many more institutions, demand for such services often outstrips the Libraries’ operations and collections budgets, as well as labor capacity for project-driven initiatives and highly technical service requests.

In a copyright flare-up, the Internet Archive finds itself on the wrong side of the English-speaking world's two largest author trade organizations.

A new report says the library should oversee data governance because it is a “long-standing public institution with broad respect in the technology co...

"Developing a program or exhibition that reflects upon or invites dialogue on some contemporary social movement, such as Black Lives Matter, for example, is not the same as investing in the cultivation of black life." In the fourth edition of Soundboard, our multi-author feature, artist and Tufts professor Anthony Romero offers his 2019 New Year's resolutions for art museums.

In 2018, a remote Alaskan community’s infrastructure was hit by a malware attack which forced it offline. It was only then they realised how much they depended on computers.

White supremacy and patriarchy have acted upon and through the white female body, which has implications for library and information science (LIS), a white- and female-dominated field. Insisting that we investigate librarianship through a lens that does not consider gender alone, this paper draws upon whiteness, critical race, and feminist theories to explore the formation and persistence of a particular mode of whiteness in LIS. Calling on the Lady Bountiful archetype, this paper interrogates the ways in which patriarchy, white supremacy, and notions of ideal femininity have worked together to craft a subject fit to perform the work of colonialism in its variegated and feminized forms. By exploring how the white woman was deemed an appropriate agent for the racial, missionary, and “civilizing” projects of early libraries, one can better locate her legacy in contemporary pedagogies, practices, and representations. This paper concludes with suggestions for addressing this undertheorized yet prevalent archetype in both LIS scholarship and teaching.

"Controlled digital lending"

About the incident where an LIS student of color got hassled and then cop-called by a student hourly at the law library.

CW: murder

Why Tor’s decision to embargo new e-book releases in libraries is a wake-up call for librarians.