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Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 36

10 minute read

Reflections on the second #radlibchat and a Library Freedom Presentation by Alison Macrina.

Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 37

2 minute read

A #critlib chat on information & migrant populations; threats to the Tor exit node in Kilton Public Library; CFP for papers on whiteness in LIS; study on lowering white defensiveness around racial privilege.

Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 38

6 minute read

Driving from Bloomington, Indiana to Boise, Idaho; Luciano Floridi’s Information: A Very Short Introduction.

Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 39

less than 1 minute read

Getting library cards and appreciating some unexpected aspects of Maria Accardi’s Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction.

Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 40

less than 1 minute read

Starting at the College of Western Idaho & going to the Idaho Library Association 2015 Annual Conference!

Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 41

3 minute read

Talking about librarianship values: objectivity as a value and valuing inclusivity enough to work toward it in earnest. And again—sorry, Eduardo.

Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 42

2 minute read

Live! Real! Humans! (in the Classroom); Code Camps, the “Californian Ideology,” & Higher Ed’s Purpose; Open Access & “The Library of Forking Paths.”

Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 44

1 minute read

Halloween at CWI Library (Once Upon a Time); Readings I’m looking forward to; Taught my first library resources session.

Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 45

1 minute read

Three links & lots of enthusiasm! Elmborg’s Literacies Large and Small, a Time Management mega post, & how STEM relates to the liberal arts.

WA 2015 Week 46 Massumi and North

5 minute read

Enthusiasm about Massumi putting Deleuze in a nutshell! Analogies between the pedagogy & structural place of Writing Centers & libraries! Jekyll on the Run!

WA 2015 Week 47 Schoofs and Battista

1 minute read

Articles from LOEX Quarterly (one by Schoofs, another by Battista) that look at learning beyond the library’s space.

WA 2015 Week 48 Fister, Kurz, Vecchione

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Unanticipated Costs of “Doing More with Less”; Be Yr Own Her@; Making It Known that Libraraies are Spaces for Making.

Weekly Whaaa…?

2 minute read

Why weekly? Why assemblage? Why Fluxus? And what’s that ‘sous les pavés, la plage’ thing about?

WA 2016 Week 02: Giroux on Neutrality

4 minute read

A culture of positivism, distinguishing between objectivity and objectivism, hegemony, false neutrality, values—this article has all sorts of relevance for librarianship!

WA 2016 Week 04: Library Privacy

2 minute read

Library privacy session with ACLU Idaho’s Ritchie Eppink and Library Freedom Project’s Alison Macrina at Meridian Library District’s unBound technology lab.

WA 2016 Week 07: Tools for Thinking

1 minute read

Tools for Thinking (for information literacy instruction) and Tech Tools for Keeping Thoughts in Order (using Atom and its packages).

WA 2016 Week 17: Research Notebook is Go!

2 minute read

Much like with succulents, I’ve planted an offshoot of this blog to see whether it’ll take root. Open Humanities Research Notebooks—come and join the future™.

WA 2016 Week 31: Design Things Galore

1 minute read

Design thinking in Idaho libraries, button templates from Librarian Design Share and Char Booth, and a few minor site font updates.

WA 2017 Week 09: Badges, Type, BibTeX

2 minute read

Briefly linking to Emily Ford’s article about badges, a short reference about using type on the web, and getting going with a bibliography tool.

rearview mirror 2023

4 minute read

Seeing things somewhat clearer; initial reflections as we move beyond 2023.

Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 05

2 minute read

Amy Minervini published a new OER English composition book. Mita Williams might dropkick you. Plant43 might make you move to the Sentient City.

Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 47

2 minute read

Internship, Interstellar, Mean Girls, AI Refusal, the Kobayashi Maru, Finding Your Purpose, and Kudos with Tinylytics.

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I’ve Been Using Obsidian

less than 1 minute read

I’ve been using Obsidian. Both enthusiastically and reluctantly.

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now

Now July 2020

1 minute read

Some of what I’m doing as of July 2020.

Now June 2022

1 minute read

Some of what I’m up to as of June 2022.

Now May 2023

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Some of what I’m doing as of May 2023.

Now March 2024

1 minute read

Some of what I’m doing, as of 2024-03-19.

Now June 2024

less than 1 minute read

Some of what I’m doing as of June 2024.

Now May 2025

1 minute read

Some of what I’m doing as of May 2025.

Now February 2026

1 minute read

Some of what I’m doing as of February 2026.

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August 2020 Monthly Signal Boost

2 minute read

Mindfulness with the Waking Up and Plum Village apps; Most excellent tunes from Sonic D and Autodidact

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blips

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photonic-jukebox

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semi-schematic

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