Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 36
Reflections on the second #radlibchat and a Library Freedom Presentation by Alison Macrina.
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Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 37
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
Driving from Bloomington, Indiana to Boise, Idaho; Luciano Floridi’s Information: A Very Short Introduction.
Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 39
Getting library cards and appreciating some unexpected aspects of Maria Accardi’s Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction.
Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 40
Starting at the College of Western Idaho & going to the Idaho Library Association 2015 Annual Conference!
Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 41
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
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 43
A #critlib chat on gender & leadership in LIS, plus some history links.
Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 44
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
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
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
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
Unanticipated Costs of “Doing More with Less”; Be Yr Own Her@; Making It Known that Libraraies are Spaces for Making.
WA 2015 Week 49 Holman, Mattern, Barron, Students
Makerspaces as Civic Infrastructure; Libraries as Infrastructure; Safe Spaces as Protections of Freedom (Not Censorship); The Demands.
Weekly Whaaa…?
Why weekly? Why assemblage? Why Fluxus? And what’s that ‘sous les pavés, la plage’ thing about?
WA 2016 Week 01: #critlib chat on information resources & incarcerated people
A #critlib chat on information resources & incarcerated people; an upcoming #moocmooc on Instructional Design; Nuzzel the app.
WA 2016 Week 02: Giroux on Neutrality
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 03: Du Bois & scientific sociology, #WOCinTechChat stock photos, LIS Mental Health Week
W.E.B. Du Bois as the founder of scientific sociology & its relevance for LIS; #WOCinTechChat stock photos; LIS Mental Health Week.
WA 2016 Week 04: Library Privacy
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 05: #critlib chat on Patience and Impatience; Alison Hicks’ LibGuides: Pedagogy to Oppress?
Critlib chat about how we deal with the slow pace of social justice work; a great article examining how LibGuides hinders and potentially supports liberatory pedagogy.
WA 2016 Week 06: THATCampBoiseState 2016
THATCampBoiseState2016 was a gem—I hope it comes back next year.
WA 2016 Week 07: Tools for Thinking
Tools for Thinking (for information literacy instruction) and Tech Tools for Keeping Thoughts in Order (using Atom and its packages).
WA 2016 Week 08: CLAPS2016 Critical Librarianship and Pedagogy Symposium
Links to the CLAPS2016 site, Storify, and shared notes. And some photos!
WA 2016 Week 12: DERAIL, Site Updates
DERAIL 2016 student forum at Simmons! Also site updates — recommended readings pages and deep links with Anchor.js.
WA 2016 Week 14: Intro to #critlib chat, Reveal.js image alt tags
Intro to #critlib 2; Improving accessibility for my reveal.js slides; Maker Showcase sounds and accessible statistics.
WA 2016 Week 15: UC Davis Wants Some Scrubs
Radical Librarians; UC Davis imagines a memory hole; Infrastructures of student dissent; Revolting Librarians.
WA 2016 Week 16: SWILA 2016; Joacim Hansson on Chantal Mouffe
The SWILA 2016 UnConference was a blast, and Joacim Hansson’s chapter on Chantal Mouffe in LIS is well worth your time.
WA 2016 Week 17: Research Notebook is Go!
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 18: First Reading Notes and #critlib on Emotional Labor
I published the first reading notes on my open research notebook and I share some follow-up thoughts on emotional labor after this week’s Twitter chat.
WA 2016 Week 19: SJL Seattle and Lots of Great Readings
Another student-led conference that I wish I could have attended, plus more readings related to critical librarianship than you could shake a hashtag at.
WA 2016 Week 27: Weekly Roundup and Website Housekeeping
Links to some great articles I’ve read this last week, plus mentions of a few changes here on my site.
WA 2016 Week 31: Design Things Galore
Design thinking in Idaho libraries, button templates from Librarian Design Share and Char Booth, and a few minor site font updates.
WA 2016 Week 32: Lots of Linkage; Comments Have Arrived
Many open access links plus excitement about adding comments to the site.
WA 2017 Week 01: Journaling, Pedagogy, and Advocating for our Patrons
Can I make routinely time for these round-up posts this semester? Let’s find out, shall we? Links about journaling, pedagogy, and advocating for our patrons.
WA 2017 Week 09: Badges, Type, BibTeX
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.
Weekly Assemblage for 2023 Week 09
Daily and weekly notes; Patterns; Something like an Information Humanities.
Weekly Assemblage for 2023 Week 10
A week of sidequests. FOSS and Crafts podcasts. Notes spring cleaning.
Weekly Assemblage for 2023 Week 12
Patterns for VS Code.
Weekly Assemblage for 2023 Week 17
VS Code Snippets and Spellcheck customizations. Designing for motivation.
Weekly Assemblage for 2023 Week 49
Writing with Executive Dysfunction webinar. A WorkingOnIt group. Links Rhizome and other site updates.
Weekly Assemblage for 2023 Week 50
Wrapping up 2023 Fall Semester. Enjoying reading Overwhelmed. Toxic positivism and reply guys.
rearview mirror 2023
Seeing things somewhat clearer; initial reflections as we move beyond 2023.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 01
Perspectives on AI from writing instructors, home page changes, and a new semester.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 02
RSS reading; Author, Author and A.I.; and Site Refinements of the Week.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 03
Lots of snow, incremental correctness patterns, the ELIZA effect, and more.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 04
A quick poem, resources for the fun web, dolphining, A Fine Start, and a process improvement.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 05
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 26
Betty, Turkeys, Discovery, Tags, and Categories. Also, I’m back on my BookWyrm again!
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 27
Postrolls and Posthumans. Plus some other things.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 28
A few movies, a few links; a pleasant little week.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 29
Extraordinary Birder, Hyperlocal Psychogeography, and External Link Indicators.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 30
Easy A, electoral politics, ethicswishing, etc.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 31
Infomocracy, Idaho Fire newsletter, weeknotes, consensus, cycling, and words I learned.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 45
espanso, Policing the Crisis, Goosebumps, Star Trek, Lower Decks, Dub Syndicate, and Dominion.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 46
Languaging, proposing, policy-making, policing, potentially melting, and other misadventures of the week.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 47
Internship, Interstellar, Mean Girls, AI Refusal, the Kobayashi Maru, Finding Your Purpose, and Kudos with Tinylytics.
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 01
Reflecting on Winter Break. Challenging myself to post more frequently this year.
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 02
Adopting a ‘rally pace’ mentality. Writing in smaller chunks. Downsizing.
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 03
Llama Life, Italian tomatoes, Ghost, the Personal Web, and The Twilight Zone.
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 35
Taking smaller notes. Listening to Tin Man. Thinking about Big Questions.
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 36
Webmentions, added. Love, Untangled. 10 Years of Acid, listened. Foucault, re-read. Words, defined.
Weekly Assemblage for 2026 Week 05
An ‘AI’ page, a changelog, The West Wing, Groundhog Day, Moby-Dick, Tin Man, and Focumon.
notes
New note on Apple Watches and ADHD
Note about ADHD and Apple Watches.
New note on ADHD technologies
Note linking about ADHD technologies.
New note on reading snippets about Information and Informatics
Note with quotes about the cultural concepts of information and informatics.
New note on the VS Code editor
Looking for a nice code or text editor? Here’s why I like VS Code.
New note on keeping literature notes in Dendron
Looking for ways to keep literature notes? Here’s how I do so in Dendron.
New note on the Daybreak theme for VS Code
Looking for a nice dark theme? Here’s how I’ve customized Daybreak.
New note on beginning to use Dendron
New note with suggestions for starting to use Dendron.
New note on math accessibility
Note about MathML, MathJax, and a workflow.
New note on task tracking in Dendron
Note about how I track tasks in Dendron.
New note on Mastodon iOS apps
Looking for iOS apps for Mastodon? Here’s a few I recommend.
New note on Mastodon Settings
Looking to understand some Mastodon settings? Here are my own settings.
New note on Jekyll Guides
Note linking to some useful Jekyll guides.
New note on Rhetorical Précis
Looking for a succinct note-taking format? Try a rhetorical précis!
New note on Casey Boyle’s …something like a reading ethics…
Looking for a brief but open-ended approach to reading and note-taking? Try Casey Boyle’s suggestions!
New note on Snippets and VS Code
Type similar things often? Here are some snippets you can use in VS Code.
New note on Spellcheck Squiggles in VS Code
If you find the default indicators distracting, here’s how to customize them.
I’ve Been Using Obsidian
I’ve been using Obsidian. Both enthusiastically and reluctantly.
My Obsidian plugins shortlist
The plugins I use most with Obsidian.
Obsidian Tasks patterns
How I use the Tasks plugin for Obsidian.
Original publication dates in Zotero
A new note on how to add original publication dates in Zotero.
A formula of questions for critical thinking
A new note with some questions to spur critical thinking.
A small, curated set of Mastodon starting points.
Other people’s guides to getting started with Mastodon.
Add it up; or Counting events with Obsidian’s Dataview plugin
A new note on how to teach Obsidian to list and count days related to events in your daily notes—plus add them up.
now
Now July 2020
Some of what I’m doing as of July 2020.
Now June 2022
Some of what I’m up to as of June 2022.
Now May 2023
Some of what I’m doing as of May 2023.
Now March 2024
Some of what I’m doing, as of 2024-03-19.
Now June 2024
Some of what I’m doing as of June 2024.
Now May 2025
Some of what I’m doing as of May 2025.
Now February 2026
Some of what I’m doing as of February 2026.
monthly-signal-boost
Introducing Monthly Signal Boosts
Monthly signal boosts will be short reflections on what I’ve read, listened to, watch, etc.
July 2020 Monthly Signal Boost
Organizing Ideas Podcast; The Latino Card; Tricycle Magazine; etc.
August 2020 Monthly Signal Boost
Mindfulness with the Waking Up and Plum Village apps; Most excellent tunes from Sonic D and Autodidact
blips
Introducing Blips and Link Rhizomes
Testing blips, emitting bleeps. Popping up in places.
Phone to Blog Blip Workflow
I’ve got blips in phone places.
Parking Lot Posting
Brief mobile reflections.
photonic-jukebox
Acid Jeep’s Clock Rhythm
Tough electro with bouncy rhythms and squiggly synths.
semi-schematic
Semi-schematic Newsletter, Unlocked
Introducing my Semi-schematic newsletter / post category.