Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 47
Internship, Interstellar, Mean Girls, AI Refusal, the Kobayashi Maru, Finding Your Purpose, and Kudos with Tinylytics.
Internship, Interstellar, Mean Girls, AI Refusal, the Kobayashi Maru, Finding Your Purpose, and Kudos with Tinylytics.
Languaging, proposing, policy-making, policing, potentially melting, and other misadventures of the week.
espanso, Policing the Crisis, Goosebumps, Star Trek, Lower Decks, Dub Syndicate, and Dominion.
Infomocracy, Idaho Fire newsletter, weeknotes, consensus, cycling, and words I learned.
Easy A, electoral politics, ethicswishing, etc.
Extraordinary Birder, Hyperlocal Psychogeography, and External Link Indicators.
A few movies, a few links; a pleasant little week.
Postrolls and Posthumans. Plus some other things.
Betty, Turkeys, Discovery, Tags, and Categories. Also, I’m back on my BookWyrm again!
Amy Minervini published a new OER English composition book. Mita Williams might dropkick you. Plant43 might make you move to the Sentient City.
A quick poem, resources for the fun web, dolphining, A Fine Start, and a process improvement.
Lots of snow, incremental correctness patterns, the ELIZA effect, and more.
RSS reading; Author, Author and A.I.; and Site Refinements of the Week.
Perspectives on AI from writing instructors, home page changes, and a new semester.
Seeing things somewhat clearer; initial reflections as we move beyond 2023.
Wrapping up 2023 Fall Semester. Enjoying reading Overwhelmed. Toxic positivism and reply guys.
Writing with Executive Dysfunction webinar. A WorkingOnIt group. Links Rhizome and other site updates.
VS Code Snippets and Spellcheck customizations. Designing for motivation.
Patterns for VS Code.
A week of sidequests. FOSS and Crafts podcasts. Notes spring cleaning.
Daily and weekly notes; Patterns; Something like an Information Humanities.
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.
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.
Many open access links plus excitement about adding comments to the site.
Design thinking in Idaho libraries, button templates from Librarian Design Share and Char Booth, and a few minor site font updates.
Links to some great articles I’ve read this last week, plus mentions of a few changes here on my site.
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.
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.
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™.
The SWILA 2016 UnConference was a blast, and Joacim Hansson’s chapter on Chantal Mouffe in LIS is well worth your time.
Radical Librarians; UC Davis imagines a memory hole; Infrastructures of student dissent; Revolting Librarians.
Intro to #critlib 2; Improving accessibility for my reveal.js slides; Maker Showcase sounds and accessible statistics.
DERAIL 2016 student forum at Simmons! Also site updates — recommended readings pages and deep links with Anchor.js.
Links to the CLAPS2016 site, Storify, and shared notes. And some photos!
Tools for Thinking (for information literacy instruction) and Tech Tools for Keeping Thoughts in Order (using Atom and its packages).
THATCampBoiseState2016 was a gem—I hope it comes back next year.
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.
Library privacy session with ACLU Idaho’s Ritchie Eppink and Library Freedom Project’s Alison Macrina at Meridian Library District’s unBound technology lab.
W.E.B. Du Bois as the founder of scientific sociology & its relevance for LIS; #WOCinTechChat stock photos; LIS Mental Health Week.
A culture of positivism, distinguishing between objectivity and objectivism, hegemony, false neutrality, values—this article has all sorts of relevance for librarianship!
A #critlib chat on information resources & incarcerated people; an upcoming #moocmooc on Instructional Design; Nuzzel the app.
Why weekly? Why assemblage? Why Fluxus? And what’s that ‘sous les pavés, la plage’ thing about?
Makerspaces as Civic Infrastructure; Libraries as Infrastructure; Safe Spaces as Protections of Freedom (Not Censorship); The Demands.
Unanticipated Costs of “Doing More with Less”; Be Yr Own Her@; Making It Known that Libraraies are Spaces for Making.
Articles from LOEX Quarterly (one by Schoofs, another by Battista) that look at learning beyond the library’s space.
Enthusiasm about Massumi putting Deleuze in a nutshell! Analogies between the pedagogy & structural place of Writing Centers & libraries! Jekyll on the Run!
Three links & lots of enthusiasm! Elmborg’s Literacies Large and Small, a Time Management mega post, & how STEM relates to the liberal arts.
Halloween at CWI Library (Once Upon a Time); Readings I’m looking forward to; Taught my first library resources session.
A #critlib chat on gender & leadership in LIS, plus some history links.
Live! Real! Humans! (in the Classroom); Code Camps, the “Californian Ideology,” & Higher Ed’s Purpose; Open Access & “The Library of Forking Paths.”
Talking about librarianship values: objectivity as a value and valuing inclusivity enough to work toward it in earnest. And again—sorry, Eduardo.
Starting at the College of Western Idaho & going to the Idaho Library Association 2015 Annual Conference!
Getting library cards and appreciating some unexpected aspects of Maria Accardi’s Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction.
Driving from Bloomington, Indiana to Boise, Idaho; Luciano Floridi’s Information: A Very Short Introduction.
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.
Reflections on the second #radlibchat and a Library Freedom Presentation by Alison Macrina.
Other people’s guides to getting started with Mastodon.
A new note with some questions to spur critical thinking.
A new note on how to add original publication dates in Zotero.
How I use the Tasks plugin for Obsidian.
The plugins I use most with Obsidian.
I’ve been using Obsidian. Both enthusiastically and reluctantly.
If you find the default indicators distracting, here’s how to customize them.
Type similar things often? Here are some snippets you can use in VS Code.
Looking for a brief but open-ended approach to reading and note-taking? Try Casey Boyle’s suggestions!
Looking for a succinct note-taking format? Try a rhetorical précis!
Note linking to some useful Jekyll guides.
Looking to understand some Mastodon settings? Here are my own settings.
Looking for iOS apps for Mastodon? Here’s a few I recommend.
Note about how I track tasks in Dendron.
Note about MathML, MathJax, and a workflow.
New note with suggestions for starting to use Dendron.
Looking for a nice dark theme? Here’s how I’ve customized Daybreak.
Looking for ways to keep literature notes? Here’s how I do so in Dendron.
Looking for a nice code or text editor? Here’s why I like VS Code.
Note with quotes about the cultural concepts of information and informatics.
Note linking about ADHD technologies.
Note about ADHD and Apple Watches.
Some of what I’m doing as of June 2024.
Some of what I’m doing, as of 2024-03-19.
Some of what I’m doing as of May 2023.
Some of what I’m up to as of June 2022.
Some of what I’m doing as of July 2020.
Mindfulness with the Waking Up and Plum Village apps; Most excellent tunes from Sonic D and Autodidact
Organizing Ideas Podcast; The Latino Card; Tricycle Magazine; etc.
Monthly signal boosts will be short reflections on what I’ve read, listened to, watch, etc.
Brief mobile reflections.
I’ve got blips in phone places.
Testing blips, emitting bleeps. Popping up in places.
Brief reflections on a talk about bringing digital humanities to the reference desk, which I co-presented with Katherine Ahnberg at the New Directions in Information Fluency conference.
Tough electro with bouncy rhythms and squiggly synths.