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meta
Test One
Here’s a stellar ditty from Warp™ records that deserves being listened to with headphones or a subwoofer.
Bigfoot Spotting and Other Jekyll Adventures
A post where I describe trying—and thus far, failing—to use Bigfoot.js to make footnotes more engaging in a Jekyll/GitHub Pages blog. I’ll revisit this soon to give it another try.
How Do You Take Notes (or Markdown and Bullet Journals)
I wrote for Hack Library School about taking notes—the actions, ideas, or project variety, not class notes—using Markdown or the Bullet Journal approach.
All Hail Cloud Storage
Dropbox has both saved me from computer problems and helped me work more ubiquitously, so I sang the praises of it and other cloud storage at Hack Library School.
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.
Weekly Whaaa…?
Why weekly? Why assemblage? Why Fluxus? And what’s that ‘sous les pavés, la plage’ thing about?
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 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 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.
Weekly Assemblage for 2023 Week 49
Writing with Executive Dysfunction webinar. A WorkingOnIt group. Links Rhizome and other site updates.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 01
Perspectives on AI from writing instructors, home page changes, and a new semester.
Observations on Aaron Swartz Day
A tiny tribute based on dots I just connected, as I was going about my business.
Patterning, a Groundhog’s Day Theme
Aspirations for this year, perhaps in fractal patterns.
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 29
Extraordinary Birder, Hyperlocal Psychogeography, and External Link Indicators.
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 36
Webmentions, added. Love, Untangled. 10 Years of Acid, listened. Foucault, re-read. Words, defined.
Semi-schematic Newsletter, Unlocked
Introducing my Semi-schematic newsletter / post category.
Testing new RSS feed system
Will the new system display content correctly in feedreaders, as well as look nice on the web? Here’s a way to check.
critlib chats
#critlib Chatty Critical Librarianship on Twitter
I wrote about critical librarianship and the #critlib chats on Twitter for Hack Library School.
Freire and Critical Librarianship
For Week One of the Critical Pedagogy MOOC MOOC, I write about Paulo Freire’s problem-posing method and its potential links to critical librarianship.
#critlib Makerspaces
I write about moderating a #critlib Twitter chat on the constructivist potentials and neoliberal downsides of makerspaces, as well as briefly describe the moderation process.
Quick Thoughts on Method & Knowledge Practices in Arts & Humanities
I reflect on how arts & humanities undergraduates are taught critical theory & method, and how that might fall short preparing us for evaluating knowledge practices.
Critical Hot Potato! aka #Rhizo15 Week Four
Reflecting on #critlib morphs into #critpotato for my much-delayed Week Four of #rhizo15 post, examining how online learning operates.
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 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 43
A #critlib chat on gender & leadership in LIS, plus some history links.
critlib #feelings
Why do I #critlib? Because another librarianship is possible.
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 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 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 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.
Critical Reflection #critlib chat
Critical reflection questions I ask myself and tools I find useful.
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.
pedagogy
Freire and Critical Librarianship
For Week One of the Critical Pedagogy MOOC MOOC, I write about Paulo Freire’s problem-posing method and its potential links to critical librarianship.
#critlib Makerspaces
I write about moderating a #critlib Twitter chat on the constructivist potentials and neoliberal downsides of makerspaces, as well as briefly describe the moderation process.
Learning Subjectives
For Week One of #rhizo15, I write about my predilection for research processes over writing outcomes & whether library “neutrality” thwarts supportive demeanor.
#Rhizo15 Week Three: "Content is People"
For Week Three of #rhizo15, I trace a few thoughts on content vs discontents or reification and the observable outcomes of human actions.
Quick Thoughts on Method & Knowledge Practices in Arts & Humanities
I reflect on how arts & humanities undergraduates are taught critical theory & method, and how that might fall short preparing us for evaluating knowledge practices.
Presentation Alternatives: Reveal.js
Are you looking for a good alternative to PowerPoint or Keynotes? Here’s a Hack Library School post about an excellent free & open source one!
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 42
Live! Real! Humans! (in the Classroom); Code Camps, the “Californian Ideology,” & Higher Ed’s Purpose; Open Access & “The Library of Forking Paths.”
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 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.
SIFT Links
Links related to a lightning talk for the 2020 MOSS Meetup about our switch from the CRAAP test to the SIFT moves.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 01
Perspectives on AI from writing instructors, home page changes, and a new semester.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 47
Internship, Interstellar, Mean Girls, AI Refusal, the Kobayashi Maru, Finding Your Purpose, and Kudos with Tinylytics.
Instructional design in a short story mode
Aspiring to maintain communities where people want to keep studying. Maintaining space for everyone.
Pressbooks Tutorial, “Booky McBookface”
A brief “icebreaker-style” tutorial to editing web content in Pressbooks with accessibility in mind.
notetaking
How Do You Take Notes (or Markdown and Bullet Journals)
I wrote for Hack Library School about taking notes—the actions, ideas, or project variety, not class notes—using Markdown or the Bullet Journal approach.
New note on beginning to use Dendron
New note with suggestions for starting to use Dendron.
New note on task tracking in Dendron
Note about how I track tasks in Dendron.
New note on Rhetorical Précis
Looking for a succinct note-taking format? Try a rhetorical précis!
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.
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.
Other People’s Book Notes
Enthusing about how other people share their notes.
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.
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 35
Taking smaller notes. Listening to Tin Man. Thinking about Big Questions.
conferences
New Directions in Information Fluency
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.
Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 40
Starting at the College of Western Idaho & going to the Idaho Library Association 2015 Annual Conference!
WA 2016 Week 06: THATCampBoiseState 2016
THATCampBoiseState2016 was a gem—I hope it comes back next year.
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 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 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.
ALA Annual 2018: My Schedule, Our Notes
Where I intend to be for ALAAC2018 and how I think we can make group notes.
SIFT Links
Links related to a lightning talk for the 2020 MOSS Meetup about our switch from the CRAAP test to the SIFT moves.
critical theory
Freire and Critical Librarianship
For Week One of the Critical Pedagogy MOOC MOOC, I write about Paulo Freire’s problem-posing method and its potential links to critical librarianship.
Presentation Alternatives: Reveal.js
Are you looking for a good alternative to PowerPoint or Keynotes? Here’s a Hack Library School post about an excellent free & open source one!
Critical Hot Potato! aka #Rhizo15 Week Four
Reflecting on #critlib morphs into #critpotato for my much-delayed Week Four of #rhizo15 post, examining how online learning operates.
Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 36
Reflections on the second #radlibchat and a Library Freedom Presentation by Alison Macrina.
Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 38
Driving from Bloomington, Indiana to Boise, Idaho; Luciano Floridi’s Information: A Very Short Introduction.
This Is Not a Pipette: Bringing Humanities Methods into LIS Programs
“Science” doesn’t have to be the only way to parse the “S” in LIS—I suggest some examples of using humanities-style critical theory in information studies in this post for Hack Library School.
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!
critlib #feelings
Why do I #critlib? Because another librarianship is possible.
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!
critical information literacy
#Rhizo15 Week Three: "Content is People"
For Week Three of #rhizo15, I trace a few thoughts on content vs discontents or reification and the observable outcomes of human actions.
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 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 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.
Navigating Privacy Issues with Generative AI Panel
I was honored to participate in this panel, plus create the linked bibliography of related resources.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 46
Languaging, proposing, policy-making, policing, potentially melting, and other misadventures of the week.
tech tools
Bigfoot Spotting and Other Jekyll Adventures
A post where I describe trying—and thus far, failing—to use Bigfoot.js to make footnotes more engaging in a Jekyll/GitHub Pages blog. I’ll revisit this soon to give it another try.
Everything Counts in Affective Amounts
Week Two of #rhizo15—How we might count the affective aspects of learning? Also, what potential does Git give us for making open humanities notebooks?
Presentation Alternatives: Reveal.js
Are you looking for a good alternative to PowerPoint or Keynotes? Here’s a Hack Library School post about an excellent free & open source one!
All Hail Cloud Storage
Dropbox has both saved me from computer problems and helped me work more ubiquitously, so I sang the praises of it and other cloud storage at Hack Library School.
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 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 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 2024 Week 45
espanso, Policing the Crisis, Goosebumps, Star Trek, Lower Decks, Dub Syndicate, and Dominion.
A.I.
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 05
Amy Minervini published a new OER English composition book. Mita Williams might dropkick you. Plant43 might make you move to the Sentient City.
AI and Knowing vs Languaging, plus Cosmospolitanism
Toward a definition of ‘knowing’ that distinguishes it from languaging. And a little on what I want to call ‘cosmospolitanism,’ while we’re at it.
Navigating Privacy Issues with Generative AI Panel
I was honored to participate in this panel, plus create the linked bibliography of related resources.
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 2026 Week 05
An ‘AI’ page, a changelog, The West Wing, Groundhog Day, Moby-Dick, Tin Man, and Focumon.
digital humanities
New Directions in Information Fluency
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.
Review of Online Archive of California
The Online Archive of California lies somewhere between a finding aid and a digital library—and is a huge boon to researchers that would be worth emulating elsewhere.
Software Carpentry Workshop Reflections
Although aimed at scientists, Software Carpentry’s workshops offer great learning experience for librarians, digital humanities folks, and anyone looking to work on digital files in groups.
Wojnarowicz on a Sphere
Still under construction, this post will be about my process of making a map of artist David Wojnarowicz’s gallery exhibits for the NOAA Science on a Sphere.
Learning Subjectives
For Week One of #rhizo15, I write about my predilection for research processes over writing outcomes & whether library “neutrality” thwarts supportive demeanor.
Hack Quirk Your Presentations
I wrote for Hack Library School about using quirky results or affordances to make your instruction sessions more engaging.
Everything Counts in Affective Amounts
Week Two of #rhizo15—How we might count the affective aspects of learning? Also, what potential does Git give us for making open humanities notebooks?
Star Trek
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 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 45
espanso, Policing the Crisis, Goosebumps, Star Trek, Lower Decks, Dub Syndicate, and Dominion.
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 03
Llama Life, Italian tomatoes, Ghost, the Personal Web, and The Twilight Zone.
ViewingAlpha
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 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 45
espanso, Policing the Crisis, Goosebumps, Star Trek, Lower Decks, Dub Syndicate, and Dominion.
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 01
Reflecting on Winter Break. Challenging myself to post more frequently this year.
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 03
Llama Life, Italian tomatoes, Ghost, the Personal Web, and The Twilight Zone.
hack library school
#critlib Chatty Critical Librarianship on Twitter
I wrote about critical librarianship and the #critlib chats on Twitter for Hack Library School.
How Do You Take Notes (or Markdown and Bullet Journals)
I wrote for Hack Library School about taking notes—the actions, ideas, or project variety, not class notes—using Markdown or the Bullet Journal approach.
Hack Quirk Your Presentations
I wrote for Hack Library School about using quirky results or affordances to make your instruction sessions more engaging.
Presentation Alternatives: Reveal.js
Are you looking for a good alternative to PowerPoint or Keynotes? Here’s a Hack Library School post about an excellent free & open source one!
All Hail Cloud Storage
Dropbox has both saved me from computer problems and helped me work more ubiquitously, so I sang the praises of it and other cloud storage at Hack Library School.
This Is Not a Pipette: Bringing Humanities Methods into LIS Programs
“Science” doesn’t have to be the only way to parse the “S” in LIS—I suggest some examples of using humanities-style critical theory in information studies in this post for Hack Library School.
site refinements
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 02
RSS reading; Author, Author and A.I.; and Site Refinements 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 36
Webmentions, added. Love, Untangled. 10 Years of Acid, listened. Foucault, re-read. Words, defined.
Semi-schematic Newsletter, Unlocked
Introducing my Semi-schematic newsletter / post category.
Testing new RSS feed system
Will the new system display content correctly in feedreaders, as well as look nice on the web? Here’s a way to check.
Weekly Assemblage for 2026 Week 05
An ‘AI’ page, a changelog, The West Wing, Groundhog Day, Moby-Dick, Tin Man, and Focumon.
a11y
Presentation Alternatives: Reveal.js
Are you looking for a good alternative to PowerPoint or Keynotes? Here’s a Hack Library School post about an excellent free & open source one!
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.
ah, Carl, while you are not safe I am not safe
The social model of disability offers insights into society, differences, and oppressive structures beyond disability.
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.
listening
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.”
Acid Jeep’s Clock Rhythm
Tough electro with bouncy rhythms and squiggly synths.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 45
espanso, Policing the Crisis, Goosebumps, Star Trek, Lower Decks, Dub Syndicate, and Dominion.
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.
makerspaces
#critlib Makerspaces
I write about moderating a #critlib Twitter chat on the constructivist potentials and neoliberal downsides of makerspaces, as well as briefly describe the moderation process.
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.
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.
rhizo15
Learning Subjectives
For Week One of #rhizo15, I write about my predilection for research processes over writing outcomes & whether library “neutrality” thwarts supportive demeanor.
Everything Counts in Affective Amounts
Week Two of #rhizo15—How we might count the affective aspects of learning? Also, what potential does Git give us for making open humanities notebooks?
#Rhizo15 Week Three: "Content is People"
For Week Three of #rhizo15, I trace a few thoughts on content vs discontents or reification and the observable outcomes of human actions.
Critical Hot Potato! aka #Rhizo15 Week Four
Reflecting on #critlib morphs into #critpotato for my much-delayed Week Four of #rhizo15 post, examining how online learning operates.
privacy
Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 36
Reflections on the second #radlibchat and a Library Freedom Presentation by Alison Macrina.
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.
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.
Navigating Privacy Issues with Generative AI Panel
I was honored to participate in this panel, plus create the linked bibliography of related resources.
instructional design
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.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 47
Internship, Interstellar, Mean Girls, AI Refusal, the Kobayashi Maru, Finding Your Purpose, and Kudos with Tinylytics.
Instructional design in a short story mode
Aspiring to maintain communities where people want to keep studying. Maintaining space for everyone.
Pressbooks Tutorial, “Booky McBookface”
A brief “icebreaker-style” tutorial to editing web content in Pressbooks with accessibility in mind.
tools for thinking
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 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.
Critical Reflection #critlib chat
Critical reflection questions I ask myself and tools I find useful.
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 35
Taking smaller notes. Listening to Tin Man. Thinking about Big Questions.
presentations
New Directions in Information Fluency
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.
Presentation Alternatives: Reveal.js
Are you looking for a good alternative to PowerPoint or Keynotes? Here’s a Hack Library School post about an excellent free & open source one!
Navigating Privacy Issues with Generative AI Panel
I was honored to participate in this panel, plus create the linked bibliography of related resources.
coursework
Review of Online Archive of California
The Online Archive of California lies somewhere between a finding aid and a digital library—and is a huge boon to researchers that would be worth emulating elsewhere.
“Paper,” “Planned Obsolescence,” and Digital Libraries
Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Nicholas Basbanes recently gave talks touching on practices & situated uses of born-digital and cellulose-fiber materials, respectively. How can this inform digital libraries?
Wojnarowicz on a Sphere
Still under construction, this post will be about my process of making a map of artist David Wojnarowicz’s gallery exhibits for the NOAA Science on a Sphere.
markdown
How Do You Take Notes (or Markdown and Bullet Journals)
I wrote for Hack Library School about taking notes—the actions, ideas, or project variety, not class notes—using Markdown or the Bullet Journal approach.
All Hail Cloud Storage
Dropbox has both saved me from computer problems and helped me work more ubiquitously, so I sang the praises of it and other cloud storage at Hack Library School.
Observations on Aaron Swartz Day
A tiny tribute based on dots I just connected, as I was going about my business.
neutrality
Learning Subjectives
For Week One of #rhizo15, I write about my predilection for research processes over writing outcomes & whether library “neutrality” thwarts supportive demeanor.
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 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.
librar* history
Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 43
A #critlib chat on gender & leadership in LIS, plus some history links.
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 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.
rss
Observations on Aaron Swartz Day
A tiny tribute based on dots I just connected, as I was going about my business.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 02
RSS reading; Author, Author and A.I.; and Site Refinements of the Week.
Testing new RSS feed system
Will the new system display content correctly in feedreaders, as well as look nice on the web? Here’s a way to check.
personal websites
Observations on Aaron Swartz Day
A tiny tribute based on dots I just connected, as I was going about my business.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 31
Infomocracy, Idaho Fire newsletter, weeknotes, consensus, cycling, and words I learned.
Other People’s Book Notes
Enthusing about how other people share their notes.
science fiction
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 02
RSS reading; Author, Author and A.I.; and Site Refinements of the Week.
AI and Knowing vs Languaging, plus Cosmospolitanism
Toward a definition of ‘knowing’ that distinguishes it from languaging. And a little on what I want to call ‘cosmospolitanism,’ while we’re at it.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 28
A few movies, a few links; a pleasant little week.
techno
Acid Jeep’s Clock Rhythm
Tough electro with bouncy rhythms and squiggly synths.
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.
moocmooc
Freire and Critical Librarianship
For Week One of the Critical Pedagogy MOOC MOOC, I write about Paulo Freire’s problem-posing method and its potential links to critical librarianship.
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.
featured
Freire and Critical Librarianship
For Week One of the Critical Pedagogy MOOC MOOC, I write about Paulo Freire’s problem-posing method and its potential links to critical librarianship.
critlib #feelings
Why do I #critlib? Because another librarianship is possible.
method
Quick Thoughts on Method & Knowledge Practices in Arts & Humanities
I reflect on how arts & humanities undergraduates are taught critical theory & method, and how that might fall short preparing us for evaluating knowledge practices.
This Is Not a Pipette: Bringing Humanities Methods into LIS Programs
“Science” doesn’t have to be the only way to parse the “S” in LIS—I suggest some examples of using humanities-style critical theory in information studies in this post for Hack Library School.
critical race studies
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 41
Talking about librarianship values: objectivity as a value and valuing inclusivity enough to work toward it in earnest. And again—sorry, Eduardo.
open access
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.”
Observations on Aaron Swartz Day
A tiny tribute based on dots I just connected, as I was going about my business.
outreach
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.
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.
infrastucture
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 49 Holman, Mattern, Barron, Students
Makerspaces as Civic Infrastructure; Libraries as Infrastructure; Safe Spaces as Protections of Freedom (Not Censorship); The Demands.
critical librarianship history
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 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.
OER
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.
Pressbooks Tutorial, “Booky McBookface”
A brief “icebreaker-style” tutorial to editing web content in Pressbooks with accessibility in mind.
languaging
AI and Knowing vs Languaging, plus Cosmospolitanism
Toward a definition of ‘knowing’ that distinguishes it from languaging. And a little on what I want to call ‘cosmospolitanism,’ while we’re at it.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 46
Languaging, proposing, policy-making, policing, potentially melting, and other misadventures of the week.
reading notes
Other People’s Book Notes
Enthusing about how other people share their notes.
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 35
Taking smaller notes. Listening to Tin Man. Thinking about Big Questions.
100DaysToOffload
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.
digital libraries
“Paper,” “Planned Obsolescence,” and Digital Libraries
Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Nicholas Basbanes recently gave talks touching on practices & situated uses of born-digital and cellulose-fiber materials, respectively. How can this inform digital libraries?
visual culture
Wojnarowicz on a Sphere
Still under construction, this post will be about my process of making a map of artist David Wojnarowicz’s gallery exhibits for the NOAA Science on a Sphere.
instructional design & tools
Hack Quirk Your Presentations
I wrote for Hack Library School about using quirky results or affordances to make your instruction sessions more engaging.
cfp
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.
gender
Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 43
A #critlib chat on gender & leadership in LIS, plus some history links.
scholarly communication
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.
dissent
WA 2016 Week 15: UC Davis Wants Some Scrubs
Radical Librarians; UC Davis imagines a memory hole; Infrastructures of student dissent; Revolting Librarians.
instruction assessment
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.
critical librarianship
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.
design
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.
badging
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.
type
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.
neurodiversity
ah, Carl, while you are not safe I am not safe
The social model of disability offers insights into society, differences, and oppressive structures beyond disability.
LISMentalHealth
ah, Carl, while you are not safe I am not safe
The social model of disability offers insights into society, differences, and oppressive structures beyond disability.
ADHD
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 04
A quick poem, resources for the fun web, dolphining, A Fine Start, and a process improvement.
patterning
Patterning, a Groundhog’s Day Theme
Aspirations for this year, perhaps in fractal patterns.
ghdp
Patterning, a Groundhog’s Day Theme
Aspirations for this year, perhaps in fractal patterns.
rhizomes
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.
cosmospolitanism
AI and Knowing vs Languaging, plus Cosmospolitanism
Toward a definition of ‘knowing’ that distinguishes it from languaging. And a little on what I want to call ‘cosmospolitanism,’ while we’re at it.
epistemology
AI and Knowing vs Languaging, plus Cosmospolitanism
Toward a definition of ‘knowing’ that distinguishes it from languaging. And a little on what I want to call ‘cosmospolitanism,’ while we’re at it.
knowing
AI and Knowing vs Languaging, plus Cosmospolitanism
Toward a definition of ‘knowing’ that distinguishes it from languaging. And a little on what I want to call ‘cosmospolitanism,’ while we’re at it.
psychogeography
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 29
Extraordinary Birder, Hyperlocal Psychogeography, and External Link Indicators.
electoral politics
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 30
Easy A, electoral politics, ethicswishing, etc.
consensus
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 31
Infomocracy, Idaho Fire newsletter, weeknotes, consensus, cycling, and words I learned.
cycling
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 31
Infomocracy, Idaho Fire newsletter, weeknotes, consensus, cycling, and words I learned.
board games
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 45
espanso, Policing the Crisis, Goosebumps, Star Trek, Lower Decks, Dub Syndicate, and Dominion.
obsidian
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.
periodic reviews
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.
humanist reason
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 02
Adopting a ‘rally pace’ mentality. Writing in smaller chunks. Downsizing.
the imperial archive
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 02
Adopting a ‘rally pace’ mentality. Writing in smaller chunks. Downsizing.
downsizing
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 02
Adopting a ‘rally pace’ mentality. Writing in smaller chunks. Downsizing.
rally pace
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 02
Adopting a ‘rally pace’ mentality. Writing in smaller chunks. Downsizing.
Llama Life
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 03
Llama Life, Italian tomatoes, Ghost, the Personal Web, and The Twilight Zone.
personal web
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 03
Llama Life, Italian tomatoes, Ghost, the Personal Web, and The Twilight Zone.
pomodoro technique
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 03
Llama Life, Italian tomatoes, Ghost, the Personal Web, and The Twilight Zone.
The Twilight Zone
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 03
Llama Life, Italian tomatoes, Ghost, the Personal Web, and The Twilight Zone.
study
Instructional design in a short story mode
Aspiring to maintain communities where people want to keep studying. Maintaining space for everyone.
undercommons
Instructional design in a short story mode
Aspiring to maintain communities where people want to keep studying. Maintaining space for everyone.
big questions
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 35
Taking smaller notes. Listening to Tin Man. Thinking about Big Questions.
LLama Life
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 35
Taking smaller notes. Listening to Tin Man. Thinking about Big Questions.
webmentions
Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 36
Webmentions, added. Love, Untangled. 10 Years of Acid, listened. Foucault, re-read. Words, defined.
Focumon
Weekly Assemblage for 2026 Week 05
An ‘AI’ page, a changelog, The West Wing, Groundhog Day, Moby-Dick, Tin Man, and Focumon.
slash pages
Weekly Assemblage for 2026 Week 05
An ‘AI’ page, a changelog, The West Wing, Groundhog Day, Moby-Dick, Tin Man, and Focumon.
accessibility
Pressbooks Tutorial, “Booky McBookface”
A brief “icebreaker-style” tutorial to editing web content in Pressbooks with accessibility in mind.
Pressbooks
Pressbooks Tutorial, “Booky McBookface”
A brief “icebreaker-style” tutorial to editing web content in Pressbooks with accessibility in mind.
social media
Instructional design in a short story mode
Aspiring to maintain communities where people want to keep studying. Maintaining space for everyone.