Maura Smale 😷💉
@maurasmale.bsky.social
Chief Librarian at Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, proud resident of the CUNYverse, striving for #critlib/antiracist practice, posts = my own. she/her maurasmale.com
also maurasmale@mastodon.social
also maurasmale@mastodon.social
Part 2 now published on ACRLog too, thanks so much @kaetrena.bsky.social for these posts: acrlog.org/2026/01/15/r...
Reconsidering Rest: Interruptions and Invitations (Part 2) - ACRLog
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, MSLS, Founder, Renewals. (Activation notice: This post shares information about harmful workplace experiences and impacts on t...
acrlog.org
January 16, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Part 2 now published on ACRLog too, thanks so much @kaetrena.bsky.social for these posts: acrlog.org/2026/01/15/r...
Reposted by Maura Smale 😷💉
New on ACRLog... Reconsidering Rest: Interruptions and Invitations (Part 1)
"Workers are often excluded or retaliated against when they engage in health-centered practices – even when they do so within the parameters of their workplace’s stated policies" - Kaetrena Davis Kendrick
bit.ly/3YvMV5o
"Workers are often excluded or retaliated against when they engage in health-centered practices – even when they do so within the parameters of their workplace’s stated policies" - Kaetrena Davis Kendrick
bit.ly/3YvMV5o
January 14, 2026 at 2:34 PM
New on ACRLog... Reconsidering Rest: Interruptions and Invitations (Part 1)
"Workers are often excluded or retaliated against when they engage in health-centered practices – even when they do so within the parameters of their workplace’s stated policies" - Kaetrena Davis Kendrick
bit.ly/3YvMV5o
"Workers are often excluded or retaliated against when they engage in health-centered practices – even when they do so within the parameters of their workplace’s stated policies" - Kaetrena Davis Kendrick
bit.ly/3YvMV5o
Also unionized staff jobs in CUNY libraries, all CUNY employees are eligible for tuition remission, library-interested folks could get an MLS while in these jobs: Public Services Specialist cuny.jobs/queens-ny/pu... and Extended Day/ILL Coordinator cuny.jobs/queens-ny/ex... at LaGuardia CC
Jobs | City University of New York
cuny.jobs
January 14, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Also unionized staff jobs in CUNY libraries, all CUNY employees are eligible for tuition remission, library-interested folks could get an MLS while in these jobs: Public Services Specialist cuny.jobs/queens-ny/pu... and Extended Day/ILL Coordinator cuny.jobs/queens-ny/ex... at LaGuardia CC
Academic library folks: 2 faculty jobs in the CUNYverse, come join us! Revised Head of Tech Services at Hunter College cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/.... Collections/Acquisitions Libn at City College cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
Jobs | City University of New York
cuny.jobs
January 14, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Academic library folks: 2 faculty jobs in the CUNYverse, come join us! Revised Head of Tech Services at Hunter College cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/.... Collections/Acquisitions Libn at City College cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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"As library worker exposure to library values rejection, systemic harm, and compromised safety continue ... we need to revisit and to acknowledge the very real interruptions to rest practices – especially for truamatized workers and those with historically ignored identities." - tinyurl.com/2jw76hjv
Reconsidering Rest: Interruptions and Invitations (Part 1) - ACRLog
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, MSLS, Founder, Renewals. (Activation notice: This post shares information about harmful workplace experiences and impacts on t...
tinyurl.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:17 PM
"As library worker exposure to library values rejection, systemic harm, and compromised safety continue ... we need to revisit and to acknowledge the very real interruptions to rest practices – especially for truamatized workers and those with historically ignored identities." - tinyurl.com/2jw76hjv
Reposted by Maura Smale 😷💉
Amidst all that is destructive and demoralizing, we're meeting to celebrate civic culture + public knowledge and build solidarities. Open to NYC info workers (librarians, archivists), grad students, artists, designers. Apps are due Wednesday, Jan 7, end-of-day!
Confirmed sessions include:...
Confirmed sessions include:...
Apps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"
January 5, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Amidst all that is destructive and demoralizing, we're meeting to celebrate civic culture + public knowledge and build solidarities. Open to NYC info workers (librarians, archivists), grad students, artists, designers. Apps are due Wednesday, Jan 7, end-of-day!
Confirmed sessions include:...
Confirmed sessions include:...
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If you're interested in helping an important volunteer run zine distro survive, please consider a donation to Brown Recluse: www.gofundme.com/f/secure-bro... - right now they urgently need to reach at least $5000 to get through this month and Feb. They need more to keep going throughout the year.
Donate to Secure BROWN RECLUSE's Future, organized by BROWN RECLUSE
Secure Brown Recluse Zine Distro's Future!
We are seeking funds for the project to conti… BROWN RECLUSE needs your support for Secure BROWN RECLUSE's Future
www.gofundme.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:45 AM
If you're interested in helping an important volunteer run zine distro survive, please consider a donation to Brown Recluse: www.gofundme.com/f/secure-bro... - right now they urgently need to reach at least $5000 to get through this month and Feb. They need more to keep going throughout the year.
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Very excited to share this! The new special issue of @jitp.bsky.social is on Minimalist DH Pedagogy. Co-edited by @danicasavonick.bsky.social @palermog.bsky.social @veritas44.bsky.social Patricia Belen and me. LOTS of great stuff in here.
cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit...
cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit...
Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, no. 27 | Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy | Manifold @CUNY
<h3>Edited by Patricia Belen, Stefano Morello, Gregory J. Palermo, Danica Savonick, and Brandon Walsh</h3>
<p>“More students in a single classroom; fewer instructors to engage them. Extravagant AI co...
cuny.manifoldapp.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Very excited to share this! The new special issue of @jitp.bsky.social is on Minimalist DH Pedagogy. Co-edited by @danicasavonick.bsky.social @palermog.bsky.social @veritas44.bsky.social Patricia Belen and me. LOTS of great stuff in here.
cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit...
cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit...
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Stuff those stockings with ideas. 🎁✨
Our latest roundup features new books by Graduate Center authors — perfect for the thinkers, readers, and revolutionaries on your list www.gc.cuny.edu/news/brighte...
Our latest roundup features new books by Graduate Center authors — perfect for the thinkers, readers, and revolutionaries on your list www.gc.cuny.edu/news/brighte...
Brighten the Season With New Books by Graduate Center Authors
From new takes on World War II and the revolutionary roles of Black-owned bookstores to bilingual poetry collections, books by our faculty and alumni make great gifts for readers of all tastes.
www.gc.cuny.edu
December 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Stuff those stockings with ideas. 🎁✨
Our latest roundup features new books by Graduate Center authors — perfect for the thinkers, readers, and revolutionaries on your list www.gc.cuny.edu/news/brighte...
Our latest roundup features new books by Graduate Center authors — perfect for the thinkers, readers, and revolutionaries on your list www.gc.cuny.edu/news/brighte...
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Still plenty of time to put together an application.
Three scholars held this role previously. Each of them made a significant impact working with graduate student instructors at CUNY, and then moved on to a tenure-track position at other universities.
Three scholars held this role previously. Each of them made a significant impact working with graduate student instructors at CUNY, and then moved on to a tenure-track position at other universities.
**We're hiring a post-doc @gctlc.bsky.social**
Come join a fantastic team of scholars @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social committed to intentional, responsive, and liberatory pedagogy at @cuny.edu and beyond.
Applications due February 1, 2026.
Job call here: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
Come join a fantastic team of scholars @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social committed to intentional, responsive, and liberatory pedagogy at @cuny.edu and beyond.
Applications due February 1, 2026.
Job call here: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
Jobs | City University of New York
cuny.jobs
December 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Still plenty of time to put together an application.
Three scholars held this role previously. Each of them made a significant impact working with graduate student instructors at CUNY, and then moved on to a tenure-track position at other universities.
Three scholars held this role previously. Each of them made a significant impact working with graduate student instructors at CUNY, and then moved on to a tenure-track position at other universities.
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Director of Barnard Archives and Special Collections barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Staff/... Salary range: $120,000–$125,000 annually, commensurate with experience. Please submit your application by January 5, 2026 to be considered.
PASS IT ON 📚 📜
PASS IT ON 📚 📜
Director of Barnard Archives and Special Collections
If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Director of Barnard Archives and Special Collections Position Summary The Director o...
barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Director of Barnard Archives and Special Collections barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Staff/... Salary range: $120,000–$125,000 annually, commensurate with experience. Please submit your application by January 5, 2026 to be considered.
PASS IT ON 📚 📜
PASS IT ON 📚 📜
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The CFP is now open for the second cohort of faculty fellows in the Critical AI Literacy Institute @gctlc.bsky.social.
We’re recruiting in 3 tracks.
1. Critical Foundations of AI
2. Ecological Implications of AI
3. T(h)inkering with AI
Read the full call here:
cuny.is/cali2-cfp
We’re recruiting in 3 tracks.
1. Critical Foundations of AI
2. Ecological Implications of AI
3. T(h)inkering with AI
Read the full call here:
cuny.is/cali2-cfp
Call for Participation 2026 – Critical AI Literacy Institute
cuny.is
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The CFP is now open for the second cohort of faculty fellows in the Critical AI Literacy Institute @gctlc.bsky.social.
We’re recruiting in 3 tracks.
1. Critical Foundations of AI
2. Ecological Implications of AI
3. T(h)inkering with AI
Read the full call here:
cuny.is/cali2-cfp
We’re recruiting in 3 tracks.
1. Critical Foundations of AI
2. Ecological Implications of AI
3. T(h)inkering with AI
Read the full call here:
cuny.is/cali2-cfp
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Have you thought about submitting something to JITP but your idea didn’t quite fit with our themed issues? Submit to our **GENERAL ISSUE** by December 15th and show us how you think about the intersection of teaching, learning, and research with technology. See you in our inbox!
December 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Have you thought about submitting something to JITP but your idea didn’t quite fit with our themed issues? Submit to our **GENERAL ISSUE** by December 15th and show us how you think about the intersection of teaching, learning, and research with technology. See you in our inbox!
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Roxanne Shirazi (Associate Professor, Graduate Center Library) is an elected PSC Delegate to the AAUP and a member of the College and University Governance Committee that produced the report. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
In Defense of an Independent and Representative Faculty Voice: The Case of Faculty Senates
This report, prepared by a subcommittee of the AAUP’s Committee on College and University Governance, reexamines the necessity of strong faculty senates through the lens of the Statement on Government...
www.aaup.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Academic librarians, come join us in the CUNYverse! This collections/acquisitions job is with great folks at City College of New York, like all CUNY library faculty positions is unionized and represented by the PSC-CUNY. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
Jobs | City University of New York
cuny.jobs
December 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Academic librarians, come join us in the CUNYverse! This collections/acquisitions job is with great folks at City College of New York, like all CUNY library faculty positions is unionized and represented by the PSC-CUNY. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
Reposted by Maura Smale 😷💉
Apps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Apps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"
Academic library leaders, come join us at CUNY! Application review begins 12/10. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
Jobs | City University of New York
cuny.jobs
November 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Academic library leaders, come join us at CUNY! Application review begins 12/10. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
Reposted by Maura Smale 😷💉
There's a research guide for Anthropology! This guide provides you with access to anthropology and related resources. For example, the Encyclopedia of Human Relationships.
Learn more at:
libguides.gc.cuny.edu/anthropology
#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary
Learn more at:
libguides.gc.cuny.edu/anthropology
#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
There's a research guide for Anthropology! This guide provides you with access to anthropology and related resources. For example, the Encyclopedia of Human Relationships.
Learn more at:
libguides.gc.cuny.edu/anthropology
#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary
Learn more at:
libguides.gc.cuny.edu/anthropology
#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary
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There's a research guide for Africana Studies!
For example, umbrasearch.org brings together items from more than 1,000 U.S. archives, libraries, and museums of African American history and culture.
Learn more at:
libguides.gc.cuny.edu/africana
#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary
For example, umbrasearch.org brings together items from more than 1,000 U.S. archives, libraries, and museums of African American history and culture.
Learn more at:
libguides.gc.cuny.edu/africana
#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary
November 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
There's a research guide for Africana Studies!
For example, umbrasearch.org brings together items from more than 1,000 U.S. archives, libraries, and museums of African American history and culture.
Learn more at:
libguides.gc.cuny.edu/africana
#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary
For example, umbrasearch.org brings together items from more than 1,000 U.S. archives, libraries, and museums of African American history and culture.
Learn more at:
libguides.gc.cuny.edu/africana
#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary
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The Ctr for Urban Research at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social (led by @jomoko.bsky.social) has prepared an online map for tonight's NYC mayoral results. Link below in #thread. For now the map is blank, but it'll fill in w/unofficial returns tonight.
The map will do more than show the 2025 #s.
1/n
The map will do more than show the 2025 #s.
1/n
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The Ctr for Urban Research at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social (led by @jomoko.bsky.social) has prepared an online map for tonight's NYC mayoral results. Link below in #thread. For now the map is blank, but it'll fill in w/unofficial returns tonight.
The map will do more than show the 2025 #s.
1/n
The map will do more than show the 2025 #s.
1/n
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Research opportunity! I’m studying how traditional media literacy instruction adapts to digital challenges like memes & algorithms. Seeking librarians & educators with media literacy experience for a short confidential interview. Interested? forms.gle/bZs7JfVxCfeN... #MediaLiteracy TC IRB 25-496
Screening Questionnaire: Beyond Information Literacy
Study: Beyond Traditional Information Literacy: Educator Perspectives on Digital Memetic Content
IRB Protocol Number: Teachers College IRB 25-496
Thank you for your interest in participating in this...
forms.gle
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Research opportunity! I’m studying how traditional media literacy instruction adapts to digital challenges like memes & algorithms. Seeking librarians & educators with media literacy experience for a short confidential interview. Interested? forms.gle/bZs7JfVxCfeN... #MediaLiteracy TC IRB 25-496
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early voting for zohran tomorrow!
October 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
early voting for zohran tomorrow!
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I got a wonderfully kind note yesterday from someone who read my essay about collecting Leslie Feinberg and Minnie Bruce Pratt's papers, so I'm going to stop being shy about sharing it: “Things People Gave Me.” Journal of Lesbian Studies. doi.org/10.1080/1089... (DM me for a free link if needed.)
“Things People Gave Me”: the Leslie Feinberg Archives
The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University recently acquired the papers of writer, theorist, activist, and revolutionary communist Leslie Feinberg; these papers ar...
doi.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I got a wonderfully kind note yesterday from someone who read my essay about collecting Leslie Feinberg and Minnie Bruce Pratt's papers, so I'm going to stop being shy about sharing it: “Things People Gave Me.” Journal of Lesbian Studies. doi.org/10.1080/1089... (DM me for a free link if needed.)
Reposted by Maura Smale 😷💉
Upcoming Online Workshop: Introduction to Zotero 🗒️
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Zotero is open source citation software enabling users to easily collect, organize, cite and share.
Join @ tinyurl.com/464aje4u
#academiclibraries #zotero #cunylibraries #citationmanagement
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Zotero is open source citation software enabling users to easily collect, organize, cite and share.
Join @ tinyurl.com/464aje4u
#academiclibraries #zotero #cunylibraries #citationmanagement
October 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Upcoming Online Workshop: Introduction to Zotero 🗒️
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Zotero is open source citation software enabling users to easily collect, organize, cite and share.
Join @ tinyurl.com/464aje4u
#academiclibraries #zotero #cunylibraries #citationmanagement
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Zotero is open source citation software enabling users to easily collect, organize, cite and share.
Join @ tinyurl.com/464aje4u
#academiclibraries #zotero #cunylibraries #citationmanagement
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Tips! From Mina Rees Library
Did you know? You can check out books from most CUNY campuses? You can also request books from across the globe through Interlibrary Loan.
Visit:
tinyurl.com/4v7mu7kk
#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary
Did you know? You can check out books from most CUNY campuses? You can also request books from across the globe through Interlibrary Loan.
Visit:
tinyurl.com/4v7mu7kk
#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary
October 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Tips! From Mina Rees Library
Did you know? You can check out books from most CUNY campuses? You can also request books from across the globe through Interlibrary Loan.
Visit:
tinyurl.com/4v7mu7kk
#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary
Did you know? You can check out books from most CUNY campuses? You can also request books from across the globe through Interlibrary Loan.
Visit:
tinyurl.com/4v7mu7kk
#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary