Celia Rabinowitz
@runninglibrarian.bsky.social
"The Justice Department says it's investigating" seems like the tag line at the end of every news story.
January 19, 2026 at 8:31 PM
"The Justice Department says it's investigating" seems like the tag line at the end of every news story.
The current president AND morality is a Venn diagram where the circles do not overlap.
January 8, 2026 at 9:30 PM
The current president AND morality is a Venn diagram where the circles do not overlap.
"Where is the slack to stumble, rise and reorient?"
This is the take-away. That's what we can do - participate and join in on the exhilarating road with all of its bumps by providing support and encouragement to keep them on the path they choose.
This is the take-away. That's what we can do - participate and join in on the exhilarating road with all of its bumps by providing support and encouragement to keep them on the path they choose.
We Have Something Important to Offer Students: Agency
If higher ed becomes the transactional model, only now with AI, we’re in big, big trouble.
www.insidehighered.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:07 PM
"Where is the slack to stumble, rise and reorient?"
This is the take-away. That's what we can do - participate and join in on the exhilarating road with all of its bumps by providing support and encouragement to keep them on the path they choose.
This is the take-away. That's what we can do - participate and join in on the exhilarating road with all of its bumps by providing support and encouragement to keep them on the path they choose.
WTAF
NYT: Trump Says U.S. Is ‘Locked and Loaded’ if Iran Kills Protesters
WaPo: Trump and senior administration officials repeatedly threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to addresses large protests.
NYT: Trump Says U.S. Is ‘Locked and Loaded’ if Iran Kills Protesters
WaPo: Trump and senior administration officials repeatedly threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to addresses large protests.
January 2, 2026 at 6:18 PM
WTAF
NYT: Trump Says U.S. Is ‘Locked and Loaded’ if Iran Kills Protesters
WaPo: Trump and senior administration officials repeatedly threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to addresses large protests.
NYT: Trump Says U.S. Is ‘Locked and Loaded’ if Iran Kills Protesters
WaPo: Trump and senior administration officials repeatedly threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to addresses large protests.
"Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out"
So painful for this librarian to read. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social think of the secrets about to be lost, some forever
So painful for this librarian to read. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social think of the secrets about to be lost, some forever
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out"
So painful for this librarian to read. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social think of the secrets about to be lost, some forever
So painful for this librarian to read. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social think of the secrets about to be lost, some forever
Reposted by Celia Rabinowitz
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
THIS is what you need to read to start your day. @robinderosa.net is my hero. Two of the three Learning & Teaching Collaborative staff I work with at Keene State College (also NH) were retrenched this semester. Support for developing good teaching is disappearing. I am heart broken.
3 Questions for Learning Innovator and Scholar Robin DeRosa
A conversation about transitions, scarcity and alternative academic careers.
www.insidehighered.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
THIS is what you need to read to start your day. @robinderosa.net is my hero. Two of the three Learning & Teaching Collaborative staff I work with at Keene State College (also NH) were retrenched this semester. Support for developing good teaching is disappearing. I am heart broken.
From The Equinox, our student newspaper in reference to the situation at OSU:
"We can only hope that KSC would uphold baseline academic expectations if it were to be in a similar scenario. Caving to minimal pressure from an activist organization is nothing short of embarrassing."
"We can only hope that KSC would uphold baseline academic expectations if it were to be in a similar scenario. Caving to minimal pressure from an activist organization is nothing short of embarrassing."
December 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
From The Equinox, our student newspaper in reference to the situation at OSU:
"We can only hope that KSC would uphold baseline academic expectations if it were to be in a similar scenario. Caving to minimal pressure from an activist organization is nothing short of embarrassing."
"We can only hope that KSC would uphold baseline academic expectations if it were to be in a similar scenario. Caving to minimal pressure from an activist organization is nothing short of embarrassing."
You'd think that a headline reading "Doctor Critical of Vaccines is Appointed as CDC's Second in Command" might be something the Onion would do. But you would be wrong, because it is the headline for a NY Times article and it is deadly serious, emphasis on the deadly.
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
You'd think that a headline reading "Doctor Critical of Vaccines is Appointed as CDC's Second in Command" might be something the Onion would do. But you would be wrong, because it is the headline for a NY Times article and it is deadly serious, emphasis on the deadly.
Advice for library job seekers and hirers. What would you add? @hiringlibrarians.com
Further Questions: Best Advice for Getting Hired and for People Who Hire
“Remember that we want candidates to feel as comfortable as possible so they perform to the best of their ability. Whatever we can do to put them at ease gives us a more realistic baseline fr…
hiringlibrarians.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Advice for library job seekers and hirers. What would you add? @hiringlibrarians.com
If you don't listen to any MaxFun podcasts you should check them out. And you could get a silly but very fun compliment with a $10 donation.
@gabemara.bsky.social is a producer here at MaxFun, and works on TV Chef Fantasy League and @sleepwithcelebs.bsky.social. And he has a message for Celia!
If you'd like an overly-specific compliment from MaxFun staff, and help us with our move too, go to maximumfun.org/movingday and nab one for $10!
If you'd like an overly-specific compliment from MaxFun staff, and help us with our move too, go to maximumfun.org/movingday and nab one for $10!
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
If you don't listen to any MaxFun podcasts you should check them out. And you could get a silly but very fun compliment with a $10 donation.
One of my laments was the way students would engage in “research,” essentially a pro-forma, box-checking process meant to satisfy an instructor’s grading criteria (number and quality of sources, etc…)
Librarians have been trying to help faculty move away from this flawed approach forever!
Librarians have been trying to help faculty move away from this flawed approach forever!
The Limits of AI Research for Real Writers
To produce interesting writing, more is not necessarily better.
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
One of my laments was the way students would engage in “research,” essentially a pro-forma, box-checking process meant to satisfy an instructor’s grading criteria (number and quality of sources, etc…)
Librarians have been trying to help faculty move away from this flawed approach forever!
Librarians have been trying to help faculty move away from this flawed approach forever!
NYTimes fatigue? Definitely. Getting to read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social in the NYTimes? Priceless. Read this one and then read it again.
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
NYTimes fatigue? Definitely. Getting to read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social in the NYTimes? Priceless. Read this one and then read it again.
Yay for us!
Cutting Emissions, the Roundabout Way, in New Hampshire
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Yay for us!
Here's a glimpse of what's happening to higher ed in New Hampshire. Happening at my institution too at this very moment. @robinderosa.net is a hero of mine, whose generosity and love of what we do is limitless. I feel so lucky to know her. Can't wait to see what's next. It's going to be great.
I Lost My Job
I got fired. I guess that is not precisely true. I took a “voluntary” separation incentive to leave my position. It doesn’t feel voluntary. This winter, close to thirty tenured fa…
robinderosa.net
October 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Here's a glimpse of what's happening to higher ed in New Hampshire. Happening at my institution too at this very moment. @robinderosa.net is a hero of mine, whose generosity and love of what we do is limitless. I feel so lucky to know her. Can't wait to see what's next. It's going to be great.
"being a big dumb-dumb who doesn’t know anything and can’t do anything without the aid of a predictive text-generation machine is simply an unfulfilling and unpleasant way to go through life" Couldn't have said it better myself @biblioracle.bsky.social
Schools Should Help Students Be Human
Some are saying humanistic study is the future. I’ve been saying this forever.
www.insidehighered.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"being a big dumb-dumb who doesn’t know anything and can’t do anything without the aid of a predictive text-generation machine is simply an unfulfilling and unpleasant way to go through life" Couldn't have said it better myself @biblioracle.bsky.social
First the @nytimes.com took away free access to the daily Mini crossword. Now what used to be free access every week to three archived weekday puzzles is gone. Will that make me subscribe? Nope.
October 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
First the @nytimes.com took away free access to the daily Mini crossword. Now what used to be free access every week to three archived weekday puzzles is gone. Will that make me subscribe? Nope.
If we are polite when we express bigotry, we are performing respectability for people whom we do not actually respect and who, in return, do not respect us. The performance is the only thing that matters. @roxanegay.bsky.social What I have been feeling for a long time.
Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
If we are polite when we express bigotry, we are performing respectability for people whom we do not actually respect and who, in return, do not respect us. The performance is the only thing that matters. @roxanegay.bsky.social What I have been feeling for a long time.
The First Angel You See
For all of us who are missing our fearless mothers today and every day (mine has been gone almost 11 months).
Thank you Etgar Keret, תודה רבה
For all of us who are missing our fearless mothers today and every day (mine has been gone almost 11 months).
Thank you Etgar Keret, תודה רבה
The First Angel You See
Mother never lies | Alphabet Audio Soup
open.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The First Angel You See
For all of us who are missing our fearless mothers today and every day (mine has been gone almost 11 months).
Thank you Etgar Keret, תודה רבה
For all of us who are missing our fearless mothers today and every day (mine has been gone almost 11 months).
Thank you Etgar Keret, תודה רבה
Thank you @jamellebouie.net
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Thank you @jamellebouie.net
This one is funny, until it isn't, and is appreciated by this librarian. Thanks @mcsweeneys.net
Collective Nouns for Librarians
A group of librarians is called a cardigan.
A collection of empty chairs is called an author reading.
A collection of Eric Carle books covered in s...
www.mcsweeneys.net
August 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This one is funny, until it isn't, and is appreciated by this librarian. Thanks @mcsweeneys.net
Every opportunity for conversation is a way in, this one included. I am grateful every day for @peterbeinart.bsky.social
Peter Beinart - "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning" | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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July 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Every opportunity for conversation is a way in, this one included. I am grateful every day for @peterbeinart.bsky.social
"Why not, why can't, and why wouldn't the Holy Spirit work through AI?" @biblioracle.bsky.social Oy vey
PRRI’s survey of mainline Protestant clergy finds that 32% report feeling emotionally drained from work at least once a week or more.
NPR explores clergy members’ thoughts on using AI to assist with their preaching, finding that opinions range from cautiously supportive to strongly opposed.
NPR explores clergy members’ thoughts on using AI to assist with their preaching, finding that opinions range from cautiously supportive to strongly opposed.
We asked clergy if they use AI to help write sermons. Here's what they said
How would you feel if you found out that the sermon at your church was written by artificial intelligence?
www.npr.org
July 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"Why not, why can't, and why wouldn't the Holy Spirit work through AI?" @biblioracle.bsky.social Oy vey
If you need whatever is in the Epstein files to convince/prove to you that the president is a sexual predator, then you haven't been paying attention.
July 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If you need whatever is in the Epstein files to convince/prove to you that the president is a sexual predator, then you haven't been paying attention.
I am grateful for @omerbartov.bsky.social and his voice for me as a Jew who cannot imagine how we say "never again" and mean it. My Jewish identity is grounded in resisting and rejecting what is happening in Gaza and here in the US. Please READ THIS today.
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
www.nytimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I am grateful for @omerbartov.bsky.social and his voice for me as a Jew who cannot imagine how we say "never again" and mean it. My Jewish identity is grounded in resisting and rejecting what is happening in Gaza and here in the US. Please READ THIS today.