Eamon Tewell
@eamontewell.bsky.social
Librarian / LIS adjunct faculty / Interested in reference, instruction, critical librarianship, and movies / eamontewell.com
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If you're looking for a group of library workers who understand the power of labor organizing, social justice, & anti-racism, consider applying for the Library Freedom Institute. It's a 15-week program in privacy, intellectual freedom, & critical technology. libraryfreedom.org/institute/
Institute – Library Freedom Project
libraryfreedom.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you're looking for a group of library workers who understand the power of labor organizing, social justice, & anti-racism, consider applying for the Library Freedom Institute. It's a 15-week program in privacy, intellectual freedom, & critical technology. libraryfreedom.org/institute/
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Two folks (Fobazi and Elena) and their pup (Chloe) very deserving of any extra cash you have to toss their way! Fobazi's professional impact has been massive to many of us in the field and she's always been generous with her time and mind. Help them out through this intense, challenging time!
Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena
gofund.me/c8485b58
gofund.me/c8485b58
Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
gofund.me
August 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Two folks (Fobazi and Elena) and their pup (Chloe) very deserving of any extra cash you have to toss their way! Fobazi's professional impact has been massive to many of us in the field and she's always been generous with her time and mind. Help them out through this intense, challenging time!
Applications for the Ask A Librarian Internship are open for one more week! This paid, remote, part-time internship is open to currently enrolled Library & Information Science students. Apply by July 16. library.columbia.edu/about/jobs-i...
July 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Applications for the Ask A Librarian Internship are open for one more week! This paid, remote, part-time internship is open to currently enrolled Library & Information Science students. Apply by July 16. library.columbia.edu/about/jobs-i...
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Hey IL folks! If you thought censorship was just impacting school librarians, take a look at my new article in @timeshighered.bsky.social exploring what challenges to intellectual freedom mean for HE teaching librarians, too. How do we shift our work from overload to absence?
“The substantial challenges that authoritarian ideology poses to knowledge exchange mean that researchers must be prepared to safeguard their commitment to empirical insight.”
🖊️ @alisonhicks0.bsky.social via @timeshighered.bsky.social
#US #HigherEducation #AcademicSky #EduSky #Censorship
🖊️ @alisonhicks0.bsky.social via @timeshighered.bsky.social
#US #HigherEducation #AcademicSky #EduSky #Censorship
Strategic silencing: how censorship is reshaping scholarly discourse
Restrictions to US databases and scholarly work mean that researchers need new approaches to navigate research absences and silences rather than the more typical information overload, writes Alison Hi...
www.timeshighereducation.com
June 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Hey IL folks! If you thought censorship was just impacting school librarians, take a look at my new article in @timeshighered.bsky.social exploring what challenges to intellectual freedom mean for HE teaching librarians, too. How do we shift our work from overload to absence?
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"At present, no miracle has happened. The WIU Librarians will be gone in under a month, as our layoffs take effect May 14."
Western Illinois University will attempt to be a university without a library.
It doesn't take a red state to destroy a public good.
savewiulibrarians.org/message.php
Western Illinois University will attempt to be a university without a library.
It doesn't take a red state to destroy a public good.
savewiulibrarians.org/message.php
savewiulibrarians.org -- Message -- Spring 2025
savewiulibrarians.org
April 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"At present, no miracle has happened. The WIU Librarians will be gone in under a month, as our layoffs take effect May 14."
Western Illinois University will attempt to be a university without a library.
It doesn't take a red state to destroy a public good.
savewiulibrarians.org/message.php
Western Illinois University will attempt to be a university without a library.
It doesn't take a red state to destroy a public good.
savewiulibrarians.org/message.php
About to present "Two Decades of Critical Information Literacy: A Review of the Literature." Here are the presentation slides: tinyurl.com/TwoDecadesACRL & full paper: tinyurl.com/TwoDecadesPaper #acrl2025
April 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
About to present "Two Decades of Critical Information Literacy: A Review of the Literature." Here are the presentation slides: tinyurl.com/TwoDecadesACRL & full paper: tinyurl.com/TwoDecadesPaper #acrl2025
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Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.
April 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.
Heading to #acrl2025! I’m presenting a paper on “Two Decades of Critical Information Literacy” and on a panel about remote internships & supporting LIS students. Looking forward to seeing folks there.
April 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Heading to #acrl2025! I’m presenting a paper on “Two Decades of Critical Information Literacy” and on a panel about remote internships & supporting LIS students. Looking forward to seeing folks there.
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I am thinking of every IMLS worker today.
NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.
March 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I am thinking of every IMLS worker today.
Call for proposals! Pleasure and Play: Finding Joy in LIS Work. "It seems like every day a new disaster begins as older ones fester...In light of everything that feels bad in the world, ACRL/NY’s 2025 symposium theme asks: what feels good in LIS?" acrlny.marketinglibraries.org/2025symposiu...
March 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Call for proposals! Pleasure and Play: Finding Joy in LIS Work. "It seems like every day a new disaster begins as older ones fester...In light of everything that feels bad in the world, ACRL/NY’s 2025 symposium theme asks: what feels good in LIS?" acrlny.marketinglibraries.org/2025symposiu...
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📝 CfP 📝 @hellobrittparis.bsky.social & I are editing a special issue of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies on labor organizing in libraries and information fields.
We greatly encourage contributions from library workers.
More info here: journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...
We greatly encourage contributions from library workers.
More info here: journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...
CfP Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies (JCLIS) Special Issue Strike Wave: Changing Tides of Labor Organizing in Libraries and Information Fields
| Journal of Critical Librar...
journals.litwinbooks.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
📝 CfP 📝 @hellobrittparis.bsky.social & I are editing a special issue of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies on labor organizing in libraries and information fields.
We greatly encourage contributions from library workers.
More info here: journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...
We greatly encourage contributions from library workers.
More info here: journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...
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Librarians, check out "OPINION: A librarian’s summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement" by @siobhanh.bsky.social www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
OPINION: A librarian's summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement - UKSG
Siobhan Haimé takes a look at detail the Clarivate announcement and its practical (and possibly unintentional transformational) effects.
www.uksg.org
February 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Librarians, check out "OPINION: A librarian’s summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement" by @siobhanh.bsky.social www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
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support archives and archivists sufficiently in times of normal operation so we can do our jobs in times of crisis. read about ongoing efforts before your library of alexandria comparisons. respect the expertise of people who have been doing the work. fund permanent archival and preservation labor.
February 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
support archives and archivists sufficiently in times of normal operation so we can do our jobs in times of crisis. read about ongoing efforts before your library of alexandria comparisons. respect the expertise of people who have been doing the work. fund permanent archival and preservation labor.
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Happy New Year, y’all! If you’ve ever found my words helpful to you and your life, please read and share this post. Thank you, and I appreciate y’all in advance! :)
fobaziettarh.com/2025/01/07/n...
fobaziettarh.com/2025/01/07/n...
New Year, New Problems
The good news is that after a month in the hospital, I’m finally going home! The bad news is that I spent a month in the hospital, including Christmas and New Years, and some of that time I don’t e…
fobaziettarh.com
January 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Happy New Year, y’all! If you’ve ever found my words helpful to you and your life, please read and share this post. Thank you, and I appreciate y’all in advance! :)
fobaziettarh.com/2025/01/07/n...
fobaziettarh.com/2025/01/07/n...
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✍️ Submissions are open for our upcoming special issue: "(More Than) A Decade of Critical Librarianship: Reflections and Speculations." Deadline for proposal submission is Jan. 17, 2025. See details: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...
CJAL Special Issue: Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship
| Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship
cjal.ca
December 11, 2024 at 6:48 PM
✍️ Submissions are open for our upcoming special issue: "(More Than) A Decade of Critical Librarianship: Reflections and Speculations." Deadline for proposal submission is Jan. 17, 2025. See details: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...
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My latest for @truthout.bsky.social
As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.
Facing Cuts Likely to Worsen Under Trump, Academic Librarians Urgently Organize
As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.
truthout.org
November 17, 2024 at 6:34 PM
My latest for @truthout.bsky.social
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Some thoughts of what we as librarians should be thinking about and doing before the darkness:
open.substack.com/pub/aradical...
open.substack.com/pub/aradical...
What is to be done now, libraries?
Last Friday, I travelled to New York City for a meeting.
open.substack.com
November 12, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Some thoughts of what we as librarians should be thinking about and doing before the darkness:
open.substack.com/pub/aradical...
open.substack.com/pub/aradical...
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[kudos to my colleagues for writing this]
"We fail to see how studying silently amounts to a disruption, and we reject the bans issued in response. We write to let study-in participants know that there are library workers who stand in solidarity with them."
www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
"We fail to see how studying silently amounts to a disruption, and we reject the bans issued in response. We write to let study-in participants know that there are library workers who stand in solidarity with them."
www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
We’re Harvard Library Workers. We Stand in Solidarity with the Study-Ins. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
We library workers call on Harvard libraries to lift the library bans on students, faculty, and staff, and implore Harvard libraries to refrain from disciplining those who study together, united not i...
www.thecrimson.com
November 7, 2024 at 5:41 PM
[kudos to my colleagues for writing this]
"We fail to see how studying silently amounts to a disruption, and we reject the bans issued in response. We write to let study-in participants know that there are library workers who stand in solidarity with them."
www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
"We fail to see how studying silently amounts to a disruption, and we reject the bans issued in response. We write to let study-in participants know that there are library workers who stand in solidarity with them."
www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
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Dave Ghamandi's Eight Theses on Scholarly Communications (/Open Access). ♥️
ghamandi.hcommons.org/2024/07/26/e...
ghamandi.hcommons.org/2024/07/26/e...
Eight Theses on Scholarly Communication – By Every Means Necessary
ghamandi.hcommons.org
July 26, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Dave Ghamandi's Eight Theses on Scholarly Communications (/Open Access). ♥️
ghamandi.hcommons.org/2024/07/26/e...
ghamandi.hcommons.org/2024/07/26/e...
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Go Penn libraries staff!!! pennlibrariesunited.github.io 📚📜
PENN LIBRARIES UNITED
The unionization effort at Penn Libraries
pennlibrariesunited.github.io
June 22, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Go Penn libraries staff!!! pennlibrariesunited.github.io 📚📜
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"including student employees as active participants in the hiring process is not only a valuable experiential learning opportunity, but also shifts power dynamics ... creating a better hiring process for student applicants."
📜📚 #libraries
📜📚 #libraries
Not Business as Usual: Incorporating LIS Student Perspectives in the Apprenticeship Hiring Process by Estefania Eiquihua, Karen Adjei, Janelle Lyons, and Megan E. Welsh
Not Business as Usual: Incorporating LIS Student Perspectives in the Apprenticeship Hiring Process – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
June 12, 2024 at 5:15 PM
"including student employees as active participants in the hiring process is not only a valuable experiential learning opportunity, but also shifts power dynamics ... creating a better hiring process for student applicants."
📜📚 #libraries
📜📚 #libraries
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I’m recruiting an MLIS student for a paid internship this Fall 2024 to work on a series of online tutorials. You can find more information here: library.usfca.edu/oisj_internshi…. Feel free to share! Apply by July 1! 📚
https://library.usfca.edu/oisj_internshi…
June 4, 2024 at 3:08 PM
I’m recruiting an MLIS student for a paid internship this Fall 2024 to work on a series of online tutorials. You can find more information here: library.usfca.edu/oisj_internshi…. Feel free to share! Apply by July 1! 📚