millennials at work
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I’m Going to Teach You a Thing or Two.
Hey friend/ colleague in the information science industry. How are you? It is the beginning of a new year and with its arrival I have redoubled my efforts to be as productive as possible with whatever projects I am given in the Library. Academia is a bit different from what I’m used to but now…
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Pitfalls of AI use : Offers
Hello Friend or colleague, One of the things I have been pursuing is navigating the pitfalls of AI in the information Science field. Yes, it can visualize data, such as customer inhouse and circulation statistics, but it can all clean up an email to those pricklier vocabulary and grammar nerds your messages are going to…
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The Ishmael of the Stacks
Hello reader. You find me at today understanding my place as a black information professional. This space typically sees a homogenous majority. Most times I have been at odds philosophically with this group by way of my identity. I clamor to make space for myself, but also hold space for those who are at the…
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Conference Call? Or Conference Proceedings.
Hello Colleague, I’m back from an intense few days at the ACRL 2025 Conference in Minneapolis Minnesota. If you didn’t know, ACRL stands for Association of College and Research Libraries and it is a division of the ALA (American Library Association). While there I made friends, learned a fair bit about the state of librarianship…
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Do I look like I know what a Jpeg is? I just want a Picture of a gosh darn hot dog.
Hello friend,I’m writing to you as of now from the reference desk in the shadow of my first Library instruction class. I was prepared! I had my druthers and was basking in the full responsibility of being learned enough to impart wisdom into others. I practiced with my databases, navigating and clicking, navigating and clicking,…
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Advocacy and Immigration (no take-backs this time?)
“Library advocacy for immigrants is increasingly dependent on the U.S. Congress to reform a broken and unfair immigration system.” (Jones Jr., 2020) We’re back for another folks, so strap in. I’m currently in a library as I write this, and can confirm that they are awesome (as if you didn’t know that already). As I’m…
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The Frontline of Freedom
“From January to August 2022, the American Library Association (ALA) logged 681 attempts to ban or restrict access to 1,651 unique titles—the highest number of challenges since ALA began tracking them.” (Peet, 2023) We’re here. The big one. Book Bans. They stink, we hate them, and they’re ugly. In my professional experience previously I had…
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Farewell to the Public Library
The library is my favorite gym, I can exercise my imagination there. In the Beginning, Library God created the stacks and cataloging and the Graphic Novel section was without form and void and barren shelves were upon the face of the aisle. At least, that’s how I imagine it happened. The real library guy in…
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Hello to my newest colleague
Hello. Salutations. Hola. Ni Hao. Namaste. My name is Andy. Its good to meet you. It feels like we’re old friends having a chance moment passing by. How are you? I hope you’re well. Me? I’m currently navigating the pressures of early career information science. The tedium of staying abreast of trends, technology, techniques and…
The Information Professional 