Month: January 2022

Why educate students when you can make little worker-cogs instead?

I have recently joined a coalition of concerned faculty, students, and staff who are outraged at ways UF has been clamping down on academic freedom in response to political pressure from the governor's office. As a librarian, my interest in academic freedom is of course perennial. It affects all of us, from what we can … Continue reading Why educate students when you can make little worker-cogs instead? →

To Librarian or not to Librarian, that is the question!

It says in my URL that I'm a librarian, but that's both true and not true. To most people, anyone who works at a library is by default a librarian, from pages on up to administrators. But there is a very real divide between library staff (paraprofessionals, often those without an MLIS degree), and those … Continue reading To Librarian or not to Librarian, that is the question! →