How the Public Library Became an American Civic Institution
#PBS #Library #LibraryScience #Humanities #History #Law #Democracy #Literacy #Learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7tRNkiLz9A

I'm excited to give this keynote talk at #BSides #Dublin in a few weeks!
"Long Overdue: Making #InfoSec Better Through #LibraryScience"
Get tickets here: https://www.bsidesdub.ie/tickets.php
think it's time I made an #Introduction
I'm Orthodox #Jewish tho in my small local community it can be hard to find friends bc I'm also a #Leftist #AntiNationalist. I play #Violin; currently: translations of songs with themes of #Anarchy & #WorkingClass #Solidarity. influenced by #Klezmer, #Celtic & #Folk #Music. I work in a community #Ceramics studio & study #IMLS (Info Management & #LibraryScience) / #GLAM (Galleries Libraries #Archives Museums), & #Yiddish culture/history of #EasternEurope.
Trans day of visibility display at the Lexington Public Library
📚 NASIG 2025 AWARDS ALERT! 📚
Applications open for First-Timer Award (for professionals) and John Riddick Student Grant (for LIS students).
Both include conference registration + free NASIG membership.
Apply by April 18! CV required.
https://nasig.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/nasig-opens-applications-for-2025-conference-awards/
Did you know that #libraries are launchpads for student innovation?
Join Cyril Oberlander (Cal Poly Humboldt) on April 9th at 11 AM ET to explore:
💡 Adaptable strategies for engaging students as co-creators
📚 The power of open learning infrastructure
🌱 How students built a 3D Digital Herbarium
Free virtual MicroConf:
https://www.apereo.org/conferences/2025/04/april-2025-open-innovation-lab-library-cyril-oberlander
#EdTech #FOSS #HigherEd #OpenEducation #InstructionalDesign #LibraryScience #STEMEducation
Ahead of Print in BFP: Review of Hans-Christoph Hobohm’s 'Informationsverhalten'. Joachim Griesbaum reviews Hobohm’s comprehensive, transdisciplinary study on human information behavior. A must-read for information science scholars. #InformationScience #LibraryScience #Research
Article Hans-Christoph Hobohm: Informationsverhalten in Bibliothek, Forschung und Praxis. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Saur, 2024. 444 S., 28 Illustr. Online-Ausgabe: ISBN: 978-3-11-039618-8. was published on March 19, 2025 in the journal Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis (volume 0, issue 0).
February 4th #BlackHistoryMonth spotlight, #LibraryScience edition:
"Here are 13 pioneering Black American librarians, but this is only a fraction of the Black #librarians who have left a lasting legacy in librarianship."