Mastodawn

Lorri Feb 23, 2023

Educator resources from Dr. Ibram X. Kendi on How to be a (Young) Antiracist - Educator Guide, Book Club Guide for librarians, and two videos #BlackHistoryMonth #Library #Libraries #Education

https://www.penguinclassroom.com/books/how-to-be-a-young-antiracist/

How to Be a (Young) Antiracist - Penguin Classroom Portal

The #1 New York Times bestseller that sparked international dialogue is now a book for young adults! Based on the adult bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi, and co-authored by bestselling author Nic Stone, How to be a (Young) Antiracist will serve as a guide for teens seeking a way forward in acknowledging, identifying, and dismantling […]

Penguin Classroom Portal

Lorri Feb 23, 2023

Kate Bowers Archivist Feb 22, 2023

You like born-digital? You like archives?

Come work with me!

https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?partnerid=25240&siteid=5341&PageType=JobDetails&jobid=1984088

Lorri Feb 23, 2023

Lilies and Rudbeckia for #FlowerFriday

#Florespondence #flowers #flower #garden #gardening #GardeningMastodon

Lorri Feb 23, 2023

BeTheCookie Feb 22, 2023

Library fairies speak shelvish.

Lorri Feb 22, 2023

Lady Laura

Feb 21, 2023

Virtual Reality in the 1800s

#Video #TunnelBook

Lorri Feb 21, 2023

Connected Places Feb 21, 2023

Nature has just put out correspondence that calls for scholarly institutes to join the #fediverse, and start their own #mastodon instances.

Together with that, the writers put out a longer article, 'Mastodon over Mammon', that explains the argument in greater detail, and is worth reading.

Great work by @brembs et al, which points to the core issue: the private ownership of public commons.

Full version:
https://zenodo.org/record/7652771
Nature Correspondence:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3

Mastodon over Mammon - Towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge

Twitter is in turmoil and the scholarly community on the platform is once again starting to migrate. As with the early internet, scholarly organizations are at the forefront of developing and implementing a decentralized alternative to Twitter, Mastodon. Both historically and conceptually, this is not a new situation for the scholarly community. Historically, scholars were forced to leave social media platform FriendFeed after it was bought by Facebook in 2006. Conceptually, the problems associated with public scholarly discourse subjected to the whims of corporate owners are not unlike those of scholarly journals owned by monopolistic corporations: in both cases the perils associated with a public good in private hands are palpable. For both short form (Twitter/Mastodon) and longer form (journals) scholarly discourse, decentralized solutions exist, some of which are already enjoying some institutional support. Here we argue that scholarly organizations, in particular learned societies, are now facing a golden opportunity to rethink their hesitations towards such alternatives and support the migration of the scholarly community from Twitter to Mastodon by hosting Mastodon instances. Demonstrating that the scholarly community is capable of creating a truly public square for scholarly discourse, impervious to private takeover, might renew confidence and inspire the community to focus on analogous solutions for the remaining scholarly record – encompassing text, data and code – to safeguard all publicly owned scholarly knowledge.

Zenodo

Lorri Feb 20, 2023

Chris Erdmann Feb 12, 2023

Since landing at the Michael J. Fox Foundation I've been looking into how we can open our research up further. In the spirit of the #YearofOpenScience here is some of that work documented (using OpenRefine) at GO FAIR US https://www.gofair.us/news/using-openrefine-to-assess-open-research-at-your-organization Hope it helps others! #OpenScience #OpenAccess

Using OpenRefine to assess open research at your organization — GO FAIR US

The goal of this post is to share the process I used to collect open research publications data, using primarily OpenRefine, to understand the impact of our Open Access (OA) Publication Policy at the Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF). Inspired by the Year of Open Science , it is my hope that t

GO FAIR US

Lorri Feb 19, 2023

Eboni.ai 👩🏾‍💻Feb 13, 2023

A group of children posing on the steps of the Colored Carnegie Library in Houston
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The Colored Carnegie Library opened in 1913, after Black teachers were denied access to the Houston Public Library. It was originally located at the corner of Frederick and Robin Streets, directly across from Antioch Baptist Church.

It was demolished in 1962 during the Clay Street extension project.

#houston #history #blackhistory #histodons #BlackMastodon

Lorri Feb 19, 2023

#Job opening - Research and Learning #Librarian (Assistant Professor) at Stetson University, DeLand, Florida #library #libraries https://stetso.nu/VZLrc

Lorri Feb 18, 2023

A teacher in #Florida was fired after sharing a video on social media of empty school #library bookshelves. #USPol #Education #libraries

First Coast News, "Substitute Duval teacher behind viral video showing empty bookshelves in middle school library fired." (2/17/23) https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/education/substitute-duval-teacher-brian-covey-behind-viral-video-showing-empty-bookshelves-in-middle-school-library-fired/77-d7027a8e-7eaa-4218-bde6-3f7c989d078f