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Here's our presentation materials from the OCULA Spring conference & subsequent reflections about combatting cynicism, collaboration, and next steps with these topics.
Also some lovely botanical drawings courtesy of the Met.
Gov. Walz: “I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected.”
“That child deserves our support,” he continued. “Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”
I've been thinking about power, how it operates, how it shows up in our library workplaces.
I've shared the text of my recent lightning talk at the CAPAL25 conference @CAPALacbes
This week I attended the CAPAL conference in Toronto, as part of Congress 2025. I delivered a lightning talk and have shared the text below, PDF version available as well. Power. In the words of so…
South Florida meteorologist John Morales told his viewers live on air that he can no longer accurately predict hurricane season, due to federal government cuts.
I took this photo in 2016 when Dr. Carla Hayden's name was being carved into the wall of the Thomas Jefferson building of the Library of Congress -- adding her to the short list of Librarians of Congress. I'm still reeling from her being removed from her position.
Welcome to my rabbit hole! The Harper and PP show in #YEG the other night surfaced (in my stomach and brain) the “Barbaric Cultural Practices Tip line” campaign promise. The good news is the smart folks at University of Toronto have been archiving “Canadian Political Parties and Interest Groups” since 2005.
#UTL #Archives #Libraries #Harper #poilievre
And, if you can stomach it, have a look at their "line-by-line analysis of Canada’s spend today, with suggestions to re-allocate spend from programs that are no longer serving the public interest."
https://www.buildcanada.com/en/memos/productive-government-analysis
Worth a read, folks-- re: "Canada's broligarchy".
"The deeper question is whether we’re watching the emergence of a homegrown “broligarchy” treating the country’s future like their next big product launch."
By Vass Bednar is the Executive Director of the Master of Public Policy Program at McMaster University.
https://thewalrus.ca/are-a-handful-of-wealthy-tech-bros-bringing-doge-to-canada/
Just in case you were wondering... “A Conservative government would put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and in the allocation of federal funds for university research,” the document says.
https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/article840629.html
Proposal for Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) to rename the Gulf of Mexico (Denali also on the list). UF means "use for."
151 Mexico, Gulf of CHANGE HEADING
151 America, Gulf of [sp 85084621 ]
451 UF Golfo de Méjico
451 UF Golfo de Mexico
451 UF Gulf of America
451 UF Gulf of Mexico
451 UF Mexico, Gulf of [Former heading]
688 Heading changed from Mexico, Gulf of to America, Gulf of in March 2025.
781 America, Gulf of
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