Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 18 March 2025
In this edition: Women’s History Month; elders in libraries; research on diversity in librarianship; ALA President shares experience with autism.
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Quilting together at OCLC
OCLC quilters have collaboratively made a WorldCat-inspired quilt for the ALA quilt auction in San Diego.
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A “world of cats”
Just in time for ALA, Chobe returns to share about an OCLC project close to his feline heart.
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Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 2022 December 13
The following post is one in a regular series on issues of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility, compiled by Jay Weitz. Library and museum empathy With funding from the Institute …
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Working from home with humans during COVID, part 2
Hi again. I previously wrote a blog post called Working from home with humans during COVID which recognized one of the coolest parts of my human working from home now—participating …
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Working from home with humans during COVID
I’ve always worked from home. But since this COVID thing began, my human has, too. She used to leave in the morning and be gone all day, but she hasn’t …
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All of a sudden, I’m working from home. Now what do I do?
Working from home is a new experience for many of us in the library community, and we are collectively facing challenges while not only “working from home” but also “homing …
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Making a Book Open Access at HathiTrust.org
About thirteen years ago I compiled six years worth of my monthly “Digital Library” columns published by Library Journal, and edited, updated, and collected them into chapters that Library Journal …
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A View from Google I/O
Last week I attended Google’s annual 3-day developer conference, Google I/O, held in Mountain View, California. This event has frequently been a showcase for new Google products and ventures, some …
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Gifts for Librarians and Archivists, 2016 edition
We asked, you answered, and as usual we got a lot of great suggestions from our readers. Thank you! Crowdsourcing helps to distinguish ours from other, similar gift guides, and …
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