Eindrücke vom 3. Tag der #BiblioCon25: KI, Demokratie, Mäuse-Miniaturkunst #MäuseCon, Kongressparty im Universum Bremen #NachtsImMuseum
#ZBIWUnterwegs #BiblioCon25 #Bremen #Weiterbildung #Fortbildung #ZBIW #THKoeln #Library #BibliothekenEntschlossenDemokratisch #MäuseCon25
"A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, 2)" .
by: Sarah J. Maas
Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people...
Read more at: https://bookblabla.com/book/a-court-of-mist-and-fury-a-court-of-thorns-and-roses-2
#author #reading #library #books #scifi #fantasy #romance
@bookstodon
Apropos nothing, public libraries and librarians are awesome.
Cardiff Central Library, Wales.
Designed by BDP Architects and opened in 2009, this is the fourth central library building in Cardiff. It sits on the southern end of The Hayes, the open market plaza in the city centre. On the opposite end is the 19th century Old Library, now a museum.
The artwork in front of it is "Alliance" by Jean-Bernard Métais.
📷: Canon 5D Mk.II + Sigma 12-24mm f/4.5-5.6
#library #LibraryArchitecture #architecture #photography
“Technology can’t do everything we do”
Please note: This is an anonymous response to an online survey; I do not have any way of contacting the respondent or verifying responses. Their answers may reflect good, bad, or middling hiring practices. I invite you to take what’s useful and leave the rest. If you are someone who hires Library, Archives or other LIS workers, please consider giving your own opinion by filling out the survey here.
Current Hiring Practices and Organizational Needs
These questions are about your current hiring practices in general – the way things have been run the last year or two (or three).
Where do you advertise your job listings?
ALA, TLA, Amigos Library services, various listservs
Do you notice a difference in application quality based on where the applicant saw the job ad?
library specific sources tend to have more applicable applicants
Do you include salary in the job ad?
√ Yes
Do you use keyword matching or any automation tools to reduce the number of applications a human reads while considering candidates?
√ No
Do you consider candidates who don’t meet all the requirements listed in the job ad?
√ No
Does your workplace require experience for entry-level librarian positions? (Officially or unofficially…)
√ Yes
What is the current most common reason for disqualifying an applicant without an interview?
not enough relevant technical job history
Does your organization use one-way interviews? (Sometimes also called asynchronous or recorded interviews)
√ No
Do you provide interview questions before the interview?
√ Yes
If you provide interview questions before the interview, how far in advance?
24hrs ahead
Does your interview process include taking the candidate out for a meal?
√ Yes
How much of your interview process is virtual?
√ First round/Initial Screen
Do you (or does your organization) give candidates feedback about applications or interview performance?
√ No
What is the most important thing for a job hunter to do in order to improve their hirability?
A good cover letter that addresses any gaps or shortcomings based on the preferred qualifications.
I want to hire someone who is:
teachable
Your Last Recruitment
These are questions about the last person you hired (or the last position you attempted to fill). This person may not have been a librarian, and that’s ok.
Think about the most recent time you participated in hiring someone (or an attempt to hire someone) at your organization. What was the title of the position you were trying to fill?
Cataloging Librarian
When was this position hired?
√ Within the last three months
Approximately how many people applied for this position?
√ 25-75
Approximately what percentage of those would you say were hirable?
√ 25% or less
And how would you define “hirable”?
met minimum qualifications (even with a very generous definition of the qualification)
How did the recruitment for this position compare with recruitments in previous years?
more good applicants in less time
Your Workplace
This section asks for information about your workplace, including if you have lost positions in the last decade.
How many staff members are at your library/organization?
√ 100-200
Are you unionized?
√ No
How many permanent, full time job openings has your workplace posted in the last year?
√ 7 or more
How many permanent, full time librarian (or other “professional” level) jobs has your workplace posted in the last year?
√ 5-6
Can you tell us how the number of permanent, full-time positions at your workplace has changed over the past decade?
√ There are more positions
Have any full-time librarian positions been replaced with part-time or hourly workers over the past decade?
√ No
Have any full-time librarian positions been replaced with non-librarian, lower paid staff positions over the past decade?
√ No
Is librarianship a dying profession?
√ No
Why or why not?
Technology can’t do everything we do. There is a need for human interaction to do this job well.
Demographics
This section asks for information about you specifically.
What part of the world are you in?
√ Southwestern US
What’s your region like?
√ Suburban area
What type of institution do you hire for (check all that apply):
√ Academic Library
What type(s) of LIS professionals do you hire?
catalogers
Are you a librarian?
√ Yes
Are you now or have you ever been:
√ A hiring manager (you are hiring people that you will directly or indirectly supervise),
√ A member of a hiring or search committee
#1 #14 #25 #35 #books #GLAMJobs #Librarian #librarians #libraries #Library #libraryHiring #libraryInterview #libraryJobs #libraryWork #LISCareers #lisJobs
4/5 Wells Cathedral
In a change from your the usual symmetry programme here's a shot of the cathedral #library - note the chained volumes,
#laowa7_5mm f2 on #Olympus EM1iii.
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#microfourthirds
#photography
#architecture
#architecturephotography #books
Latest #library haul:
📖 The Carrying: poems by Ada Limón
📖 Postcolonial love poem by Natalie Diaz
💿 Philip Glass organ works
📖 (Hoopla Audio) The Revolution Will Not Be Funded by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence — https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-revolution-will-not-be-funded
💿 Miles Davis Kind of blue
📖 Evidence : poems by Mary Oliver
💿 Preludes by Rachmaninoff
💿 Symphony no. 10 by Philip Glass
💿 Polnisches Requiem by Krzysztof Penderecki
💿 Credo by Krzysztof Penderecki
💿 Sinfonietta Aubade by Francis Poulenc
Ein weiterer Tag auf der #BiblioCon25 geht für das ZBIW-Team zuende - wir haben wieder sehr viele spannende Veranstaltungen besucht und viel Neues erfahren 😀
#ZBIWUnterwegs #BiblioCon25 #Bremen #Weiterbildung #Fortbildung #ZBIW #THKoeln #Library #Bibliothek
I got to take my daughter to a Happy Birds show at the local library over the weekend
Iroh: A library to establish direct connection between peers
https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh
#HackerNews #Iroh #library #peer-to-peer #connection #decentralized #technology #open-source #networking
Lavonnia Moore, a 45-year-old library manager, who had worked at the Georgia library for 15 years, was fired after displaying When Aidan Became a Brother, a children's book about a transgender boy.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/christian-extremists-get-librarian-fired-for-displaying-book-about-transgender-child/
#politics #USpol #Georgia #books #bookstodon #censorship #LGBTQIA #trans #transphobia #library
I’ve been to The British Library this morning for their audiodescribed art workshop, so much fun! We looked at a very detailed painting by Flemish artist Simon Benning who was working at the start of the 1500s when oil painting techniques were just beginning and the paint was made in the studio. We were all given a tactile diagram produced by a Swell Form machine where the black lines become raised for us to feel. It’s a tricky method as the very complicated painting has to be simplified (e.g. a range of mountains is represented by a thin line and a building in the forground is a much heavier block shape) Our describer Carly talked us through the image from top to bottom and helped us to fill in details in our imagination that she couldn’t include. There was also the opportunity for anyone with useful vision to look at the painting on an iPad and I was delighted to find some Braille on the back of the diagram.
This painting is from The Book of Hours and depicts a July day of haymaking, with large trees in the background and several people in the foreground using farming tools. There was also a dog curled up in the sun.
After our discussion we then had a go at ‘drawing’ using sculpture wire and I did some kind of stylised leaf shape that didn’t quite work! Some people used pliers and came up with some very intricate designs and others tried covering their wire drawing with tissue paper and glue to add texture. Some of the group then went to the exhibition to see the painting on display but by then I was tired from all the concentrating and was ready to head home.
Last time I attended I did some drawings of a papaya on the Swell Form paper so it was exciting to get the finished tactile version back! Some lines were quite light and others very thick, where Id used a paint brush rather than a pen. It is truly wonderful to be able to feel your work, even if it doesn’t always turn out quite how you’d imagined it haha!
I’l be back in the autumn for more experiments.
#TactileArt #blind #PartiallySighted #Braille #library #audiodescription #Disability @disability
"Infinity Gate " by M. R. Carey
From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion across millions of dimensions.
The Pandominion: a trading alliance of a million worlds. Except that they’re really just one world, Earth, in many different realities. Then, a threat arises that could destroy everything the Pandominion has built... Read more: https://bookblabla.com/book/infinity-gate-the-pandominion-1
#woofday #dogs #summer #fun #library #community #Maine
Stockton Springs' Sandy Point Beach has opened a "Dog Library" which provides free sticks and tennis balls for your pupper to play with during their visit. And as a bonus, you can "borrow" them permanently. It's a meme IRL on Woofday Wetnose Wednesday (w/video)
I am making my local library even better by smuggling in great things to read.
Today: the membership magazine of "Svenska Freds" Swedish Peace and Arbitration Association, the oldest Peace organisation in the World.
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This is the cover of the magazine *Pax*, issue 1 of 2025, published by the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Association.
Trump administration could change the way we read, from book bans to author talks – USA Today
Screenshot of video…Trump administration could change the way we read, from book bans to author talks
By Clare Mulroy
USA TODAYDespite the international buzz over her latest romance novel “Deep End,” author Ali Hazelwood told fans she had to cancel her U.K. book tour. In a social media post, the bestselling romance author who was born in Italy cited border concerns with leaving and reentering the U.S., mirroring concerns from tourists, noncitizens and visa and green card holders about the Trump administration’s recent deportation and border actions.
Hazelwood’s tour snag sparked a discussion on book communities about how President Donald Trump’s recent policies would trickle down to publishing. Amid book banning, border policies, new anti-DEI sentiments and federal library grant cuts, these are the ways the new administration may impact readers.
Read more: Trump administration could change the way we read, from book bans to author talks – USA TodaySource Links: Trump administration could impact readers, from DEI to book bans
#2025 #America #Books #DonaldTrump #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Politics #Reading #Resistance #Science #Technology #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #USAToday #Writing
Speaking of #library cards, and relating to @JenYetAgain's post, all three of my NYC cards are only in my preferred (anglicized) name, and librarians appear to exercise some flexibility. Granted, I do have a campus ID (used for entitlement verification) that is in my preferred name (as is customary among most top-tier universities), and my case is different from many others, but that's that. Also there is a report on how preferred names are collected: https://static.bklynlibrary.org/prod/public/inline-documents/BPL%20and%20Avenue%20M%202024%20Library%20Card%20Access%20Research%20Report.pdf .
📝 Disability, identity, and professionalism: Precarity in librarianship
By @christinemmoe.bsky.social ⬇️
muse.jhu.edu/article/723591
#Library
#Librarian
#Research
#Employment
#Workplace
#HiddenDisability
#Disability
#Disabled
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