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Being a librarian is a sacred calling, not a paycheck. A librarian is a guardian of information, a champion of freedom, an embedded member of the community aiming to serve those in most need. The homeless people who need the information resources to get educated, to connect with resources for healthcare, housing, employment etc.
I was once married to a woman who was studying to become a librarian, and libraries have always held a special place in my heart.
Until 2023, when I turned whistleblower against the US government, and Accenture Federal Services. The persecution I faced, came from many sides, though the unkindest cut of all, was that some librarians turned out to be on the side of the establishment.
Read my account here. ( The PDF version is probably easier to read. )
https://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/
#Hawaii #library #librarian #libraries #librarians #LibraryScience #Liberty
#Freedom #Whistleblower -
Being a librarian is a sacred calling, not a paycheck. A librarian is a guardian of information, a champion of freedom, an embedded member of the community aiming to serve those in most need. The homeless people who need the information resources to get educated, to connect with resources for healthcare, housing, employment etc.
I was once married to a woman who was studying to become a librarian, and libraries have always held a special place in my heart.
Until 2023, when I turned whistleblower against the US government, and Accenture Federal Services. The persecution I faced, came from many sides, though the unkindest cut of all, was that some librarians turned out to be on the side of the establishment.
Read my account here. ( The PDF version is probably easier to read. )
https://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/
#Hawaii #library #librarian #libraries #librarians #LibraryScience #Liberty
#Freedom #Whistleblower -
Being a librarian is a sacred calling, not a paycheck. A librarian is a guardian of information, a champion of freedom, an embedded member of the community aiming to serve those in most need. The homeless people who need the information resources to get educated, to connect with resources for healthcare, housing, employment etc.
I was once married to a woman who was studying to become a librarian, and libraries have always held a special place in my heart.
Until 2023, when I turned whistleblower against the US government, and Accenture Federal Services. The persecution I faced, came from many sides, though the unkindest cut of all, was that some librarians turned out to be on the side of the establishment.
Read my account here. ( The PDF version is probably easier to read. )
https://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/
#Hawaii #library #librarian #libraries #librarians #LibraryScience #Liberty
#Freedom #Whistleblower -
Being a librarian is a sacred calling, not a paycheck. A librarian is a guardian of information, a champion of freedom, an embedded member of the community aiming to serve those in most need. The homeless people who need the information resources to get educated, to connect with resources for healthcare, housing, employment etc.
I was once married to a woman who was studying to become a librarian, and libraries have always held a special place in my heart.
Until 2023, when I turned whistleblower against the US government, and Accenture Federal Services. The persecution I faced, came from many sides, though the unkindest cut of all, was that some librarians turned out to be on the side of the establishment.
Read my account here. ( The PDF version is probably easier to read. )
https://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/
#Hawaii #library #librarian #libraries #librarians #LibraryScience #Liberty
#Freedom #Whistleblower -
The informational disciplines – Lorcan Dempsey
At Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, where Shawshank Redemption was filmed.The informational disciplines
This is a further excerpt from my response to the LIS Forward paper. It considers some of the history and contours of the informational disciplines – information science, LIS, library studies. It notes the ongoing blurriness of identity, nomenclature and boundaries.
Lorcan Dempsey, Oct 22, 2025, 20 min read
At Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, where Shawshank Redemption was filmed.This is an excerpt from a longer contribution I made to Responses to the LIS Forward Position Paper: Ensuring a Vibrant Future for LIS in iSchools. [pdf].
It is a sketch only, and somewhat informal, but I thought I would put it here in case of interest. It occasionally references the position paper, and the longer piece of which it is a part. It is also influenced by the context in which it was prepared which was a discussion of the informational disciplines and the iSchool in R1 institutions.
This section could of course be much expanded in a fuller treatment. It is striking to me how much LIS and Information Science can still reference different intellectual, disciplinary or institional boundaries depending on context.
If you wish to reference it, I would be grateful if you cite the full original:
Dempsey, L. (2025). Library Studies, the Informational Disciplines, and the iSchool: Some Remarks Prompted by LIS Forward. In LIS Forward (2025) Responses to the LIS Forward Position Paper: Ensuring a Vibrant Future for LIS in iSchools, The Friday Harbor Papers, Volume 2 pdfThis informational diffusion has given the iSchool great latitude and it can accommodate a great diversity of disciplinary lenses – from the very technical, to the social sciences and humanities, to design, to marketing and communication, to public policy, to critical theory, and so on. The Deans’ interviews suggest that this is at once a great strength and a potential weakness, as the iSchool does not have exclusive ownership of a foundational discipline, but rather a multidisciplinary focus on a hard to define phenomenon. Furthermore, this phenomenon has become an object of study in many other disciplines also.
In this section I discuss the informational disciplines (sic), LIS and Information Science, and conclude with some comments about Library Studies, LIS and the iSchool.
Informational disciplines
Library studies
First, here is a brief note on LS. Buckland (2005) traces the emergence of ‘library science’ to Martin Schrettinger in the early 19th century. The first American library school was opened by Melvil Dewey at Columbia in 1887. Unsurprisingly, a central focus of each of these figures is organization of the collection.
In general, the ‘library school’ has not been a story of optimism and growth. Some closed. Many changed their name to lose ‘library.’ Some were merged into other schools or departments, with various disciplinary emphases.
There is now some variety of provision across types of university and disciplinary configuration. It is common within iSchools who have a library focus to use the term LIS.
Information science(s)
What is Information Science or the Information Sciences? It seems to me that one can identify two very provisional emphases here to help scaffold a discussion. The first is in terms of the emergence of Information Science in the mid twentieth century, with a set of shared concerns, intellectual and personal influences, and professional venues. I label this Information Science Classic in this section, and this is what I usually mean when talking about Information Science (IS). The second is more generic, as Information Science or Information Sciences (or Informatics) is used as a designation of convenience for an academic interest in a range of information-related topics, with or without any specific reference to or acknowledgement of Information Science Classic. We see this emphasis in various places, including in some of the iSchools with non-Library Studies backgrounds (see Cornell or Penn State for example). This may sometimes be used to designate an applied technology focus with more of a social or business dimension than you might typically find in Computer Science.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: The informational disciplines
#2025 #America #Books #Education #History #InformationScience #InformationalDisciplines #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #LibraryScience #LIS #LorcanDempsey #Opinion #Reading #Science #Technology #UnitedStates
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Should You Get an MLIS? A First‑Gen Perspective
In this honest reflection, I share what I gained from my MLIS in library and information science—from personal knowledge management to identity transformation.
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Should You Get an MLIS? A First‑Gen Perspective
In this honest reflection, I share what I gained from my MLIS in library and information science—from personal knowledge management to identity transformation.
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Did you know the Student Research Journal accepts manuscript submissions from graduate students at any university worldwide? Submissions must be relevant to Library or Information Science, but students in any discipline are welcome to submit. #AI #InfoScience #LibraryScience #StudentResearch #GradResearch #iSchool https://buff.ly/TSnXBKU
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Did you know the Student Research Journal accepts manuscript submissions from graduate students at any university worldwide? Submissions must be relevant to Library or Information Science, but students in any discipline are welcome to submit. #AI #InfoScience #LibraryScience #StudentResearch #GradResearch #iSchool https://buff.ly/TSnXBKU
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Did you know the Student Research Journal accepts manuscript submissions from graduate students at any university worldwide? Submissions must be relevant to Library or Information Science, but students in any discipline are welcome to submit. #AI #InfoScience #LibraryScience #StudentResearch #GradResearch #iSchool https://buff.ly/TSnXBKU
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Did you know the Student Research Journal accepts manuscript submissions from graduate students at any university worldwide? Submissions must be relevant to Library or Information Science, but students in any discipline are welcome to submit. #AI #InfoScience #LibraryScience #StudentResearch #GradResearch #iSchool https://buff.ly/TSnXBKU
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Did you know the Student Research Journal accepts manuscript submissions from graduate students at any university worldwide? Submissions must be relevant to Library or Information Science, but students in any discipline are welcome to submit. #AI #InfoScience #LibraryScience #StudentResearch #GradResearch #iSchool https://buff.ly/TSnXBKU
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I’ve been thinking lately (always a mistake) about all the cultural works to which we don't have access. Everything removed from streaming; everything locked behind DRM so that most libraries and archives won't have copies which can redundantly survive disruption. Sometimes I get real sad about the future readers and historians and others who just won't be able to find copies of the incredible things made during the current digital dark age.
As ever, I try to let this radicalize me rather than lead me into despair. I know that there are lots of horrors worth raging against, but this is one I feel well-positioned to work against. It's low-stakes enough that I won't feel self-loathing if I burn out or need to take a break. It's no secret that I like to read and organize books so this is a topic close to my heart and one which can bring me joy and allow me to share it with those around me too. There is a fair bit of tech nerd stuff to it, enough that I have an opportunity to learn & practice new things, but not so much that I’m totally out of my depth. And there are plenty of communities out there to help and share strategies.
But the big thing I see missing from my understanding and many of the conversations about shadow libraries and unauthorized archivism is the social and professional practice of librarianship rather than mechanical practice of data storage. I don't have space to go to library school, but I could definitely stand to read (and archive) introductory books on the topic, or take an online class. Friends who know: what are some of the better places to get started with an introduction to library & information science and archive science?
#libraries #librarian #archivist #archives #archivism #archivist #libraryScience #informationScience #archiveScience #culture #repositories #dataHoard #archiving #piracy #unauthorizedArchives #guerillaArchives #shadowLibraries #digiPres #digitalPreservation -
Northeastern University is hiring an Assistant Director for their Digital Transgender Archive at their hub in Oakland
#Archives #Trans #Transgender #LGBTQ #Academia #Northeastern #Oakland #California #LibraryScience #Libraries
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Just published this! "AI in Academia: Policy Development, Ethics, and Curriculum" 🤖 📚
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1533&context=ischoolsrj
#AI #LLMS #LLM #Ethics #Academia #SJSU #LIS #MLIS #LibraryScience #Libraries #iSchool #PeerReview #Journal #University #Scholarly #Curriculum
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Just published this! "AI in Academia: Policy Development, Ethics, and Curriculum" 🤖 📚
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1533&context=ischoolsrj
#AI #LLMS #LLM #Ethics #Academia #SJSU #LIS #MLIS #LibraryScience #Libraries #iSchool #PeerReview #Journal #University #Scholarly #Curriculum
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Just published this! "AI in Academia: Policy Development, Ethics, and Curriculum" 🤖 📚
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1533&context=ischoolsrj
#AI #LLMS #LLM #Ethics #Academia #SJSU #LIS #MLIS #LibraryScience #Libraries #iSchool #PeerReview #Journal #University #Scholarly #Curriculum
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Just published this! "AI in Academia: Policy Development, Ethics, and Curriculum" 🤖 📚
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1533&context=ischoolsrj
#AI #LLMS #LLM #Ethics #Academia #SJSU #LIS #MLIS #LibraryScience #Libraries #iSchool #PeerReview #Journal #University #Scholarly #Curriculum
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Just published this! "AI in Academia: Policy Development, Ethics, and Curriculum" 🤖 📚
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1533&context=ischoolsrj
#AI #LLMS #LLM #Ethics #Academia #SJSU #LIS #MLIS #LibraryScience #Libraries #iSchool #PeerReview #Journal #University #Scholarly #Curriculum
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#AcademicJob / #PhDStudentship
Two Interdisciplinary PhD positions @ Young Academy Groningen 2024 for the project "Academia in a bind: Data surveillance practices in scholarly publishing."
Deadline: 20/03/2024
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/192803
#LibraryScience #InformationManagement #PoliticalEconomy #CriticalBusinessStudies #PoliticalTheory #Publishing #MediaIndustries #DataScience #MediaManagement #ScienceStudies #TechnologyStudies #ethics #Anthropology #DigitalHumanities
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Hi! Do I know anyone here that #teaches Intro to #Archives #classes?
If so, would you be willing to chat about the books (if any) you assign? I need to rethink my books
#academicchatter #teaching #archivalEducation #libraries #libraryscience #librarySchool
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How to Structure Your Life for a Master's Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PIe7eZicPc
#MLIS #Library #LibraryScience #Masters #Degree #MastersDegree #Graduate #School #GraduateSchool #College #University #Organization #YouTube #Video #SelfHelp #HowTo #Life #Structure #Notes #NoteTaking #Productivity #BlockSchedule #Schedule #Preparation #Studen #Learner #Education #Teacher #Teach #Coaching #Blog #Vlog #Librarians #Librarian #iSchool #Internet
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How to Structure Your Life for a Master's Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PIe7eZicPc
#MLIS #Library #LibraryScience #Masters #Degree #MastersDegree #Graduate #School #GraduateSchool #College #University #Organization #YouTube #Video #SelfHelp #HowTo #Life #Structure #Notes #NoteTaking #Productivity #BlockSchedule #Schedule #Preparation #Studen #Learner #Education #Teacher #Teach #Coaching #Blog #Vlog #Librarians #Librarian #iSchool #Internet
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How to Structure Your Life for a Master's Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PIe7eZicPc
#MLIS #Library #LibraryScience #Masters #Degree #MastersDegree #Graduate #School #GraduateSchool #College #University #Organization #YouTube #Video #SelfHelp #HowTo #Life #Structure #Notes #NoteTaking #Productivity #BlockSchedule #Schedule #Preparation #Studen #Learner #Education #Teacher #Teach #Coaching #Blog #Vlog #Librarians #Librarian #iSchool #Internet
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How to Structure Your Life for a Master's Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PIe7eZicPc
#MLIS #Library #LibraryScience #Masters #Degree #MastersDegree #Graduate #School #GraduateSchool #College #University #Organization #YouTube #Video #SelfHelp #HowTo #Life #Structure #Notes #NoteTaking #Productivity #BlockSchedule #Schedule #Preparation #Studen #Learner #Education #Teacher #Teach #Coaching #Blog #Vlog #Librarians #Librarian #iSchool #Internet
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How to Structure Your Life for a Master's Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PIe7eZicPc
#MLIS #Library #LibraryScience #Masters #Degree #MastersDegree #Graduate #School #GraduateSchool #College #University #Organization #YouTube #Video #SelfHelp #HowTo #Life #Structure #Notes #NoteTaking #Productivity #BlockSchedule #Schedule #Preparation #Studen #Learner #Education #Teacher #Teach #Coaching #Blog #Vlog #Librarians #Librarian #iSchool #Internet
