Cross Posted from ALA Core Connect Greetings from DC/ALA Annual, Core. I didn’t want to over-prepare my final Happy Friday…
A Year of Happy Fridays
Reflection and my ALA Core Presidency I think some of you probably think you’re not good at journaling and reflection,…
Liberate Knowledge, Retire Neutrality
While I am still hoping that The New York Times Opinion Section will provide the platform for a library worker…
Towards Antiracist and Antifascist Library Work: A Summary of the Design and Next Steps of ALA’s Resolution to Condemn White Supremacy and Fascism as Antithetical to Library Work
Introduction A couple months ago, we all found out that another library had employed another white nationalist— he’d spoken at…
Introducing CD #43, A Proposed Resolution Condemning White Supremacy and Fascism as Antithetical to Library Work
This afternoon at ALA Midwinter 2021, ALA Council will review and discuss a proposed resolution condemning white supremacy and fascism…
Breaking Into ALA
An Outsider’s Insider Guide These days, you might say ALA and I have a history. But not so long ago,…
More on Core
Hi again! To provide maximum transparency and help you make the right vote, here are the notes I made for…
Directly, Forthrightly, and with Care
Hey! I’m running for President-Elect of Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures because I think I’d do a good job. Do you…
Defending Lending
Here’s a post I shouldn’t have to write, folks, but libraries have every right to circulate materials. In non-library speak,…
Let’s Fix ALA.
By “Fix ALA” I don’t mean the conventional *cough, boring* way that I anticipate ALA will be simplified to continue…
Lindsay Cronk 