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You know what? I think I’ll stay for a while.
Ashleigh Coren on things that bring us pleasure and satisfaction in our work. “The things that make us happy and keep us going, even when we don’t want to. I want to talk about joy. The following is for the folks who have decided to stay in academia, the ones who might come back, and the newbies entering the profession.”


Trolls Gonna Troll: When Online Doxxers (try to) Come Get You
Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez’s account of an incident that occurred nearly two years ago in relation to her work with the LIS Microaggressions (LISM) project.

The Tragic Fall of Mike Hanlon: One of American Fiction’s Only Black Male Librarians is Re-Imagined… As a Drug Addict
Jason Alston on the issue of representation in media and how one of the only representations of Black male librarians was turned into a negative one to suit the limited imaginations of the white creators. He connects this to the very real lack of Black men in librarianship.