A Genealogy of Refusal : Walking away from crisis and scarcity narratives

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  • 1974 Equal Pay PSA with Batgirl
    Will Batgirl save Batman and Robin from the bomb? Or will she stand for her rights and get the same pay as a man? If they say no to equal pay...bombs away!
  • 9 to 5 Trailer
    Trailer for the 1980 film, 9 to 5: Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.
  • A Paradise Built in Hell : The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
    The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides. A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster’s grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life. It points to a new vision of what society could become-one that is less authoritarian and fearful, more collaborative and local.
  • A Quirky, Funny and Inspirational Game - SAY NO! MORE Review
    A Quirky, Funny and Inspirational Game - SAY NO! MORE Review SAY NO! MORE is the world's first NPG (NO!-Playing Game). Play as an intern with a burning ...
  • All Systems Red
    Wells, Martha. 2017. All Systems Red : The Murderbot Diaries 01 01. https://marthawells.com/murderbot1.htm
  • All Systems Red Cover
    Cover Image of Martha Wells' All Systems Red featuring the murderbot character
  • 'All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace': Care and the Cybernetic University
    We can trace the histories of our schools, our beliefs and practices about teaching and learning, our disinvestment in public institutions, our investments in technological solutions to discover how and why we got here — to this moment where everything is falling apart and the solution (from certain quarters) is software that sounds like "panopticon." It's that last bit — the histories of our investment in technological solutions (and our faith in technological solutions even when they are obviously so utterly dystopian) — that is really the focus of my work.
  • An ode to campus libraries
    Get thee to thy school’s library, where superheroes await, magic unfolds and rare sanctuary can be found
  • Bartleby Owl
    Bartleby for a Critical Inquiry Class
  • Bartleby (1970 film)
    Bartleby is a 1970 British drama film directed by Anthony Friedman and starring Paul Scofield, John McEnery and Thorley Walters. It is an adaptation of the short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener; A Story of Wall-street" by Herman Melville.
  • Bartleby the Scrivener
    T Shirt Project
  • Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street
    Melville, Herman. 1853. Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11231 "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine. In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copies or do any other task required of him, with the words "I would prefer not to".
  • Bartleby the Scrivener
    Bartleby Illustration by Roberto Ricci
  • Becoming Librarians, Becoming Teachers: Kairos and Professional Identity
    Using kairos as an analytic lens, this article examines debates around the professional role of librarians as teachers as an example of professionalizing discourse.
  • Beyond books: Librarians on front line of opioid crisis
    County librarians are finding themselves responsible for responding to overdoses
  • Big U First Edition Cover
    Stephenson, Neal. 1984. The Big U. New York: Vintage. https://www.biblio.com/9780394723624.
  • Black Study, Black Struggle
    Robin D. G. Kelley, “Black Study, Black Struggle,” Text, Boston Review, March 7, 2016, https://bostonreview.net/forum/robin-d-g-kelley-black-study-black-struggle.
  • Bookmobile Bad Girl
    The Bookmobile Bad Girl image is an altered pulp cover (original title: Sin on Wheels) and is from “Professional Literature for Librarians” at simplebooklet.com
  • Call to Action: Public Libraries and the Opioid Crisis
    A webinar recording and additional information on the OCLC and Public Library Association call to action on how libraries can address the opioid crisis in their communities.
  • Canada Reads 2021: Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
    Hench will be championed by Paul Sun-Hyung Lee on Canada Reads 2021.
  • CAUT Almanac of Post-Secondary Education in Canada
    See table 3.8 Academic Librarians by Age, Sex and Average Salary, 2014-2015
  • Charged No! Video Gameplay Clip
    Clip of personal game play sequence . April 18, 2021.Studio Fizbin Say No! More: A NO! Playing Game. Thunderful. Accessed April 11, 2021.
  • Clerks film clip
    Kevin Smith. 1994. Clerks Movie CLIP - We’re So Advanced.
  • Clerks Movie CLIP - We're So Advanced (NSFW)
    After breaking into a fight and ruining the store, Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson) argue over the delusions of their life. FILM DESCRIPTION: When Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) is reluctantly put in charge of the Quick Stop market on his day off, he tries, though half-heartedly, to perform his minimum-wage duties as efficiently as possible. This gets tough amidst the on-going fight with his girlfriend, Veronica (Marilyn Ghigliotti), and his attempt to get back together with his ex-girlfriend, Caitlyn Bree (Lisa Spoonhauer). Meanwhile, his friend and alter ego Randall (Jeff Anderson) is working behind the counter of the adjacent video store -- at least when he feels like it. Randall's unabashed disdain of his place of employment, a long with his self-admitted hatred towards its customers is a sharp contrast to Dante's feeble attempts at the niceties of customer service. Much of the film consists of Randall and Dante's criticism of their customers, their lives, and the world in general. Clerks, filmed in black-and-white on a budget of only $27,000, began the career of writer director Kevin Smith.
  • Common Ground
    Common Ground by Charles Luna (2013 Painting - Oil On Canvas)
  • Company to Supply Free Narcan to Libraries
    Emergent BioSolutions, a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, announced October 24 that it is offering two free doses of the anti-overdose drug Narcan Nasal Spray (naloxone hydrochloride) to all 16,568 public library locations in the United States.
  • Compassion: “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville”
    Herman Melville (1819-1891), today hailed as one of America’s greatest writers, had in his own time a very mixed career. Some of his early sea-stories and…
  • Confronting the democratic discourse of librarianship : a Marxist approach
    Popowich, Sam. 2019. Confronting the Democratic Discourse of Librarianship : A Marxist Approach."
  • Constructing Crisis: Leaders, Crises and Claims of Urgency
    There is no such thing as a crisis. Rather than an actual, corporeal thing, a crisis is a claim asserted from a position of power and influence, intended to shape the understanding of others. A constructed crisis by a leader may or may not be legitimate, and, legitimate or not, the content of a claim alone does not determine whether people decide to believe it. Rather than viewing crises as the result of objective events, Spector demonstrates that leaders impose crises on organizations to strategically assert power and exert control. Interpreting crisis through a critical lens, this interdisciplinary book encompasses not just management and organizational literature, but also sociology, history, cognitive science, and psychology. The resulting wide-ranging, critical, and provocative analysis will appeal in particular to students and academics researching leadership and crisis management.
  • Cory Doctorow on technological immortality, the transporter problem, and fast-moving futures
    Cory Doctorow has made several careers out of thinking about the future, as a journalist and co-editor of Boing Boing, an activist with strong ties to the Creative Commons movement and the...
  • Disasters Don’t Have to End in Dystopias: The difference between utopia and dystopia isn't how well everything runs. It's about what happens when everything fails.
    Editorial by Cory Doctorow in WIRED magazine about bout the relationship between the science fiction stories we read and our real-world responses to disasters
  • Dismantling the public sphere : situating and sustaining librarianship in the age of the new public philosophy
    This work presents a thorough examination of librarianship and the social and economic contexts in which the profession and its institutions operate. As a basis of analysis, Buschman employs critical education scholarship and the research of German philosopher Jurgen Habermas, whose seminal work on the public sphere—the arena in which the public organizes itself and formulates public opinion—serves as a meta-framework for Buschman's study of librarianship. Buschman asserts that a significant shift has occurred from the library as a contributor to the public good to a model where economic rationality directs policy. He challenges much of the current thinking and assumptions guiding libraries, exploring the circumstances in which librarians and libraries operate and linking the profession back to democratic and public purposes as the core essence of the field. Chapters include: • Crisis Culture and the Need for a Defense of Librarianship in the Public Sphere • The New Public Philosophy and Critical Educational Analysis • The Public Sphere: Rounding Out the Context of Librarianship • Studies in Librarianship and the Dismantling of the Public Sphere • Follow the Money: Library Funding and Information Capitalism • Follow-the-Leader Library Management and the New Public Philosophy • On Customer Driven Librarianship • Drifting Toward the Corporate Model: ALA • Notes on Postmodern Technology, Technocracy, and Libraries • The Public Sphere and Democratic Possibility Highly recommended for courses in policy and librarianship, as well as for academic and public library directors, this work will also be of interest to theorists in the social sciences.
  • Distant Reading for Quick Insights
    April 22, 2020 Presentation at the US GOFAIR 3-part webinar: "Fighting COVID-19 by Mining Insights from Heterogeneous Datasets" Hosted on the Open Science Framework Slides 3-4 are about text mining library websites related to their COVID-19 closures. Only a minority came right out and said "We are closed"
  • Dolly Parton - 9 To 5
    Lyrics: Working 9 to 5, what a way to make a living Barely gettin' by, it's all taking and no giving They just use your mind and they never give you credit It's ...
  • Editorial: Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
    Simón, Ryan. 2019. “Editorial: Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street.” AMERICAN VULGARIA. April 21, 2019. https://americanvulgaria.com/bartleby-scrivener/.
  • Empty Presence: Library Labor, Prestige, and the MLS
    Seale, M., & Mirza, R. (2019). Empty Presence: Library Labor, Prestige, and the MLS. Library Trends 68(2), 252-268. doi:10.1353/lib.2019.0038.
  • Essential, Yet Disposable: How the Career Faculty FTE Cuts Impact Librarians
    At Unviersity of Oregon Career non-tenure-track faculty with contracts up for renewal in the 2020-21 academic year had their FTE cut in half, and have received 1-year contracts instead of 2- or 3-year contracts .
  • Faculty Compensation Survey Results
    AAUP. 2020-21 Faculty Compensation Survey Results. n.d. Accessed April 17, 2021.
  • Failure is an Option
    Fall 2020 Jacobin cover
  • Feminist Data Manifest-No
    The Manifest-No is a declaration of refusal and commitment. It refuses harmful data regimes and commits to new data futures.
  • Fictional Labor Unions in Science Fiction
    Organized labor makes science fiction writers nervous.
  • Gendered Expectations for Leadership in Libraries
    Despite significant gains in representation at the administration level, there is still a disparity between the percentage of women in our profession and women as library leaders. Additionally, even when women attain leadership roles, even top positions in libraries, there are still hurdles in the shape of gendered expectations. This article examines the history of gender representation in the field, discusses some recent trends, and then makes some recommendations for creating an environment in which women can succeed and how, more specifically, the profession could become more supportive of women in leadership roles.
  • Hench
    "Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. As a temp, she's just a cog in the machine. But when she finally gets a promising assignment, everything goes very wrong, and an encounter with the so-called 'hero' leaves her badly injured. So, of course, then she gets laid off. With no money and no mobility, with only her anger and internet research acumen, she discovers her suffering at the hands of a hero is far from unique. When people start listening to the story that her data tells, she realizes she might not be as powerless as she thinks. Because the key to everything is data: knowing how to collate it, how to manipulate it, and how to weaponize it."
  • Hocus Pocus
    Hocus Pocus, or What's the Hurry, Son? is a 1990 novel by Kurt Vonnegut about a professor, Eugene Debs Hartke, who is fired from his job as a college professor after having several of his witticisms surreptitiously recorded by the daughter of a popular conservative commentator. Eugene then becomes a teacher at a nearby overcrowded prison run by a Japanese corporation. His employer, and occasional acquaintance, is the prison's warden, Hiroshi Matsumoto. After a massive prison break, Eugene's former college is occupied by escapees from the prison, who take the staff hostage. Eventually the college is turned into a prison, since the old prison was destroyed in the breakout. Eugene is ordered to be the warden of the prison, but then becomes an inmate, presumably via the same type of "hocus pocus" that led to his dismissal from his professorship.
  • How Librarians Can Save The World
    Review of THIS BOOK IS OVERDUE: HOW LIBRARIANS AND CYBRARIANS CAN SAVE US ALLby Marilyn Johnson
  • I'm Not Your Hero - The Murderbot Diaries Animatic
    CONTENT WARNINGS: blood, guns, scopophobia, slight body horror and injuries (toned down in comparison to the books) i've watched this so many times that ...
  • A little reasonable
    "At the moment I'd prefer not to be a little reasonable" scene, film clip from Friedman's 1970 Bartleby
  • I'm Not Your Hero - The Murderbot Diaries Animatic
    CONTENT WARNINGS: blood, guns, scopophobia, slight body horror and injuries (toned down in comparison to the books) i've watched this so many times that at this point i have absolutely no idea if it'll even be coherent to anyone but me, let alone if it's any good. still, i put my heart and soul into it and i'm rly proud of it, so i hope you enjoy!!
  • Irreplaceable - personal game play clip from Say No! More
    Game play clip April 18, 2021 from Studio Fizbin. Say No! More: A NO! Playing Game. Thunderful. Accessed April 11, 2021. https://www.saynomo.re/.
  • It’s Not Imposter Syndrome: Resisting Self-Doubt as Normal For Library Workers
    "success risks jealousy, bullying, or being undermined within a competitive workforce, and that deferring to those higher up the ladder is part of the everyday emotional labour performed to manage the emotions of those with more power than ourselves. "an individualistic workplace can be isolating, controlling, and abusive. How can we advise workers to be vulnerable and authentic, if institutions replicating whiteness may in fact end up harming workers who express themselves with trust or authenticity?" "workplace policies can directly contribute to a culture of anxiety, uncertainty, stress, and internalized blame within their employees. The onus is on the worker to become resilient and less sensitive, gracefully absorbing harm for the comfort of the institution."
  • Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job And Shove It (Audio)
    Music video by Johnny Paycheck performing Take This Job And Shove It (Audio).
  • Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job And Shove It (Audio)
    Music video by Johnny Paycheck performing Take This Job And Shove It (Audio).
  • Junior Academic Costume
    Junior Academic Costume: Included Inability to Say No
  • First Lady Nancy Reagan speaking at a "Just Say No" rally in Los Angeles, 1987
    Photograph of Mrs. Reagan speaking at a "Just Say No" Rally in Los Angeles
  • Last Library
    Ward Shelley, Brooklyn NY The Last Library August 21 - October 16, 2015 The Last Library is 2 rooms full of about 4,000 (fake) books, books that have not been written. The rooms and the fake books are just supports for the text, but they are not neutral carriers. Apart from what they may individually be about, books and libraries are loaded with meaning in our culture just as symbols, and they represent many things to many people. As such, they add a certain kind of spin to the words we have written on them. You can say a lot with a few words. Where did the titles come from? There was a web page where people could submit titles; from there they were printed out on a book spine and put into the library. Like most creative projects, most of the titles came from a group of interested persons, the artist did a lot of them himself, but was not the most prolific.
  • Librarian Action Figure with cape
    Archie McPhee. 2017 “Librarian Action Figure.” Archie McPhee. Accessed April 13, 2021. https://mcphee.com/products/librarian-action-figure
  • Librarian Action Figure from Archie McPhee
    The world famous Nancy Pearl Librarian Action Figure with shushing action. https://mcphee.com/products/librarian-action-figure.
  • Librarians advocate closing campus libraries during coronavirus pandemic
    While many colleges and universities have closed their libraries, others say they can't operate without keeping them open.
  • Librarians of the World Unite!
    How the pandemic manifested labor solidarity at a rapid pace in one library system.
  • Libraries are an essential service. Give librarians the vaccine now | Opinion
    For America to return to full health, we need institutions like libraries ready to help us connect with who we are and to energize us for what is to come.
  • Libraries find themselves on the front lines of Michigan’s opioid crisis
    The opioid epidemic reaches every corner of life in our state. That includes libraries, where administrators and staff are figuring out the best response
  • Libraries, Librarians, and the Discourse of Fear
    This article presents examples of representations of libraries and librarians taken from modern popular culture, including popular film, television, and novels. Using Michel Foucault's approach to discourse, we assert that such representations are made possible by, and decoded within, the structures of a discourse of fear, a practice of speech and symbols that equates the control and fear of discourse in fundamental ways. The library as an institution falls squarely into the lived tensions of this discourse, and these tensions are made apparent in the themes of the threshold: the librarian as formidable gatekeeper between order and chaos, the other-worldliness of the library, the library as cathedral, the humiliation of the user, the power of surveillance, and the consequences of disrupting the sacred order of texts. The discourse of fear is a language and a vocabulary. It is a way of speaking about the library and the librarian that transcends any specific image or portrayal. Outside of the discourse of fear, such representations would not be recognizable as libraries or librarians at all.
  • Library workers fight for safer working conditions amid coronavirus pandemic
    Over the last month, the #closethelibraries campaign has called to close library buildings not only to the public but also to library staff.
  • Listening to Refusal: Opening Keynote
    Lanclos, Donna. 2019. “Listening to Refusal: Opening Keynote.” Presented at the APTconf, July 1. https://www.donnalanclos.com/listening-to-refusal-opening-keynote-for-aptconf-2019/.
  • Living a feminist life
    Showing how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist, Sara Ahmed highlights the ties between feminist theory and living a life that sustains it by building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship and discussing the figure of the feminist killjoy.
  • Lucy Superhero
    Ask A Librarian: We are Librarians We know the answers to Questions you didn't even know to ask
  • A Simple Tree
  • Ancestry Chart
    Genealogy of Refusal Ancestry Chart
  • Another Way of Looking (image)
  • Archive Paths Splash
    Splashscreen graphic featuring Ward Shelley's Archive Project photo
  • Bang the Drum All Day
    Rundgren Quote Excerpt image about Bang the Drum All Day
  • Bartleby as Owl
    Bartleby T Shirt Project by MimixMok
  • Bartleby Compendium Entry
    Bartleby the Scrivener, Petty God of Inactivity
  • Bartleby Let it Be
    Frame Capture from Friedman's Bartleby (1970)
  • Bartleby at Wall
    Bartleby for Critical Inquiry Class by frisca-freak
  • Bartleby's Wall
    Frame Capture from Friedman's Bartleby (1970)
  • Common Ground
    Oil on Canvas Painting
  • Cover of This Book is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save us All
    Marilyn Johnson, “This Book Is Overdue!,” HarperCollins, 2010, https://www.harpercollins.com/products/this-book-is-overdue-marilyn-johnson.
  • COWL Illustration
    C.O.W.L. The Chicago Organized Workers League C.O.W.L. Principles of Power Chapter 1 Motivation
  • DCTerms Driven Timeline (image)
  • Dilbert - Sunday July 15, 2012
    DILBERT © 2012 Scott Adams, Inc. Used By permission of ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION. All rights reserved.
  • (No title)
  • Doctorow Splash
    Splashscreen graphic featuring Excerpt from Disasters don't have to end in distopias and painting Sinking of the Titanic
  • Elinguation Excerpt
    Morgenstern, Erin. 2019. The Starless Sea. New York: Anchor Books. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/535366/the-starless-sea-by-erin-morgenstern/.
  • Genealogy_of_Refusal_Diagram
    Image of the Genealogy of Refusal Diagram
  • Google Search Screenshot
    A google search for "Superhero librarian" returns a shocking number of results. Screenshot taken by authors.
  • Hocus Pocus cover art
    Vonnegut, Kurt. 1990. Hocus Pocus. Putnam.
  • I'm a librarian not a member of the National Guard or FEMA
    Panel from Librarians of the World Unite!
  • Leaderboard Excerpt
    Doctorow on from Verge on leaderboard system in collective and how tech can pit "us against us" interview with Tasha Robinson
  • Library Super Hero Trading Cards
    An example of a librarain reimagined as a superhero.
  • Library Superhero Action Figure
    Nancy Pearl as a superhero, flying through the sky
  • Listy Texty Genealogy
  • Nancy Pearl Official Action Figure
    Owned by two of the authors.
  • Network of Refusal (image)
  • No.
    Screenshot of Sarah Ahmed's "No"
  • The No Manifesto, Rainer's declaration in opposition to the dominant forms of dance
    Rainer, Yvonne. "Some Retrospective Notes on a Dance for 10 People and 12 Mattresses Called "Parts of Some Sextets," Performed at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, and Judson Memorial Church, New York, in March, 1965." The Tulane Drama Review 10, no. 2 (1965): 168-78. Accessed April 1, 2021. doi:10.2307/1125242.
  • Office Space Bare Minimum Meme
    If you think the bare minimum is enough, then ok. But some people choose to do more and we encourage that...
  • Ahem Rabbit
  • Radial layout screenshot
  • Resilience Tweet
    Tweet sent via an anonymous account about resilience narrative. A user responds that they were fired for wanting to "do less with less."
  • Say No! More Teaser
  • Should You Take on a Project?: A Flowchart
    A flowchart to assist in decision-making about whether or not to take on a project.
  • SayNo!More Screenshot
    Screenshot of Say No! More screen
  • She's not a Paramedic . . . She's just a teen-adult librarian and saved six people
    Kowalski excerpt
  • Ssssshh Librarian
    Holland, Dean. 2015. “Ron & Jammy.” Deedle-Dee Productions, Fremulon, 3 Arts Entertainment.
  • Starless Sea Excerpt
    Morgenstern, Erin. 2019. The Starless Sea. New York: Anchor Books. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/535366/the-starless-sea-by-erin-morgenstern/.
  • Stop saying hero
    Tweet in favor of closing the library because the word hero, in a pandemic, is synonymous to a 'person I’m willing to let die for my own convenience'
  • RandellBaze' Not a hero tweet
    Baze, Randell. 2021. “Randell Baze on Twitter.” Twitter. 08 2021. https://twitter.com/RandellBaze/status/1380260369768194052.
  • Vaccine against the virus of mistrust
    Excerpt from Disasters don't have to end in distopias
  • Vaccine against the Virus of Mistrust
    Splashscreen graphic featuring Excerpt from Disasters don't have to end in distopias and painting Sinking of the Titanic
  • Wellspring
    Oil on Canvas Painting
  • What We Do in a Crisis
    Doctorow on Solnit and What we Do in a crisis, from Verge interview with Tasha Robinson
  • What's Important? (image)
  • Where are you going Bartleby
    Frame Capture from Friedman's Bartleby (1970)
  • Worker Solidarity
    A four pane excerpt from “Librarians of the World Unite!” The Nib. June 17, 2020. https://thenib.com/librarians-of-the-world-unite/.
  • YES MANIFESTO
    Ingvartsen, Mette. 2004. “50/50: YES MANIFESTO.” Mette Ingvartsen. 2004. https://www.metteingvartsen.net/performance/5050/
  • Most Libraries Are Closed. Some Librarians Still Have to Go In.
    Though many public libraries in the U.S. are completely shut, employees at some are concerned that they have been asked to continue showing up for work.
  • Murderbot Diaries. All systems red : the Murderbot diaries 01 01
    Martha Wells, Murderbot Diaries. All Systems Red : The Murderbot Diaries 01 01, 2017.
  • A notice on the bathroom door
    There's a domino effect when it comes to constructed scarcity that's so hard to stop it becomes ridiculous pretty fast. Solution? Rules, signs, rarely abundance.
  • Nice White Lady
    Leddy, Bruce. 2007. MADTV S12E15 Oscar Special: Nice White Lady. Comedy, Reality-TV, Talk-Show.(Aired 2007-02-24)
  • No
    No a short word; a snap, perhaps. No as negative speech; a complaint. No what you say when you do not want to proceed; when you do not agree to something. No as an address; delivered to a person or…
  • NO.
    Video was made on behalf of Thunderful Publishing as an advertisement for the video game Say No! More.
  • No
  • No
    Full "No" post by Sarah Ahmed.
  • No more heroes : grassroots challenges to the savior mentality
    Jordan Flaherty, No More Heroes : Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality, 2017.
  • Octavia's Brood
    Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought twenty of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change.
  • Once It Was Overdue Books. Now Librarians Fight Overdoses. - The New York Times
  • Parks and Recreation
    Wikipedia Page for Parks and Recreation
  • Parks and Recreation Recap: Holy 2017! Unholy Tammy!
    Back to the future! Parks and Recreation show has sped ahead to 2017. (Because, you know, Amy Poehler would rather not work with babies.)
  • Party Girl
    Mayer, Daisy von Scherler. 1995. Party Girl. Comedy. Party Productions.
  • Party Girl: Mary Gets Fired
    Clip of Scene related to gender in Mayer, Daisy von Scherler. 1995. Party Girl. Comedy. Party Productions.
  • Paul Giamatti in Conversation with Andrew Delbanco
    Paul Giamatti in Conversation with Andrew Delbanco. 2020. 92YNOW. New York, NY: 92nd Street Y. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbDDIbI9BtA&feature=emb_logo.
  • Paul Giamatti Prefers to Read Melville
    The actor recorded “Bartleby, the Scrivener” on his smartphone during the pandemic.
  • Petty Gods: Revised & Expanded Edition
  • Proactive Career Advancement Strategies for Librarians
    The Proactive Career Advancement Strategies for Librarians image is an altered pulp cover from “Professional Literature for Librarians” at simplebooklet.com
  • Professional Library Literature
    Library Literature Worth Reading
  • US Academic Library Response to COVID19 Survey. 2020
    Hinchliffe, Lisa Janicke, and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg. 2020. “US Academic Library Response to COVID19 Survey.” Public Document of Links - US Academic Library Response to COVID19 Survey. 2020. https://tinyurl.com/covidlibrary.
  • Public Libraries Respond to COVID-19: Free Webinar Series
    Public Libraries Respond to COVID-19: Innovative Solutions in Times of CrisisPublic libraries are ever evolving to meet the needs of their communities. When doors are closed, how are libraries evolving to meet patrons where they are? What about planning for what comes next? Participants of this webinar will hear examples from library staff who have responded to this time of crisis with innovative solutions to services and programs.
  • 'Punk Ass Book Jockeys’: Library Anxiety in Community and Parks & Recreation
  • Q&A with Chera Kowalski of the Free Library of Philadelphia
    In her 2017 TEDMED Talk, Chera Kowalski shared what it was like to work at the McPherson Square Library, situated in Philadelphia’s “Needle Park,” where she and other staff members played the dual roles of librarian and lifesaver in a community stricken by the opioid crisis. We talked with Chera to learn more about her … Continue reading "Q&A with Chera Kowalski of the Free Library of Philadelphia"
  • QualityLand
    Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for everyone and helps with the break up when your ideal match (frequently) changes. And the foolproof algorithms of the biggest, most successful company in the world, TheShop, know what you want before you do and conveniently deliver to your doorstep before you even order it. In QualityCity, Peter Jobless is a machine scrapper who can't quite bring himself to destroy the imperfect machines sent his way, and has become the unwitting leader of a band of robotic misfits hidden in his home and workplace. One day, Peter receives a product from TheShop that he absolutely, positively knows he does not want, and which he decides, at great personal cost, to return. The only problem: doing so means proving the perfect algorithm of TheShop wrong, calling into question the very foundations of QualityLand itself. Qualityland, Marc-Uwe Kling's first book to be translated into English, is a brilliantly clever, illuminating satire in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and George Orwell that offers a visionary, frightening, and all-too funny glimpse at a near future we may be hurtling toward faster than it's at all comfortable to admit. So why delay any longer? TheShop already knows you're going to love this book. You may as well head to the cash register, crack the covers, and see why that is for yourself.
  • Reference Tramp
    The Reference Tramp image is an altered pulp cover and is from “Professional Literature for Librarians” at simplebooklet.com
  • Refusing the University.
  • Report Update: BIPOC, Low Morale, & COVID-19 (February 2021)
    Last April I shared Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)- centered results of my ongoing survey on the impact of COVID-19 on low-morale experiences. As a follow-up – and in tandem w…
  • resilience-grit-and-other-lies-acrl-2017.pdf
  • Resistance is Futile: On the Under-Representation of Unions in Science Fiction
    This article surveys science fiction (SF) since 1980, and queries the conspicuous under-representation of recognizable images of unions in popular SF, which includes, in contrast, numerous images and narratives of corporate business. According to theories of unionism, science fiction studies and Mark Fisher’s theory of “capitalist realism,” the co-authors theorize this pattern of under-representation, and, in the process, identify and analyze a very small but diverse body of SF works from this period that do include images of unions, in ways that range from the symptomatic to the radically suggestive.
  • Resisting Achievement Culture with Slow Librarianship
    Meredith Farkas had achieved more by age thirty than she'd expected in her whole career, yet she never felt like she was doing enough. She didn't realize at the time that she was chasing something that could never come from career achievement: a feeling of enoughness. Meredith will share the ways achievement culture turns organizations toxic, encourages overwork, and keeps people chasing external validation. Slow librarianship presents an approach that rejects achievement culture and focuses on values-driven work, process over product, and gratitude-focused reflective practice. This presentation will explore strategies to support well-being, inspire workplace empowerment, and spark career clarity.
  • Resisting the Call of Exceptionalism
    In this world, you better know who is going to show up for you in a fight + some things I hope you will read when you get a chance.
  • Responding to and reimagining resilience in academic libraries
    This article briefly introduces library staff to the concept of resilience, beginning with its origins and how it came to academic libraries. The authors posit that the resilience narrative obscures structural issues, particularly those relating to socioeconomic status, and shifts responsibility to library workers who must then overcome barriers to success. The authors challenge the concept of resilience as used in library workplaces, offer potential responses to it from library workers and supervisors, and conclude that applying resilience in and to libraries causes more harm than good.
  • Say No! More - A Short Making Of
    In a world where everyone sticks to the status quo of saying “YES”, create your own custom character and take on the role of an intern on a mission to change ...
  • Say No! More - Story Trailer
    Say No! More is a story game about saying "No!" and a stolen lunchbox. Defend yourself against mean colleagues and bosses, find mixtapes, discover the ...
  • Say No! More official page
    Say No! More is the world’s first NPG (NO!-Playing Game). In a world where everyone sticks to the status quo of saying “YES” take on the role of an intern on a mission to change the world with the positive power of NO! With this new power nothing will get in your way as you shout NO! at any absurd requests fired your way.
  • Sinking of the Titanic
    Sinking of the Titanic, after 1912, oil on glass with mother-of-pearl collage, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson, 1986.65.152
  • Still Asking the Embarassing Questions
    Hartke is a graduate of West Point and a veteran of the Vietnam War, a thoughtful but not tormented man who killed many human beings on the orders of his Government and dispensed many official lies as an information officer. After leaving Vietnam and the Army he becomes a teacher at Tarkington College in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, a gentle institution that specializes in nurturing the dyslexic and moronic sons and daughters of the ruling class. After years of pleasant academic rustication, Hartke is fired from the college at the behest of a right-wing television demagogue who feels that Hartke is too pessimistic. Pessimism, as everyone knows and as the board of trustees reminds him, is un-American and probably even anti-American.
  • Tea Time With Bartleby
    Tea Time Scene from Friedman's Bartleby
  • Techno-humanity paintings: art as social commentary in the digital age
    My thesis paintings utilize narrative to convey social commentary related to humanity in the Information Age. During the early part of the new millennium, I have found the social assimilation of digital media tools and systems, along with the collective beliefs and behaviors associated with them, to be both fascinating and disconcerting. Through my art I endeavor to express the paradoxical relationship between the established social benefits of information technology (IT) and its questionable effects on humanity. The work allegorically mingles the socially normalized with the absurd suggesting implicit dissonance underlying explicit harmony. The atypical integration of personal imagery with both historical and contemporary iconography is designed to evoke divergent contextual associations of the subject matter. Through these conceptual mechanisms the work encourages reflection regarding the cultural influence of IT in society.
  • Technology, Self-Determination, and the Future of the Future
    Cory Doctorow's Feb 17 2021 EFF talk for Purdue's CERIAS seminar
  • The Archive of Everything
    Webarchive's snapshot of Ward Shelley, artist's personal web page forThe Archives Projects as hosted at http://www.wardshelley.com/archive/archive.htm)
  • The Big U
    Neal Stephenson, The Big U (New York: Vintage, 1984), https://www.biblio.com/9780394723624.
  • The Big U
  • The critical role librarians play in the opioid crisis
    According to Chera Kowalski, "public libraries have always been more than just books." Chera sees libraries as civic institutions that must be able to respond to the needs of their communities. And at Philadelphia's McPherson Square Library, where Chera worked, responding to the needs of the community meant being trained and able to administer the overdose-reversing drug, Narcan. Watch Chera's 2017 TEDMED Talk to learn what it was like to work at a public library at the center of Philadelphia's opioid epidemic and why she believes that a library must serve as a judgement-free haven for the entire community.
  • The Dangers of Cynical Sci-Fi Disaster Stories
    Cory Doctorow,  “The Dangers of Cynical Sci-Fi Disaster Stories.” Slate Magazine. October 13, 2020. New stories will help us understand the importance of seizing the means of computation and using it to build movements that break up monopolies, fight oligarchy, and demand pluralistic, shared power for a pluralistic, shared world.
  • The History of the Librarian Action Figure and Nancy Pearl.
    “The History of the Librarian Action Figure and Nancy Pearl.” n.d. Archie McPhee. Accessed April 13, 2021. https://mcphee.com/pages/history-of-the-librarian-action-figure.)"
  • The League [Kyle Higgins Short film].
    In 1946 the country is introduced to the first ever Superhero Labor Union.
  • The Left Hand of Darkness
    Le Guin, Ursula K. Left Hand of Darkness: 50th Anniversary Edition. New York: Ace, 2019.
  • The Low Morale Experience of Academic Librarians: A Phenomenological Study
    A dynamic body of knowledge about workplace bullying and burnout in academic libraries exists; however, there is a significant shortage of library and information science (LIS) literature regarding the related problem of low morale in any library environment; additionally, literature focusing on workplace bullying and burnout is quantitative, limiting insight into the animate experience of these events and inquiry into associated long-term effects. A phenomenological study was conducted to understand academic librarians' experience of low morale. Emergent themes connected workplace abuse, mental and physical health impacts, systemic influences, and the long-term consequences of low morale on LIS career trajectories.
  • The Mother of All Questions
  • The Neoliberal University Is Failing on Coronavirus
    With days before the fall semester, Marquette University is sending its workers and students into harm’s way. And without a faculty union, administrators and trustees are accountable to no one for the damage they’re doing.
  • The Opioid Crisis and Administering Narcan in Libraries
  • The opioid epidemic is so bad that librarians are learning how to treat overdoses
    Library staff members are taking on the role of first responder in drug overdoses as the opioid epidemic infiltrates yet another corner of daily life.
  • The politics of refusal: Aboriginal sovereignty and the Northern Gateway pipeline
    Key Messages Claims of Aboriginal sovereignty over territory crossed by proposed pipeline are substantive and practised, and well-grounded in Canadian law. Aboriginal presentations to the Joint Review Panel are examples of a politics of refusal based in Aboriginal knowledge, governance, experience, and perspective, rather than merely a response to a specific proposal. Geographic research on natural resource development would benefit from more incorporation of Aboriginal theory.
  • The Public Librarian Low-Morale Experience: A Qualitative Study
  • The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work
    "Paid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today's work centered world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community. The grim reality of a society in which some are overworked, whilst others are condemned to intermittent work and unemployment, is progressively more difficult to tolerate. In this thought provoking book, David Frayne questions the central place of work in mainstream political visions of the future, laying bare the ways in which economic demands colonise our lives and priorities. Drawing on his original research into the lives of people who are actively resisting nine-to-five employment, Frayne asks what motivates these people to disconnect from work, whether or not their resistance is futile, and whether they might have the capaciity to inspire an alternative form of development, based on a reduction and social redistribution of work. A crucial dissection of the work-centred nature of modern society and emerging resistance to it, 'The Refusal of Work' is a bold call for a more humane and sustainable vision of social progress"
  • The Shock Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
    Klein, Naomi. 2007. The Shock Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Toronto, Canada: AA Knopf. 978-0-676-97800-1. https://naomiklein.org/the-shock-doctrine/
  • The Starless Sea
    Morgenstern, Erin. 2019. The Starless Sea. New York: Anchor Books.
  • The Starless Sea: A Novel
    Morgenstern, Erin. The Starless Sea. New York: Anchor Books, 2019. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/535366/the-starless-sea-by-erin-morgenstern/.
  • The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)
    "The War of the Worlds" is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898).
  • Todd Rundgren explains why he’s never taken the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame seriously
    Nolasco, Stephanie. 2019. “Todd Rundgren Explains Why He’s Never Taken the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Seriously.” Text.Article. Fox News. Fox News. December 13, 2019. https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/todd-rundgren-rock-roll-hall-of-fame.
  • Todd Rundgren Play Like A Champion Concert: Bang The Drum All Day
    Todd Rundgren's Play Like A Champion Concert featured over 30 Notre Dame undergraduate students performing 18 songs with Todd
  • Trabian Shorters: Define People by Their Aspirations, Not Their Challenges
    Trabian Shorters: Define People by Their Aspirations, Not Their Challenges, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O04CuqStRvM&feature=emb_logo.
  • Unions 101: What Library Unions do - and don't do - for workers
    Library unions are as diverse as libraries themselves. The landscape is complex, but this overview looks at the commonalities all library workers should know.
  • Unions in Public and Academic Libraries
  • US Academic Library Response to COVID19 Survey
  • Using the Distant Reader to Text Mine the US Academic Library Response to COVID19
    Meyers, N. K., Morgan, E. L., and Molik, D. “Distant Reading for Quick Insights” Presentation at the US GOFAIR 3-part webinar: "Fighting COVID-19 by Mining Insights from Heterogeneous Datasets" (April 22, 2020): doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/DTZC8, Available at osf.io/dtzc8
  • Visions, needs and requirements for Future Research Environments: An Exploration with Computer Scientist and Science Fiction Author Cory Doctorow
    We live in remarkable times: the world is changing at an increasing pace, our societies face challenges that extend across national and geographical borders, and we are flooded with (dis)information. The scientific process has already changed extraordinarily in the past half century with research environments evolving from isolated and loosely connected islands to dense networks of researcher and institutional cooperation. In order to develop and explore visions for research, science and society that give us ways into desirable futures an exploration series to consider different perspectives on how research will be conducted in the future was launched. This document contains the interview with Computer Scientist and Science Fiction Author Cory Doctorow.
  • Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves
    Vocational awe describes the set of ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries as institutions are inherently good, sacred notions, and therefore beyond critique. I argue that the concept of vocational awe directly correlates to problems within librarianship like burnout and low salary. This article aims to describe the phenomenon and its effects on library philosophies and practices so that they may be recognized and deconstructed.
  • Walkaway
    Doctorow, Cory. 2017. Walkaway. New York: Tor Books.
  • Walkaway
    Doctorow, Cory. 2017. Walkaway. New York: Tor Books. https://craphound.com/category/walkaway/
  • Welcome to the Cyberpunk Dystopia
    Zaidi, Leah. 2021. “Welcome to the Cyberpunk Dystopia.” Presented at the FITC Sessions, March 11. http://fitc.ca/event/cyberpunk/.
  • Wellspring
    True love is transcendent. Painting Oil on Canvas
  • What We Do in a Crisis
  • What’s Wrong with Digital Stewardship: Evaluating the Organization of Digital Preservation Programs from Practitioners’ Perspectives
  • Who's the One Left Saying Sorry? Gender/tech/librarianship
    A reflection on overpromising as a pattern in library technology and teh gender dynamics of who's left apologizing.
  • Workin' 9 To 5
    In this episode of Planet Money we meet the women behind the movement that inspired the movie. And a look at how far we have — or haven't — come since then.
  • WTF is a Radical Librarian, Anyway?
    Librarianship, education, activism, and all the intersections in between
  • YES MANIFESTO
    Ingvartsen, Mette. 2004. “50/50: YES MANIFESTO.” https://www.metteingvartsen.net/performance/5050/.

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