The job interview to become a public defender in Minnesota requires you to explain your personal philosophy on all of these exact issues in detail. Loved hearing yours, not enough people talk about this stuff publicly.
I am in awe of how serendipitous this issue is - I just signed up last week to start volunteering again with a similar organization in Chicago. In many ways, I think organizations like this (and my money and/or time) contributes more to the ideological sharing of information more than any of the professional librarian work I've done, and since that's why I got into the field in the first place I keep donating. Thank you for sharing, and adding nuance to incredibly complicated ethical issues.
oh hey that's awesome! it's so hard to measure impact — i am positive your professional work has had impacts you'll never hear about! — but i feel like this volunteering is certainly reaching a different population, and one that might not otherwise have much access to info. in any case i imagine the org you're volunteering with is happy to have your time and your expertise! (i sometimes wonder if i'd be more helpful if i knew anything about the library sciences...)
I don't know - I have a whole book somewhere inside of me about impact and the types of libraries I've worked at (never public, which I think would be a different story), but that being said I think I can almost guarantee that academic study in the library sciences wouldn't add very much on top of the expertise you already have as an academic and a reader, ha. If anything, I'd recommend a continuing education class in readers' advisory - U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Library Juice Academy both have great (and somewhat reasonably priced) classes, and I would bet a lot of money UW does too if you ever wanted to explore that side of things?
The job interview to become a public defender in Minnesota requires you to explain your personal philosophy on all of these exact issues in detail. Loved hearing yours, not enough people talk about this stuff publicly.
I just wanted to let you know I had several interesting conversations with people this week because of your newsletter
thank you elinor -- that means so much to me! 🧡 (p.s. please give fen a pat from me)
omg you know about Fen! I will, he appreciates all his fans : )
I am in awe of how serendipitous this issue is - I just signed up last week to start volunteering again with a similar organization in Chicago. In many ways, I think organizations like this (and my money and/or time) contributes more to the ideological sharing of information more than any of the professional librarian work I've done, and since that's why I got into the field in the first place I keep donating. Thank you for sharing, and adding nuance to incredibly complicated ethical issues.
oh hey that's awesome! it's so hard to measure impact — i am positive your professional work has had impacts you'll never hear about! — but i feel like this volunteering is certainly reaching a different population, and one that might not otherwise have much access to info. in any case i imagine the org you're volunteering with is happy to have your time and your expertise! (i sometimes wonder if i'd be more helpful if i knew anything about the library sciences...)
I don't know - I have a whole book somewhere inside of me about impact and the types of libraries I've worked at (never public, which I think would be a different story), but that being said I think I can almost guarantee that academic study in the library sciences wouldn't add very much on top of the expertise you already have as an academic and a reader, ha. If anything, I'd recommend a continuing education class in readers' advisory - U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Library Juice Academy both have great (and somewhat reasonably priced) classes, and I would bet a lot of money UW does too if you ever wanted to explore that side of things?