A truly historic day - our second commencement... and the first ever BA graduation ceremony in any CT prison.

So proud of our grads, who built and continue to build this program. So grateful for the moving words of our commencement speaker, Claudia Rankine.

I had the great honor of attending Yale Prison Education Initiative and University of New Haven graduation and hearing the remarkable words of the graduates, each of them incarcerated. Hearing them speak about the power of education and learning reminds me of why I'm in my profession #collegeinprison

We're wrapping CALM 2024 at 3:30 ET with our closing session and keynote! We're pleased to welcome our Katherine Goldstein (Katherine Goldstein) of The Doubleshift (thedoubleshift.com/about) for her talk 'Our Job to Care: Bold Ideas and Concrete Solutions for Caregivers at Work.' #LibCALM

.Randall Horton, professor of English at #UNewHaven , read to a group of incarcerated women from his book #289-128 as part of a nonprofit initiative called 'Freedom Reads.' (via FOX 9) bit.ly/3WrXOoX

The #UNewHaven Prison Education Program and Yale Prison Education Initiative are collaborating to create transformative educational opportunities for incarcerated students. The Charger and local communities recently came together to support the program. bit.ly/4btIaOc

Hard to choose who from our farm gets featured in #PetsOfCALM but Soren here is the GOAT and said he gets dibs #LibCALM

It was a pleasure presenting at #LibCALM with Elizabeth Dill Our slides are available at qrco.de/CALMTRL with SIX pages of great comments and suggestions from CALM Conference attendees. If you didn't get a chance to share and want your comments added please DM me!

We're getting ready for our first group of concurrent #LibCALM sessions! Coming up at 2:45pm ET are sessions on creating a neuro-inclusive workplace, managing legacy toxicity, managing your team's workload, and emotional intelligence in the workplace.

What an opening keynote - Thank you to Silvia, Elaina, Danya, and Reece!

Our next sessions will begin at 2:45pm EDT. All session information is available on sched: calm2024.sched.com.

Take a quick break and we'll see you again in a few minutes!
#LibCALM

Members of the #UNewHaven community gathered for an event that offered students personal safety alarms free of charge. In addition to promoting #safety & #education , it helped build a sense of community, as well as offer support for victims of violence. bit.ly/3QFz0Xc

When your textbook, homework, and even quizzes are behind a paywall-- what happens when you cannot afford to pay?
It becomes almost impossible to pass your class.

Glad to see courts standing up against baseless censorship efforts.

The majority of book bans are categorically unfounded.

We must let young people and their families, not politicians and politically motivated factions, determine what they read.

What does the University Librarian do?

On a day-to-day basis, it’s about advocacy—being a champion for what libraries are and the impact we have. buff.ly/3ShD40S

So, I spoke to people getting food at a food bank and here are some things I learned from those in need:
1. Everyone donates Kraft Mac and Cheese in the box. They can rarely use it because it needs milk and butter which is hard to get from regular food banks.
2. Boxed milk is a

It was my great pleasure to deliver a keynote call to action against censorship at the closing of the American Academy of Pediatrics Conference this morning.

Information access is a human right and a healthcare imperative!

Remember all the things we said we learned during the pandemic? The need to focus on what matters? To slow down? To extend grace in the face of overwhelming uncertainty? Maybe it's time to reclaim those lessons. Take a step back. Remember, recenter, recommit.

welcome to book twitter! here are your knitting needles and Knives Out sweater. from 10:00am to noon we debate who was the best Hercule Poirot and from noon till bed we try to recover the euphoric feel of the Scholastic book fair.

*crab-walked

Thanks to Elizabeth Dill i'm now over on Blue Sky as caffeinebrarian.bsky.social

S. R. Ranganathan proposed the Five Laws of Library Science in 1931, detailing principles of operating a library:

1. Books are for use
2. Every person their book
3. Every book its reader
4. Save the time of the reader
5. A library is a growing organism

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_laws…