Violet Fox 🦊

📣 New zine! "Radical Books That Aren't a Slog : Leftist Book Recommendations for Newly Radical Folks." If you're a baby leftist looking for a place to start imagining new possibilities, here's 17 books to get you started! violetbfox.info/radicalbooks/ 📚

Really loving this Tiny Planet Tarot deck by @flopperpants.bsky.social! Inspired by DIY zine culture and populated by animals, it's a playful & fun approach to #tarot. www.kickstarter.com/projects/167...

Travel across North America learn how the efforts of a new generation of digital librarians are returning indigenous knowledge to its rightful stewards. See The Map That Roared and much more in this digital story from LF intern Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen. www.libraryfutures.net/post/indigen...

Not to brag, but I got to work with Thomas on this stellar project on Indigenous libraries, classification, preservation, and more! It's eye-opening AND gorgeous. Please click through! 📚

In celebration of Intersex Awareness Day, here is a shortlist of books celebrating intersex voices and stories. Can't get enough? Our Intersex Voices booklist is calling your name https://libbyapp.com/library/queerliblib/curated-1635415/page-1

SAY NO TO AI with our collection featuring prints, stickers, and a pre-order for t-shirts and sweatshirts. And I’ve also made the artwork free to download and use on your own. Print your own posters in a variety of sizes, all at the link below. alternatehistories.com/collections/...

Kelly, oh, my gods, have you seen Indian THRILLER? It is Something. www.youtube.com/watch?v=maoG...

The Pagans - Baba Yaga [Rochester, Minnesota, Garage] (1965) https://redd.it/1fz69zf https://youtu.be/Q-WSBdx0vjU

"We are past the phase of adopting industry-supplied hype (“AI is inevitable”) and are now in the phase of industry-supplied resistance. Industry loves a conversation. So long nothing changes or pauses while we’re having it." sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2026/...

Yes, agree that we should talk about this more. Library folks have had to figure out different ways to maintain and/or pay off these loans. For me, it took moving cross country, then into a library admin role and a spouse deployment to pay my balance I had since 2014. It shouldn’t be like this.

Shoutout to @violetbfox.bsky.social for pulling in some numbers for an issue a few of us (re: not enough of us) have been yelling about for a while now: The new limits on student loans are going to keep a lot more people out of librarianship - and in more debt, too. acrlog.org/2026/10/22/s...

I graduated from library school in 2008 and still owe over $35k in loans for it. ...that's how much I took out that long ago. That's how little the needle has moved. Imagine...now.

The only reason I was able to get my info sci degree was because I had the option to take classes as part of my work bennies. This is going to cause a lot of people that would become innovators and leaders in this field to not ever be able to enter it.

Based on the popular conference workshop, the ARLIS/NA PDC and Cataloging Advisory Committee announce 3 webinars focused on the nuances of cataloging art exhibition publications! Free for Members and $30 for non-members. Find the details and register on the events calendar: linktr.ee/arlisna

How do we sustain friendships in a world on fire? | Xtra Magazine xtramagazine.com/culture/book...

because it is relevant to my work, I have tried very hard to educate myself on how AI works, be fair and measured in how I evaluate it, and regularly test new tools to confirm or debunk my priors and tbh AI haters are just nailing it with less work like 99% of the time. keep at it folks

AI and LIS: Irresolvable Tensions? Panelists Andrea Baer, Jennifer Stubbs, Annie Sollinger, & Heidi Winkler examine professional tensions surrounding AI and speculate on what the future might bring. All part of our Symposium on Critical Tensions in LIS on October 29, 2026! Register at bit.ly/3W28Ti7

You know what doesn't get enough love? Horror short stories. From today through Halloween, I'll update this thread with Horror short story recommendations. Stuff you can read in a sitting while feeling like the shadows are watching.

Just read this crucial, thoughtful new article by @mishiebhat.bsky.social. "Why Do Academic Librarians of Color Stay in the Profession?" is a great question to ask; the survey provides some surprising results. Extremely worth a read! 📚 muse.jhu.edu/article/1002...

I'm back on the ACRLog to talk about how student loans are now even more challenging for librarians to receive & pay off, thanks to the Trump administration. 📚 acrlog.org/2026/10/22/s... Could you afford to pay $1,100/month? I'm certainly struggling to do so!

Tom Emmer is manufacturing outrage not just against our Somali community but also putting @repilhan.bsky.social 's life and citizenship at risk and the @startribune.com is his willing tool. Once Ilhan Omar's citizenship is called into question, ANYONE'S can be.

from me in portal: I wish academic libraries would stop being racist and power hungry but aside from that, here are factors that have influenced academic librarians of color to stay in the profession doi.org/10.1353/pla....

it's @prisonculture.bsky.social 's birthday!!! Please give to REBUILD, which she co-founded and is the ONLY place offering free therapy to formerly incarcerated people of color. www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil... MK's impact on my life is innumerable and I'm so grateful.

Quitting my job so I can write the 33 ⅓ book about the Flash Gordon soundtrack.

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

Musk would do this through those f*cking Trump Accounts they opened in every child's name without parental consent. I HATE these SO much. Parents cannot close the accounts. Parents cannot reject donations to the accounts. And we must hold on to donations for at least 5 years. I'm a state lawmaker.

Turned out all I needed to fix me was a trolley ride on a crisp autumn day.

How to Turn on the Surveillance Layer 👁️

ok fine New England autumn won me over

INALJ remains a treasure for the LIS profession! Keep sharing the word to support those looking for jobs in libraries and info science. 📚