January 17, 2018
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Slides and Notes

Resources & Readings

• Bathroom disruption opening slide from Twitter & article about app (and joke about previous app with same name)
• USPS facts
• The premature death of electronic mail by Ryan Ellis
• Uber on Their Own Accessibility vs. CNN on Uber's Accessibility. Uber marketshare numbers
• Buzzfeed on Blue Apron (and on their food waste vs packaging waste)
• original of "comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable"
• Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
• Median age of a Google employee is 29
• ADA Inclusion in libraries from American Libraries magazine
• ALA Fact sheet on library markets
• Google searches for librarian vs. information scientist
• ARL Article Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity: Members of the Association of Research Libraries
• Do Librarians Discriminate? by Mirco Tonin
• NPR: Can computers be racist and sexist?
• Publisher's Weekly: Why publishing is so white
• Critlib: critical librarianship
• We need diverse books
• The Innovation Fetish and Slow Librarianship: What Librarians Can Learn From the Juicero by Julia Glassman

Image Credits

• Noun project images: laptop/email by Stan Diers and envelope by ProSymbols
• Whale image from Internet Archive
• Bathroom key image from Bathroom Key Chronicles
• Libertyville librarian Diana Trinkleback demonstrating finger weaving
• Colossus computer image from Wikipedia
• Coelacanths
• Denton County Library Circ Desk from Flickr
• Librarian action figure
• Background image from Alexis Arnold
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