I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
NEVER AGAIN!!!
You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.
Join the most interesting and insightful discussions.
What you consume, you become:
• The books you read.
• The content you watch.
• The people you spend time with.
• The thoughts you feed your mind.
Choose wisely.
I'm late to this, but I wanted to say that I shared a couple of the components of your definition of research with my librarian colleagues, and one of them said we should make a big poster and post it on the front of the building. Questions, evidence, disciplinarity, community--all so vitally important. But I especially like your championing of research as activity that "lay" people can/do/should engage in, because I think at the core of librarianship, and at the basis of "the liberal arts" (broadly conceived, and for lack of a better term), is the goal of fostering and facilitating the kind of curiosity that's at the center of a pleasurable individual existence and a robust civic sphere. You've hit on a key aspect of the pedagogy involved in this too; I have the probably naive dream of helping every patron find that tiny thing they're fascinated enough and facilitating their autodidactic deep-dives, because I think those can be the threads that lead to the sociopolitical bedrock underlying, you know, everything. Never going to happen, but it's at least a way of keeping my eye on the ball and a little bit of hope while trying to exist in the deeply distressing information ecosystem we find ourselves in. All of which is to say, this is much appreciated.
