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KestrelSWard

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Librarian, writer, nerd, queer, nonbinary. (they/them) All opinions are my own. #Unions #FreedomToLearn #AcademicFreedom #LGBTQRights #DailyTransJoy
Currently interested in lgbtq archives and digital violence prevention. Actively looking for a remote work position in archives, libraries, or education.

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KestrelSWard , to academicchatter
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Finally remembering to post here, but my first peer reviewed paper was published a week or so ago! Many thanks to @Sophie for giving me the opportunity to write for the Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship and to my editors for helping guide me through the process! You can find it here! @academicchatter https://repository.lsu.edu/jcdl/vol3/iss1/5/

KestrelSWard , to random
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Listening to a webinar about how course material costs affect students other than simply financially, and one thing they touched on is the temporary nature of a lot of course materials these days. They're e-books that you rent and then get returned, or physical book rentals, or they're so expensive you have to sell them back to the bookstore to recoup the loss of money. And I hadn't really grokked how much mroe true this was now?

KestrelSWard OP ,
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Like, there was some of that when I was an undergrad 20 years ago, I certainly sold back some of my books. But ebooks and book rentals weren't as much of a thing, certainly not this current trend of "affordable access" publishers are doing where you pay a monthly fee for access and then when you stop paying the fee you lose access to that resource. And it just makes me really sad that students today are unable to hang onto useful course materials like I was able to.

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I certainly didn't keep every textbook, but I have a good box I've been carrying around for two decades, and just last month I pulled out one of my old Roman textbooks and gave it to my kid to do research on Rome for his social studies class because I knew it was a good basic resource for what he needed, and he didn't need the most cutting edge research or anything. But students of today won't be able to do that. @academicchatter

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@academicchatter As they pointed out in the webinar, this also discourages today's students from becoming lifelong deep learners, because they are conditioned to just think "I only need this resource long enough to pass this class then it is history" instead of "this is a good resource, I'd like to keep it around for the future to return to". @academicchatter

KestrelSWard , to academicchatter
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Oh, before I forget again, if anyone I know is interested in in any way and has been doing work with it and would like to present at this year's Florida OER Summit in May, we're soliciting proposals now! The website is: https://www.flvc.org/oersummit and the theme is innovation and trends. We have people from all over present at this virtual event, so visiting FL is not a necessity! @academicchatter

KestrelSWard , to bookstodon
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My son has downloaded Discord, which means I really can't put off having a comprehensive discussion about online safety with him anymore. We've had lots of small conversations about not trusting everything you see online and stuff, butI haven't been very good about more comprehensive education. I do better with a book to guide the convo, but all the ones I'm finding are from 2019 or earlier. Surely there are more recent books for kids? @bookstodon

KestrelSWard OP ,
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@ghpancardo @bookstodon he’s 12. I found a worksheet composed by kids for something, but it focuses more on technical security (still important!) than on netiquette and social safety.

KestrelSWard , to academicchatter
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Today I am discovering the wonderful world of Open Access APCs. I, a poor queer independent researcher, would like to publish my research open access because I believe it should be free to any who need it. The publication we were pointed to as being ideal for publishing our work....wants to charge over $3000USD. I thought I was misreading that at first, but no apparently not. @academicchatter

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@PaquitoBernard @academicchatter I don’t, I’m just starting to explore options right now!

KestrelSWard , to histodons
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I’m presenting at the Invisible Histories Project Queer History Teach in about my research, with research partner Evie Giaconia. Register for Fall 2023 Queer History Teach In! The Fall 2023 Queer History Teach In will take place on November 18th, 2023, from 11:00am - to 2:30pm hosted virtually. Registration link: https://bit.ly/2023TeachIn

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ml , to academicchatter
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For those who've built/found community here, what are the tools you find most effective in building community and being "findable" by others in your field, identity group, region, etc? @academicchatter

KestrelSWard ,
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@ml @academicchatter I've found the gupp.e groups like @academicchatter and @fiberarts to be really helpful in building community. Otherwise, it's just engaging with the people who engage with me through my instance. I find that mastodon has given me the highest ratio of responses to my posts of any platform I've ever been on. People here are chatty!

KestrelSWard , to histodons
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Hey @histodons any recommendations for new publications on FL LGBTQ+ history? Asking for our Florida History collection at my library.

clio , to histodons German
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Does anyone have access to issues of European Romantic Review, maybe via TandF? The libraries in the area don't have the journal and inter-library loans are not possible either. I am looking for two articles from 1997 and 1999. @histodons

KestrelSWard ,
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@clio @histodons We have 1998-2010 at my library, but they're in storage. If nobody else has them I could get them pulled from storage though.

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