It’s Like Having a Really Good Manager
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a mid career faculty member who passed her full professor review and survived the NIH DMP rollout might look around and go, okay well, now what? Academia tends to have limited foci when it comes to mentoring and career directionality — academic librarianship moreso some days. If you don’t…
MLA and What Are You Signing Away
I’ve been asked to write up what my concerns are with the Medical Library Association (MLA) speaker agreements. This has come to the forefront again because a colleague was invited to speak for the data services specialization track and asked why I wasn’t on their speaker list. The response was “Abigail doesn’t like our contract”…
Call Me Re-Identified
This post is a write up and expansion of a short presentation I recently gave at the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship Online Conference. I am grateful to the IRDL Online planning committee and especially Marie Kennedy for giving me the space and the impetus to summarize this data and focus some thoughts. Also,…
EFT + 1 Year
It’s been a year since I first published the Executive Function Theft blog post. As of 9:30 p.m. on 8/13/24, I’m at 29,925 readers. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect when I put it out in the world. I was writing as many of us were leaving Twitter, which meant that the mechanism where…
Full Professor Hedgehog Librarian
As I blogged last summer, I submitted my dossier for promotion to full professor. I’m pleased to announce that the Board of Trustees voted recently and my name was on the final list! As of Now and Going Forward, my academic title is fully Professor.(1) This has been a lot of work over the past…
Book Review: Monsters A Fan’s Dilemma
What do we do with people who have made incredible art but who are horrible humans? My book group read Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer. The front half of the book is what I assume comes from the viral essay — a trip through some of the more recent and egregious examples of…
Always Wrong on Ambition – Sort of a Book Review
Did you know I am not nearly ambitious enough and simultaneously, I am far too ambitious? I am failing because I have not followed a rapid path where I go from librarian to dean with the attendant cross country moves; I am also failing because I actively write and present and reinvent my job. I am…
Book Review: Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski
The introduction and first four chapters of this book were excellent. From there it went rapidly and markedly downhill. I’d originally checked out Burnout from the library, but as I started reading it I realized that it was one of those rare books where I was going to need to mark it up as I…
#365Papers
Last year I watched as my friend-online-from-afar Esther posted regularly about articles she was reading using the #365Papers hashtag. I was very envious and also kept discovering new articles through what she was posting that was adding significantly to my To Read pile. So this year I want to try to play along and see…
Executive Function Theft
The phrase arrived in my head so completely formed and concrete that I couldn’t believe it wasn’t already established in the lexicon, but at least preliminary searches suggest it is not. Of the people I have said the phrase to thus far — mostly a very small group of local women and one Parisian-based knitter…
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