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  1. Sep 2023
    1. This activity is an invitation to thinkers of all levels of experience, knowledge, and vocation.

      People like me that have learned about this way for thinking and the challenge that is finding alike minds that want to explore and build this for the next generation. Sometimes the difference between a blue thought and a revolution is having who to talk to about it. How can we connect people working on the same problem how do you put in the same metaphorical room the people trying to push the envolope

  2. Dec 2019
  3. Nov 2019
    1. « Quel dommage que Simone ne soit pas un garçon : elle aurait fait Polytechnique ! » J’avais souvent entendu mes parents exhaler ce regret. Un polytechnicien, à leurs yeux, c’était quelqu’un. Mais mon sexe leur interdisait de si hautes ambitions et mon père me destina prudemment à l’administration : cependant il détestait les fonctionnaires, ces budgétivores, et c’est avec ressentiment qu’il me disait : « Toi au moins, tu auras une retraite ! » J’aggravai mon cas en optant pour le professorat ; pratiquement, il approuvait mon choix, mais il était loin d’y adhérer du fond du cœur.
  4. May 2018
    1. Their narratives of receiving the “call” to librarianship often fall right in line with Martin Luther’s description of vocation as the ways a person serves God and his neighbour through his work in the world.

      They also fall in line with things like the Hippocratic Oath, where ideals of professional ethics and norms are sworn upon entering a profession and treated as an oath in either a sacred or secular context. In a critical information literacy context, where many of our institutions within librarianship are admittedly flawed by our intrinsic biases (especially the colonialist and white biases of modern Western — especially USA — libraries), it becomes even more important to teach and discuss professional ethics as a counter to holding unrealistic ideas about what our profession is and does. http://www.ala.org/tools/ethics