I'll teach a class for-credit called Miscellaneous Thing You'll Need to Know that covers things such as:
- Cutting up really good scrap paper
- Administering Narcan in bathrooms
- Explaining a complicated principal of library science to a non-librarian coworker in under 15 seconds when they ask that you justify your decisions.
- Deescalating conflict
- Escalating conflicts
- Labor organizing skills
- Maintaining boundaries around what office supplies you'll let patrons use. Including: why rubber bands are a sacred, valuable, and non-renewable resource you must never give to a patron under any circumstance.
- What to do when a patron recognizes you outside of work
- Talking to the press without authorization from the administration in order to put pressure on the administration
- How to affect municipal elections without violating laws against participation of librarians in municipal elections
- The best self-defense weapons to keep at the reference desk and where to hide them
- How to stop people from stealing your disinfectant wipes fucking constantly
- Graphic design
- Marketing
- A guided meditation on finding contentment with your newfound status as a strange public community figure who is not allowed very much privacy and is inevitably easy to doxx.
- How to work three jobs at once.
- Let's learn how to be a library assistant even though that's not your job but you should know what they do.
- Managing vicarious trauma
- The best ways to use your status as a librarian to get people to do things for you for free
- How to shut down the people who are weirdly amazed when they hear what you do for work so that they don't force you to just talk endlessly about work when you're not at work and trying to not think about work for one fucking second of your life
- The best podcasts to help you fall asleep instead of thinking about work