CUNY Academic Commons | Robin Brown | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/rbrown/activity/ Activity feed for Robin Brown. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 3011d821e936c4a1a6033d318f896054 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=275 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:12:55 -0400 Transitioning to a new blogI will be leaving CUNY shortly.  So I have decided to create a new platform.   Please visit me there  Bookmark it.

]]> 4296ccf77eb00fa550657092123e48ea Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=273 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:01:27 -0400 The Color of AngelsFirst I need to own who I am.  I am a white woman, I am 62. I was born with cerebral palsy.  I have been remarkably high functioning until a […]

]]> 043b6582592cc71aa767d5b43cf716b0 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=270 Tue, 27 Feb 2024 21:16:55 -0500 A Painful DecisionA Painful Decision  In the Fall of 1994, I was newly pregnant. I was working as a part time librarian at my local graduate school […]

]]> ff5b548c2e6edfb8f07510d7b8569110 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=268 Sat, 24 Feb 2024 00:59:32 -0500 A Lifesaving ChoiceOn Thursday I got an appointment with the ALS Clinic at Columbia. I asked my new doctor, Dr. Harms, about my prognosis.  What he said really […]

]]> ea8d9a32a3739e6c4187e44a33f9da30 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=266 Wed, 07 Feb 2024 16:53:13 -0500 I don't knowI don’t know.  Many of you have already heard the first part of this story.  On 6/12/23 my husband was out of town,  I was rushing home […]

]]> 7284fe2014df14f20ba32dbb817fa9b2 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=264 Sat, 29 Jul 2023 11:18:31 -0400 The complaint committeeI am so grateful for the love and support that I have gotten from you all during this season. I am out of the sling.  The plan is to go […]

]]> 8913edf87c6fb3b7284eb6f862f1d868 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=261 Mon, 03 Jul 2023 18:48:45 -0400 Stage 27/3/23 I am really grateful for the number of people who have expressed concern and best wishes for my well being.  So what follows is a […]

]]> d22848f728b2dc3f01720cb090f90373 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=257 Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:01:55 -0400 Never take anything for grantedNot taking anything for granted. I would love to have all of my friends and family to take a moment and recognize that they are what we call […]

]]> 5736c0c87b85560ba64f935b93c61bb9 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=255 Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:58:42 -0400 A couple months before my library opened last summer I began having muscle spasms in my lower back doing chores in the kitchen at the end of the day. I began to improve when my library opened. I felt better when I […]

]]> 6b054e826712eaaa08012a627726f8d9 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=248 Wed, 15 Dec 2021 21:46:54 -0500 I guess  the story begins with overall  muscle weakness.  As I have said before, the inactivity of the pandemic  was not good for my back.  I became hunched over.  There have been a series  of problems this y […]

]]> 7c8b0bbcbc81901eb3ff82b944d08de9 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=244 Sat, 06 Nov 2021 12:31:38 -0400 This article really rocked me this morning:
With a Baby on the Way, It Was Time to Embrace My Disability

To those who don’t know, I am a “recovering parent.” My child is 26 and we are very proud of them, they […]

]]> c53718d19753470821019f07c02b2eb3 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=236 Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:29:07 -0400 My journey to my Library is mind boggling.  Most of the first mile is on foot. 2 train systems. Then about a half mile to campus. Getting up from my office desk to go to the bathroom, and do public service. When […]

]]> ef0977715675d194c4b0241475d55ec3 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=233 Thu, 22 Jul 2021 15:15:24 -0400 Greetings from the mid-summer. Given that travel is now possible, many of my friends and colleagues are traveling to the Caribbean or Europe, or wherever. This has reminded me that my spouse and I are not […]

]]> ea11947d0884bdce4b9e0efce08442bd Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=228 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 18:41:01 -0400 I want to really recommend this Ted talk on the consciousness gap in education:
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOrgf3wTUbo 
 
When I saw it I was reminded of my deep commitment to anti-racism.  I be […]

]]> 43a175fc0c1e84d68607a5c05395470a Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=225 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:01:48 -0400 I am delighted and very grateful to announce that our book “Seeking to understand: a journey into disabilities studies and libraries” is now available for sale. I continue to be grateful for the remarkable journey […]

]]> d80ff9d39acfc03ce9e27dfc2346b683 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=222 Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:54:14 -0500 Grant, Adam (2021). Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You don’t Know. Viking.
When I picked this up I thought it was going to be about fake news. It’s not about figuring out whether information is reliable. […]

]]> 109e0300a3150dde16e438f0a7317967 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=220 Tue, 02 Mar 2021 20:32:12 -0500 This article was recently highlighted by the New York Times, so it’s possible that some of you have seen it already.

It’s interesting reading. They consider how our economy is going to change as we emerge from […]

]]> 86673bc0a753020523d85e2ab259e68e Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=217 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:42:10 -0500 I have already said that I think we should all be contacting our representatives regarding HR 40, the bill for studying the creation of structure to provide reparations for the descendants of enslaved […]

]]> c80804f06a1f67d71ebf41108d4ee95b Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=215 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:13:37 -0500       One of the lens through which I look at life, as a person with a life time mobility disability, is musical chairs.  I believe that game  fosters competition and getting your own needs met, regardless of the […]

]]> 1101a84b8e7bd848e7b757d04f167d4e Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=210 Wed, 03 Feb 2021 13:07:28 -0500          Attending Library conferences over the years has truly enriched my life. When I was an active mother, it was a holiday. In 2015 I brought T with me to San Francisco and we had a lovely time. In New Orl […]

]]> 6e7a7c93dfae74a4520dbf6ee9962d76 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=207 Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:08:21 -0500       Since I began to shelter in place last March, the Daily Walk has been a thing. First I overdid it and ended up with tendonitis in my right shoulder. But it continues to be a thing, gently done. In the last […]

]]> b498aebd96910a1224f5ed80f535a09d Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=205 Wed, 20 Jan 2021 20:39:13 -0500 Darity Jr, William A., and A. Kirsten Mullen. From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. UNC Press Books, 2020.

Like everybody else I have been pondering what I want to […]

]]> d25627ed8a619745f438ea923fc20b2c Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=202 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 12:44:14 -0500 A hold that I placed through nypl.orverdrive.com quite a while ago popped up on my ipad yesterday.  I have spent the time since then glued to Intimations by Zadie Smith. Caused me to realize how comfortable it is […]

]]> 71b5373e3c99f6937992f18a75b80500 Robin Brown commented on the post, The importance of public libraries (and paper again), on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/01/06/the-importance-of-public-libraries-and-paper-again/#comment-14882 Sat, 09 Jan 2021 20:50:20 -0500 I also have a copy of
Wiegand, Shirley A., and Wayne A. Wiegand. The desegregation of public libraries in the Jim Crow south: Civil rights and local activism. LSU Press, 2018.
I went to a presentation by Wayne […]

]]> 58e3bb0db17a32ad5724ca9c25b6d250 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=199 Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:03:04 -0500 Wiegand, Wayne A. Part of our lives: A people’s history of the American public library. Oxford University Press, 2015.

        One of the articles I read recently really recommended Wayne Wiegand’s histor […]

]]> d330c3bd39c71c25b4929fa307ea5990 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=196 Tue, 29 Dec 2020 15:30:47 -0500 What’s Missing
I have taken this virus very seriously because I do not tolerate any respiratory infections easily. This may be due to CP. Early on in the pandemic I found a document from the CDC that listed CP as […]

]]> 9d48c4767af3435eda83872a6041f074 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=194 Wed, 23 Dec 2020 13:46:05 -0500 My reference desk has gone very quiet. During the intersession there are just a couple of us around, so I try to help by sitting with the chat interface open. If I try to multitask to much I will miss the […]

]]> b9cd2fd882331df028e23dc45f2e6401 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=191 Fri, 20 Nov 2020 16:38:19 -0500 I postponed writing this because I had a really busy week. I knew that I wanted to write about this story, but  I didn’t realize that it connected with Veteran’s Day until I reopened it.  So, I’m late, but I h […]

]]> 57f7d29f878e4d724d0db83c3c036ee3 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=187 Thu, 05 Nov 2020 15:31:20 -0500 One the central issues of my writing, and of my research in the area of disabilities studies, is a journey of self acceptance.  I have cerebral palsy. I am a hemiplegic, which means that my right side is […]

]]> f0e82525f0612ae9322d69e7224b6a68 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=183 Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:35:30 -0400 Reading List:

Kerschbaum, Stephanie L., Laura T. Eisenman, and James M. Jones. Negotiating Disability : Disclosure and Higher Education Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017
Evans, Nancy J, Ellen M […]

]]> b463d72759350e7448b0e5a0fe4b7186 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=180 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:53:41 -0400 There is lots of blame to go around.

]]> 9a18c8403d92a4c6c72ad13097d26c40 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=178 Fri, 09 Oct 2020 19:35:16 -0400 Gutiérrez y Muhs, Gabriella, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, and Angela P. Harris. “Presumed incompetent: The intersections of race and class for women in academia.” University Press of Colorado ( […]

]]> 163c9b23478e939f871140f9462769b8 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=176 Wed, 07 Oct 2020 15:58:04 -0400 I have benefited from being white, heterosexual and Christian. I am aware that I have benefited from settler colonialism. I have also benefited from being a second generation academic. When I got my first academic […]

]]> bc2a8f8c2bf24cce6a103485b6902b4d Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=171 Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:51:31 -0400 I have written about this off and on over the years, but I don’t know if I have shared on the issue of print or digital here recently. I have been an early user of e-books since I got my first e-book.It was on a […]

]]> 17d9ccd9a86212d28a60cc9c38796aae Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=167 Tue, 08 Sep 2020 14:31:26 -0400 What really called to me was Mountains to climb: Leadership for sustainable change in scholarly communication by Jon E. Cawthorne. It’s an important call to action for all of us. The author highlights “How to be […]

]]> 0ea1115eff93f6a23eaa28b718bed08c Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=162 Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:47:06 -0400 This is why a New Deal for CUNY is important, now more than ever.

]]> 4820bbd57d20c67f3b1c6d1aafa36bf4 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=160 Fri, 28 Aug 2020 14:53:16 -0400 Darity Jr, William A., and A. Kirsten Mullen. From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. UNC Press Books, 2020.

This was not an easy book for me to read as a white […]

]]> 6e0cd08f2823ba07b6a98d71c0db5033 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=151 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 17:23:30 -0400 Carter, Angela, Tina Catania, Sam Schmitt, and Amanda Swenson. “Bodyminds like ours: An autoethnographic analysis of graduate school, disability, and the politics of disclosure,” in Negotiating Disability: D […]

]]> 90378b07977c81935ba06ddb0f96957f Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=147 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:05:11 -0400 I got distracted from the projects of last week, because a library hold arrived.

Darity Jr, William A., and A. Kirsten Mullen. From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First […]

]]> b1c69ff1d17cc5de9c212cea413a6403 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=145 Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:41:42 -0400 I finished the book I mentioned in my last post:

Case, Kim, ed. Deconstructing privilege: Teaching and learning as allies in the classroom. Routledge, 2013.

This is collection of papers, so each chapter is […]

]]> 148440bd91e2c495fe18c6d8f9b51733 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=142 Thu, 16 Jul 2020 14:30:29 -0400 There is a quiet period that comes to my job each summer. My work is very cyclical, which reminds me that being able to do research and publish is a privilege. This also touches on my life cycle issues. I have […]

]]> caeb98c4b223e1af287596e969561753 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=139 Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:28:52 -0400 #RealChange

When I started this series I stated that this has to stop, that we need to start making real changes in our society to push toward an equitable society. A couple of things have bubbled to the […]

]]> d3115535feb42e433ff26178bca8c0a0 Robin Brown commented on the post, Another kind of writing project, on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2020/06/22/another-kind-of-writing-project/#comment-1241 Wed, 24 Jun 2020 01:11:59 -0400 Yep!

]]> 2994f6e3dd60b0fee5434dfcada0a37f Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=137 Mon, 22 Jun 2020 11:59:09 -0400 As I have said before, I am well represented by a cranky, activist union, The Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York. The have declared a “Summer of Struggle” intended to persuade the Sta […]

]]> db33b8222624468142846f74b46270cc Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=134 Mon, 15 Jun 2020 12:25:06 -0400 One of the best parts of working my craft in NYC is that I get to share airspace with the Research Libraries of NY Public Library.  One of the outstanding offerings of this week is

As I commit myself to this […]

]]> 14eed6ebf1dcd2ecddacc60cb0fe47ba Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=132 Mon, 15 Jun 2020 12:18:49 -0400 What’s really important is that we keep at it. We need to stay uncomfortable with black men and women being shot by police.

What I can do is start planning to share resources and insights regularly. Going to […]

]]> 8cc89ca98d036c1c86b4a8ffe1b935a9 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=130 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 19:16:03 -0400 I am reading “Teaching for Justice: Implementing Social Justice in the LIS Classroom.” Chapter 6 “Dismantling Racism: Teaching LIS Social Justice Courses to Non-LIS undergraduate students” — cited

Brilliant. […]

]]> 95fccba6376abc2752cf8f1599102111 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=128 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 12:30:13 -0400 I stand with the movement that is standing up to demand that the racism that has so profoundly marked our nation change.  I have decided to support Black Visions Collective with a regular donation.  I am u […]

]]> 4448c197991a070bbbc63a445c143f7f Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=126 Sat, 06 Jun 2020 11:03:48 -0400      To our African American friends and colleagues, We stand with you. To our Non African American friends and colleagues, we must stand against white supremacy and systemic racism. Black Lives Matt […]

]]> f2704031a313b3d88dcbace98c907c81 Robin Brown wrote a new post on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=124 Sat, 06 Jun 2020 11:01:54 -0400 I hope you are uncomfortable. Do you really want your men to make yet another headline for terrorism?  Do something now, before the movement to scrap the police as a broken system gets any stronger.

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