Dear @ebsco.bsky.social the new database interface is, in a word, awful. Exhibit A: WHY did you replace the easily understandable publication format icons with these nonsense images that make it HARDER for users to scan a list of results & see what's what??? #ebscohno Pls say this is being fixed???
Great book jacket? Or GREATEST book jacket? 🤔
This week’s audiobook + book-book reading. Both are super fun & highly entertaining. An excellent diversion from [waves hand around] all this. #readmore #readingisfundamental
Another book I might have to quit??? Current audiobook centers around a baking competition like #GBBO. The bakers are making bread and the author has them PUTTING THEIR DOUGH IN THE FRIDGE. THE FRIDGE?!? 😱🚩🍞🥖 #ohhellno #iamshook
Current reads… and a confession: gave up on Orbital 1/4 through… I almost never quit a book, but I need audiobooks that help keep me motivated to do my morning walks and… Orbital wasn’t doin’ it. #readingisfundamental #readmore
L➡️R: just finished; now listening; now reading. Hope I can finish Thursday Murder Club before the film comes out…
#readingisfundamental #readmore #whatimreading
These are very good suggestions, but a few key ones are missing: attend library board mtgs and speak in favor (many are on zoom), donate $, and vote for measures and bonds to increase funding. Patrons have real power. Don't let a handful of bigots destroy your library.
On the bookshelf this week…
Last week I finished Dr. No, another highly enjoyable Percival Everett novel that I highly recommend to all friends working in academia.
But you should DEFINITELY read Thursday Murder Club
Fun escapist queer "romantasy"--a good palate cleanser type of book after you read something Literary and Serious.
It probably thinks you're a bot sent to extract tons of content illegally. Not sure how your campus has it set up, but our user login = our Ebsco login too, so you can automatically save searches & stuff.
This week’s reading (audio and eyeball). My first time reading Ballard, but Pratchett is a long-standing favorite. (so glad audiobooks of the Discworld series are finally on Libby!)
Sometimes grad students remember stuff. And other times you have to get things put on a cake. #filmtvlitindex #letthemeatcake
Finished the last batch. What I’m reading now:
@scalzi.com Old Man’s War / @junodawson.bsky.social The Shadow Cabinet #currentlyreading #readingisfundamental
If civil war breaks out, meet up at the library. They don’t know where that is.
Remember that libraries are proof that not every goddamned thing needs to be “for profit.”
Then I had to explain that, when I wanted to learn about becoming a librarian, I had to get on a computer at the Brooklyn Public Library because, again, ye olde days before we had computers and the internet in our pockets.
I love talking to the youths about librarianship but boy oh boy does it make me feel old. Yesterday I mentioned that I worked in the slide library as an undergrad. That led to me having to explain "This was ye olde days before digital photography... so art history lectures relied on slides." 👵
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SCMS Board expresses concern over cuts at Academy Film Archive & Margaret Herrick Library. These cuts risk compromising film preservation, research, and documentation of Hollywood's history. We urge AMPAS to reaffirm its commitment to preserving global film history. Full letter: bit.ly/3OfUWX1
Here for all your research and/or baking questions.
