“If you see something, save something”
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Speed running the enshittification that Google took years to perfect

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS

THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

I've accidentally bought strawberry-flavored melatonin enough times that I have pavloved myself into associating the strawberry flavor with sleepiness

I now intentionally buy strawberry-flavored melatonin

“Satan is in Libraries”

Well if he can provide photo ID with his current address then he is entitled to sign up for a library card. We also have other ways he can sign up if he is currently without identification

lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to Off Hours? Watch a 2hr stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gibUecoF1bEEver wonder how government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, b...

📡 The #livestream doesn’t stop when we're off for a holiday or weekend.

When the microfiche scanning team powers down overnight & on weekends, the feed shifts to silent films, home movies & other gems from the #InternetArchive.

Catch the stream ➡️

as seminaries reliably produce atheists, so does librarianship disabuse you of the notion that the book-as-object is sacred

I saw this on my Outlook app (iOS) too. I hate that the logo is so shiny and colorful compared to everything else, you just WANT to click on it.

Anyone looking for American exceptionalism need look no further than America's libraries. 📚 Their multitude, their structure, their funding, their services; unmatched. And MAGA is about to throw it all away with the elimination of the IMLS and nationwide book bans and defunding efforts. Pathetic.

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

I went to get new glasses today and the optician told me I’m the youngest person with progressive lenses she’d ever seen. Guess I’m winning at having bad vision 💅

You are now required to have a cellphone to citizen.

That should not be allowed.

You should not be required to have a cellphone to work.

But many employers make a cellphone a de facto requirement.

It’s anti-poor. But it’s also anti-democratic.

Bealtaine in Ireland: May Day rituals for a world on fire Dr Fiona Murphy catalogues the different Irish pagan traditions around Bealtaine, the Celtic festival.

'So yes, Bealtaine is about butter and blossoms — but also about barricades. About collective bargaining. About housing that doesn’t break us. About reproductive autonomy. About climate justice. About rights—rights not as theory, but as breath. As bone.'

www.thejournal.ie/readme/bealt...

Screenshot of the Commonwealth Catalog mobile home page. At the bottom is the message: Funding for the Commonwealth Catalog provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

ComCat is Massachusetts’ statewide interlibrary loan system.

people like to say that ILL is a miracle. but we’re reminded here that it’s not a divine gift or given of the landscape; it’s a vulnerable institution we must energetically defend. 📚

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dear machine learners,

“hallucination” are not “incorrect facts”. try “incorrect statements”, “lies” or “made up bs” instead. the very idea of an “incorrect fact” is an oxymoron and intellectually deceptive

thank you!

Don’t remember where I saw this library flyer a while back but it’s great

How it started: “protect the children! Remove these pornographic books from the library!”

How it’s going:

What I absolutely love about university marketing is that it has made everywhere sound exactly the same, as if there weren’t individuals with different interests working in universities at all.

A radical skeleton telling you "Just start. You don't need permission. Art, craft, 2nd book, cake, writing, that show, any new skill, making friends. If it sucks, ask for help. The time will pass anyway"

An article that reads, “the major grant opportunities have been through the US institute for museum and library services (IMLS, this funding has been affected by the current Trump administration)…

this article is out of date but unfortunately still correct

This is also true of music scores 🙃

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Purging vital public data at CDC. How it started (yesterday from wayback machine), how it's going www.cdc.gov/yrbs/index.h...

context, for anyone who needs it: essential reading for anyone interested in the idea of librarianship 📚

Today at the reference desk i taught a patron what a .zip file is and how to make one. It felt like sharing Secret Knowledge™️

#academiclibraries 📚

Layers of information in an archival document:

- What is said
- What is not said
- What is alluded to
- What is omitted intentionally
(and unintentionally)
- What is misleading
- What is ambiguous
- What is highlighted
- What is downplayed
- What is weaponized
- What is unintelligible today
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