I went to the Library Collective Conference last year and it is pretty small but very interesting. More academic librarians than public but lots of info that was flexible or scalable and no vendors! No exhibit hall breaks!
Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you...
The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:
You can do anything, magic skeleton!
Who do I know who is also at #pla2026??
We just finished watching Ponies last night (It's on Peacock) and it is DELIGHTFUL. I highly recommend it.
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Somebody tell Canva I want an AI filter so I can get rid of all these terrible AI images in my search AND an actual system to organize files.
Thank you so much, Alex. I have access to e-galleys of both through Edelweiss. I very much appreciate the reccs.
Any recommendations for recent great middle grade or YA reads? I'm between books and looking for something that will suck me in.
Put out some good vibes for me. Started emailing people to present for Summer Reading Program.
Dear Cricut, I do not want to print then cut then print then cut then print then cut. I want to print EVERYTHING and THEN cut it.
For sure.
Shit. I'm a grown-ass adult with a therapist I've seen off and on for several years and I still have problems getting up the courage to make an appointment. How are kids supposed to get professional help on their own? That is......something.
I just finished a galley of Canon by Paige Lewis and it's bananas in the best possible way. I can't wait to see what other people think of it.
As a grown ass woman, I have very little desire to read romance novels with professors and students, especially if there is a large age gap. Feels icky.
Thank god for Edelweiss and book previews. It has helped me immensely with collection development of picture books. It can be hard to base a purchasing decision of an adult review.
You can do it! Don't forget to breathe and take your breaks!
Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only one. When Alyssa Liu got up to hug Ami Nakai after she knew she didn't get gold, I started tearing up. What a sportswoman.
So much this: www.sfgate.com/olympics/art...
Elmo Traumatized
My face if I was forced to stand next to a Tkachuk 🤮
What does creative rest look like? I have a job that requires creativity. My hobbies mostly consist of making things, arts and crafts. If you're like me, what do you do when you're feeling burnt out?
OMG cut this guy off and do play by play.
I don't care about the Tkachuks. Show the Winn Brothers!!!
Hockey! Hockey! Hockey! Let's goooooooooo! #usahockey
We were watching men's skeleton last night and the commentator is like "This is the safest of the sliding events" and I'm like HOW?????
a facebook post from Ashon Crawley on February 13, 2021. It reads: i am sympathetic to folks that say *the* reason why the black panther party of self defense was a threat was because of the breakfast program. i am also sympathetic to the folks that say that is too reductive, that they were more than a breakfast progrum.* i think it’s in the middle: the BPP was a threat because they practiced care. and care showed up *as* a breakfast program, yes, but also as health clinics, as armed defense, as reading groups. care work as political organizing. care as the grounds for its emergence. care. one reason i’ve focused on care in my own work for years now is because black feminist thought informs my own, and black queer critique. and because care is often considered the antithesis of “serious things” and i’m just fundamentally against this. if care is soft or frilly or whatever, we need to have a preferential option for softness. care is something white supremacist capitalist patriarchy cannot give nor withhold, even when it tries to privatize care as an industry that is primarily about making money and exploiting workers. care is not private property, it only exists when it is shared. care is the antithesis and alternative to white supremacy, to riff on cedric robinson, because it must be. but it is so much more. it exceeds the logic of reactive response to practices of violence. it precedes the violence and political economy of extraction and exploitation. care, even if soft, ain’t easy. it takes courage. and conviction. and clarity. (i’m a former preacher, so the alliteration is a throwback lol.) you only have care when you share it. and sharing it is difficult precisely because the political economy of racial capitalism wants us to privatize and hoard what we consider it to be. care. let it flower and bloom. selah. 🌸💕
Five years ago @ashoncrawley.bsky.social posted a thing about care that feels really timely again. www.facebook.com/ashon/posts/...
I watched that yesterday and was like WTH, how can they use an AI song???? OBVIOUSLY that wasn't from the nineties.
If I didn't have to work for a living, today I would read books about the Science of Reading, work on designing a logo for my imaginary coffee shop to put above my espresso machine, I would watch so much Olympics, and do some clothes altering. Alas.
How much of this year is going to be spent finding alternatives for companies that have gone all in on AI? *spoiler - a lot
Linkedin Post from a Pinterest designer reading: "Yesterday I was impacted by the Pinterest layoffs. I was Pinterest's only icon designer and product illustrator. In his email to the company, the CEO said "we’re doubling down on an AI-forward approach – prioritizing AI-focused roles, teams, and ways of working". I WAS working on AI projects including the Pinterest Assistant that soft-launched in October. If you haven't heard about that feature launch, you can find it on Pinterest's own newsroom or with a Google search. I was vocal internally about how our users don't want AI slop or features on the platform, how we as employees are feeling uncomfortable and discouraged about AI, and what I wanted from leadership. Last year, I told my manager I was worried about AI-based layoffs. I was told not to worry. At an onsite, we were told that "in the future", we would all be "managers of AIs". That I would be expected to manage some sort of AI employees, rather than craft and design my own work. Human-made art and design matter. I am never going to stop creating, even if the "home of inspiration" decides that creators are secondary to profits. If you want to support me, you can follow me on threads or instagram @bonniekatewolf where I post my hand-knit sweaters and oil paintings. If you want to hire a human illustrator, designer, or iconographer, my email and DMs are open for freelance, contract, or FTE roles."
Pinterest CEO says in layoff email: "We’re doubling down on an AI-forward approach – prioritizing AI-focused roles, teams, and ways of working"
So it's time for me to move to another platform to save images