An FYI that we're hiring two faculty librarian positions at Carnegie Mellon Libraries! Computational Research Librarian and an Undergraduate Experience Librarian. Both are up on Interfolio and our faculty careers site. www.cmu.edu/faculty-offi...
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
One of my favourite student seminars of the year, looking at Venetian Sessa imprints wry cats @theulspeccoll.bsky.social 🐱
Considering how often it smells like sulfur out here, I'm not surprised to see this
I feel like when I started my career, double-majors were pretty rare, and now it's the opposite for anyone who wants to do something in Humanities/Social Sciences/Arts at least, where I only see double (or triple) majors
There has recently been a surge of tiktoks and other social media posts with genAI created "historical photos/videos" and it's making my life terrible
My last Halloween as a Controller.
Time for a (Nintendo) Switch.
The Guardian is hiring for a graphics reporter and data reporter to cover how the US government is deleting and altering important datasets.
If you like the work we do, come join us!
Data: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
Graphics: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
Halloween decoration on a green lawn with yellow and brown scattered leaves. There is a fake black grave marker with white text which says “I Did My Own Research.” In front of the grave marker are two plastic skeletal hans and forearms that are positioned as if they are clawing up from below the grass.
found my great-grandmother in old Boston Globe issues- she wrote under a "nom" for 55 YEARS in what was basically social media via newspaper. women trading recipes, relationship & parenting tips since 1880s. it's wild to get to know her like this. anyway someone should pay me to write about this imo
now you can teach me how to use this platform
You know what else is being affected by the tariffs on parcels worth less than $800? International interlibrary loan. I'm hearing reports of libraries overseas that won't lend to the US anymore. (That's in addition to the libraries here that have shut down their ILL b/c of lost IMLS funding.)
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Edited by my colleagues!
I'm in one of these books! My book chapter in print...
I have not!! Thank you, Jess! I'm so used to TikTok now for my research, I'm rusty at the twitter-style stuff
Research opportunity! I’m studying how traditional media literacy instruction adapts to digital challenges like memes & algorithms. Seeking librarians & educators with media literacy experience for a short confidential interview. Interested? forms.gle/bZs7JfVxCfeN... #MediaLiteracy TC IRB 25-496
It turns out, to conduct research on social media, you probably should have a few accounts. So, I'm on Bluesky now!