Not sure if it’s a hot take: I’m tired of seeing presentations with AI-generated graphics. Especially coming from librarians—I expected better.
#libsky

Zotero connector doesn’t work with the Library of Congress catalog and it’s making me sad

Two pink ribbons that say “librarypunk”

Long overdue post, but I received these awesome ribbons from @librarypunk.bsky.social. I’m definitely wearing them to my next library conference (which isn’t the ALA Conference but it’s coming soon)!

Awesome thank you!! Ordering them tonight😍

I could just do that now but I don’t want to 😺

OK when I eventually switch to Mac I’ll download Lightroom Classic and not Lightroom because I actually need the snapshot feature

Finally tackling a long-overdue project: using Mp3tag to fix the metadata of the mp3 files I’ve had for years. iTunes on PC is such a pain nowadays. Nothing reads properly anymore. Can't wait to switch (succumb) to Mac but first I gotta clean up the metadata like I should've done years ago😐

And I’m officially taking Tear You Apart off my playlists because I’m done with it

Honestly tired of seeing album cover art featuring a faceless, sexy female body when the band doesn’t even have any female members in them.

Statement on Trump's Attack on Federal Funding for Libraries

In a new executive order, Trump has targeted the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients.

www.everylibrary.org/statementiml... via @everylibrary.bsky.social

This was inspired by a student I talked to yesterday. He helped me develop my film last semester. Yesterday he asked me if I shot anything lately, I said I haven’t been able to. He said “keep shooting” and now I feel motivated. Thank you sensei 🥲

I have so many things on my to-do list, but I think I’ll clean my camera and archive the negatives I haven’t gotten to today.

In case you didn’t know this about me, I’m part of the team for Perseus Digital Library. Since last week, we’ve been experiencing continuing DOS from Alibaba subnets that are scraping our content for AI training. aaand last weekend i learned we’re not alone

DONT TREAD ON LIBRARIES : DONT TREAD ON LIBRARIES : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive DONT TREAD ON LIBRARIES

It was me! 🐍📚 Illustrator is Freya Morgan. There’s a good PNG suitable for printing on the Internet Archive. I usually have a stack of stickers on me at conferences. archive.org/details/dont...

Stickers from the queer liberation library that say read queer books and read trans books

Stickers have arrived.

What is DARVO? Definition, effects on mental health, and more Deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender (DARVO) is a tactic perpetrators may use to deflect responsibility onto the survivors of their abuse.

DARVO is insidious abuse.

"Deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender (DARVO) is a tactic a person may use to deflect responsibility onto an individual they have abused. It is a form of manipulation a person may use to discredit a survivor’s experience." www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/wha...

higher ed is the largest employer in 10 states and in over 60% of the 100 largest cities. destruction of federal research funds is economic sabotage.

Eugenics isn't dead—it's thriving in tech A new book takes on the throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley.

In her new book “Predatory Data,” D&S affiliate Anita Say Chan traces a throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley, showing how data has been used to devalue human beings along eugenicist lines — both past and present. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is why I wanted to go into archives in the first place. Oppressors always try to erase or rewrite history. We can’t be without archives and archivists.

Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

Love these! Do you still have them?

If you make stickers I’d love to get some!

Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish? The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own…

NEW: The removal of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 database signals the Trump administration’s intention to not only spare his supporters any further consequences for their role in the riot, but to erase the event from the record.

By @alecmac.bsky.social

Is the Open Greek and Latin Project still ongoing? I was a volunteer back in 2021 and would like to get back to it if they still need volunteers for OCR correction!
#AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky #AncientGreek #Latin #PerseusDigitalLibrary

- provide in-class instruction
- meet with students one-on-one for research consultation
- explore eportfolio platform
- look into open-source journal hosting services
- attend various committee meetings and webinars

A week (or two) in the life of an academic librarian:
- attend infolit conference
- brainstorm zine ideas
- plan a personal digital archiving workshop
- compile resources on research methods for honors students
#librarians #librarysky

In my head it’s “blue-ski” like Bluey