I hope this email finds you happy and busy and giving Deep Thought to the Totally Erroneous Path You Have Chosen in Life.

That is the world in a nutshell.

Man, these administrators, always so focused on the relatively few times when I don't follow the established policies and procedures, but do I ever hear a kind word about the many times I do?

"I’m always happy to find a new reason why libraries make everything better, and today I’m pleased to report that some very serious academics have concluded that public libraries are the urban planning equivalent of Batman: great at fighting crime." https://lithub.com/want-to-reduce-crime-science-says-build-libraries/

For the detail-oriented. A timeline of what's been going on at the Register of #Copyright s:

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2025/05/12/the-copyright-office-report-about-fair-use-in-ai-the-dismissal-of-the-register-of-copyrights-a-drama-in-three-parts/

So much respect for my colleagues. Couldn’t find a book today; call slip indicated it had been pulled for a patron in Jan & never reshelved.

I looked at every book in our “in process” space: nothing

Asked my former supervisor, and she immediately had a theory about where that previous patron had put it. Found the book in 2 minutes.

Instead of storing my data in the cloud, I just store it in the bush. It's the same thing, only palette-swapped. More accessible, too.

The future is here...

#AI

Folks who work in nonprofits or climate change are aware of the bundle of EOs attacking these sectors that were supposed to be released a couple weeks ago and were not.

I heard they were blocked by the Koch Foundation, but I haven't seen any reporting on this.

Has anyone seen a report that verifies this info?

@thatandromeda Seconding their comments, as someone who just stumbled upon an old GitHub repo maintained in exactly the way you describe in that piece. The difference between scripting and engineering really ended up biting that project

They conkered them, obviously; Jesus Christ do I have to do everything around here

It may not be good form to drop a screenshot in the Teams tech channel and say "I am going to lose my mind if Excel keeps doing this when I paste"

but I am just a woman trying to turn a million meetings into an Excel file.

I removed all the potential "Research" services but I can't seem to remove the thing itself or to figure out what's triggering it when I'm just pressing Ctrl+V to paste.

article title: how millennials became uncool

saved you a click: we got old, we're the adults now, the kids are allowed to AND SHOULD find their own way and coolness

god this obsession with being young and hip forever is so fucking sad. grow up, dorks

If you're based in the US #South and you do memory work (broadly defined to include any work to save the memory of social justice organizations), we'd love to hear about your work, your success, and your challenges.

http://bit.ly/memoryworker

#memoryWork #memoryWorkers #archives #archivists #librarians #OralHistorians #oralHistory

@hweimer Huh, do you know if arXiv is reconsidering the decision to shut down the mirror network? Or what prompted it in the first place?

Not only have I not “read all the books here” I more or less haven’t read any of them. My job is to get the books here for other people to read.

You can’t work in my department and not have the MOVE bombing in the back of your mind all the time. We have the records of the commission that investigated the bombing ( a collection I recently reprocessed), as well as photos, clippings, and video from the major news outlets. We hold the documentation, we provide access. Constantly. To so many people. And the records are TOUGH to see.