ME: *doing my "intro to metadata" talk* controlled vocabs are helpful because English can have many words for the same thing and one word for many things
STUDENT: *nods* like Waldorf is a school and a salad and a Muppet
ME: ...that's a better example than I was going to use
There’s gonna be a network of shell LLCs that spends $2 billion to make an Arby’s with a single copy of Art of the Deal in it and the financial reports will look like a sudoku filled in by a manic orangutan
the hardest thing about being a person who’s being pretty cautious re: rona safety habits at the moment is that it feels like my isolation is my own fault.
With the COVID-19 pandemic showing signs of renewed strength, @SLAhq has decided not to offer any in-person programming for the 2020 Annual Conference. We will present the entire conference agenda virtually to ensure the health and safety of our community.
https://t.co/owzAArRgfe
Things you can do while social distancing:
- Self-reflect
- Keep a journal
- Study the wallpaper
- Creep around
- Inch ever closer to madness due to the oppressive nature of 19th-century gender roles
“Not quite utopian, degrowth aims for realism and interrogates how our obsession with growth disconnects us from nature, other people, time, and, yes, the meaning of objects in our lives.” https://t.co/pIockkmeGF
Many community leaders are thinking of their own unit processes for financial and budgeting tasks. Please keep in mind that SLA is actually wrangling 81 different unit fiscal processes #wastefulIMHO#oneSLA#AlwaysSLA#SLALeads
On one hand, an interesting iSchool collaborative project. On the other, will analysis destroy the serendipitous nature of information sharing and connectivity? https://t.co/DS9DAqzK9x
My personal feeling is that open offices are a terrible idea, but this was a pretty interesting article. #introvert#personalspace https://t.co/ekuEqu7z6d
We're so excited to be taking part in the @msichicago's Science Works; a STEM-focused career fair tomorrow, October 19! We'll be running microphone demos from 9:30-2:30.
Learn more at https://t.co/h3PR9aeD2D.