This is the dumbest library-related thing I have read in my ten years of reading about library-related things, holy crap:
https://t.co/F2UmasenYL
#BlatantSexism#pureidiocy#fail
Occasionally, but somewhat regularly, I get email responses from clients addressed to me as 'Dear Jenny', even though I always sign off as Jennifer. Does anyone else find this massively weird and also borderline disrespectful? Who slips into nickname territory after one email??
My librarian fail for today: a student was looking for 'The Monthly' magazine. I asked her if she new how often new issues were released. I think you could actually hear the crashing sound my brain made as I realised what I'd just said. #duh
Queer Eye but itโs five librarians explaining to a Silicon Valley billionaire how the dismantling of the humanities in favor of STEM is killing democracy.
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Relationality and the unrealised potential of digital collections with @mikejonesmelb at #InfoOnline19 Discussing connecting collections online and finding ways to display those paths for all to follow @ALIANational@ALIAonline
@snailx@CWiebrands That was part of its charm! You always felt happily surprised when a web page actually loaded successfully. Sigh, the good old days.
"Everything is deeply intertwingled" Ted Nelson via @mikejonesmelb. Intertwingularity is definitely my dream for the content I put (& play with) online - a great linked network within our massive complexity of knowledge. #InfoOnline19
@kathleensme Shushing never left! We regularly get student requests for a bit of librarian-enforced shushing. (You can practice on the quiet carriages of Sydney trains).