Katherine O'Brien

Librarian/Information Management 📚 Medieval & Early Modern Studies grad 🌹 Intersectional feminist ✊ Noongar Boodjar 🏠 Views are my own 🧐

[Katherine O'Brien @lousiekat]

What do you call a #libspill when it's the Tories

[Katherine O'Brien @lousiekat]

@Milliganreports @rachnewport @SydneyAirport I had to take off my knitted cardigan at Canberra in Feb for the same reason. Only had a strappy cami underneath. Men & older women went through with bulkier jumpers. Policy seems inconsistently applied. I gave feedback and was told "you could just say no". Could I really?

[Katherine O'Brien @lousiekat]

Men are twice as likely to be higher paid as women, even in feminised industries and feminised industries are least likely to do a pay gap analysis

#AHRIevents #GenderPayGapNotAMyth

[Katherine O'Brien @lousiekat]

@TrishaCarter @AHRItweets a very difficult decision! I've dcided on the WGEA gender equality session. Hopefully we can look back on the recordings of the other session

[Katherine O'Brien @lousiekat]

An appropriate mug for an online experience of the @AHRItweets Diversity & Inclusion conference #AHRIevents

[Katherine O'Brien @lousiekat]

@GetSortedPhotos I would also love an Android version!

[Katherine O'Brien @lousiekat]

@PatDollard1 Yes.

[Nadja Drost @nadjadrost]

I just had an incredible encounter. Our doorbell rang, so I opened the window to look below to the front stoop.
When I saw a man delivering food, I called out to him, letting him know it must be for our neighbors downstairs. This, so far, is normal.

[Katherine O'Brien @lousiekat]

@nicolemontg @pronounced_ing Potentially! But the onus shouldn't be on the patron to provide that.

[Katherine O'Brien @lousiekat]

@darbyjlyons @pronounced_ing Yes, this!

[Katherine O'Brien @lousiekat]

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[Katherine O'Brien @lousiekat]

#wcadf2020 entertaining and important presentation from Lydia Dawe at @notredameaus on advocating for students and access to textbooks with an ethical and sustainable e-textbook model. Equity of access to education is core for academic libraries 👏👏

[Katherine O'Brien @lousiekat]

I'm excited for more libraries in Australia moving towards @openathens - fab presentation Louise Driscoll and @UWALibrary !

[Katherine O'Brien @lousiekat]

#wcadf2020 Great discussions around the limitations of EZproxy. Covid-19 has highlighted the already present need for libraries to move away from IP authentication for off-campus e-resources. Access and authentication should be about *who* you are, not *where* you are.

[cOAlition S @cOAlitionS_OA]

As a contribution to the #OpenAccessWeek, @cOAlitionS_OA has developed a suite of explanatory material regarding the Rights Retention Strategy.
🟠Have a look here 👉 https://t.co/fNuXmwSqSo and feel free to share them! #RetainYourRights #researchers #OpenAccess #Plan_S

[Katherine O'Brien @lousiekat]

#wcadf2020 valuable point from Angus Cook from @CAULalert at the WAUL forum this morning: researchers struggle with funds for APCs and transformative agreements are an opportunity for academic libraries to show their worth to the rest of the institution #OpenAccess #Plan_S

[Fake Library Statistics @FakeLibStats]

If you say "Dewey" 3 times he'll magically appear and mansplain something about library science

[Katherine O'Brien @lousiekat]

@dsheikh726 @oz_f yes I definitely prefer TBT to Younger!

[Katherine O'Brien @lousiekat]

@Arcanineties @oz_f I think you may have nailed it with "want to be American but are desperate to be it anywhere else"

[Katherine O'Brien @lousiekat]

@dsheikh726 @oz_f I think it's possible to manage vacuous and airy without the iffiness of Emily in Paris - i.e. the Bold Type, Younger. I enjoy trashy, guilty pleasure TV & have always assumed I need to turn my "feminist brain" off to watch it, these shows have made me realise that's not the case