Laura O'Brien @[email protected]

I'm a librarian @WC_LTS | infolit, digital humanities, teaching, libraries.

[Ask a Manager @AskAManager]

I miscalculated. Men only account for 13% of the responses. Come on, men.

[Laura O'Brien @[email protected] @niathena]

Exhibit X of ∞ from @doctorow's word of the year

[Ask a Manager @AskAManager]

this is alarming about Glassdoor: https://t.co/UqJeeFODu3

[Laura O'Brien @[email protected] @niathena]

@librarythingtim This review article summarized some studies that suggest that modern Greek does have detectable preferences for order of adjectives...and another one with a different methodology that suggests otherwise. Not sure about ancient languages, though. https://t.co/oUKX1vK5lh

[Laura O'Brien @[email protected] @niathena]

(And a huge thank-you to @danedels, @ClaudeWillan and all the MRoL collaborators for sharing and archiving their data! My 18th c. network analysis course would be impossible without it!)

[Laura O'Brien @[email protected] @niathena]

Any #dh types have a good example of a codebook that is publicly available for a history-focused #digitalhumanities project? Something that explains the source(s) of the data, all the variables and their possible values, in human-readable format? https://t.co/Wi4IUgp1gp

[Laura O'Brien @[email protected] @niathena]

I created one for a correspondence dataset that I based off of the Voltaire and Locke correspondence case studies from Mapping the Republic of Letters (which they call a "schema"): https://t.co/8EczKzAQ05

...but I'd love to have more examples to share as models.

[Laura O'Brien @[email protected] @niathena]

@senatorjohn @eminencefont @eminencefont is a fantastic person and colleague. I hope she is safe. Sharing.

[Ian Linkletter @Linkletter]

972 days ago, Proctorio sued me for sharing links to 7 unlisted YouTube videos. Due to my tweets, they theorize, students learned how their AI surveillance software works. Students have a right to know. It's in the public interest. Our future depends on us knowing how AIs work.

[Laura O'Brien @[email protected] @niathena]

We are hiring an Assistant Director for Collections Services @Wellesley. This is a role for analyzing
& shaping the direction of our rich library collections, and deep collaboration with our research & tech staff in @WC_LTS. Come work with us! #lisjobs https://t.co/zWoVyL28kb

[Laura O'Brien @[email protected] @niathena]

@teach_research Congrats!

[Russell Michalak @RS_Michalak]

Have you ever thought about how difficult it must be for a blind student to access information at a library? Well, a 100% blind student worked for me at the library, and it made me and @monicarysavy realize that we needed to do more to make our resources accessible to all. 🧵

[Jennifer Anne @kidsilkhaze]

On Friday, @planetmoney did an episode on libraries in ebooks.

I waited on listening, knowing I'd have to take notes and rant about it, because most news coverage is so bad on this issue.

Parts are really good. Other parts are... well...

Get your popcorn.

[Laura O'Brien @[email protected] @niathena]

lol I only had one to unfollow. That was easy!

[I'm @Ketanjoshi.co on Bluesky @KetanJ0]

Here's the most awkward custom search function I've ever created: everyone you follow, who's also paid Elon $8 for a dodgy tick

The Search Of Shame

https://t.co/T4vGwtpjgh

[Laura O'Brien @[email protected] @niathena]

@oodja 9. But the only reason it's not in the mid double-digits is a combination of @TobyForTabs and that I had to force a reboot this morning.

[Laura O'Brien @[email protected] @niathena]

This article is a *fascinating* exploration of the motivations & techniques of journalism students and practitioners in their research. 10/10 will read again.

[April Hines @UFCJCLibrarian]

OMG, it's out! Our research team spent years interviewing journalists from all over the country about their information seeking behaviors and mapped their responses to the @ALA_ACRL framework for info literacy. My first publication in a comm journal. https://t.co/xnZD6Bh9pt

[Laura O'Brien @[email protected] @niathena]

@jeffwgallant @NoetheMatt Almost certainly the most useful course I took @SimmonsSLIS--and unsurprisingly, one of the best-taught classes in the whole program. Still using concepts and strategies I learned years later. (Hey Jeff! 👋)

[Preston Broadus, Esq. @gerardinho9]

One of my professors stopped putting pdfs of articles in the class Canvas. She explained that “because we’re reading scholarship of marginalized thinkers, it helps them to have their work searched and downloaded.” 🤯

[Laura O'Brien @[email protected] @niathena]

@War_Kittens Any chance there's something from the college's old website on @internetarchive wayback machine you can use? (You've probably already tried that...)

[John Gallagher @MereSophistry]

It’s almost like quantitative data is related and interwoven with qualitative data. And such paradigms are never separate