YoungGeekyLibrarian

Alison Edens. No longer quite so young of a geeky librarian. #PeMento Cohort 2 participant.

[YoungGeekyLibrarian @YGLibrarian]

Note to folks: I’m trying to streamline this Twitter so if I’ve followed you and I unfollow you, I promise it has nothing to do with you, and I’m probably following you on another platform. This is just about decluttering and simplifying what I follow on this account.

[YoungGeekyLibrarian @YGLibrarian]

Now Tweeting at @ajonesedens

[Lin-Manuel Miranda @Lin_Manuel]

Future historians: Stephen Sondheim was real. Yes, he wrote Tony & Maria AND Sweeney Todd AND Bobby AND George & Dot AND Fosca AND countless more. Some may theorize Shakespeare's works were by committee but Steve was real & he was here & he laughed SO loud at shows & we loved him

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@NMAtTheLibrary I hear you - I have reynaud’s syndrome so white and purple numb fingers were common when it was cold. (One year campus didn’t turn the heat on to avoid the overheating situation, and that was particularly rough!) fingerless gloves I could type in helped but only so much...

[YoungGeekyLibrarian @YGLibrarian]

I’m enjoying this discussion. My take: Librarians need layers. Traditionally this is cardigans, but there are many options. A well temperature-controlled library is a myth. Many well temperature-controlled archives do exist, but they’re cold & you need the extra layer regardless.

[Dustin Hensley, Ed.S. School Barbarian @DSHensleyEDU]

Despite being a librarian, I do not own a cardigan. Do I need to purchase a cardigan?

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@ReadersRambling @DSHensleyEDU That works too. What’s important is layers, not what the style is.

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@loudbookjockey @DSHensleyEDU YES! Always cold...except when it’s cold outside and it becomes a sauna (whacky academic heating - the colder it gets outside the more the inside is a sauna) but then you need said cardigan to layer to handle both inside and out! So still YES! 😂

[YoungGeekyLibrarian @YGLibrarian]

@altonbrown (I mean I technically have social media experience, being the keeper of the social media accounts at my previous library, but we weren’t exactly using them to their best potential given it was a very small part of all the things that needed to happen.)

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@altonbrown Nope, but if you need someone with librarian skills (literature reviews? Organizing information?) I’m new to the area and looking to move in new directions professionally (13 years of academic library experience).

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@Lavenderbrarian I accidentally didn’t reply all yesterday with a follow up #pemento email and when my group member let me know, I was just like, ok, maybe I’ll send it later after all, maybe not, and just was like

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@librarythingtim Half the time they had stumbled upon an old version of our website that somehow still existed even though it was linked somewhere, so they’d want to tell us we had broken links...on a website that pretty much was itself a broken link!

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@LStarasta I only did the most basic cataloging when I did any, but the one thing I did absolutely LOVE about cataloging was being able to make the catalog more user friendly! It’s why I loved doing subject headings and classification and determining our own cutter numbers for M! 💜💜💜

[YoungGeekyLibrarian @YGLibrarian]

Undiagnosed ADHD abounds within the library community I suspect. Our attention to certain details is a part of ADHD as much as our failure at other things. It’s both our blessing and our curse as librarians/academics.

[Fake Library Statistics @FakeLibStats]

34% of librarians are surprisingly unorganized

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@cybrarianinva I need a new handle though... that’s the hard part. I did go through and weed the list hard.

[YoungGeekyLibrarian @YGLibrarian]

Ugh. Now I’m not sure what to do with this Twitter it’s so out of date. Bleh! Well it is what it is and I can come over here when I want, whether the feed is useful right now or not.

[YoungGeekyLibrarian @YGLibrarian]

@BoeckmanMedia @altonbrown @FoodNetwork @discoveryplus Thanks for confirming! (You always know a librarian will answer if we know or can find it!)

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@afgallaspy Isn’t that always the question? My last job situation was not a bad one at all, but I’ve had so many friends in this spot - can we trust that anywhere else will actually be better? (Now my question is given all the stories I hear, do I really want to go back into that?)