So the Democrats saw what’s happening with Labor in the UK and decided to do the same?

Anyone in the land of ERMs have thoughts on CORAL vs. Air Table? 📚 Also is there a BlueSky group for eresources librarians beyond the skybrarian feed?

I went back to the dr about my ongoing fatigue issues (don’t talk to me until I’ve had my 5 hour nap and 12 hour night sleep). Blood work is normal. They ordered a sleep study. If the sleep study is normal they said that’s about all they can do aside from recommending I see a nutritionist.

Trinket box battles on TikTok have fully replaced my fascination with people who police little free libraries. So many people just want to role-play a tiny HOA. I can’t look away.

Sure - the board just decline to renew our Chancellor’s contract but the real campus drama is that I saw the red tailed hawk try to sneak into the territory of the red shoulder hawk family.

Begging my doctor to imagine the possibility that my weight and mental health might not be the sole source of the issue I’m asking them to help with.

Landlord updated the electric and now we can either run the AC in our bedroom or the AC in our living room that keeps it 2° below the outside temperature but we can’t run both… During a heat wave…

The same institution that wants us to experiment with AI to make our job more efficient also won’t pay for enough Adobe or Microsoft licenses for everyone to have access to any of the tools people need to do their jobs.

My brain must be cooked - why did I just think "how did librarians keep track of electronic resources before computers?" But y'all know what I mean, right? 🆘

Has anyone attended the virtual Charleston Conference? Wondering how it compares to in-person. I haven't attended either! 📚

A California resident will likely become a trillionaire in the same year my state job offered our bargaining unit a 3% raise. To have the same buying power I had in 2022 I would need a 9% raise. I wasn’t exactly living large then but I also wasn’t dipping into dwindling savings every month.

Faculty: libraries and librarians need your advocacy BEFORE our collections are shuttered and our workers are fired. Whether you think your library is in trouble, and it almost definitely is, write to your provost and tell them how essential the library and library staff are to your work. Right now.

I am three chapter into the book Control Science and it has me fucked up. I have beefs with men who are long dead. The next time Wedgwood pottery shows up on Antiques Roadshow I’ll be booing.

So for those who continue to shit on KY politics & the South: KY just chose Charles Booker as its Democratic candidate for Mitch McConnell’s seat. He’s an unapologetic progressive running against Andy Barr. It would be great to see progressives across the country get behind us instead of mock us

One of the more disorienting things about moving to California/LA has been getting used to fires raging in residential areas in one part of the city while life continues as normal for the rest of the city.

Got a recommendation to watch the true crime doc series Relentless and I’m no journalist but I don’t know if this woman is either. It seems like she’s never met a poor person, never been in a small town, seemingly hasn’t even googled any of these people.

These vendors are lucky I have no say in collection development because it would not be my decision to work with them every year. They act like they’re my customer!

If you’re a billionaire you’re not a progressive or an environmentalist - I don’t care what you pretend to be.

Schrodinger's deadline.

I don't only think that college should be FREE but I think young people should also receive living stipends while in school. Finally, I do not care what they major in because education needs to actually BE DECOUPLED from a future job. You are welcome. You should have 4 years to study anything.

Omg - LA Metro is so scary. I rode the B-Line back to the Valley after ELUNA and it was insane. You had people fighting like “do you want to sit? Please, take the seat! No no no, YOU take the seat.” Or saying crazy things like “what stop did they say? Oh, thank you, I couldn’t hear the announcement”

This will probably be my last ELUNA - it’s wild to pay hundreds of dollars to attend a conference that is now just a Clarivate AI ad. No disrespect to the library workers giving great presentations unrelated to product demos.

I want cis Americans to sit uncomfortably with the fact that most of these restrictions were ushered in through the liberal act of "just asking questions" about trans people.

I finished reading No! The Art and Activism of Complaining by Sara Ahmed over the weekend. It’s incredibly validating at this point in my career in higher ed - HIGHLY recommend.

Took an active shooter training today and I didn’t expect such a large part of the training to include discussion on “growth mindset”

Im always learning about a new (to me) Excel formula that will change my life and then discovering our district doesn’t subscribe to the version of Excel that does Excel.

I need to hire a consultant firm for navigating office politics.

I’m afraid AI has already cooked the brains of the leadership at my college. Or we have a body snatcher situation happening. I don’t know how to explain it.

those libraries you love, that make access to media seem so smooth that make you feel like you don’t even have to interact with anyone, feel that way because People Work There to make that happen For You. notions of seamlessness are powered by invisible labor & the strategic distribution of capital

I grew up in an evangelical community run by the kind of people now running our country (scary!) My parents didn’t raise me religious but my dad’s family was Catholic so I did a lot of weddings, funerals, and mass whenever I spent weekends with my grandparents (Mamaw and Papaw because KY)

If the valley isn’t part of LA, why did I just almost get in a wreck because I was startled by a guy juggling in the middle of an intersection?

No politician is perfect but of all the PR campaigns I’ve seen, I love catching videos of Mamdani working alongside public service staff - showing us the on-the-ground work of public servants.

Why is staff morale low? Carpets on our floor and office are being cleaned today so when we arrive to work we learn we need to work in the basement on public computers without access to our coffee, lunch, supplies, projects, resources.

Why is staff morale so low? Why did [college leader] just imply custodians can’t read during this staff training?

Why is staff morale so low? Leadership: ban remote work, require staff to work on ground during Spring Break, turn off HVAC system because campus is closed 🙃

I didn’t realize there were broadcasts of SCOTUS hearings now and I really prefer hearing their voices through Nina Totenberg.

It’s Spring Break so enjoying the time by going to a library where the carpets are being cleaned, everything is stacked on tables, and the air has been turned off because why would anyone be in the building?

My grandmother who is in her 90s with dementia has flourished with hospice care after pneumonia nearly took her out last summer - now she may be “graduating” and it’s horrifying to think about losing those services.

Most days my ADHD is an annoyance but it is feeling very disabling this week.

Is it a positive indicator of my mental health at this point in the fiscal year when someone asks me if we have money in the budget for something and I say “just buy it, I don’t care - money is made up, nothing matters”.

The Pokopia storyline is surprisingly dark and political for a game about meeting little guys.

Whenever coworkers from various areas are recounting conversations with their managers or leadership and I start hearing common phrases or words I just desperately want to email our exec team to find out what book they all just read.

It’s cute that people I work with hear me say I’m a little overwhelmed by the work I’ll need to do to update our ERM procedures to be prepare for Title II and respond: “oh, I have a great training on creating accessible documents!”

The only good thing about Women’s “HERstory” month is when someone pulls some bullshit on us at work we can add “during women’s HERstory month????!!!” to our rants.

I gasped when reading Dolores Huerta’s story yesterday and I’ve felt a weight on my heart trying to process it. I think of all of the women and people whose names we don’t know who also suffered in silence for movements run by people who either abused them or refused to protect them from abuse.

Our apartment is 89 degrees except for the bedroom with our portable AC so during this heatwave we’ve just been eating dinner in bed.

Working on July 1 renewals, rolled my ledgers over and am mentally straddling 2026 and 2027. Please be patient with me - I am basically Dr. Manhattan.

Did all of our vendors purposefully wait until the week before our spending deadline to start fucking with me?

The good place cactus meme but it’s me asking vendors if they need us to sign an updated license before invoicing us and they say no and then a week after I submit the invoice for payment they send me a new license 🤦‍♀️

Today’s Strands forces me to remind everyone that Bluegrass was created in Western Kentucky where there are no mountains.