I've been anticipating the AndyVent, so today is a good day :)

Me: Searching to remember who said an antelope is a document. Google: Sound like you want to know about the world record for shooting an antelope. Me: This is why AI and Google are both awful. (In Google's defense, I searched "antelope is a record", not document)

Well, well, well, @kingsbookstore.bsky.social

I signed up to get occasional updates from Elicit.org back when it first launched for everyone, and it's been interesting to watch as they go through the work to reinvent library modes and systems that already exist.

There's a case in front of my office that has sat empty for months, so I invited everyone in the library to submit works of art and created a little gallery! I'm rather pleased with it:

Internet resources have offered a few good reminders this year about how digitized does not mean preserved, though we still hold on to this notion

Italo Calvino just casually reminding us about modes of information, and the medium is the message and all that

A simple poem from William Ransom Wood, but I like it

"...the closest thing this country ever had to a sex symbol: the vaguely androgynous Pierre Elliot Trudeau..." - Katherine Monk, Weird Sex & Snowshoes. The things you stumble upon as a librarian...