Doing cryptic crosswords and the minute I need a synonym it's like my brain has had a clear out. "Chair? Nope, a chair is a chair." I check a thesaurus and "ohhh, well, yes, seat of course, I guess that's an option. And moderator, well, yes *of course* moderator. That was too obvious to mention."

For #ACH2026 #DHmakes lightning talk, some "I've wondered what that is" or "how do I get involved?" links! * FAQ: tinyurl.com/whatisDHmakes (w/a 2025 update: tinyurl.com/dhmakesnow) * Peer-reviewed history of #DHmakes by @quinnanya.me @claudiaeberger.bsky.social & me accesson.kr/kjdh/v.1/1/7... +

Okay!!! Here is the beginning of a list, in map form. There should be a link in the description with a short form to submit additional suggestions maps.app.goo.gl/nJqcSWWfEi3H...

There's nothing I buy so often that weekly marketing emails are required. I don't even want to read the news that often, and that definitely has a quicker development cycle than veg boxes or eco deodorant. Monthly should be the absolute max for marketing emails, no matter how amazing the products.

Remember that class I taught this semester: AI for the Humanities? I've just published the syllabus, reading list, and all the assignments on @kcommons.bsky.social. Come and get them! #openaccess #citepedagogy works.hcommons.org/collections/...

If you get self-conscious about posting repeated promo, let me give you all my long-standing promo-hack, for free. (I'm not currently using it, but I will be soon! lol) This is a site without an algo, but also one that does not punish links. So what you want to do is make a strategic thread.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Terrific new article about how the idea of "neutrality" has been used for decades to deny the approval of #LCSH relating to marginalized people. Great description of how subject headings are created and how inordinate scrutiny is given to certain proposals in order to appear "unbiased." #critcat 📚

In 2025 we raised ~$300 to fund a new website which remains unspent. As our final act upon this material plane, we will be using that money to award 6x $50 USD micro grants to ttrpg designers or content creators that could use a small boost. APPLY HERE before Jan 31: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

Gather 'round for the annual posting of... "A Mixed MARC/BIBFRAME Environment; or, A Visit from Ms. Henriette."

New issue of Critcatenate now available, featuring news about critical #cataloging. cataloginglab.org/2025/11/30/c... #critcat Metadata & cataloging librarians, please consider taking the surveys shared to help your colleagues! 📚

There's still time to register for our free World Cafe event on Subject Analysis and Subject Headings at the Wellcome Collection London, Wed 26th Nov 11:00-16:00 Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw Registration open until 25th Nov #cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics #changethesubject

Feeling festive as I've just sent round the giftees for the work Secret Santa 🥰 For the last few years I've been using the excellent planner from @mael.dev, which uses a clever link and is beautifully simple. It does exactly what I want for Secret Santa and no more, and I love it

The American Library Association Core Subject Analysis Committee's Working Group on Local Headings seeks to survey libraries, archives, museums and associated institutions about their involvement in the work of revising subjects, genres, and other authority data in their local catalogs.

📄Chaper 'The Hidden History of Queer Subject Access' from 📗'Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front' edited by K.R. Roberto #Cataloguing #Cataloging #Metadata #CritLib #LGBTQ tinyurl.com/mr3tarfd

@cilipmdg.bsky.social invites participants to a WorldCafe Event @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on the topic of Subject Analysis & LCSH within the current metadata landscape. Wed 26th November 2025 11:00-16:00 Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw #cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics

An amazing thread about someone saving two lives via bone marrow and stem cell donations

Join us on Wednesday 3rd September from 2pm (BST) for our AGM Event with a Cataloguing Ethics Panel Discussion. Hybrid event: in-person at the University of Manchester, or online via Teams. Full details at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event... #metadata #cataloguing #cataloging #ethics #critcat #event

Who's going to #igelu2025? I'm getting to go in person (woo, Siena!) and there are so many good sessions. Also a ton on AI--I'm interested to hear how people are evaluating the "research assistant" and if they've turned it on.

“I’m just saying we’d collect more nectar if we weren’t in meetings all day” From the new Private Eye, out now.

I’m looking for an accessible reading suggestion for non-librarians to better understand what an “archive” is and is not (vs a digital collection, a catalog, etc.) Any ideas? 🙏🏻 #DH #critlib

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

📢Call for papers for the MDG Conference 2026 (11-13 March) #MetaFutures #Cataloguers, #indexers and other #metadata specialists have a significant role to play in the future of information services and it’s something worth shouting about! Full details: www.cilip.org.uk/members/grou...

Applications to the ARLIS UK & Ireland Global Majority Art Librarianship Scholarship for the 25/26 academic year are now open! Full scholarship guidelines and the application form are available on our website: Please share widely 📚 #Librarianship #Librarysky #Artsky

TFW your company motto could either belong to a library vendor or a blackmailing syndicate

If anyone in #Leicestershire is looking for a dog trainer, my brother-in-law offers a range of training from the basics to more exciting scent work. His own dog is an absolute sweetheart. 📘 www.facebook.com/share/1JgTca... 📷 www.instagram.com/st.georgedog... #DogTraining #ScentWork

Louise Savage’s presentation, “Unsafe in Safe Spaces: an exploration of the workplace experiences of female library workers” is literally taking my breath away. Incredibly powerful, uncomfortable and scary. Thank you, Louise. #CALC25

Hear ye! Hear Ye! The new Disability in LIS Journal (DisLIS) is now actively recruiting media reviews (books, movies, websites, what have you) of materials that have disability as a major component, from people who have experience with that disability. cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/

Parliament is going to have a debate on self-ID on 19th May. If your MP is supportive of trans rights, it’s really important that you write to them to ask them to be there. The transphobes will turn out in force - we need to make sure allies do too.

Dreaming of a slower pace of life? Welcome to Georgian Property Listings. We’ve raided the archives and dusted off a set of charming 19th-century prints showing rural cottages near Colchester — and imagined what they'd look like as estate listings from the past. 🧵👇

A statement from the Board of Trustees of the Vagina Museum regarding trans inclusion.

Thursday April 24th: join me for a free webinar, "Working Together to Improve Disability and Medical Subject Headings." Thanks to Minitex for a terrific webinar series focusing on #critcat collective action! 📚 #MedLibs 🦀 minitex.umn.edu/events/webin...

Currently reading the draft 2025 edition of the International Cataloguing Principles (ICP) from the @iflaglobal.bsky.social Cataloguing Section - #cataloguers and #metadata professionals worldwide are invited to review and comment on the 2025 ICP by Friday 16th May see: www.ifla.org/news/interna...

We're still looking for volunteers for a working group on local authorities to address the recent #LCSH changes to Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali. The working group aims to provide guidance on how libraries can either change their subject display or create local authorities #critcat

Excuses. An older comic.

I really, really need companies to understand that there is *no* product that I want to have AI embedded in. I want AI to be separate so I can use it if I want and not have it at all for the majority of the time. This message brought by the sudden appearance of a purple AI blob in my WhatsApp.

Hey my loves if you could send me anything you've got about why it's important for academic libraries to have a fiction collection I'd be most grateful because right now all I have in my head is screaming, yelling, flipping tables etc.

My first post as a regular contributor to ACRLog is about LC not only implementing the changes to "Gulf of America" and "Mount McKinley," but *fast-tracking* those changes. acrlog.org/2025/03/28/a... #critcat #LCSH

Join me August 4-8th at @calrbs.bsky.social for Critical Librarianship in Praxis. Let's learn together how to make the change we want to see in our field. Priority application deadline is April 1. www.calrbs.org/critical-lib...

Very grateful for the February Critcatenate summary of the LCSH changes to the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali headings as it made it nice and easy to explain to colleagues cataloginglab.org/2025/02/ #critcat

So, what's everyone doing about their LCSH geographic headings? We agreed today to make a local change to retain Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali but I was asked what other UK libraries are doing. #critcat 1/2

It's out folks! Conference programme, list of abstracts and tickets for #CALC25. All details here 👇 sites.google.com/view/calccon... #LISResearch #LISConference

@theboywhobakes.bsky.social Hi, the rhubarb and raspberry frangipane tarts are amazing, I've just made them. I've got my eye on the salted maple tarts for the leftover pastry, but I'm not sure how to get hold of cornmeal. Does it have another name, or can you suggest a supplier, please?

@cilip.bsky.social Metadata & Discovery Group and @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social present: Cataloguing with Confidence - a workshop designed by @vlparkinson.bsky.social & @orangeaurochs.bsky.social Join me in Manchester on 24th April to develop your #cataloguing skills! More info tinyurl.com/3e46x7my

King's is hiring for a Project Lead, Heritage Collections. 3 days a week, permanent post. Closing date 23rd Feb. Role will focus on the development and delivery of projects that will bring King’s heritage collections to a wider audience www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/106887-...

New issue of Critcatenate now available, featuring updates about what's happening in the world of inclusive/critical #cataloging. cataloginglab.org/2025/01/31/c... #critcat