Halifax has been announced as one of the communities moving to community mailboxes where there’s still door-to-door delivery in 2027 (I get my mail to my house right now). www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

The way we talk about ‘the business’ (business needs, business goals, business performance)in public sector rather than ‘the service’ is a symptom of the way commercial thinking has overwhelmed public services, not a cause, but boy I hate it.

This ⬇️ While again, I think generally SM restrictions for kids are a good thing in concept, the timing of these overlapping policies that will set to decrease kids peer to peer contact, while increasing peer to AI contact, is not sitting right with me.

This is probably the most traditional possible behavior for the family of a pope.

Did he just drop an L-bomb? Maybe a lesson in that for some folks in these here parts?

lol sob, as a metadata librarian. But yeah, use Zotero! It’s way easier than writing them out the long way and believe me, I have done that! I have a whole thesis where I wrote my citations out. A terrible idea!

Anyway come to my workshops, you’ll hear me try to explain metadata to 19 year olds who have never ripped a CD to their computer.

A ban on social media for young people is unenforceable and is a cop out that avoids tackling the real problems: the misuse of social media by oligarchs and the erosion of social infrastructure for young people.

Like UNIONISTS have the gall to tell other people to go home? YOU FIRST, COLONIZERS

The province should be ashamed. They aren’t, but they should be. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I've had a few conversations lately about projects where public or non-profit money is being spent on LLM solutions to problems that could be solved by making a good list and creating effective metadata - v much not rocket science, more like knowledge management 101. But everyone wants a chatbot

Having grown up north of the tick line, and even living north of it for most of my adult life, this is one of those things that I struggle to remember to think about when I go out. I genuinely appreciate everyone constantly reminding me!

Getting a reference question and knowing when and how to not take it at face value to get the library patron the actual information they need. 📚 #PubLibs

the main problem with video as a format is that it's too slow at dispensing information. I can read much faster than you can talk and there's no way you can address this without becoming incomprehensible to most of the audience.

but also if you don't get entertained by learning stuff we are not the same and you will not get me

Me: When can you come down to help with the half-bath? My dad: Hmmmm. Well, I’m working tomorrow.

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

Wow, Robie sure seems backed up with a lot of vehicles with only one person in them (and no, they are definitely not all work vehicles).

Couple boomers in our village Facebook group keep sharing super rage bait posts and I’m having a lot of fun engaging with them really positively. “Oh the council is proposing quiet lanes? Great! I’d love to have more safe cycle routes with my kids! I can’t wait!” highly recommend

(To be clear I also don’t think they should be banning social media)(if anyone needs banned from social media it’s over 80s)

I made the chocolate chip cookies Deb updated and linked here and they are so good we cannot stop eating them. I’ve lived on cookies for today.

Spent my morning making chocolate chip cookies which is good! And we are now happy! And full of cookies!

tbh, even most businesses shouldn't be run "like a business"

I like how people say "manage your depression" like it's a stock portfolio but you're heavily invested in sadness

Come be the copyright assistant at the Patrick Power Library, Saint Mary's University! #LISJobs #HaliSky jobs.careerbeacon.com/details/libr...

“We’d like to understand what they need” Money, you absolute numbskulls. No library has ever not been clear about their needs. And it’s always money because I have yet to work at or interact with a well-funded library. I don’t ever to expect to, tbh! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The five-year-old child who was reported missing from Cooks Brooks Rd. has been located and is safe. The RCMP thanks Nova Scotians for assisting with missing persons files through social media shares and offering tips.

"As for libraries, the premier suggested the Annapolis Valley Regional Library Board could consider dipping into its “rainy day fund” to keep some branches from closing." ...

I decided I wanted to be angry again this morning and looked at the 2020-21 budget. If the proportion of provincial spending had stayed the same as it was 6 years ago (0.3%), then the budget for museums and libraries would increase by more than $20M. That would be a 56.3% increase.

NEW: After 14 years with the top job, David Coon is stepping down as New Brunswick Green party leader. He will remain as leader until the party holds a leadership convention to choose his successor. The party will make an announcement on a leadership convention in the coming weeks.

this is the printer of our discontent

LIBRARIES ARE GREAT AND HAVE MANY THINGS BUT PLEASE CHECK THE LIBRARY WEBSITE AND NOT THE GOOGLE AI SUMMARY TO FIND OUT WHAT *YOUR* LIBRARY OFFERS (sincerely, a library that has not offered free zoo tickets for over twenty years that still gets people asking for zoo tickets)

On June 4, 1726, Mi’kmaw, Wəlastəkokewiyik, and Peskətəmohkatewey leaders gathered at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, to ratify a treaty with the British Crown. The Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1726 was signed at Fort Anne. Today, we are all still Treaty people.

No!

Our house is in the destroyed section. When we were buying it, our lawyer send us the only survey documents for the property, which were dated 1918. “Cool…oh” was how I reacted when I remembered why streets would have been drawn and surveyed in 1918!

Public libraries are one of the MOST beneficial public services and they provide an amazing return on investment. Unfortunately for us, that "return" is purely social (i.e. makes people's lives better), and our current leaders only seem to care about padding the pockets of private business owners.

NS spends less than 0.25% of the budget on libraries & museums. About half is for libraries If the political will existed, they could easily double the funding for public libraries and it would be less than a rounding error against the total budget while creating HUGE benefits to our communities.

Cuts to library services are NEVER about budget savings, and are 100% ideological, aimed at reducing the access to information, and other wonderful benefits public libraries provide to communities.

Raise your hand if you’ve ever been personally victimized by EBSCO timing out.

“I know, I think it’s silly too,” I tell the cat who thinks because @brett-o-d.bsky.social left early for work that we’re going to have a girl day (I stay home and we go outside to sit in bushes and stare at birds).

Flat budgets are cuts.

Sometimes I remember that I became a librarian in part because @govnb.bsky.social has done such a piss-poor job of providing the public school system with funding to have proper school libraries (read: they have not at all) and it frustrated me enough to go try to do something about it.

Politicians keep telling us “it’s good for the economy” but what the fuck is the economy even for if we can’t keep our libraries open?

Introducing the Montréal Victoire: the first Canadian team to bring the Walter Cup home to Canada. Your victory was a milestone for women’s hockey — and a proud moment for all Canadians. 🇨🇦

Come be the copyright assistant at the Patrick Power Library, Saint Mary's University! #LISJobs #HaliSky jobs.careerbeacon.com/details/libr...

Forcing libraries to close is some James Bond villain level shit

Gonna be a generational burden to recreate the norm that scamming other people is bad when our positions of leadership are being filled by proud scammers and people who previously only succeeded in the field of social media engagement bait

First grievance: I went to Tims this morning on campus and ordered an iced capp. They did not have chocolate milk. This is a crime.

I’m mad at the provincial government and need to finish fixing 300 ebook records this afternoon so I’m probably going to go off on something else before the day is over. Should probably make a list to choose from for effective posting!

Dal also has the only master’s program for librarians east of Montreal. Anyway it was fun to attend Dal as a library school student. I’ll leave it there. It’s been fun to be an alumna too, and see how Dal Libraries is currently suffering.