📚 Last thing the world of library science needs is for me and my colleague to produce a morning zoo crew style reference video YOU’VE REACHED THE EGGHEAD AND MICHAEL REFERENCE SHOW! CHECK YOUR U-U-U-USERNAME FOR E-RESOURCES ACCESS! *random clips of Booknotes dialogue*

📚 GotDAMN my tech services predecessor built WMS reports like he was creating ART. These are beautiful to work with.

I keep thinking “It’s too hot to do anything with #GarbageMare” and I forget that she was born in nature’s forgotten furnace. Spent the first three months of her life in 110° weather. She gets so much energy between 90° and 100° and I just sit here melting.

#ALAAC26 @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Between hidden fees, self-parking at $40/day with no in & out, it cost me an extra $700 out of pocket just to stay at the Marriott. Would have been more if I paid for internet. Please let’s advocate for no surprise fees at conference hotels. WE are the customer!

I did not have “meth addicts save the climate” on my bingo card but here we are… www.vice.com/en/article/t...

📚 What’s it like working in a library? Well, I had to order a velociraptor head today for work-related purposes…

anyone lose their street milk?

Fun fact: I only got elected to leadership at @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social so I could be here at Wrigley again. #ALAAC26

"If all it took was 10 years to dismantle American democracy, then what the fuck was it in the first place?" - Billy Porter at #ALAaC26

A full house for the session on creeps! #ALAAC26

40 people on Zoom, 30 people in the room for AIRUS - we would have had more space for people, but a publisher felt that their stacks of books needed the room more than librarians did. 😡 #ALAAC26

Apologies to IU Luddy for not attending the alumni reception. IU turns out WINNERS and I was busy WINNING. #ALAAC26

Greg Dachille speaks to a packed room at the AI In Ref RUSA President’s Program #ALAAC26

At the Library Research Round Table’s Shera Awards #ALAAC26

Met Katharine from @titanbooks.bsky.social last night. She lives right next to one of my bucket list places: Mount Desert Island, Maine, home of the Hotchkiss child sniper unit of 1814. #ALAAC26

This to me was one of the funnier series of images. They didn’t go get barrels of hydrogen peroxide from some industrial chemical supply. They went to a store and got little bottles of it and they all had to sit there opening the bottles and pouring them one by one.

Monday, June 29 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm W184ABC “That Guy”: Addressing patron sexual harassment in reference services Or, why it feels so creepy that someone keeps calling and asking us to describe our feet. #ALAAC26

Sunday, June 28 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm W194B RUSA President’s Program AI in Reference presents: For Better Or Worse, ‘Til Tech Do Us Part #ALAAC26 A critical look at AI literacy. Learn about the robots now to avoid being assimilated later! (LOL like we have a choice)

Saturday, June 27 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Marriot Marquis, Physiology room Virtual Reference Services presents: Reference Roundup! Yee-haw! My reign of terror as chair begins. Plus, we talk about libchat data! #ALAAC26

Saturday, June 27, 9 am - 10 am: Library Research Round Table, Jesse H. Shera Awards! Come and celebrate the best in the year's emerging library research! #ALAAC26

"Necessity not only authorizes but seems to require [inoculation], for should the disorder infect the Army, in the natural way, and rage with its usual virulence, we should have more to dread from it, than from the Sword of the Enemy." Washington, 1777.

📚Who else is going to #ALAAC26? Also please come to our panel on gross creeps and foot-obsessed weirdos - Monday, June 29th, 2:30 - 3:30, WBC 184 ABC.

While I am glad that we still have asylums for people who lack any sense of situational awareness, I don’t know why it has to be my local Sam’s Club specifically.

I'm doing some LinkedIn Learning courses on workplace politics and personality. Feels like I'm going undercover among the Neurotypicals. Fascinating subculture. So many problems and rules to invent and then they invent a new rule to deal with the other rule and it's just rules all the way down.

One thing I miss from the days of pre-enshittification is how the grocery store deli used to make the most incredible Dagwood sandwiches to order. They had ten kinds of bread, meats, cheeses, OMG the veggies and sprouts were really something.

📚 Overheard at the library: “Removing the corpses to the outside is always an improvement.” “They reach maturity only to reproduce, annoy everyone, and then die. I’ve had neighbors like that.”

Noisy, gawky, exceedingly irritating. But also so smart that they won’t fall for just any rubbish. - A 1927 description of the generation that navigated adulthood through the Great Depression, Civil Rights Movement, and Naziism

ADHD: I have seven Hydroflasks. Academic: I have paid for three of them.

Filling out new patient paperwork. Can't remember my eye prescription so I just wrote a frowny face.

📚 My colleague bringing a certain energy into our Mother’s Day display 😂

RIP Ted Turner, really enjoyed him screaming at Conan

I’m writing a guide for educators to talk to parents about AI, so I’m looking up a lot of AI targeted to kids. And now my Algorithm is showing me SO MANY ads for “your toddler’s best friend!” chatbots. It’s appalling how toxic the kid AI industry is.

Not too busy to make a sock puppet

In honor of half the celebrities at the Met Gala last night, I decided to also not put any effort into what I’m wearing this morning. (Also why does Bezos money still not afford a decent plastic surgeon. Lauren Sanchez was either going for a facial Botero, or she’s BOTCHED.)

As I hurtle towards 50, I spend my mornings with a horse I found in the garbage, picking up the semi-precious stones her raven companion has left us in the night. I put the best treasures in a little woven basket. I can’t tell the difference between goblin energy or witch energy at this point.

📚 The worst part of being a tech librarian is trying to convince a vendor that you are actually having a problem and need their info to solve it. No, really, I wasn’t sitting here smashing my thumbs with a hammer, I kinda do know what I’m doing.

📚The intersection between access librarians and people who were terminally online during the heyday of the CAD webcomic is vanishingly small, but I always look at the 1BUU licensing option and think of how Buckley used to draw people like 1BU and B^U all the time.

My Apple Watch just congratulated me on my exercise goals Stupid computer thinks a massage chair on “heavy knead” is exercise Well who am I to argue

Journalism is healing

Today, the raven that hangs out with #GarbageMare brought her an interesting piece of agate. Not sure what the banding indicates other than an iron deposit - could it be a fossil?

I like walking through the campus and overhearing my colleagues talk about their problems. Usually these problems involve having too many vegetables. This morning: “All my fridges are full of pickles. The work fridge is full of pickles. Someone needs to take some pickles.”

Watching “Death PhD” and questioning immediately whether any of the writers have met a PhD student.

I was looking at Indeed postings for some algorithmic evaluation purposes and honest to god based on the keywords "higher education management" it recommended I go work at a turkey farm

Normal day at the library, this just showed up and nobody knows from where

Me: I’m going to teach you about documentation. Documentation helps you survive audits. Failing an audit means you can lose your career and maybe go to jail. Guy: I don’t want to learn this. Colleagues: *physically recoil*

There are entire species of birds house with the remains of #GarbageMare ‘s winter coat

“We are pleased to inform you…” I’M GONNA GO TO SIMMONS!!! #PhD

Dean: Do you know anything about knowledge management? I'm having this problem... My brain:

Mi iphone gas gonne back to insisting i ma italian, and its making it veri difficili ti type in english that fucking duolingo owl never warned me

On-brand for my life: 3/7 My truck breaks down dramatically; Gas $2.50/gal 3/9 Diagnosis: cooked. Get a new car. 3/15 Buy a Toyota Camry Hybrid for less than KBB 3/21 Have hybrid delivered; Gas $4.25/gal 3/31 Prices rise on same Camry model by $10K