@recdiffs.bsky.social in the sweet precious angel realm www.cbs17.com/news/local-n...

Somehow my Mac opened an XML file in Microsoft Word. I did not expect this to happen. 📚

March Meowness. Show a cat picture to get fines forgiven. #alaac25 📚

Assuming Bluesky is now the way to communicate at #alaac25! I am here for #ALACore5Years.

Now there's a protest sign you don't see often.

A former colleague said she knew for sure it was me when she saw IMLS on the sign.

📚Need some emergency digital preservation I don't even know what to do anymore.

Omg. These aren’t books. This is a hell of a future.

If you haven’t yet noted in the ALA elections yet please vote for @lindsonmars.bsky.social!

After the Dear Colleague letter yesterday and the ProQuest announcement today, not to mention the -4 temperature on my commute, I’m not sure whether to sleep rest of week or go on some righteous quest.

Today I downloaded the IPEDS data set for Academic Library Statistics for 2023 and loaded it onto Library Technology Guides. That data is now available for statistical reports on Library Technology Guides:https://librarytechnology.org/libraries/nces/trends/

More than I care about who you vote for in the upcoming @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social election, I care about the future of ALA as a means to ensure library workers are appropriately respected and compensated. Wrote a piece about it for Katina Magazine. Show up for ALA to show up for library workers.

I’m going to lose my mind. The evil!!!

Open a mind.

Let’s all go to

The first time I've published an article in awhile! "Frameworks for Analyzing the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Libraries"

Grateful to @librarianmer.bsky.social for her excellent response to the bizarrely laudatory take on open offices: crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr.... I'm personally thrilled to return to a private office after 11 years of a shared room, my poor coworkers with my time on Core board. So much talking. 📚

📚 Come work at Loyola University Chicago! Two research and learning positions available, open to entry level applicants. www.careers.luc.edu/postings/26878

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A lot of you saw this on My Other Social Media, but I have some professional news! I am leaving Loyola after nearly 11 years to become Head of Digital Services at DePaul University. Looking forward to the new challenges there.

This was a fun talk to moderate! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBto...

Missing a vanished friend whom I desperately need to text about an interaction I'm currently witnessing. Whew. Some people.

Are you coming to New Orleans in October? You should. Let's be library nerds together. coreforum.org#CoreForum2023 📚

I contributed a chapter to this book! It ended up being one of the hardest things I ever wrote but not because of the material, just personal reasons! But if you see my soul in there that's why. www.alastore.ala.org/content/prac...

My kid suggested ChatGPT write my out of office email. It did, and I used it. Then I told it to entertain a very smart 9 year old. He is reviewing the results.

Last night, in between insomnias, I dreamed my house was home to a colony of eastern bluebirds who were flying to escape a cat who was not mine.

Everything smells vaguely of onions.

My 6yo looked at everything with a black light flashlight tonight and I am deeply unsettled.

My kitchen is overtaken with fruit flies and my inbox has a person bringing up Godwin’s law but misusing the concept.

Spent way too much time today being annoyed about self-professed radicals who don’t lift a finger to actually help with organizing.

Told my therapist today I was going to give up being intense for a month.

Someone might want to tell this guy that accredited institutions do in fact offer PhDs in AI.

Finished this on my birthday. Enjoyed it very much. 📚 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61294937

The takes on which app is what forever remind me of library literature ten years ago. Of course my takes from that time on Facebook’s social graph have withstood the test of time and are completely correct with no errors. 📚 @thatandromeda.bsky.social did I do it right?

We were able to gleefully inform a much younger coworker who is working this concert about the Chicago River Incident. 😆

Just saw a lifeguard use a snow shovel to remove an enormous fish carcass from the beach!

I’m not quite in my next decade (one more year) but my birthday is tomorrow and I just said “Ow my back”, plus made a mental note that tonight is a retinol night.

There’s a parent here for orientation rhapsodizing about the Target across the street. Nice to see. I’m only on campus for a goodbye party and unpacking the fidget spinners.

I had dreams about social media and love and mistaken identity after spending too much time on all the New Apps last night. Planned my day before 7am with some silly assumptions that I won’t just be constantly distracted by them.

For some reason these ticket stubs from 2009 are on this table and I got mad again about paying $22 for Julie & Julia. I only liked half the movie.