Filling in for ILL this afternoon and on a lark, I checked the accessibility of a very recent article from an offshoot journal of a prestige publisher. It lit up like a slot machine. 🤦🏻‍♀️

A long time ago I saw someone gleefully tearing their poster up at the end of MLA. Seems like a good option and a potential new ritual. I don’t like cloth posters and am not a sewer. And what am I gonna do with a paper poster, hang it on my bedroom wall? #mlanet26 #medlibs

Attending #mlanet26 session of slow librarianship CE attendees from #mlanet25 and their experiences since then. Began with shoutout to @librarianmer.bsky.social and other voices in this movement.

Realized most of the sessions I’ve been to were immersion-like. Mostly leadership or development, a couple practical things. I mean it fits where I am and I’m not complaining but it’s an interesting observation. #mlanet26 #medlibs

Loving the architecture in Milwaukee! Great new member, first time attendee breakfast, good insight about the fed purpose license re: NIH public access policy, hard time hearing in ballroom so need to sit closer for Doe lecture, then hung my poster! Now introvert time and pizza 🍕 #mlanet26 #medlibs

Apparently being on the membership committee means you get a ribbon with your actual committee name. #mlanet26 #medlibs

About to land in MKE for #mlanet26 Glad I skipped a year. Didn’t feel like travel or in person conferencing last year. But I miss OG back channel conference chat from the bird app. Couldn’t keep up back then. Remember the first MLA official Tweetup? It was hilarious! #medlibs

KEARNEY HEALTH ED: The latest $95 million structure to open on a rural health education complex in Kearney is expected to double the number of health care students on the campus, to about 625. From Cindy Gonzalez:

I can’t help it. Every time I see the often used abbreviation for persistent identifiers, my mind goes to the OG clinical abbreviation meaning. Another term should really be adopted. #medlibs get it.

I nearly had a panic attack today when I remembered I agreed to peer review an article a couple weeks ago and thought it was due this Friday. Fortunately due next week! I have the time now and I only agreed because I knew I had the capacity based on the content, this close to MLA. Whew!

Anyone printing their poster in Milwaukee? If so, where? Never done it this way. There’s a FedEx nearby. My days of hauling a poster tube on a plane are over. I tried cloth last time, which is ok, but looks a bit sloppy and takes a team to hang. #mlanet26 #medlibs

Let’s stop pretending and just remove the option to not receive emails from exhibitors when you register for a conference because you always get emails from exhibitors.

I went to PubMed the other day and it captcha’d me with one of those frickin indiscernible photo selection things. I’m not a robot and I’m horribly nearsighted, dammit! #medlibs

When the AI chatbots rise up, I’m sure they’ll come after me first. When I’m forced to interact with them to get to a human, I turn mean and insulting. They’re never helpful!

First time no red x’s or taunting orange triangles in PAC checker, passed all but quality! Sorry Adobe, screen reader didn’t like these formulas tagged as formula. I think I’m learning but with our accessibility specialist’s last day tomorrow, I’m sure to run into something nefarious soon after.

FSCI opened registration today. Fewer courses than usual but the lineup looks good. I’ll probably take the library publishing course. force11.org/fsci-2026/

What I learned from Prince and Muhammad Ali was that it’s possible to love yourself so much that everybody else does, too.

Making PDFs accessible isn’t as scary as I thought. True, it does take repetition to remember steps but fixes are simple and sometimes Adobe Acrobat fixes it for you. Diving into PAC checker now and the "Path object not tagged" freaked me out but you just artifact those.

Saw that it’s official #mlanet27 will be in Denver. Short and cheap flight for me! But it’s again ending Friday before Memorial Day weekend. Is this a new thing? #medlibs?

Spring vibes on campus officially activated 🌸

If you heard the ADA Title II deadline got extended, don’t get too excited just yet. First, the court needs to approve. Second, as a colleague pointed out, the extension may only apply to K-12 as the proposal references municipalities. Higher ed is state. We’ll see what the final ruling says.

Being a longtime #medlibs, receiving a question from a student wanting multiple government reports from the 30/40s, heck any year, has me going “wut?” I took a govdocs class in grad school and never totally felt comfortable with them. Thankful for library folks that are!

Reminds me of @noethematt.bsky.social 😂

What do you do with your conference poster when it's no longer a conference poster? You turn it into a shirt, of course! LF Comms person Laura steps to the other side of the camera at PLA!

In teaching my annual session to grad students on copyright & fair use, we got into a discussion about educational use of copyrighted materials in enclosed ed spaces vs the masses. More to it, but I brought up MOOCs and instantly acknowledged I was dating myself w that term, as I got blank stares.

I’m in my 22nd year as a professional level librarian. My articles and conference presentations are all over the place, some research, some program evaluation, various topic areas. Nature of my positions. Practical stuff. What % of librarians have a lone topic area they continually explore?

Anyone else running on fumes with the ADA Title II implementation? It’s a good thing and I welcome it but this time period is painful to be an IR admin. Can we fast forward to everyone knowing how to make Word and PowerPoint files accessible? Also, PDFs suck.

I was going to report that The Pitt got a Nebraska baseball reference wrong, but after I looked it up, they were right. I’m just old, frick.

I’m a 680 unread listserv & ALA Connects, a month of ARL Communications, & about 280 items in my RSS reader behind. I’m sure about 90% is not relevant to me, but you have to sift through it to know that. I also fell out of my daily Bluesky review. Can I press pause for a couple wks and reset 2026?

Trying to get a 2002 article from now defunct French journal, Springer content starts 2004 and libraries on OCLC improperly using print record for this online access, blerg. One library in Paris has! I put a merci beaucoup in the notes because I’m a nerd like that. I hope they can send.

Voted in @medlibassn.bsky.social election today. One board candidate got my vote as soon as I read his statement about data, systematic reviews etc being ok but let’s talk about all other aspects of librarianship. THANK YOU! Fine to explore new but what about how we spend most of our time! #medlibs

I was away for a week and a half, part unexpected. I don’t want to catch up on posts, so tell me if anything new happened with NIH funded research and publishing. APC cap or not, Nelson memo rescinding, etc. kthanks

ACRL members, do you get email announcing the call for submissions for next years conference or do we get that info elsewhere? I’m asking because I never get email from them or ALA. I find out stuff on Connect and blogs. I’ve asked support to fix this but no emails. Does direct email actually occur?

Hey #medlibs, tell us about your accepted presentations for #mlanet26! I’m co-authoring a poster with one of our desk staff titled “Frontline Knowledge Leveraged to Build a Bot.” And no, not AI. Neither of us want to go to there. It’s the LibAnswers chatbot.

Heard that CCC is discontinuing GIN. I remember talking with them pre-GIN about how we purchased direct from publishers to save on copyright royalties back in the day. Along with Article Galaxy and both integrated into ILLiad, easy & sometimes better pricing than on publishers site. 1/2

Registered to do in my free time. It is a personal goal of mine this year to spend at least an hour on learning. It’s almost March and I haven’t attempted yet. I’m still waiting for 2025 to slow down.

Couldn’t respond so sharing. We do live chat w note it’s powered by humans. Non AI chatbot for after hrs. People like human chat. HSLs are a bit different. Rare we get live research ?s. Have a lit search service. Most ? are collection or nav services which our bot programmed to answer & direct. 1/2

I think I have too many opinions lately. Maybe it’s menopause. I am using these newfound powers for good and offering solutions or a path forward but I do feel like a firehose. I don’t know if this is my new normal or if the well will eventually be empty.

Staring at OpenAlex and Publish or Perish results all afternoon, can’t see clearly, and don’t feel like searching, so someone tell me if you can export full details of a single journal’s citing articles. Either lots of clicking to find or only total available. Maybe the OA API can do this?

LibGuide spotting

When I have to chase down libraries with overdue ILL invoices, I feel like this kid. Especially when I send the 90 day letter via USPS because my emails and voicemails go unanswered. Been a couple years. I probably spend more time doing that than what is owed. I should look into a threshold.

I don't know how much Microsoft does UX on their products, but they missed the boat on the new scheduler poll update. When I discovered it months ago, I was thrilled not to have to use Doodle anymore and it worked well. 1/2

This isn't like learn to code or learn computer science. It's "learn to kinda half do a job so you can be underpaid to replace someone". It is nakedly being used to make workers redundant. There's no "AI literacy" way out of that.

This presentation will be excellent. Register today, you shouldn’t miss it! Accompanying exhibit link in story, re: an alum who was a medical officer in WWII and part of a concentration camp liberation. #medlibs blog.unmc.edu/library/2026...

From classroom to community ❤️ In January, UNMC students spent a day in North Omaha barbershops, giving blood-pressure checks and sharing important health info with local residents. Read more: www.unmc.edu/newsroom/202...

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Social deviance 2. Finite Math 3. Tennis 4. Sociology of Religion 5. Theatre appreciation

I credit studying sociology as an undergrad with refining and sharpening my critical thinking skills. Do with that what you will.

I like how they mentioned the role of libraries. Wait …

Excited we have a librarian here! Our 1st distance located librarian! Her past work is largely rural, she cares deeply for these students. We & they are fortunate to have her in Kearney! My 1st job was distance ed librarian. It’s tough getting students/faculty feel a part of something bigger #medlbs

I feel like @noethematt.bsky.social with 101 unread emails in my inbox. I’ve been catching emails from people and most of these are newsy type notices that I should probably direct to my listserv folder. Nothing has slowed down since maybe summer?