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 😂

This one 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?

Had a regular check in appointment with one of my physicians today and instead of the “do you consent to be recorded …” for that AI patient notes thing, I got “we need you to sign something today to acknowledge you are ok with being recorded …” at the front desk. 1/4

I have a draft I’ll probably destroy. Still working on the right angle. T minus 2 days. My old self would be panicking. But the new self? It’ll get done.

My new motto

Understanding impact metrics are my last #scholcomm frontier. I turned my love of math brain off after a TA for finite math class insisted we knew how to do d=rt problems and induced test anxiety cuz didn’t think it would be on exam. Got A in class only cuz final standard across sections and curve.

Makes me wonder who is doing work in the future of the IR and library publishing. Point me in their direction! Anyone? How can we make these more effective, sustainable, and affordable?

Work with a great team in an amazing culture! Includes primary responsibility for med program instruction, integrated in the curriculum. Grading involved! You’ll have help! Salary not in posting, but ad says $62,000–$85,000, depending on qualifications. #medlibs unmc.peopleadmin.com/postings/95238

I’m re-establishing my LinkedIn profile after years of not having one. I’m not sure why now 😂 But damn, my wrist hurts from turning all sorts of settings off!

I’m a Supreme Court justice! I just finished listening to Ketanji Brown Jackson’s memoir. Good read but long! She goes into her family’s history and many court cases.

How embarrassing for them. Snert

Pitching in to help grade appraisal assignments. Being a schol comm nerd, I like to provide "fun facts" when a student mentions a schol comm adjacent topic. I don't know if they read the comments, but it brings me joy. #medlibs

We do a biannual review of the link checker for our guides. Guess which domain suffix was the big problem?

Is Big Milk behind this? Hey, I like milk, I just hope they also bring back the milk break. That was better than recess!

Hey #medlibs, I grabbed this pen to write my to do list for today. No clue when I got it but it has to be at least 15 years old? Not as old as the blue one. When did NNLM stop giving out pens? They did, right?

Proposed cut programs voted on today at the BOR meeting, which is entering it's 6th hour. Public comment taking up a large part of this time and most of the agenda has yet to occur. I've stepped away from my computer a couple times, so not sure if they took a lunch. Folks showed up in droves!

AI is not destroying education. LinkedIn pundits and influencers claiming AI is transforming education are destroying education.

1. Libraries need to better communicate what a read/publish agreement is. We aren’t paying APC & it’s not the focus of the agreement, that’s journal access w APC bonus. 2. Libraries outright paying for APCs erodes access that can never be exhaustive due to stagnant or shrinking budgets.

We provide healthy (ish) snacks including bananas! Interesting though that our current students aren’t banana crazy like years past. Maybe there’s a research study in there. #medlibs

Some humans make things up or answer around when asked a question they don’t know the answer to. I used to have a hard time not providing an answer when I didn’t know but not on a level I experienced today. I’m now going to refer to these folks as ChatXYZ (insert their initials)

“You must love to read!” Actually I’m not a reader. I got into librarianship (health sciences specifically) because I like information and helping people. Much less stress than my first grad school shot: social work. Not being a reader blows people’s minds!