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!

Now can library journals do the same?

If you worked with us, you could ice skate on your lunch break. I think our COM liaison position should be opening soon! #medlibs

I was briefly seduced with a good use case for AI (re: chatbot to query internal documentation for our service desk. Answers to commonly asked questions). Then someone reminded me about environmental impact. The tool WOULD make things easier, BUT my conscience can't do it. (1/2)

Attending the Access Services conference virtually. Off to a good start. Can't access the livestream. The joys of virtual conferences ....

Hey #medlibs, does anyone know if EBSCO's MEDLINE has a week's delay in content like in the past? I'm helping update our A-Z list and that is noted. I found info about Ovid being current, but can't find the EBSCO notation.

I thought it was me, but maybe not? The No Action Needed button that appears/deletes the email once clicked in updated calendar invites, in the new Outlook desktop app AND web, is gone. Or is it? What am I supposed to do? Just delete the email? Google isn't helping and this is making me batty!

Oh shit! Great Easter egg when you sign up to be notified for app release. divine.video

Working on/hopefully finishing slides for a symposium pres next wk. 10 min to say a lot. Heck it takes me 10 min to set it up. Reaction could be “yeah, we know, nothing new here” or “cool! I had no idea but also wtf?” Low stakes way for me to see if worth further investigation/writing or drop it.

All filters turned off. Granted, I only read my follows. Let’s go people!

Hey public health #medlibs & NIH Public Access policy watchers. I'm looking at the American Journal of Public Health policy & it references the 2008 policy w/ no mention of the update. Refers to 12 mo embargo & OA option to make immediately available in PMC. Assuming it's still 12 mo? Anyone know?

The feeling I get when I receive a vendor email about their AI tools is very similar to how I feel when my cat is in an overly, much more than usual, needy mood

Hey #skybrarians, I recall seeing a news blurb about the Ex Libris response to the content filtering in AI Primo Research Assistant but can't seem to find it. I think I saw it in September? Anyone know? Thanks!

It’s my old Twitter handle. Joining Twitter a few years after it launched, variations of my name were taken. And I’m a librarian who only uses these platforms for professional stuff. Though I started using Bluesky when you had to have an invite and did start out with my name, but decided to revert.

Does anyone have a recommended estimate or range for writing APCs into NIH grants? How’d you determine that? Of course if/when APC caps happen, there’s your answer. #medlibs #scholcomm

Just spent a good chunk of time figuring out paperwork to return an ILL book to Canada. We normally don't borrow returnables outside of the US, so not sure if this is normal or new, considering. But seriously, could French proper nouns be any longer? Didn't fit in the form!

The integration of clinicaltrials.gov into Embase is becoming a problem with ILL. Folks think they are requesting an article, but no. Had to create a cancellation reason for it, directing them to our reference service point if they want us to see if anything has been published yet. #medlibs

Good information here. I’m currently working with our office of export control on how to handle a return to Canada. We received it before the change date but we normally don’t do international loans so need the extra guidance!

ALA members. Does ALA have like regular email newsy stuff delivered to you without you asking? I’ve never received this kind of thing, just subscribing to ACRL blogs to help me know what is happening. I feel I’m missing out on stuff. And I am on Connect which is member driven. Thanks!

This article points to Beall’s list (groan) and one I haven’t heard of: kscien.org/predatory-pu... I haven’t dug into it yet but I’m not seeing why the journals are listed as predatory. Also, I don’t like lists.

Re: convo w/ a v savvy grants admin about updated NIH PA policy / pubs requiring gold OA to comply. W/ embellishments: Them: I’ve read the pub policies & watched the webinars & when I told so & so they’d have to pay APC, they said no way, that’s not correct. Am I understanding this right? Me:

I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?

LibGuides are the bane of my existence, lol

Sounds like a recent database platform change, oh, and, the AI-ification of everything. #medlibs

This is a perfect analogy! Saving this for potential use in presentations. A friend who watches too much YouTube has shown me the author’s videos. Good stuff! #medlibs

I dare someone to do something like this at #mlanet26 #medlibs

Aaaaand the semester is already in full swing. Maybe I shouldn’t have taken three days off last week. Lesson learned!

I have so many emails in my work inbox with links to webinar recordings or helpful sites, bookmarks in my browsers across various devices, an RSS reader, and likes on Bluesky of posts I want to return to, many containing links. My read/watch me organization hygiene isn’t good. 1/2