It baffles me how many library school students/prospective LIS students/early career librarians use library Reddit to ask questions they could easily find answers to much more quickly using Google. You're a librarian! Knowing how to do research efficiently is the most basic aspect of our work!

Ross Barkan is writing about writing/editorial/media jobs, but he could just as easily be describing similar patterns in libraries and archives that result from too many candidates chasing too few jobs: rosselliotbarkan.com/p/the-matter...

If you do happen to be represented by a Republican in the House and/or Senate, by all means, pick up the phone and express your opinion to whoever answers, and ask for a written response. That’s the way to do it.

While I share everyone's distress about Trump administration's layoffs of the CDC librarians, I don't love EveryLibrary's astroturf-based approach. Signing online petitions to Congress doesn't work. It only provides you with the illusion that you're doing something effective. (1/2)

@npr.org newscasters, this is your friendly reminder that Grand Blanc in Michigan is pronounced “Grand BLANK.” This is true of pretty much every French place name in MI btw - think of how a 7-year-old native English speaker would pronounce it the first time she encountered it on the page

"Instead of ostracizing the people they hate, Bluesky’s progressives are only isolating themselves... Within this little hothouse world that American progressives have created for themselves, there’s not much to do except try to cancel each other."

As a librarian, I think nursing reference/lit searches are MUCH harder than medical ones. Nurses come to us with the craziest questions, most of which aren't answerable with conventional bibliographic database searches.

Welp that’s the last time I use the Lyft bikeshare option

Thank Betty Who!

Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident theonion.com/conscie...

After tonight they are updating the criteria for clinical diagnosis of homosexuality to test whether the patient can recognize Cole’s wig as an homage to Bernadette Peters

At the risk of sounding like an asshole, I have to say I really don't think the library literature needs another study about imposter syndrome among librarians. We get it. It's a thing that some of us have.

Stolen from substack:

Everyone on social media loves to hate Matt Yglesias, but if you actually read him it turns out he does, in fact, have fairly persuasive reasons for supporting heterodoxy among Democrats that aren’t just trolling progressives.

When returning from travel, what are your favorite things to come home to? Mine are 1. Our dog, 2. Our big bed pillows, 3. Our bidet.

Medical Library Association members: I'm sharing this statement about the difficult decision to change the name of MLA's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee, authored by Community Building and Belonging Committee Chair Kelsa Bartley. (1/2)

What's up with librarians randomly putting proper names in all caps? I'm thinking of Ovid, which for some reason everyone writes out as OVID (my favorite is "OVID Medline"), and then today I encountered "CANVAS" (for the Canvas LMS).

Grateful my director fought for our travel funding this year. I know a lot of my colleagues aren’t so lucky, and I will have to self-fund next year. I can only speak for myself but… (1/2)

Visiting Pittsburgh has reminded me how low-key my favorite American cities are all the historic second-tier ones east of the Mississippi that have seen their best days: PGH, Baltimore, Providence, New Haven, etc. Honorable mention to Montreal which is Canadian but falls in the same category IMO

My coauthors and I are thrilled to announce our newly published article in JMLA, which provides 2 validated search filters that can be used to retrieve research about queer women's health in PubMed. Read the full article for free: jmla.mlanet.org/ojs/jmla/art...

TIL the EMTREE for "skin aging" is "cutaneous parameters"?!? I want to slap whoever made this decision.

OK I’m a little fat, but I’m not “Downloading the bundt cake app to my phone” fat, OK?

RIP SLA. It is a really, really hard time for library professional organizations right now. sla.org/news/697073/...

Every time I see this sign I read it in Gia Gunn voice

I love that Laura Dern and Isabella Rossellini are each other’s date to the Oscars 😍

For my colleagues who are medical librarians, MLA has published a statement addressing the recent flurry of executive orders and other actions taken by the federal government: mailchi.mp/184b14bd09ff...

I don't know how you people in poly relationships do it. I have a hard enough time staying on top of one relationship!

No, we did not need a tropical house cover of Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car. Burn it with fire

I love that EBSCO overhauled and rebuilt their entire search platform, but somehow couldn’t be bothered to implement the export functionality every other search platform has provided for decades.

I will never, ever forgive Biden for his role in the mess our country is now in, and I think people who make excuses for him are deluding themselves.

Hey medical librarians, MLA is now on Bluesky! @medlibassn.bsky.social

Impossible choice but this is the first that came to my mind

There are only a couple of days a year where we get good news from the Supreme Court. Today is one of them. Happy RIP TikTok Day to all who celebrate!

There's been an interesting stampede to the altar (or rather to the courthouse) this week among gays. Everyone seems to be citing "threats to queer people from the new administration." There are a lot of things I fear about the second Trump term but same-sex marriage isn't one of them. 1/2

I happen to be in one of those female-dominated professions (librarianship) where gay men outnumber straight ones. I’ve always half-joked that it’s like being a hairstylist with a master’s degree

The transit gods have answered our prayers chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/20...

DUO is officially my least favorite app. So annoying

The professor who always asks me to do library orientation for her class after I finish in 10 minutes because the students, of course, don’t have any questions

If I had as many followers as @georgetakei.bsky.social, i wouldn’t be sharing fake content

Don't go into debt. Move to Chicago instead!

Why I roll my eyes whenever I read a New York Times commenter claiming they have to drive into Manhattan because the subway is too dangerous: open.substack.com/pub/natesilv...

Awww guys the law firm that dropped me from the Marriott Data Breach class action Suit sent me a Christmas e-card🎄Great to hear from old friends this time of year 🥰

I love these pie charts @jvl.bsky.social created to depict the effect of the Internet on the information ecoystem. (As Last notes, these are made up numbers, but they're consistent with my personal experience.)

My mother in law Cathy Cade was a lesbian feminist photographer who documented social justice movements in the Bay Area. We are going through some prints for her obituary and I just found the most lesbian image I have ever seen.

Well clearly I’ve made it on bluesky, Charlize Theron is following me, I can die now

I’ve been binging Slow Horses, and I’ve realized I need a buddy flick with Selina Meyer and Diana Taverner

"(W)e need private insurers to drive a harder bargain with the most expensive doctors and hospitals. When we demonize insurers for doing precisely that, we aren’t standing up against our health care sector’s profiteers — we’re sticking up for them."

Puppy nose

"(B)y failing to institutionalize him, the state was condemning Neely to death, and Penny’s chokehold just happens to be the way the death manifested."