Janet Brennan Croft
@banzailibrarian.bsky.social
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Tolkienist, librarian, cat lover, Granny Weatherwax wannabe, quilter, and occasional Deadhead.
New issue of Mythlore is up:
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Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature | Vol 44 | No. 1
https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol44/iss1/
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Tolkien language nerds, scans of the first five issues of Parma Eldalamberon, long only available as photocopies, are now available open access:
dc.swosu.edu/parma/
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Parma Eldalamberon | Mythopoeic Society | Southwestern Oklahoma State University
https://dc.swosu.edu/parma/
7 months ago
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12 months ago
as a person who knows that banishing evil spirits by swearing at them is a common thing in multiple Slavic traditions, i am DELIGHTED by this tip
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There will be more to come from the Mythopoeic Society's official social media steward, but: today, our content at
dc.swosu.edu/mythsoc/
hit ONE MILLION DOWNLOADS! Woot!
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Mythopoeic Society | Southwestern Oklahoma State University Research | SWOSU Digital Commons
https://dc.swosu.edu/mythsoc/
12 months ago
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about 1 year ago
I keep remembering how the first thing an abuser does is cut you off from friends and family. This feels like the global political version of that on an unimaginable scale.
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Allison
about 1 year ago
LC published a tentative list to change
#LCSH
Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America & Mt Denali to Mt McKinley. Comments on the proposed changes can be sent to
[email protected]
by Tues. February 18, 2025 (which is TODAY). If you oppose the change, please email!
#critcat
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classweb.org/tentative-su...
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Tentative Monthly List 12 LCSH 2 (February 13, 2025)
https://classweb.org/tentative-subjects/2412a.html?loclr=eashal
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Steffani Cameron π¨π¦
about 1 year ago
Work in healthcare? Come to a country that still values freedom, diversity, and science. IF YOU HAVE QUEER and TRANS friends in healthcare, get them to apply immediately!
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District
about 1 year ago
donβt treat people like crap. unless you want to treat them like *we* treat crap, with the transformative care, respect, and service-oriented attention it deserves.
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Veronica Bane
about 1 year ago
Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. π Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. π
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The seminar proceedings for MythSoc's "Something Mighty Queer" online conference are up. Some great reading here! Lots on Tolkien, but also papers on Our Flag Means Death, Star Wars, intersectionality, queer theology, and more!
dc.swosu.edu/mythpro/vol2...
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Mythopoeic Society Conference and Seminar Proceedings | Mythopoeic Society | Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Only a few Mythcon proceedings volumes have been published; after Mythcon III, presenters were encouraged to submit their papers to Mythlore instead. The Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings Series ...
https://dc.swosu.edu/mythpro/
about 1 year ago
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Cool old stamp that came on one of our Christmas cards! Someone was clearing out their stamp hoard.
over 1 year ago
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Since I don't work as a cataloger anymore, I didn't think I'd ever need to consult the Homosaurus controlled vocabulary list -- but it's coming in really handy for creating appropriate new entries for the Mythlore Index Plus for the papers from the "Something Mighty Queer" seminar.
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Homosaurus Vocabulary Site
https://homosaurus.org/
over 1 year ago
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The distinction between emotion and analysis is an excellent one.
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over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
Flowchart of human history: 1. Suffer incredible hardship. 2. Amazing science and hard work fixes hardship. 3. Everything is much better for about 50 years. 4. Nobody remembers hardship anymore. 5. Solution to hardship now considered unnecessary. 6. GOTO 1.
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over 1 year ago
From the
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
book that started this website.
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over 1 year ago
On the nose!
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I haven't been very active here on Bluesky -- I was never very active on the former place either. But one thing I DID do there was post when I put something new up on Academia. This was my talk to to the OK ACRL librarians a few days after the election:
www.academia.edu/125387596/Im...
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Imagination Grows a Better World: Courage, Creativity, and Fantastic Futures
Our field is requiring ever more courage from us as we face challenges to our bedrock beliefs in free access to information and the value of diverse viewpoints, of representation of different ways of ...
https://www.academia.edu/125387596/Imagination_Grows_a_Better_World_Courage_Creativity_and_Fantastic_Futures
over 1 year ago
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Geeze, I try to go on Facebook to crow about having my one meeting for the day cancelled, and Facebook is down.
about 2 years ago
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Come work with me! If you have experience with the back end of Ex Libris, you're who we're looking for.
about 2 years ago
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Last Chance Sale on 2000-2021 original print issues of Mythlore! From now through March 1, all remaining original print copies of Mythlore from #86 through #140 will be half-price. Order them here:
mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-history.htm
about 2 years ago
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So in my dream last night,
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
touched my phone and cured the chirping caused by the most recent Facebook software update. Thanks, Neil! Alas, he couldnβt do anything about the AI-designed architecture in the background.
about 2 years ago
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