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While much of this year has been crap, our rhubarb seems to have used it as fertilizer. Crumble coming up.

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While much of this year has been crap, our rhubarb seems to have used it as fertilizer. Crumble coming up.

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Man holding two handfuls of very large stalls of rhubarb with an incredulous and gleeful look on his face

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@dchud Talk, man, talk. Just add a content warning (e.g. "uspol") for whatever it is you need to talk about.

We're here for you.

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@dchud Talk, man, talk. Just add a content warning (e.g. "uspol") for whatever it is you need to talk about.

We're here for you.

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My son and I finished enough of the enclosure to move his beardie into his new home. We have more "furniture" (oven-baked birch logs) to add and arrange, but this holiday project has been a success!

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My son and I finished enough of the enclosure to move his beardie into his new home. We have more "furniture" (oven-baked birch logs) to add and arrange, but this holiday project has been a success!

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Picture of a bearded dragon in a birch plywood enclosure; two half-logs on the left with a low vent, a temperature probe in the middle with a ceramic heater hanging from the lid, and a two-tier basking platform on the right side just below a high vent

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Just realized my boss has been using a mail tracker that tells him when and where somebody was whenever they open a link in his emails. For 2.5 years.

I replied to all, calling him out on violations of ALA principles 3 and 5 (privacy and treating colleagues with respect), and provided instructions on how to tease out the links from the tracker to avoid his surveillance.

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Just realized my boss has been using a mail tracker that tells him when and where somebody was whenever they open a link in his emails. For 2.5 years.

I replied to all, calling him out on violations of ALA principles 3 and 5 (privacy and treating colleagues with respect), and provided instructions on how to tease out the links from the tracker to avoid his surveillance.

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Online conference with free software infrastructure

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Highly impressed with @swib 2020 conference (Semantic Web in Libraries - https://swib.org/swib20/) which made attendance free this unprecedented year and are using free software tools (Mattermost for discussion, BigBlueButton for streaming video) for infrastructure.

Kudos @acka47 and Joachim Neubert!

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Highly impressed with @swib 2020 conference (Semantic Web in Libraries - https://swib.org/swib20/) which made attendance free this unprecedented year and are using free software tools (Mattermost for discussion, BigBlueButton for streaming video) for infrastructure.

Kudos @acka47 and Joachim Neubert!

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"in IT, we do not like "scripts" created externally; we rather systemize the data exchange and hence we can support it and be held responsible for its integrity."

Hello, I am a member of the same institution as you, IT, and wrote the script that solved a problem that I've been waiting on you for THREE FUCKING MONTHS without any movement, and posted it so any of your people can review it.

Don't get all pissy over your turf. Perform instead of blocking progress.

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"in IT, we do not like "scripts" created externally; we rather systemize the data exchange and hence we can support it and be held responsible for its integrity."

Hello, I am a member of the same institution as you, IT, and wrote the script that solved a problem that I've been waiting on you for THREE FUCKING MONTHS without any movement, and posted it so any of your people can review it.

Don't get all pissy over your turf. Perform instead of blocking progress.

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Not in my library. Ever.

"Scientific publishers propose installing spyware in university libraries to protect copyrights"

https://www. codastory.com/authoritarian-te ch/spyware-in-libraries/

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Not in my library. Ever.

"Scientific publishers propose installing spyware in university libraries to protect copyrights"

https://www. codastory.com/authoritarian-te ch/spyware-in-libraries/

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Library collection development, big deals

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Went into a collections development meeting this morning and managed to flip our chair's position from "we must keep all of the big deals!" to "we must drop our big deals!"

Context: we have to make major cuts this year (again). Something like 15% of our budget. So our values are to keep content that focuses on Canada (which tends to be the small-dollar items) and rely on ILL for what we've dropped.

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Went into a collections development meeting this morning and managed to flip our chair's position from "we must keep all of the big deals!" to "we must drop our big deals!"

Context: we have to make major cuts this year (again). Something like 15% of our budget. So our values are to keep content that focuses on Canada (which tends to be the small-dollar items) and rely on ILL for what we've dropped.

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I'm thankful that a half hour hike from our backyard brings us to places like this. Good hike with the family yesterday morning.

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I'm thankful that a half hour hike from our backyard brings us to places like this. Good hike with the family yesterday morning.

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@anelki Canada's COVID app source is at https://github.com/cds-snc/covid-alert-app

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@anelki Canada's COVID app source is at https://github.com/cds-snc/covid-alert-app

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I ran 10k today for the first time in... I don't know how many years. 10 maybe? I had been running 5k a couple of times a week for three part few months, and totally wiped at the end. Today I decided to try a longer run, took it a little slower, and it was almost easy. Weird! My longest run before that was about 6k and there were periods of walking involved.

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I ran 10k today for the first time in... I don't know how many years. 10 maybe? I had been running 5k a couple of times a week for three part few months, and totally wiped at the end. Today I decided to try a longer run, took it a little slower, and it was almost easy. Weird! My longest run before that was about 6k and there were periods of walking involved.

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Kudos to whoever created the item "Not a user friendly library system" in this Alma training sandbox

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Kudos to whoever created the item "Not a user friendly library system" in this Alma training sandbox

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@Greg I've used https://github.com/gdrive-org/gdrive and https://github.com/odeke-em/drive on Linux pretty successfully. The uni is a Google Edu shop so unlimited storage for digitized material is compelling.

Can't remember which one I used most recently... gdrive I think.

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@Greg I've used https://github.com/gdrive-org/gdrive and https://github.com/odeke-em/drive on Linux pretty successfully. The uni is a Google Edu shop so unlimited storage for digitized material is compelling.

Can't remember which one I used most recently... gdrive I think.

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Wanted: a Canadian librarian to give a keynote on digitization and metadata. Maybe my digipres.club friends can recommend some good candidates?

/cc @anna @ashley @sabrams@digipres.club

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Wanted: a Canadian librarian to give a keynote on digitization and metadata. Maybe my digipres.club friends can recommend some good candidates?

/cc @anna @ashley @sabrams@digipres.club

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I replaced over 18,000 instances of the "Indians of North America" subject heading with "Indigenous peoples--North America" in our catalogue, based on:

Bone, Christine. (2016). Modifications to the Library of Congress Subject Headings for use by Manitoba archives. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2016 – Columbus, OH Retrieved from: http://library.ifla.org/1328/

Now working on over a thousand other records with variations such as ending in a period...

Curse you MARC punctuation!

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I replaced over 18,000 instances of the "Indians of North America" subject heading with "Indigenous peoples--North America" in our catalogue, based on:

Bone, Christine. (2016). Modifications to the Library of Congress Subject Headings for use by Manitoba archives. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2016 – Columbus, OH Retrieved from: http://library.ifla.org/1328/

Now working on over a thousand other records with variations such as ending in a period...

Curse you MARC punctuation!

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I said "No" today. The request was that I take on 90% of the responsibilities of my colleague, who decamped a few months ago for a more focused position at a much larger university.

I suggested the university just hire a replacement tenure-track position instead of trying to pile even more work on those of us that remain.

I'm pretty sure their end-game was to show that the position isn't really necessary and never replace it. I'm not going to play that game.

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I said "No" today. The request was that I take on 90% of the responsibilities of my colleague, who decamped a few months ago for a more focused position at a much larger university.

I suggested the university just hire a replacement tenure-track position instead of trying to pile even more work on those of us that remain.

I'm pretty sure their end-game was to show that the position isn't really necessary and never replace it. I'm not going to play that game.

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Every day I get to walk hand-in-hand towards school with my 10-year-old is precious.

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Every day I get to walk hand-in-hand towards school with my 10-year-old is precious.

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Marched in my city's Labour Day parade with my family. A good outing, despite some rain at the start. So many friendly people.

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Marched in my city's Labour Day parade with my family. A good outing, despite some rain at the start. So many friendly people.

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It hits me in the gut every time I try searching a library's discovery layer and hit an authentication wall.

I mean, you won't even show search results to someone without knowing who they are?

We've come a long way from Telnet and Z39.50 interfaces to catalogues. Not all of it is progress.

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It hits me in the gut every time I try searching a library's discovery layer and hit an authentication wall.

I mean, you won't even show search results to someone without knowing who they are?

We've come a long way from Telnet and Z39.50 interfaces to catalogues. Not all of it is progress.

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A few weeks ago I asked why identifiers in BIBFRAME must be literal values, instead of URIs.

44 messages later, after being asked what I would expect from dereferencing a URI, I find myself quoting Tim Berners-Lee's original linked data principles.

And responding to an assertion that "We have established X" when X, AFAICT, was never established.

Clearly I'm missing something. Like, the design rationale for BIBFRAME.

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A few weeks ago I asked why identifiers in BIBFRAME must be literal values, instead of URIs.

44 messages later, after being asked what I would expect from dereferencing a URI, I find myself quoting Tim Berners-Lee's original linked data principles.

And responding to an assertion that "We have established X" when X, AFAICT, was never established.

Clearly I'm missing something. Like, the design rationale for BIBFRAME.