Notices by Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] (platypus@glammr.us), page 3

@hugh the MN one will actually be great to fill in various pride flags!

I don’t know if we’re all “world-weary and sophisticated” (and if you see this without reading it, you’re gonna miss some good stuff in there!)

But we are tired. Like many others.

This blog post from Duke libraries about dropping Basecamp went some places I didn’t expect. On the whole not painting libraries with a brush of purity. https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/

@thecorodon I do wonder if there were any experiments going on behind the scenes that didn't pan out

thinking about this:

@bright_helpings @alpine_thistle 😅 I expect a lot of being a mom with adult kids is evaluating when to bite your tongue or say “remember when you were a little shit about this?”

@alpine_thistle my husband caught me washing ziplocks the other day and was like “but why?”

Time to post about the WorldCat changes. So -- I got great news yesterday, the New Zealand WorldCat was still using the old code. While this could be a temporary workaround for some, what was more important to me was being able to compare the two user experiences and document them with screenshots.

LB, if you’re waiting for a benevolent government to do this math and tell you that you should mask again, that ship has sailed in the interest of capital, so you’re gonna have to be strong enough to put on one without having that handy reason.

@pettter it shouldn’t be anything I think since we’re in the EU?

Leaving on the train for Berlin tomorrow. It’s kind of an absurd path because I have to go down to Copenhagen, then backtrack onto Jutland, and then loop along… but I’m also looking forward to seeing the world go by! And I have work to do and no other plans.

If anyone would like to send calming vibes to my central nervous system, I spent about an hour thinking I'd lost my passport

"I will be screaming at the University of Minnesota Press in my heart," I say to a coworker who shared this one. They already determined the Press reused an ISBN.

https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/33527186

update, this one's been fixed in our catalog at least (the issue was with the ISBN, there'd been two conflated OCLC numbers but the OCLC numbers were separate, just combined in some table in Google Books so they fixed it) https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/33527186

Periodically something goes very wrong in the identifier matching systems through which we fetch things like this book cover. And thus we get … https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/17283979

The title: Prisoners of hope : Lyndon B. Johnson, the Great Society, and the limits of liberalism /

The cover:

Today, a new mashup:

The title? Patagonian prehistory : human ecology and cultural evolution in the land of giants

The cover:

Was informed today that

Luna : Pittsburgh's original lost Kennywood / Brian Butko

has the cover from Michael Crichton's DRAGON TEETH.

https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/25798361

OH HECK the error is coming from inside the house*

*from OCLC

https://www.worldcat.org/title/patagonian-prehistory-human-ecology-and-cultural-evolution-in-the-land-of-giants/oclc/1198989641&referer=brief_results

considering the quality of Jurassic Park's covers, I am kind of surprised by how BAD this one is. I know it's posthumous but like -- they expected big bucks from it.