Notices by Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] (platypus@glammr.us), page 4

I swear SOMETIMES we are able to get these fixed. Although perhaps it's fitting that the most wildly egregious are not fixed.

in honor of #swib22 and the librarian in the loop elements, here's my favorite "I will never get this fixed" 😭

https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/3145301

Title: Game of shadows : Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the steroids scandal that rocked professional sports

Cover:

it's been reported twice and I can't get Google Books to fix data that comes from some kind of bad record that was in OCLC

Good news on the Patagonian one -- no longer showing the LDS book cover:

https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/35139921

The others in this thread are still broken

Today's report: https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/1560106

Assessment and management of central auditory processing disorders in the educational setting : from science to practice

is showing the cover for a book called "Why We Win" which is interviews with "great" American coaches...

Reviving the thread -- this cover is wrong but it's not terribly wrong! I mean, it's completely off but cute! https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/1513647

This is a wild story about Rhode Island officials coming to Philly and managing to do so much that their own state launched civil and criminal investigations, but also sharing because I love the last line https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-trip-rhode-island-bok-scout-patten-thorsen-scannapiec-20230612.html

“Meanwhile in Philadelphia, we continue to thrive.”

Fascinating thing I learned about yesterday was the variety of "chorded" keyboards that were under consideration for normal keyboard usage when places like libraries were automating.

I'd encountered them for steno, telegraph, and Braille uses, but not in more mainstream computing.

Basically, you press key combos to get letters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard

I'm not a retrocomputer, but damn I look at things like the PDP-8 and I get the urge to do that analog/digital https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8

@JessTheUnstill once saw a crowd turn on such a presenter re: nannies. Like -- it's good she was honest that this was the only way she got stuff done, but then that was a bullet point in her advice and people immediately started with responding with info on costs, etc.,

Everyone who needed childcare and didn't have it were absolutely aware they'd be more successful with it and aware of the specific roadblocks for them to get it.

Just got a call from the dean -- I'm being tenured and promoted to Associate Librarian!! 🎉

I am excited, exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply aware of all the support -- at work, from colleagues, from family -- that I've had between my start here in Sept 2017 and today.

Remembering when I was 12 and had a plan that I was going to name every kid some form of "John"

but only cool ones, y'know?

Like Ian and Johanna. Evan.

I wrote this in 2018 and I might imagine it a little differently today, but another post reminded me so here's my "A Tentative Definition of Kudzupunk" https://ruthtillman.com/post/tentative-definition-kudzupunk/

?

(this is not solarpunk, it's got a bit - or a lot - more horror and dystopia going on too)

OH MY GOD MY NAME IS NOT REESE PLEASE

(everyone on the phone ever... I don't understand)

@jaranta I’ve been there! Hence the instant search for the emoji vs others

Saw a joke that in every relationship one person loads the dishwasher like a Scandanavian architect and one like a wild raccoon...

But nobody covers cases like my marriage where one of us is Sweden and one of us is Denmark. ?

And we have a few Differences Of Opinion. ?

So the Pinboard guy appears to have gone all TERF. You can find his acct somewhere on mastodon, I’m not tagging him.

I’ve gotten Shaarli set up on a subdomain and it seems to be working well so far. I’ll experiment and report back.

If you’re looking at it, though, the instructions are kind of overly complicated. Basically they provide 10,000 options. But it’s quite easy.

Reading Sirsi enhancements and this one made me chortle a bit.

As a(n): Admin User
I want: to be able to make Current Location [field] uneditable
So that: staff can't mangle the system

Thousands of archivists and librarians over here gesticulating *yes, finally, we've been saying this for a decade+*