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16.1.2024 20:30Publisher peeps give the gift of good publishing data to a librarian / scholarly communication professional in your life. Join OA...Friends, I am very concerned that Ebsco is actually going to build a new platform for Gobi. Surely, this is another sign that we are in the end times...
21.11.2023 14:47Friends, I am very concerned that Ebsco is actually going to build a new platform for Gobi. Surely, this is another sign that we are in the...How old am I? I just saw a mention of SGI in a headline and assumed they were talking about Silicon Graphics which hasn't existed in like 15 years....
9.11.2023 14:36How old am I? I just saw a mention of SGI in a headline and assumed they were talking about Silicon Graphics which hasn't existed in...There is still time for the Ontario government to release the report of the blue ribbon panel on college and university funding this week...
3.11.2023 20:44There is still time for the Ontario government to release the report of the blue ribbon panel on college and university funding this week...My office seems to be the focal point for all the HVAC... I think my hands will just be chunks of ice by the end of the day...
24.10.2023 18:27My office seems to be the focal point for all the HVAC... I think my hands will just be chunks of ice by the end of the day...I have iTunes installed on my work computer. iTunes on Windows has always been dicey but recently it has been just brutal. Today, iTunes took 1.5 hours to launch. It took so long that when it suddenly opened just now I had totally forgotten that I'd tried to open it earlier...
13.10.2023 18:38I have iTunes installed on my work computer. iTunes on Windows has always been dicey but recently it has been just brutal. Today, iTunes...I have very conflicted feelings about the DeGruyter Brill merger.
12.10.2023 08:16I have very conflicted feelings about the DeGruyter Brill merger....Some light reading for the long weekend.
https://doi.org/10.21452/abec.2023.isbn.978-65-993452-6-5
6.10.2023 19:01Some light reading for the long weekend.https://doi.org/10.21452/abec.2023.isbn.978-65-993452-6-5Office has been set to sauna mode this morning - I've been here for 20 minutes and despite my fan working overtime I feel like I'm coming off in strips...
2.10.2023 13:08Office has been set to sauna mode this morning - I've been here for 20 minutes and despite my fan working overtime I feel like I'm...I checked linkedin today and one of the trending headlines was 'ETA' is latest craze among MBAs... and the first place my brain went: Basque separatists are a craze??
19.9.2023 19:33I checked linkedin today and one of the trending headlines was 'ETA' is latest craze among MBAs... and the first place my brain...Passing along this exciting opportunity: Digital Repositories Librarian at U Waterloo
https://uwaterloo.ca/library/about/work-library/digital-repositories-librarian
13.9.2023 16:49Passing along this exciting opportunity: Digital Repositories Librarian at U...Here's something to think about: how many of the books in your library will never circulate again?
I was walking through the stacks today and I was thinking about how like even a decade ago lots of books had a reasonable chance of seeing a next circulation. Now that so much is online I doubt much of our older collection will ever circulate again...
12.9.2023 20:20Here's something to think about: how many of the books in your library will never circulate again?I was walking through the stacks today...looking at the DEAL/Elsevier P&R agreement and... I dunno, given how fast things are moving 5 years feels like a long time to commit..
11.9.2023 15:31looking at the DEAL/Elsevier P&R agreement and... I dunno, given how fast things are moving 5 years feels like a long time to commit..1 day in, 1 child home sick… at least the COVID test is negative
6.9.2023 11:191 day in, 1 child home sick… at least the COVID test is negativeThis is like the ultimate just in case collection... So and so was famous so we'll just buy all their obscure shit and not buy things they are known for...
1.9.2023 19:40This is like the ultimate just in case collection... So and so was famous so we'll just buy all their obscure shit and not buy things...I would love to know what possessed the library in the 70s and 80s to buy all this Swedish literature... that has never circulated...
1.9.2023 19:39I would love to know what possessed the library in the 70s and 80s to buy all this Swedish literature... that has never circulated...Joining AULdom today... and I keep hearing in my head the Talking Heads... "and you may say to yourself 'My God! What have I done?'"
1.9.2023 13:12Joining AULdom today... and I keep hearing in my head the Talking Heads... "and you may say to yourself 'My God! What have I...Part of my job is liaising with vendors and letting them know how we'd like to see their products improved. Sometimes this is a very productive and beneficial process. But other times I feel like I'm dealing with Gozer the Gozerian and I'm being asked to choose the form of the destructor...
31.8.2023 17:16Part of my job is liaising with vendors and letting them know how we'd like to see their products improved. Sometimes this is a very...I really hate licenses that define terms in the individual clauses of the license. Make it easy for everyone put the definitions in their own section at the top and cut back on the bloat further down.
25.8.2023 19:55I really hate licenses that define terms in the individual clauses of the license. Make it easy for everyone put the definitions in their...Dusting off my thespian duds to prepare for a new role as Acting Associate University Librarian, Research on Sept. 1... It's going to be a time.
23.8.2023 14:36Dusting off my thespian duds to prepare for a new role as Acting Associate University Librarian, Research on Sept. 1... It's going to be...