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platypus

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Threadcovered. Pieces prayers. Builds libraries from pixels. Hopes in rotting logs & knotted vines. Hella left, hella Mennonite, hella disabled. Bury me in a bog. She/her. 🕊

dayjob: technical librarian

Ham callsign: KC3AF

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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.

platypus,
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@jens unrelated/related, I have a friend named John Fink and whenever I see your name, I think that's just another form of his... (cc @jbfink )

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tfw you're not entirely surprised you got a rejection but you wish it'd not taken like all 8? 12? weeks to get there.

platypus, to random
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Apparently Sirsi wants to charge us for Summon to use our WebServices for availability and ... I mean no absolutely not.

platypus,
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@dbs I genuinely do not know what's up with this. Like maybe their excuse is "well, it'll be so many more calls" but ???

Things I have still not fully determined:

  • why this stopped working
  • what we would really need to get this working again
  • what we should do because we're not paying them money

currently it's linking to the catalog and maybe that's just how it'll be.

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"As a nonprofit with $5.58 billion in assets, the Met should have hired the staff needed to provide accurate information about its works years ago, experts said. "

yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

platypus, to random
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the problem with being able to sew is that you look at some stuff and think "yeah, but I could sew it in a pattern I like more"

but that requires WORK.

And sometimes I just need a new dress for Reasons.

The search continues.

platypus,
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Also at the risk of asking a question on the internet, here goes--if you buy dresses, especially like mid-range nicer dresses ($60-150), where do you do so online?

Must accommodate the smallest plus sizes (so 16-20 and up to XL/maybe XXL -- you'd think this wouldn't be a big ask but it is).

platypus, to random
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Tech history thing:

"The total number of networks may well exceed 500 with perhaps 500,000 to 1,000,000 users. This is a collection of interconnected networks or INTERNET for short."

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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

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

The cover:

platypus,
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Today, a new mashup:

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

The cover:

platypus,
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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

platypus,
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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

platypus,
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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.

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

platypus,
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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:

platypus,
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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

platypus,
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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

platypus,
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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...

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I’ve been hiding the silly Korok various places. Today it popped up in my underwear drawer ☺️ so I guess he’s in the game too.

platypus, to random
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So I saw this cute pattern on Etsy and then I had a moment and woke myself up laughing. So I did it. Korok from Zelda Breath of the Wild

The same Korok saying Yippee Ki-Yay Motherfucker!

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