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scissortail

@scissortail@digipres.club

Backyard birder. Tea drinker. Puzzles and quiet games. Reads a lot. Grey ace queer. Agender.

Work stuff is the spreadsheet side of librarianship: acq, e-res, and ILS admin.

Typos are a feature, not a bug. Green heart = emotional support. Posts self-destruct.

On the fedi since 2017. PV forever.

Avatar: yellow butterfly on purple flowers.
Header: scissortail flycatcher over a field of paintbrush flowers. Both taken by my 70+ mom, as will be a lot of the pics I share (with permission).

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scissortail, to random
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scissortail, to random
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More conferences need live DJs during lunch breaks. #ERL24

dances

https://www.djkeelez.com/

scissortail, to random
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Shuttle toy and glitter putty from the #ERL24 swag box; hidden coaster from last year's swag. The Milky Way postcard from Glacier Nat'l Park courtesy my mom from years ago, but hey, thematic!

scissortail, to random
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I'm very interested in the OER negotiations modules that ONEAL will start releasing later this month https://oneal-project.org/

It'll be focused on library (licensing) negotiations, but should also be more widely applicable.

#ERL24

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Really nice swag for the online #ERL24 attendees!

Swag! A nice canvas satchel with the following piled on top: a kit for a foam space shuttle; space-themed stickers; small tin of moonlight-colored putty, and a bad of freeze-dried ice cream.

scissortail, to random
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One week til #ERL24, so followers not into electronic resources librarianship might want to mute that hashtag.

Also, am kinda low-key squeeing over this line from today's conference email: 80's/90's virtual Bingo and DJ Dance Party schedule (yes, that's for the online participants!)

MLISrevenge, to librarians
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Anyone else going to #ERL24?

#librarians @librarians @librarians

scissortail,
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@MLISrevenge I'll be online again, like last year. You doing the same?

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scissortail, to random
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Oh hey, ExL got Homosaurus into Alma!

But. Per my head of cataloging: "ExL went rogue and used a code for $2 inconsistent with established practice and now I have to re-do any Homosaurus terms we already have in Alma for them to validate as intended!"

sigh

#AlmaILS #Homosaurus

scissortail,
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@platypus All I know is what I've been told, but apparently everyone's been using...HOMOIT (I think she said?) and ExL just...picked something else? Totally breaking the integration for any library already using it.

The DEI group is meeting tomorrow anyway, so this will be brought up.

scissortail,
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@djfiander @platypus Shhhh, don't out them. ;-)

scissortail, to random
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If you need an example of how not to appologize, see TxLA's statement re: their treatment of Chuck Tingle: https://txla.org/news/tla-statement-regarding-author-chuck-tingle/

It makes it sound like the appology is for trying to switch his event, and doesn't at all acknowledge what they did wrong. And! Puts the burden on the person who was harmed to assist the org to learn--which he's already done, if they'd just read and ponder and absorb his already-posted thoughts on the matter. Ridiculous.

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received an email from Coworker asking me to address something broken. spent fifteen minutes trying to remember how to use the system I'm a subject matter expert in. this bodes well

scissortail,
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@senanthic I frequently have to go back to the documentation for the system I'm the local expert on. Seems like inevitably, people can't figure out whatever bit I've not touched in the longest time.

MLISrevenge, to random
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Someone tell me I can make it four more hours until I take my annual leave for a week. As 5:00 gets closer and closer, I'm draaaaaaagging.

scissortail,
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@MLISrevenge Have you already cleaned your office, or saving that til a bit later?

scissortail,
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@nirak @MLISrevenge It's the tried and true method for getting through the afternoon prior to a long break!

scissortail, to random
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Happy new Murderbot day to all who celebrate!

scissortail,
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@djfiander Yes! It's a prequel to Legends & Lattes. The bookseller was gushing over it while ringing me up.

Are0h, to random

Ok, so as everyone knows, there was a pretty ugly racist backlash a month or two ago around , which was essentially a group of bigots who have historically not liked me making up a narrative to stop it.

Outside of the obviousness of the hateful motivations of it, it got me thinking about the nature of my projects and how I present them.

There's an entire ideology around what I build and why. I generally kept it to myself because I viewed what I was making as personal projects.

But amidst dealing with one of the worst racist incidents we've seen on the fedi in a while, a funny thing happened.

I saw the impact of the TBS and how many people have been positively affected by it and support what it is becoming.

This is when I realized it was not a personal project anymore but something more significant.

So, I've taken the last few weeks to make some changes.

scissortail,
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@Are0h This sounds really great, Ro. I'm so glad you're continuing this good work, despite the BS.

scissortail, to random
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I remain utterly annoyed at vendors who use Harry Potter as an example title in their presentations.

scissortail, to random
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It's really...mind-bending to now be the person giving newer highers context for the oddities of our workplace. Like: Yes, that is kind of odd, here are the four personalities and three decisions that resulted in the Odd Thing that you're now trying to work with/around.

Never thought I'd be here five years, let alone fifteen.

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I get so sick of having to find my phone just to download a research paper on my computer.

I understand there are some situations where 2FA is essential but authenticating my library proxy login can't be one of them.

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@ct_bergstrom FWIW, we (a lot of librarians) hate it too. At my workplace, everything has to go through the Uni's authentication--which uses 2FA. This is managed by uni IT. Library has zero say in it.

senanthic, to random
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happy birthday to me.

scissortail,
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@senanthic Aw, dang. 🤞🏻 for a mild case

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them: hey, there's this incident
me: oh, sure, can I have some details?
them: no I forgot my password, I didn't take down any information
me:
them: so
them: can you fix it?
me:

scissortail,
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@senanthic headdesk

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    scissortail,
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    @erosdiscordia We're gonna drop into the 50's tonight and I'm soooo excited!

    senanthic, to random
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    I must still be about 18 in my mind, because I would sooner go and hang out at a greasy spoon until 2 AM versus going out for drinks (I don't drink) in an extremely noisy bar.

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    @senanthic The town where I went to high school, there were no restaurants open that late. So the hospital cafeteria was where we'd go for snacks and hanging out.

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