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!"
@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.
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
@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.
Ok, so as everyone knows, there was a pretty ugly racist backlash a month or two ago around #TheBadSpace, 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.
@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.
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:
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.
@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.
Mozilla released emergency security updates today to fix a critical zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild, impacting its Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client.
Fake email address, fake course number, to request a streaming video that's some weird little documentary as if it's a faculty person doing the request. So weird.
@MLISrevengeshrug I'm stumped. Entirely possible it was someone involved with making the film? But this is the first fake Kanopy request I've gotten (about 2 yrs), so it's maybe more common and I've just been lucky? But the email format wasn't what MPOW uses, so it was immediately clear something was off.