Oh just fabulous. 🙄 AI-generated personality tests in job applications have arrived. Just helped a library guest apply for a job and the test was incomprehensible from beginning to end. Of course the local outfit had outsourced the application process to a third party company, who had outsourced the personalty/morality tests to yet ANOTHER company. This ordeal was for a job as a JANITOR. #library#librarian#AI@librarians
@decapitae@librarians the only answer I knew for sure was: for the ecstatically happy cartoon guy surrounded by currency and the caption “Side Hustle,”the correct answer button was “NOT ME.”
She must work only that job with unflagging dedication for whatever pittance they pay, be absolutely miserable but remain an Outgoing Team Leader, and remain on welfare.
Proposed bill in Alabama to allow the arrest of librarians.
No one is perfect—not even librarians. But professional #librarians are terrific. They're dedicated public servants, and they know how to library better than politicians do.
As a librarian, I never want to see a pair of eclipse glasses again. I’m exhausted. Only one hour and 27 minutes left to hand these out and answer the phone. @librarians
@bookstodon Hey, I love me some Penguin Random House as much as the next reader, but I'm also interested in the indies, which are usually more daring than the Big Five.
Favorite indie publishers? Please add to my list:
Two Dollar Radio
Bluemoose
Unnamed Press
Coffeehouse
Small Beer
Graywolf
Catapult
Driftwood
Black Spot
Future Tense
Copper Canyon
Tin House
Dzanc
Melville House
Quirk
Blackwater
Red Hen
City Lights
Algonquin
Black Rose
Hellbound
Wakefield
Fledgling
Listening to Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart by Gennarose Nethercott and reading The Honey Witch by Sidney J. Shields and Flint and Mirror by John Crowley. What about you guys? #bookstodon#fiction@bookstodon
People are emailing me wanting "genealogy information" from the 1960s. It's like honey, I can help you with the 1760s or the 1860s. I was born in the 1960s and there are no censuses publicly available yet, even. Stop making me feel like a fossil. @librarians#genealogy#librarian
I finished R.F. Kuang's Babel yesterday. Bloody great book. I feel like something lighter now, so starting Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett.
Oh and the current audiobook I have going is Starling House by Alix E. Harrow. I believe all these books are/were ones I got tipped off too by Reading Glasses podcast, which seems to be influencing me a lot lately. 📚 #Books@bookstodon
Finished What Feasts at Night - T. Kingfisher always delivers! This was extra creepy because I have a thing about moths. When I was a kid, someone convinced me they would nest in my hair... #books#bookstodon@bookstodon