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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.0
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Academic Librarian, SFHEA, #ebookSOS campaigner, WikimediaUK trustee, UK Wikimedian of the Year 2020. ADHD.
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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.0
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Caroline Ball
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This is why I need something to help me keep track. 😂
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Caroline Ball
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Can you blame them?
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Screenshots for those without access to Westlaw, and because no private company should hold a monopoly on access to the law (even the funny stuff)...
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Caroline Ball
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I'm updating my law library guides ahead of the new academic term in September, and I always love including my favourite Easter egg in the section about case law and law reports - MacDonald v. Cardle... 📚
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Caroline Ball
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I know Apple Health has a medication feature, so I can always use that - was just wondering if there was anything else out there with more bells and whistles!
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Caroline Ball
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I’ve got surgery coming up in a month’s time and I have a whole host of pre- and post-surgery meds and supplements to take - does anyone have any recommendations for good apps or tools to help me keep track of them all, with all the different amounts/timings etc?
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Caroline Ball
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Yeah, I think a lot of law firms lack digital access to legal material - Westlaw/Lexis subscriptions are so expensive, and it generally tends to be only your large, multi-office firms that have their own law libraries and the budgets.
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Sarah Lamdan's Data Cartels contains an excellent chapter on this issue in relation to the law, by the way. I'd make it require reading on every law syllabus, quite frankly.
www.sarahlamdan.com/data-cartels
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We used to see lots of local lawyers in our law library accessing law reports and journals, but with these increasingly digital-only and under restricted licence to registered users, these sources aren't accessible either. So where/how do lawyers access sources of information?
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Caroline Ball
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I often think about this in relation to the law students I support. Access to the law is vital for them as practising lawyers, and yet few small law firms can afford Westlaw or Lexis subscriptions to access case law/legislation, and government sources lag far behind.
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Caroline Ball
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It'd be my dream to get the opportunity to teach classes and talk to students more about these issues of information privilege and knowledge equity!
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Caroline Ball
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I think too often our practice as librarians is limited to what students need in the short term as students, rather than focussing on equipping them with the skills and knowledge they’ll need after university.
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Libraries have worked hard to make access to our resources as seamless and easy as possible, but in doing so we've also made it harder for our users once they graduate, right at the point when they're in most need of research to inform their practice.
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One of the things I've found with my #ebookSOS work is that most people within academia, lecturers and students alike, have no idea how the knowledge economy works, no idea how limited general access to scholarly material is (or how expensive!) or the many barriers in place.
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Caroline Ball
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Interesting article on something we should be talking more about with students - the importance of research-informed practice and the barriers to accessing that research, the limitations of open access and the issues of information privilege... 📚
pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/comminfolit/...
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Caroline Ball
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Oh, I feel better now. I kinda liked some of her earlier 'poppy' stuff, but all the more folk-y stuff just passes me by.
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(I was going to say 'toot my own trumpet' or 'blow my own horn', but let's face it, there's no way to use any of those metaphors without them sounding like somewhat racy euphemisms...)
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My book chapter with Ian Turner and Yusra Siddiqui is published! Won't be of interest to my non-HE friends, but I rarely let an opportunity to go past to be my own cheerleader! 📚
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Caroline Ball
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The whole Taylor Swift thing completely baffles me. Maybe it's my age? I swear, most of her songs sound the same. Oh God, listen to me. I'm old.
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Caroline Ball
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Do you like my new shirt?
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Caroline Ball
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This is amazing! Shared the shit out of it all over.
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious
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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️🌈💖
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And for anyone working in Australia there is the Association of Neurodivergent and Disabled GLAMR Professionals Australia (ANDPA) andpa.org
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Rev. Jesus “H" Christ, KSC
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Holy shit, he was convicted on Covfefe Day
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I have already started a plan/structure for it!
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Both!
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Currently debating writing an academic journal article relating The West Wing's Big Block of Cheese Day to information literacy and knowledge equity...📚
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Caroline Ball
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Really hate that whole ‘hungry but nothing in my entire house is right, so I’ll just get hangrier and hangrier’ ADHD mood.
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Dolly just out here making me cry on a rainy Sunday morning. 😔 💔
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Dr. Amy, PsyD
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I love how when we first got the internet, Wikipedia was an "unreliable source" and now it's one of the last remaining websites that's actually fact checked
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Caroline Ball
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This seems like a good time to promote
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- the Neurodivergent Library and Information Staff Network. It's newly formed, so we're still establishing ourselves, but have a lot of things in the works - events, a buddying scheme, resources and updates etc. 📚
nlisn.org
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I definitely think my ADHD has its strengths at work - my ability to multi-task, pivot quickly from one thing to another, my eagerness to take on new projects, but I'm not sure I'd say those outweigh the toll it takes on me mentally, or the fact that I can't control those skills at will. 📚
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Caroline Ball
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Is there a single social media platform anywhere that doesn't constantly pack your feed with 'suggestions' and 'promoted content'? Even Reddit and LinkedIn do it now! So annoying.
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Oh, please do! Write a rebuttal, I have a contact at THE I can put you in touch with.
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Caroline Ball
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Also, wow, could you be anymore patronising towards your fellow library professionals… 📚
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Seems to me that ridding HE of the assumption that in selecting texts on the basis of identity you are by default throwing out your standards of value and accuracy and insight is precisely the mindset the whole ‘decolonisation’ movement is trying to dismantle.
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I see no reason why underrepresented authors should be seen as less factual or insightful, simply because they are not white or male or heterosexual or cis or Western. It is entirely possible to select on the basis of identity AND academic rigour. 📚
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Ever find it frustrating that you don't have the time or mental bandwidth to do all the things you want to do? I have three ideas for journal articles - two I'm already working on and one that just occurred to me this morning, and I can't do them all at once! 📚
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If anyone has ever written a successful business case arguing for funding for staff development opportunities/training/qualifications and has tips to share, let me know!
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Currently working on drafting a business case to convince my library to fund my PhD by publication - I swear, this is harder than the PhD will be!
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That is the kind of thing I’d do too!
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Will somewhat unexpectedly be in California next month - is it very nerdy of me that I'm considering taking the opportunity to visit some university libraries? And on that note, do I know any Californian academic librarians that may help facilitate this? 📚
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Most unexpected!
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Academic friends - if you’ve published any books, or any journal articles in the last 3 years, it’s worth registering!
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Wow, I registered for ALCS on a whim, not figuring I’d get anything, since I only have a few publications - and I’m getting a payment of £272! Unexpected bonus! I have no idea which educational institutions out there are teaching with my stuff, but I’m thrilled! 📚
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It sounds crazy but we need to go back to the days of teaching the very basics of IT again. We already know the concept of the 'digital native' is nonsensical, but we're increasingly seeing that being digital literate in some areas is eroding digital literacy in others.
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And so students who have only ever known these kinds of devices are often stumped by things that seem incredibly basic to us, things we assume everyone vaguely tech-literate knows - how to save files, how to use a mouse, how to organise folders.
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Now, with smart devices, with their intuitive design and closed operating systems, you're not meant to know how they work, just to use them. You need specialists to troubleshoot and fix, there's no way to look under the hood.
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Been saying this for years. My generation is like the first generation of car drivers - you had to know how to drive AND fix the car. We knew how the systems worked, how to troubleshoot and fix and navigate computers.
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