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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Haha yes. To be fair, creating more library space would be a most excellent thing for city councils to do in many places
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I’m an information science researcher currently based in Melbourne. On loan from the world of libraries. 🇨🇦 in 🇦🇺
www.sarahpolkinghorne.ca/
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Haha yes. To be fair, creating more library space would be a most excellent thing for city councils to do in many places
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Thank you!!
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Thanks Matt!
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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With thanks to @tkingfisher.com for always having librarians' backs, in this case via thrillingly unequivocal tweets (which we quote)
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Lisa (@lisagiven.bsky.social) and I were happy to answer The Conversation's call for this piece. Here we to contribute to a timeless librarian tradition: explaining weeding.
theconversation.com/librarians-h...
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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The current issue of Information Research publishes (OA) the papers of the upcoming Information Seeking in Context conference (Denmark, August).
It's a treat to have proceedings out so early! (Kudos to the journal team.) Lots of intriguing stuff here:
informationr.net/infres/issue...
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Where's the support group for people who use Outlook and continually email themselves, when they're trying to email other people? Asking for myself.
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Last year, the International Federation of Library Associations announced that the 2024 World Library and Information Congress would be hosted in Dubai. The idea was scrapped due to pushback within the global library community.
www.biblioteksbladet.se/nyheter/engl...
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Was one of the criticisms “findings should be presented separate from discussion”? If so, I have a couple of helpful sources for declining that one. Just lmk. Good luck!
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The Posts Genius
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You alright man? I keep seeing small damage numbers coming off you
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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the argument for existence of AGI rests on “we believe”
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Radical Graffiti
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Posters in Melbourne mocking Australia's richest woman, mining magnate Gina Rinehart. The posters feature a painting of Rinehart by indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira. Rinehart recently tried to pressure the National Gallery of Australia to remove the painting from display
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Natalie Brender
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Good statement by the bookstore founded by James and Alice Munro.
munrobooks.com/about-munro-...
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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I was really sorry to miss Maggie's talk. I adore the CAIS practice of inviting ECRs to keynote.
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Ed Zitron
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Burst out laughing at this post, nearly dropped my phone
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Tony Corsentino
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Some people seem to think that invoking “Ranganathan’s Five Laws of Library Science” is just a bit of goofy, mockable nerdery. Maybe because of unexamined racism? I regard them as articulating a perfect, beautiful, powerful normative ideal for libraries. A banner worth marching under. 📚
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Laura Helmuth
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This is predictable but so important: Pasteurizing milk kills the H5N1 bird flu virus that is circulating widely in dairy cattle. It's easy to take a 150-year-old technique that has saved countless lives for granted, but don't fool around with unpasteurized dairy products. 🧪
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Make a band bready The Tragically Crisp
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bri watson 🐝
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Two years of work, nearly 1000 people, and 6394 emails later: Best Practices for Queer Metadata is live!
zenodo.org/records/1258...
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Thanks Becky! I’ll let you know. I hope ALA goes well.
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Althusser (yikes on bikes, 1970).
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Thanks! Personally I've encountered both colleagues and patrons who are greatly put off by weeding. What I'm mulling over is why this obviously necessary practice sparks controversy and often outrage.
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Thank you! I'm not doing a study -- just writing an explainer on request (which as you know librarians have done many, many times) and thinking about how to dig a bit deeper with it. "Reasons for weeding" bears repeating, but weeding isn't sensitive just because people don't understand it...
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Thanks!
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Thank you!
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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“politically charged responsibility any librarian will assume. Deselection can be introduced by the most practical of considerations yet may encounter along the way the most profound of philosophical concerns in LIS, such as censorship and loss to the community." (3/3)
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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"Because it entails most of the complexities of selection but is encumbered with the added significance that it pertains to judgments and investments already made, deselection is at best laden with potential for intense disagreement in interpretation of policy and, at worst, with the most (2/3)
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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There was some interest in this, so here's my favourite quote so far on weeding -- from Charles Osburn's historical review in The Library Quarterly (2006, p.41): "Deselection is a matter of undoing, not just doing. 🧵 ⬇️ 📚 📜 (1/3)
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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University of Alberta is another example with that same structure, fyi!
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Congratulations on a wonderful change! 🎉🎉🎉
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paul seesequasis
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Gathering at Buffalo Child Stone (Mistasiniy), a 400-tonne glacial boulder and sacred site, in 1966. Elder Wilfred Tootoosis in background with headdress. In December, 1966 it was dynamited by the Saskatchewan government prior to the damming of the South Society…
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WildGorillaMan
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Urgente: Gato
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/417483...
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Jake Berg
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This was cute when we did it for QR codes. It’s less cute now. 📜 📚
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John Morrison
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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
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Tom Gauld
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My cartoon for this week’s Guardian books.
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Comfortably Numb
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G lorified P redictive T ext
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Thank you Margy!
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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This is the way.
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Yes, another in my ongoing series of "everybody keeps using that word!" conceptual papers.
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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I'm so happy to have this paper out in the world!
We discuss the idea and history of transdisciplinarity, and detail what makes research transdisciplinary. We also highlight great information science research that models working transdisciplinarily.
doi.org/10.47989/ir2... (OA)
#academicsky 📚 📜
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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"Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?" 💕
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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In honour of Donald Sutherland, I suggest watching Kelly's Heroes. Afterwards you can spice up everyday conversations with "HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, BAY-BEE!" 🎬
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Julie S. Lalonde
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Today! Join me! It's really fast-paced and engaging and you will leave with 5 super practical ways you can make your community safer. Webinar is not recorded, and there won't be another one for a long time, so don't miss out!
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Donna Lanclos
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Hey #UK #Library folks I'm running this again for m25 group if you are interested in learning how to do qual work on your own www.m25lib.org.uk/events/under...
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Colleen Theisen
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Ethics! In my introductory class, I usually present a few anonymized examples of ethical quandaries that have come up in special collections or archives. I'd love to have a new example to add to my case studies. Do you have a story that I could redact and share? Email? colleen-theisen@uiowa.edu
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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Playable Zelda! It’s happening!
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Prisonculture
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ALA was so lucky to have Emily as President for the past year. Do the members know this? I hope so.
americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2024/06/03/u...
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Sarah Polkinghorne
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I'd love to know your thoughts! LMK if you need a copy.
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