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My job is done. It's perfect.

i did a show at a librarian conference this weekend (brag) and asked for people to come talk to me after the show to tell me about librarian infidelity and babe... those bookworms... they are hitting it raw at the conference they are hitting it raw in the STAIRWELL i was pleased

YEEEESSS my mom gave me a copy of this when I was 15

📣Today in "why are librarians & archivists important": we had an enquiry about a book that I couldn't find anywhere (not just in the Library, but even *existing* 🤨). So I asked the enquirer where their reference came from. They'd used #ChatGPT to ask about an 18thC ancestor...

Next week we are running a webinar on the history of Women in Print. 98 people have booked to attend, of which 96 are female. Why? Are men not interested in the contribution women have made to trade? Are 21-century male historians as blinkered as their predecesors? I'm baffled.

Today is quintidi 25 Pluviôse in the year of the Republic CCXXXI, celebrating the hare.

Read a new case study from SAA! Bridget Retzloff and Zachary Lewis design a lesson plan using primary sources to encourage student reflection on how objects convey meaning. Part of the open-access series Case Studies on Teaching With Primary Sources. ow.ly/98CF50Mzf4e

Why don’t rare book professionals wear white gloves when handling books? Short answer: to protect them! 🙌 To learn more about why – and where the white glove myth came from – check out my new episode of #BiteSizedBookHistory 📚 youtu.be/cDMpuIlxKPg

@TheJuliaHLee I did - I'm 36

Did you read the Little House on the Prairie Books as a child and if so, old are you now? I'm teaching a class and none of the students have heard of these titles much less read them. I'm trying to see when these books fell out of favor...

One of my biggest issues with academia is that the reward for being incompetent at service is less service, and the reward for being good at service is more service, which can lead to unequal (+ very often gendered) service distributions. Any tips for dealing with this?!

@PopCulture2000s It was Mrs Winterbourne for meeeee

@BrentRAudio @JennyENicholson Okay THAT'S commendable

@JennyENicholson trying my damnest

I know Yoshi has a voice now but I'll never think of him like that. To me he'll always make that weird sound that can't be made by a human

Congratulations to Prof. Bart Ehrman, whose most recent book, _Journeys to Heaven and Hell_, was named one of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022! " newyorker.com/best-books-2022

My baby's cancer may have returned and my insurance, @Cigna, is refusing to help cover a PET scan so we can find out if it has, and if needed, continue our work to save his life. No qualms about putting my child's life on the line for their bottom line. He is not even 2 years old

Same people claiming they would have marched with Dr. King have shelves full of this man's books.

Instant divorce.

@Strandjunker @dowd_lauren

I'm 36 and still don't have back problems.

Research SOS: Do I know anyone in Cambridge/Boston who could take a few pics of four manuscript letters at Houghton Library? I can venmo $40/hr including travel time. (Formal digitization requests at Houghton are currently two months out...!) sonia.hazard@fsu.edu

Obviously the solution for speaker is for someone to nominate Dolly Parton.