Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Our coffeemaker’s carafe exploded this morning and I’m being punished for it twice. The campus coffee is mediocre even before you sip it through hot wet cardboard. 000
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We’re a Workday campus now; I’m so honored to a part of the Go-Live Journey(tm) 010
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’ve spent so much time complaining about generative AI that I almost forgot how much I like to complain about “offloading professional work to interns/students and then not sufficiently supervising it” 031
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A Rich Text my favorite part is “Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist* *not affiliated with Vietnam Veterans Against the War” but there really is no wrong answer here 000
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 10/09/2026AI has shittified my experience as a librarian because its “editorial assistance” has sanded 40% of incoming reference questions into bland essays where I can’t determine the appropriate level of instructional scaffolding. Then again, this guy wrote his own question and AI still fucked it up for us. 160
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“About the letter: I had got the reference from AI. When I went back to the oracle it denied all knowledge and suggested that it had been “hallucinating”!!! It then explained in detail how AI might have misread the files. Bottom line: no such letter.” Glad to be of service I guess! 160
Reposted by Caitlin GoodmanGhoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 07/09/2026Very funny to me when these bookclub scammers just plug my responses into ChatGPT and come up with the most obsequious responses 471807230
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026When genAI stole the em dash I didn’t complain — I never used it properly anyway. But the constant bold text styling in our (now like 50% genAI assisted!) reference queue grieves me as a committed bold text styler. 041
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Deinstalled our America250 exhibit which means Uncle Sam is back right where he belongs: in my eyeline every day encouraging draft resistance. 020
Reposted by Caitlin GoodmanDavid Staniunas @boxreceiver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Our systems got ransacked by AI traffic, and so we bought shields for that, which totally foul up our UX, which makes it easier for a curious user to just ask a chatbot trained on our content to find box-and-folder sources 1149
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It’s probably not all John Fry’s fault, but don’t tell me that. 010
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Get yourself friends who know how to celebrate history (I mentioned James Callender in the chat last night) 020
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I can only blame genAI for 50% of the infuriating public services experiences today, but I’m gonna confidently hallucinate and blame genAI for all of them. 041
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I know no one cares about John Greenleaf Whittier so please stop me from telling this dealer that I don’t think that’s a legitimate signature 010
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Public services sure was more fun before genAI fucked my inbox all up 030
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Surprised every time by how early “Q” comes in the alphabet 001
Reposted by Caitlin GoodmanAbraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Help us. We are fighting for a fair contract that protects The Philadelphia Inquirer's journalism, our livelihoods, and our healthcare. We need you. If you value local news and what we do, *please* sign and share our petition: phillynewsguild.com Let our management know we are not alone.phillynewsguild.comFair Contract Now — NewsGuild of Greater PhiladelphiaSign the petition. Stand with Philadelphia Inquirer workers fighting for a fair contract. 12250155
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I told a researcher months ago “PERHAPS WE’LL NEVER KNOW” how a periodical got into our collection but it turns out that no, we definitely can know. 030
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 14/07/2026What are the two closest wawas? It feels like the answer must be “center city somewhere” but “five blocks in downtown Media” has to be a contender 🦅 000
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Listen if we can’t drain a lake to look at a gallery of “non-English book page” then how will Gemini store all my passwords? 020
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I went to the makerspace to test out the sewing machines and now I am the insatiable mouse with her cookie, never leaving the tinker room 030
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Who is going to stop Doing Discourse long enough to call up a couple of boxes (ok, like 8) at the Clements and do actual reporting 230
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I’m sorry, Allie. It’s hard when both work and life are conspiring to drain you double time. 110
Reposted by Caitlin GoodmanBOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 10/07/2026“Sure, make that decision, I don’t care,” I say, caring severely 0111
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 10/07/2026It’s the Ben Franklin Bridge’s 100th birthday!!! Absolutely fantastic piece, in design and reporting, in @inquirer.com on the building of the bridge incorporating really cool construction photographs from Lehigh and LCP collections. Walk across it tomorrow with me :) share.inquirer.com/EB7jKeshare.inquirer.comSpanning 100 Years: How Philadelphia’s monumental bridge was builtA century after opening, this is how the Benjamin Franklin Bridge was built to last. 022
Reposted by Caitlin GoodmanJames Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I'm seeking a tool for Arabic OCR—anyone have anything they'd recommend? Specifically I'd like to run it on an early-mid-20thC printed periodical, and would really like hOCR or ALTO output So far I've had moderate luck with Kraken and not much with Tesseract 215
Reposted by Caitlin GoodmanEmily Higgs Kopin (spooky) @ehkopin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Personally I think the most crucial literacy we’re not teaching enough is how to recognize a grift 1141
Reposted by Caitlin GoodmanMegan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Bittersweet to be at desk 1066 in BL manuscripts today 6838
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Great garbage email this AM with an entirely superfluous mention of genAI. Yeah, Alexey, I figured that part out before para 2. 010
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Maybe I don’t want titans of industry to contribute to cultural heritage after all? 000
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I can’t believe I almost didn’t visit the Grohmann Museum, the oddest “rich weirdo buys thrift shop art celebrating labor (but not the organized kind!!!)” museum I’ll visit this year. Yay printing! 131
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Here’s Evans 15200 (id’d as NYPL) which is not the LC photostat but does look like your copy. 100
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Zoom voicemail transcription is trying to tell me a patron is asking about “a SAML band” I’m curious: is SAML a common enough abbreviation that most people would recognize it? Or do we need to teach Zoom German and/or book history? 030
Reposted by Caitlin GoodmanB. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I turned my interpretive-sign art into a sticker, for all of you out there who stop to read every historic marker and sign on trips…. littlebraincomics.etsy.com/listing/4516... 16793219
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 28/05/2026The aggressive workplace spam filter has refused delivery of an email titled “Genealogical research, Quakers.” It’s just like me! 020
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Me too. I switched jobs four years ago and I still don’t understand how or why we don’t have conservation in-house, despite being told repeatedly we won’t, especially as we have a strategic plan trumpeting “sustainability” 020
Reposted by Caitlin GoodmanMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 28/05/2026You aren't future proofing a library while eliminating library jobs. 311326
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This is the piece that struck me too. Deeply short-sighted for the professed aims of “future proofing” 020
Reposted by Caitlin GoodmanMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Librarians who co-sign deliteracy & deskilling can go straight to hell, which is an infinite slidedeck presentation of inaccurate AI summaries of books deaccessioned into oblivion. 215437
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Our staff summer reading challenge is four days old and at 8,600 pages so looks like somebody is gonna be seconded to the “leaf drawing department” 130
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I used to really enjoy strategic planning (I know many disagree!) but it turns out with enough ego, silos, and micromanagement, anything can be made painful!! 290
Reposted by Caitlin GoodmanMarissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Read Kiki Arantia's article about Shakespeare in the Kitchen in @inquirer.com today! @phillyinqfood.bsky.social share.inquirer.com/GE1MCwshare.inquirer.comThe Taming of the Stew: Penn State professor cooks from ShakespearePenn State Abington professor’s new book, “Shakespeare in the Kitchen,” looks at the playwright’s works with a culinary gaze. 061
Reposted by Caitlin GoodmanKatie Collins @spissatella.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Audited one of my favourite drawers today. As far as I can tell there was an entire generation of past mollusc curators who communicated entirely by means of passive-aggressive drawer notes to each other 211020
Reposted by Caitlin Goodmanyung quaibo @videoteca-nod.org · 08/05/2026sorry all our infrastructure is so bad, but i want you to know our admin had a lot of fun drinking with the vendors of this software product! <3 1286
