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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 13h

And now i’ve gone out an ordered another book…

No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today I learned that at least a handful of students did not know to “scroll down” to read the full email message 😓. What have we done? (they knew how to scroll, but not that they were expected to scroll to see the rest of the information they needed in the email)

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Needed this reminder today: Fanon wrote that seeking validation from a system designed to marginalize you will break your spirit. I have been working OT+ on projects to serve others and maybe I just need to scale it back no matter how much I like those folks…

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ok. So what are we supposed to do with this information? The OP is a congressperson. What are THEY doing about this?! I can’t stop a man in a blacked out SUV. But congress can.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also, WHOMST is selling to these goons?!!

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“For authors: Is this the moment to cash out? For investors: Is there still enough overlooked value in the backlist to make the bet pay off? And for Hollywood: What happens when literary IP starts trading like an asset class?” That last one isn’t just for hollywood. It’s for all of us.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

condolences to us all because we already know the agenda of the next appointee. Meanwhile theyre trying to tear apart Section 106 and IMLS funding. Don’t be surprised when we find the American collections in museums and private holdings around the globe.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They said privacy and safety. How quaint.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This guy in The Chair miniseries.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ditto the archives Last semester student: can we use ai for citations formatting me: why would you? you need to know how to format your citations (i don’t even let them trust the citation maker in the library’s catalog without manual editing, much less ai)

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

*or the ocean, or an uber Either way, do your back ups.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Listening to a playlist as I grade and having terrible nostalgia & grief for my teen/young adult best friend who succumbed to the harsh reality of the streets & incarceration. He was in/out so much i couldn’t keep up with tracking him down. always hope he’s out there thriving or finally at rest.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Jokes on them when they need to drink the pool water, but I guess the upside is they’ll have a built in skate park

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“Instead of focusing on the money an individual makes through college, we can consider what’s good for society.” higher education≠trade school. There is room for both. We need both. In fact, some people study at university and despite that can still weld, fix cars, put up drywall, repair a roof…

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I wonder if any uni foundation or sportser has ever thought it might be nice to give a little slice of our millions to the library that support all the students and faculty at the uni.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

For the same price of a beach cottage you could instead sleep on my couch & answer 13,000 emails half of which are spam inviting you to a conference that doesn’t exist, reminders to complete annual training, and department reminders that the elevator only works on Tuesdays.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“More Tesla drivers are bypassing safety features to nap while their cars drive.” I promise you, even when they’re awake they are dangerous. I spend about 4 hours on a straight line highway one day each week and teslas regularly bypass common sense and safety (oh, and jeeps too).

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The thing is… i may be reading a journal article today that is relevant to our semester. It’s likely going to be added to the reading list. So, no, my reading list is not complete yet.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

First day of three day student orientation done ✅. I had aspirations for dhal and aloo gobi this week (some of the yummiest simplest things to make), but ‘today me’ is GRATEFUL for ‘Sunday me’ who also bought ingredients for quesadillas 😩😅 How’s your semester going?!

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

this is the kind of guy who will say “reform” and then either do nothing to reform anything or throw money at the problem without a plan for actually abolishing it or changing it.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I will add to this that ‘first-gen’ might need to be extended to the children of first-gen because first-gen doesn’t necessarily mean you got all the privileges of university or that social class. And more so if your first-gen degrees parent was a single parent or non-traditional student.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

sipping a hot black coffee just before bed. It’s cozy and comforting. Makes for a good nights sleep.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Fund your local public and academic libraries and librarians!

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Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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Digitized Medieval Manuscripts: Metadata Preferences

A brief survey about what metadata formats people prefer to go along with their digitized medieval manuscripts. The results of this survey will be used to consider what metadata we make available thro...

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Clippy-mogging Copilot has crashed my work more than I care to talk about. I don’t use it; it’s just there running in the background whether or not I like it. No way to shut it off because of centralized IT management and contracts. Burn it all.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

this was such an incredibly moving film and i still listen to the soundtrack regularly sad loss Glen Hansard, Irish singer-songwriter from the band the Frames and from the film “Once” (with Markéta Irglová), died.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I said this about the impact limited app menus on users. When you only ever use apps w/predetermined menus and limited choices you end up trying to apply binary choices and down-menu options to everything

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

someone on ig said that for academics July feels like Sunday night and August is Monday because then the semester starts, and I …

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My summer reading book orders are coming in (yay!)… I’ll likely not get to these until December.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Count down to “never” …

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Gentle reminder to fund your librarians and librarians. It’s fine to call them hero’s and imagine them saving the world, but it’d be better if they were funded while doing so.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I initially read this as “more fiction” (as in literary fiction), and now I say yes to both more fiction and more friction! But not in the form of misinformation.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

And, with rising deaths. I believe we are up to 51 known names of detained deaths. Obviously the number is likely higher, but with lack of real oversight we may never know the real numbers.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Almost a decade ago now, I said to a colleague, “they’ll be coming for museums & archives”. She brushed w/ something like “they’re not worried about us”. Then we started seeing the defunding and dismantling. NARA closing two major sites. Link in comments.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Started watching In the Hand of Dante. Does it eventually get less stereotypical, pretentious, and irritating or is that the whole gag?

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

These robotic-observer-cop-tower things are annoying in my own neighborhood, and insulting at the place people are meant to linger.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

in response to their claim that they’ll go bankrupt, this seems like the only appropriate place to quote that woman with all the sugary positivity it deserves: “let them 😌”.

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The Lonely Race to Save Ukraine’s Past In a country ravaged by war, Ukraine’s conservators are torn between protecting the country’s past and fighting for its future. by Gina Errico www.biographic.com/the-lonely-r...

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The Lonely Race to Save Ukraine’s Past - bioGraphic

In a country ravaged by war, Ukraine’s conservators are torn between protecting the country’s past and fighting for its future.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Does anyone have access to the interview between Trevor Noah and Jason Reynolds from Jan 23, 2018? Al links seem to be dead or gone from the host site as well as all other references to it. TIA if you access and can share! I use this interview in class and (hopefully) can continue to use it.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Absolutely, and let me be clear about this, absolutely TF not with “confabulation” to “fill the gaps”. Critical or otherwise.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

*double sigh* because i can repeat this until I am blue in the face and yet every course I get the obviously auto-generated citations in the works cited lists in final papers and all I can do is grade what is turned in despite multiple warnings, examples, lectures, lessons, resource links, etc.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

pass it on As a west coast native I support this message. Now living inland, I still support this message.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A flight to Peru is 2k. Yes, it is a miracle of science that we can fly there, but it’s a crime of capitalism that it’s 2k to do so from the US.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Got my gym time in, had a yummy homemade lunch, and now off to write for a couple of hours. ✍🏽✍🏽✍🏽 Realistically, probably 90 minutes, but I can dream!

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

We put a lot of faith in digital resources that are often at the mercy of budgets that are not at all related to researchers needs or interests.

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

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Lament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

🧵 “To disarm means discrediting the assumption that technical power a tomatically confers the right to govern. To disarm does not mean rejecting technology, but preventing it from dominating humanity.” “they lack the affective, relational and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow”

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No Shelf Control @litink.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

rest in peace sonny rollins a loss for us all

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