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Margaret Heller

@margaretheller.bsky.social
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...try to keep your feelings where you can reach them with the dictionary.- Mark Twain ### Librarian, somewhere between technicalist and humanist.

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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
At Core Forum! 📚 Starting with gloom about censorship.
So What's going on?
This is a heat map. But for a moment, let's call this a freeze map.....
Titles Challenged in Public Schools and Libraries During 2014
Anempts to consor books during this period: 235, Total tides challenged in tboso attempts: 235 Unique Unfes: 183, Most challenged the: The Absolutely Trun Diary of a Part-Time Indian.
Titles Challenged in Public Schools and Libraries During 2023
Attempts to censor books during this period: 931. Teal Bides cha those attempts: 9,021. Unique tates: 4.240,
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
@recdiffs.bsky.social in the sweet precious angel realm www.cbs17.com/news/local-n...
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Somehow my Mac opened an XML file in Microsoft Word. I did not expect this to happen. 📚
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
March Meowness. Show a cat picture to get fines forgiven. #alaac25 📚
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Assuming Bluesky is now the way to communicate at #alaac25! I am here for #ALACore5Years.
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Kee Hinckley @nazgul.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2025
Now there's a protest sign you don't see often.
Person holding a cardboard sign which reads "Hand off working COBOL code"
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
A former colleague said she knew for sure it was me when she saw IMLS on the sign.
Save IMLS Burn DOGE
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
📚Need some emergency digital preservation I don't even know what to do anymore.
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Omg. These aren’t books. This is a hell of a future.
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
If you haven’t yet noted in the ALA elections yet please vote for @lindsonmars.bsky.social!
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doomsmoker (just memes) @doomsmoker.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
drive your cybertruck to the titanic
it will work
cybertruck is also a boat
women will like you
maybe there's gold
great for engagement
you can use ai
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
After the Dear Colleague letter yesterday and the ProQuest announcement today, not to mention the -4 temperature on my commute, I’m not sure whether to sleep rest of week or go on some righteous quest.
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Marshall Breeding @mbreeding.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Today I downloaded the IPEDS data set for Academic Library Statistics for 2023 and loaded it onto Library Technology Guides. That data is now available for statistical reports on Library Technology Guides:https://librarytechnology.org/libraries/nces/trends/
Statistical report showing expenditure trends for ARL member libraries, expanded to include 2023 IPEDS data
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Lindsay @lindsonmars.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
More than I care about who you vote for in the upcoming @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social election, I care about the future of ALA as a means to ensure library workers are appropriately respected and compensated. Wrote a piece about it for Katina Magazine. Show up for ALA to show up for library workers.
katinamagazine.org
Why the American Library Association Still Matters
A candidate for president of the American Library Association makes the case that a strong ALA is the most powerful tool library workers have in the face of broad challenges and threats.
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I’m going to lose my mind. The evil!!!
The US Access Board meeting postponed indefinitely.
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Open a mind.
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Let’s all go to
The zone of melancholy highlighted in a page from Swann’s Way.
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The first time I've published an article in awhile! "Frameworks for Analyzing the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Libraries"
infotoday.com
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
Grateful to @librarianmer.bsky.social for her excellent response to the bizarrely laudatory take on open offices: crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr.... I'm personally thrilled to return to a private office after 11 years of a shared room, my poor coworkers with my time on Core board. So much talking. 📚
crln.acrl.org
Neither open nor equitable: The high cost of open offices | Farkas | College & Research Libraries Ne...
Neither open nor equitable: The high cost of open offices
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
📚 Come work at Loyola University Chicago! Two research and learning positions available, open to entry level applicants. www.careers.luc.edu/postings/26878
careers.luc.edu
University Libraries - Research and Learning Librarian, Non-Tenure Track
Loyola University Chicago (Loyola) seeks applications from user-focused and collaborative candidates for two (2) positions as Research and Learning Librarian. One position will support Chemistry, Comp...
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
A lot of you saw this on My Other Social Media, but I have some professional news! I am leaving Loyola after nearly 11 years to become Head of Digital Services at DePaul University. Looking forward to the new challenges there.
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
This was a fun talk to moderate! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBto...
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Advancing a Just and Open Media Landscape
Presented by Loyola University Chicago Libraries on November 1, 2023.A conversation with panel members from the Loyola community and neighborhood who will sh...
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Missing a vanished friend whom I desperately need to text about an interaction I'm currently witnessing. Whew. Some people.
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
Are you coming to New Orleans in October? You should. Let's be library nerds together. coreforum.org#CoreForum2023 📚
coreforum.org
2023 Core Forum – October 19-21, 2023
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
I contributed a chapter to this book! It ended up being one of the hardest things I ever wrote but not because of the material, just personal reasons! But if you see my soul in there that's why. www.alastore.ala.org/content/prac...
alastore.ala.org
Practicing Privacy Literacy in Academic Libraries: Theories, Methods, and Cases | ALA Store
Privacy is not dead: Students care deeply about their privacy and the rights it safeguards. They need a way to articulate their concerns and guidance on how to act within the complexity of our current...
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 06/08/2023
My kid suggested ChatGPT write my out of office email. It did, and I used it. Then I told it to entertain a very smart 9 year old. He is reviewing the results.
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 04/08/2023
Last night, in between insomnias, I dreamed my house was home to a colony of eastern bluebirds who were flying to escape a cat who was not mine.
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 03/08/2023
Everything smells vaguely of onions.
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 29/07/2023
My 6yo looked at everything with a black light flashlight tonight and I am deeply unsettled.
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 26/07/2023
My kitchen is overtaken with fruit flies and my inbox has a person bringing up Godwin’s law but misusing the concept.
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 24/07/2023
Spent way too much time today being annoyed about self-professed radicals who don’t lift a finger to actually help with organizing.
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Told my therapist today I was going to give up being intense for a month.
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 10/07/2023
Someone might want to tell this guy that accredited institutions do in fact offer PhDs in AI.
Photo of a newspaper that suggests there is no PhD in AI
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 09/07/2023
Finished this on my birthday. Enjoyed it very much. 📚 www.goodreads.com/book/show/61294937
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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City…
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 09/07/2023
The takes on which app is what forever remind me of library literature ten years ago. Of course my takes from that time on Facebook’s social graph have withstood the test of time and are completely correct with no errors. 📚 @thatandromeda.bsky.social did I do it right?
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 07/07/2023
We were able to gleefully inform a much younger coworker who is working this concert about the Chicago River Incident. 😆
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 07/07/2023
Just saw a lifeguard use a snow shovel to remove an enormous fish carcass from the beach!
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 07/07/2023
I’m not quite in my next decade (one more year) but my birthday is tomorrow and I just said “Ow my back”, plus made a mental note that tonight is a retinol night.
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
There’s a parent here for orientation rhapsodizing about the Target across the street. Nice to see. I’m only on campus for a goodbye party and unpacking the fidget spinners.
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
I had dreams about social media and love and mistaken identity after spending too much time on all the New Apps last night. Planned my day before 7am with some silly assumptions that I won’t just be constantly distracted by them.
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Margaret Heller @margaretheller.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
For some reason these ticket stubs from 2009 are on this table and I got mad again about paying $22 for Julie & Julia. I only liked half the movie.
Two movie ticket stubs for an 8/10/2009 performance of Julie & Julia
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