a shared talk I gave with a friend for Public Philosophy Week back in April. He did the hardware stuff, talking about the tool that is a computer, and how it can really only do what it was designed to do (abbreviated POSIWID - the purpose of a system is what it does). I did the other part.| librarian.net
I haven’t written a post like this in a while. The last one was in 2016. My work life got...| librarian.net
I do work on Wikipedia sometimes. Since I’ve been working for the Flickr Foundation, my life overlaps more with free...| librarian.net
Here was the Mastodon thread of what I read last year and here’s my 2024 booklist. This is the thread...| librarian.net
Totally a homebody this year; seventy library visits and most of them within a half mile of my house. I liked working at my library. I didn't feel the need to go to other libraries with my free time. Amusing side note, I use Daytum to track my library visits and I have a display that show's "this ye| librarian.net
I got an ISSN for no real reason. Richard pointed out on Mastodon that you can get an ISSN for a blog as long as it's not a personal blog. I have a personal blog and it's not this one. So I got an ISSN for this, partly just to learn the process. It was very simple, just walking through some steps on| librarian.net
How I got some ancient images in a forgotten format off of a CD I couldn't mount.| librarian.net
A difficult part of technology instruction is not that things are unknowable, but that no one is ever starting at...| librarian.net
"Public.work is a search engine for public domain content." The site claims to have over 100,000 public domain images. This in and of itself is not that special, but the interface is. It's gorgeous, a fun and engaging discovery layer where every search becomes a URL that can be shared [example] and| librarian.net
This started out as a cranky email and then I decided to write this up instead and be (somewhat) constructive. I was listening to a local history podcast which I love called Before Your Time. It's a joint project of the Vermont Historical Society and Vermont Humanities (where I used to be a board| librarian.net
This is not my usual ALA report because the Council meetings at LibLearnX were brief and I was occupied with...| librarian.net
Here was the Mastodon thread of what I read last year. This is the thread of the books I am...| librarian.net
Not a big year for libraries. I didn’t go to any new ones! This was partly because I had a...| librarian.net
I gave my first talk in person to librarians since 2019 this week. I’d been traveling less for climate change...| librarian.net
This is a message I sent out to a mailing list I'm on, responding to the Scholastic Reading Report about kids and family reading. "Most alarmingly, kids in third and fourth grade are beginning to stop reading for fun. It’s called the 'Decline by 9.'" A few people on the list discussed their own c| librarian.net
