craftyhilary
Apex librarian, crafter, reader. Chicagoan now living in New England. Personal account, all views my own.
- Reposted by craftyhilaryIch thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love [twangy, moody lute arpeggio] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love
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- Proud to donate. Thank you to my favorite author for the heads-up!
- Romance is stepping up for Minnesota! Please check out the website, make a donation, enter for one of an incredible list of prizes, and share the link! #romancelandia
- Reposted by craftyhilaryRomance is stepping up for Minnesota! Please check out the website, make a donation, enter for one of an incredible list of prizes, and share the link! #romancelandia
- The snow is already coming down steadily and it looks like it’ll be a shovel, read, shovel, repeat kind of day. Topped off the charge on my Kobo. Safety first!
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- #medlibs Submit your proposal by January 28 to show off your database wisdom at the 2026 Favorite Features & Sneaky Solutions: Database Tips Lightning Round! MLA membership required to present, but all are welcome to attend or watch the recording. Learn more at go.brown.edu/database_tip...
- Reposted by craftyhilarythe entire population of England in 1086 will return in... Avengers Domesday
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- #medlibs Show off your database wisdom at the MLA UX and SR Caucus's 2026 Favorite Features & Sneaky Solutions: Database Tips Lightning Round! MLA membership required to present, but all are welcome to attend or watch the recording. Learn more at go.brown.edu/database_tip...
- Reposted by craftyhilaryMy old pal @eniiler.bsky.social with a killer story. What we save defines us as a culture—the archive is our memory and our future. And we’re throwing it away? Madness. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
- Reposted by craftyhilaryYou can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
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- Truly touched by the number of people who've checked in to offer support at a terrible and scary time. Feeling very lucky in my friends, family, and colleagues.
- Reposted by craftyhilaryThis is college in the United States. Video from inside a Brown University building shows the moment that police found a group of students who were sheltering after the shooting on campus. This isn't freedom.
- Factory resetting my Kobo because it's been freezing a lot and I can feel my soul leaving my body.
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- I could not agree more with her recs for After Hours at Dooryard Books and Mr Collins in Love. ❤️🥰❤️
- Reposted by craftyhilary“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
- Reposted by craftyhilarySo I was invited to accept an award for "imagination in service to society." This forced me to think a bit about what "imagination," "service" and "society" mean to me. Here's the speech I delivered last night: buttondown.com/charliejane/...
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- Reposted by craftyhilaryThe People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
- Boolean thought of the day: Tuesday OR ("screaming into the void" N5 "library database*") Boolean answer: OMG yes, both Gemini: The specific proximity search you constructed is highly specialized and is unlikely to yield direct, factual results in a library database search.
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- Save the date for the EBSCOhost Idea Exchange, an open forum for questions, solutions, and all things new-UI-related on Nov. 19, 12-1:30pm Central! Invite is making the rounds on the usual channels, so keep an eye out (or DM for an ics). Sponsored by the MLA UX Caucus but all are welcome! #medlibs
- This is a fantastic list of non-HP recommendations for young (and also not young!) readers who love magic and despise hate. I see a lot of my personal favorites on it: open.substack.com/pub/twobossy...
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- Why, yes, I did buy Legos today so I could get the special Jane Austen gift with purchase set. Why do you ask? (How I anticipate loving it: ardently.)
- Reposted by craftyhilaryWhy, it contains no king.
- Web of Science has confirmed for me that the SAME proximity operator functions only within the Address (AD) field, "where it ensures that the specified terms appear within the same sentence." (Otherwise it just works like an AND, so there's no reason to use it.) #medlibs
- I can't explain it, but I feel an unreasonable level of irritation when LibGuides WYSIWYG interface inserts instead of an ordinary space when I copy and paste. No one asked for this, LibGuides. No one.
- Waking up every morning with a sense of relief that I deleted Facebook and Instagram. I missed them the first week. Now I feel like my quality of life has improved dramatically.
- This essay is so disturbing, as is the whole thread. People pushing AI as some magical solution to everything and an easy replacement for, even improvement over, actual human thinking processes are liars, fools, or both.
- Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet. h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
- So far I've spent about 6 hours disassembling a giant Lego kit. It originally took me approximately one LOTR extended edition Thanksgiving rewatch to build. Now I have no fingernails, but I can look forward a future LOTR Lego event this holiday season.
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- I have a send-no-substantive-emails-after-noon policy on Fridays, so I'm frantically typing on my keyboard like Kermit The Frog to get a bunch out before the 12pm buzzer.
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- In a truly remarkable confluence of errors, a vendor WHOSE NAME IS ALSO HILLARY [sic] sent me an unsolicited email that didn't simply misspell my name but instead called me LORI. Mind-boggling. 0/10
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- Is it an album cover, or just two turkeys side-eyeing me as I run by on the bike trail?
- Authors are free to choose the point of view and tense that works best for them and their books, but it’s still a relief and a pleasure to not be reading something written in present tense for a change.
- Incredible review, 11/10.
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- Reposted by craftyhilary“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
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Another tiny, obscure corner of the Education Department is scheduled to lose funding this week. hechingerreport.org/proof-points... - Our campus is experiencing a "Widespread Zoom Problem," which sounds less like a tech issue and more like all of us are just really struggling to keep moving at a brisk pace at the moment. Which, accurate.
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- Zoom captions are ... not great. Currently editing a 1 hour+ video and I am kind of appalled. I'm also learning a lot for my own future presentations: speak clearly, not too fast, and take breath breaks between clauses. It seems to make a big difference in automated CC accuracy.
- Once again I have made a Terrible Decision and looked at the news before starting my day.
- Has anyone found a feed that contains all the important holidays and observances Google eliminated from the default Holidays calendar?
- Against the backdrop of :waves hands wildly: this is a very tiny thing, but I miss having access to SPORTDiscus.
- I'm a long-time member of Forward Libraries' League of Awesome Librarians. Forward Libraries' Spring Forward 2025 virtual conference, "Launching Libraries Into New Frontiers," is coming up next month! Register and see the the program info here: www.forwardlibraries.org/initiatives/...
- Reposted by craftyhilaryFANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
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- A watched Ovid search never loads. #medlibs
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- TIL that the Ovid MEDLINE/Embase "all fields" search code is "af". Which is, objectively, "hilarious.af." Well-played, Ovid, well-played. #medlibs (Please don't @ me about how I don't need quotes there, I had to add them to prevent Bluesky making it a weird link.)
- I just had the most amazing interaction with my cell company's customer service. I know about the rep's 11 month old daughter who is learning to walk, that she celebrated her 3rd anniversary with her husband, and that she is having a tough day. Plus she lowered my bill. Much better than AI, 10/10.
- Join the MLA's UX Caucus for Favorite Features & Sneaky Solutions: A (Second) Database Tips Lightning Round on February 19 from 2-3:30pm EST. All are welcome; see link below for details & Zoom link. Over 200 people attended round 1, don't miss round 2! go.brown.edu/ux_lightning
