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craftyhilary @craftyhilary.bsky.social · 9d

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

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craftyhilary @craftyhilary.bsky.social · 13d

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...

Dames Recs: Harry Potter Alternatives

When it comes to avoiding enriching J.K. Rowling, we are anything but just kidding.

open.substack.com

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craftyhilary @craftyhilary.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thank you so much!

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craftyhilary @craftyhilary.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thank you!

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craftyhilary @craftyhilary.bsky.social · Aug 27

Any chance you could share it? The Release Notes don't include that November language, so I would love to see the original email.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · Jul 22

Hot girl summer is out, Edgar Allan Poe summer is in (asking a friend to wall me up in a quiet corner of their basement with a bottle of wine)

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craftyhilary @craftyhilary.bsky.social · Jun 19

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.)

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Jun 14

Why, it contains no king.

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craftyhilary @craftyhilary.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

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craftyhilary @craftyhilary.bsky.social · Jun 8

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.

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craftyhilary @craftyhilary.bsky.social · Jun 4

I’m also struggling with Bluesky now. It’s just a deluge of bad news. :(

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craftyhilary @craftyhilary.bsky.social · Jun 4

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.

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craftyhilary @craftyhilary.bsky.social · Jun 4

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.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jun 4

Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet.

h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social

amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Diabolus Ex Machina

This Is Not An Essay

amandaguinzburg.substack.com

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craftyhilary @craftyhilary.bsky.social · Jun 2

It's the natural history museum set (aka The Field Museum), not an LOTR set, but I think Gandalf would still approve. Here he is in my favorite scene in the whole trilogy.

craftyhilary @craftyhilary.bsky.social · Jun 2

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.

a man with a beard is holding a stick and says hope is kindled .

Alt: Gandalf says "hope is kindled" while watching the beacons light up.

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R. Cooper @rcooper.bsky.social · May 31

Hello! The ACLU fundraiser featuring story collections from @genevavand.bsky.social, @klnoone.bsky.social, and me is officially open until late tomorrow night or until we sell out. Whichever comes first! First come, first serve! All proceeds go to the ACLU!

app.galabid.com/doingsomegoo...

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craftyhilary @craftyhilary.bsky.social · May 30

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.

kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a dark room .

Alt: kermit the frog smashing typewriter keys at impressive speed.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · May 21

Thank you for your email! I will get back to you as soon as the mandatory five day “if the world actually ends I’d never forgive myself for wasting time on this email” waiting period has elapsed.

Best.

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craftyhilary @craftyhilary.bsky.social · May 21

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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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · May 15

Is this good (no citation rewards for retracted papers) or bad (journals will be even less motivated to retract a paper if it affects their impact factor)?

Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · May 15

Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors

Clarivate will no longer include citations to and from retracted papers when calculating journal impact factors, the company announced today. The change comes after some have wondered over th…

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craftyhilary @craftyhilary.bsky.social · May 14

Well now I’m relieved they didn’t take offense to my snapping these photos! They were definitely playing it cool.

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Izzy Eddyshaw @izzyed.bsky.social · May 14

What’s up with PubMed’s indexing algorithm?
Between 1st March and today, the number of results associated with the MeSH term “Ethnic and Racial minorities” has gone down by 40 (1251 to 1211). [1/6] #pubmed #medlibs

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craftyhilary @craftyhilary.bsky.social · May 14

Is it an album cover, or just two turkeys side-eyeing me as I run by on the bike trail?

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craftyhilary @craftyhilary.bsky.social · May 13

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.

craftyhilary @craftyhilary.bsky.social · May 3

Incredible review, 11/10.

Adam Feldman @feldmanadam.bsky.social · Apr 25

NEW: My review of Broadway's Pirates! The Penzance Musical (★★★★)—to be sung, if you dare, to the tune of you-know-what
www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

Broadway review: Pirates! (★★★★), but no longer of Penzance

A Gilbert and Sullivan favorite gets a New Orleans reset

www.timeout.com

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