I remember Reagan claimed CO2 benefited trees as well.

I just don’t understand some folks’ eagerness to destroy whole lines of useful employment especially without pairing that with universal basic income. Absolute nonsense indeed!

Perhaps this assumes every document etc. has been digitized but that will never be true and what is digitized needs a lot of added metadata and context. It’s clearly a fantasy made by those who don’t understand the work of historians.

As a librarian myself, I thought that omission was odd too. After all, the list includes Archivists.

The USA will need its own Stolpersteine project eventually, to mark the pavement in front of the homes where ICE & CBP took families away. www.stolpersteine.eu/en/the-art-m...

I kinda wish Canada would.

Boyle’s “follow the money” video was especially enlightening. Just watching his latest video. I’m so glad he’s not deterred from pursuing this topic.

I used to work at an Important Institution in the History of Medicine where we routinely displayed Vesalius’ very famous anatomy text, which was published in 1543. We showed lots of naked peeps.

Staff there now told me in 2023 that they were no longer to show naked pics! From 1543! To doctors!

That’s a huge missed opportunity, especially when you are willing to set up a NACO funnel. Clean, reliable headings & metadata are crucial to good findability but I guess employers think AI will handle all that.

I’m so sorry you were laid off, Violet. You ought to be a top candidate in any search. I wish you luck in getting a good position that you like and can stay at. Your advice to hiring committees is on point and will hopefully embraced widely by libraries.

Very true. My former employer (I’m retired) had over a dozen catalogers in the late 90s & early 2000s, now there’s only 1 not-yet-fully trained cataloger on staff. Another might be hired eventually but not likely soon. And this is at an employer with some of the most challenging items to describe.

Yes, and it’s wonderful that Corvids still hang around during cold winters.

I love those sassy Bluejays.

And if you are a librarian who has used MMM in the past & plan to use MMM in 2026- drop me a DM :-D #2026MMM

Are we going after Antarctica next? 🐧

It would make more sense if Minnesota could be annexed by Canada, I think.