Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚📖✍🏻🍵] @platypus@glammr.us

As someone who's moved several times for a job, I feel spoken to by @TeamMidwest's piece on the importance of building community. I'm finally settling in here and need to work on putting down more roots, connecting to more activists... but it's hard when your roots have been yanked out of the soil which nourished them.

http://eiratansey.com/2018/06/27/make-this-a-priority/

I mean much much much much much worse news -- the Quilt Index exists (as I periodically remember) and I just realized I could put it up on my tv screen at home and really get into it.

Or like really good news.

Bad news: I can see over 4,000 lovely quilts when searching for "quilt" in DPLA.

Good news: It's Friday afternoon, so lemme go home and browse quilts.

Wow, this NDSR fixity checking survey... h/t @TeamMidwest for hooking me up with it: https://osf.io/grfpa/

It's interesting because Q8 makes it appear a lot more people are checking fixity regularly since 19 people selected multiple responses...

... I was also really interested about the sampling thing.

OTOH I know that checking fixity is a time/energy intensive process and a bit of a bear... so... yeah I get that.

Two friends lost dogs yesterday and I'm feeling 💔 for them. I wish I knew something to do with them being distant.

She'd been doing primary source resource in our special collections because we have tons of United Steelworkers records, so we had letters, meeting minutes, speeches, presentations, and also lots of material which gave us other people's POVs on these concerns.

The Indian labor reps, for example, were UNSURE about the whole thing and pretty sure it was pro-capitalist. ...they were not wrong.

Overall it was a pretty good presentation. The initial title that got me in was "Capitalism's Midwives" -- and it was basically about US labor groups and how they engaged with people working for US corporations in other countries. The stated goals were to include overall standards of living and lessen competition of paying people pennies elsewhere.

But it was also understood that exploitation of workers leads to communism (...they're not wrong) so this was a pro-capitalist endeavor.

Oh bless I’m listening to a very small PhD student whom I’m guessing is 23. She’s still developing her presentation skills and nuance. “When Korea broke out”... oh sweetie.

Library meta: NOW I WANT TO GO WRITE CITATIONS FOR THESE PAGES IN EVERY COPY OF THE 2004 BOOK.

Ugh, I am a librarian and do not handle other people being wrong well. It's one of our flaws, especially since "wrong" is so often just how we perceive things.

... but this time it's actually factually inaccurate & could be used to be like "librarians are awesome resisters" and :buzz: false. We are not Alice Herz level until we are.

Someone published a book in 2004 which said that she was an 82-year-old Quaker librarian, but lots of other stuff including this book of her and her daughter's letters and documents (yes, I know wikipedia is squidgy about primary source material, but we should at least be able to use it to REMOVE a clearly false statement) published in 1976 says nope... her daughter was the librarian. https://books.google.com/books?id=9kRnVhA7EcMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Phoenix:+letters+and+documents+of+Alice+Herz&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj30ciiifnbAhVP3VMKHfJXCTAQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=librarian&f=false

Since I got everything else done in my 2-hour block for professional engagements this morning, I spent some time tracking down citations for Alice Herz not being a librarian.

Alice Herz was a German-Jewish woman briefly interned in France who made it to the US was the first American to self-immolate at 82. She was a Quaker. She taught German part-time. Her daughter was the librarian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Herz

also ahhhhhhhhhh travel arrangements ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

tfw the head of acquisitions and the collections management librarian show at your door like Ruuuuuuuuuuth, do you wanna be the one to help marketing figure out how to do book covers?

... I mean, yeah that's probably my thing.

Digitization ≠ Repatriation: When Digital Humanities Provides Access But Not Restitution

https://sarahemilybond.com/2018/06/18/digitization-≠-repatriation-when-digital-humanities-provides-access-but-not-restitution/

tfw you realize you need to read a vendor white paper because it's close enough to your job /sigh ... like I don't have to agree, but I do have to read it.