Victoria Parkinson

This is so interesting as I've been thinking about taking an indexing course!

All the opportunities for evil have been used up elsewhere, they took your allowance. You're stuck just doing good deeds, sorry! 😂

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In 2025 we raised ~$300 to fund a new website which remains unspent. As our final act upon this material plane, we will be using that money to award 6x $50 USD micro grants to ttrpg designers or content creators that could use a small boost.

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A real Good Samaritan One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry

merry christmas xx

Gather 'round for the annual posting of...

"A Mixed MARC/BIBFRAME Environment; or, A Visit from Ms. Henriette."

"Please Mrs Butler
This boy Derek Drew
Keeps copying my work, Miss
What should I do?"

New issue of Critcatenate now available, featuring news about critical #cataloging. cataloginglab.org/2025/11/30/c... #critcat

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There's still time to register for our free World Cafe event on Subject Analysis and Subject Headings at the Wellcome Collection London, Wed 26th Nov 11:00-16:00
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Registration open until 25th Nov
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Feeling festive as I've just sent round the giftees for the work Secret Santa 🥰 For the last few years I've been using the excellent planner from @mael.dev, which uses a clever link and is beautifully simple. It does exactly what I want for Secret Santa and no more, and I love it

The American Library Association Core Subject Analysis Committee's Working Group on Local Headings seeks to survey libraries, archives, museums and associated institutions about their involvement in the work of revising subjects, genres, and other authority data in their local catalogs.

Sign in a LIBRARY: Fuck social media. marry books. kill AI.

Yikes, I had no idea it was illegal and quite often do it before binning my coffee cup or repacking my reusable cup. The drain is also where the soapy water from washing my car ends up when it runs off the car.

Did you make the bag? That looks so practical.

Radical Cataloging This collection of critical and scholarly essays addresses the state of cataloging in the world of librarianship. The contributors, including Sanford Berman, Thomas Mann, and numerous front-line libra...

📄Chaper 'The Hidden History of Queer Subject Access' from 📗'Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front'
edited by K.R. Roberto
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#Cataloging
#Metadata
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#LGBTQ

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@cilipmdg.bsky.social invites participants to a WorldCafe Event @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on the topic of Subject Analysis & LCSH within the current metadata landscape.

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An amazing thread about someone saving two lives via bone marrow and stem cell donations

Me too!! I'm rarely delicious at home, but I seem to be some sort of feast here

Well, Siena is a bit smaller but still has a lot to see, so not sure that helps your poor feet 😂

Yes! Just done a hostel in Florence and now heading to Siena. Could have spent a lot longer in Florence, there's a lot to see.

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Join us on Wednesday 3rd September from 2pm (BST) for our AGM Event with a Cataloguing Ethics Panel Discussion.
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I have been holding off until I have time to properly devour it--hopefully this weekend!

Me too, and your reply reminded me to book somewhere to stay! 😂 A couple of days in Florence and then a couple in Siena to make sure I have time for some sightseeing 😁

Yes! I did read this one and very much enjoyed it.

Ooh I didn't but I'll have a look, thank you! I'm referring to is the primo one but same vendor so I imagine similar-- everything gets an AI now.

Who's going to #igelu2025? I'm getting to go in person (woo, Siena!) and there are so many good sessions. Also a ton on AI--I'm interested to hear how people are evaluating the "research assistant" and if they've turned it on.

That's where it being punny comes in! 😁 I agree, I don't think the badge is motivation in itself, but as a potential conversation starter or to show what I've done, I think it beats digital. For me the best rewards apart from the learning itself, are a recognised certificate or qualification.

I'd be much more interested in a real, physical badge! 😂 I don't see any point in a digital badge--who is ever going to see it? If the badge can also be punny, that's a bonus.

“I’m just saying we’d collect more nectar if we weren’t in meetings all day”

From the new Private Eye, out now.

I’m looking for an accessible reading suggestion for non-librarians to better understand what an “archive” is and is not (vs a digital collection, a catalog, etc.) Any ideas? 🙏🏻 #DH #critlib

#FuckAI