Catie Sahadath

Screenshot from US Embassy in Canada website, which reads: "Applicants for H-1B (and their H-4 dependents), F, M, or J nonimmigrant visas are instructed to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media accounts to ‘public’ to facilitate vetting necessary to establish their identity and admissibility to the United States under U.S. law."

This is wild.

"Applicants for ... nonimmigrant visas are instructed to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media accounts to ‘public’ to facilitate vetting"

Ford tells students to not pick ’basket-weaving courses’ in wake of OSAP cuts | RCI Premier says students should focus on 'jobs of the future' as Ontarians express concern over OSAP grant cuts.

I mean, yeah, take courses that will help you participate in the economy. But also take courses that help you become interesting because no one wants to hire a robot who's bad at pub trivia ✌️

Commenting on energy injustice is now the floor for any halftime act.

Bad Bunny just did something trump could never do; named all the countries in the Americas.
#BadBunny

It truly is! But most systems require applicants to copy/paste their education and experience into a pre-formatted text field in addition to submitting a PDF version, and that is proving useful for my screen reader. Though I'm finding that some applicants skip this step.

I do not care if your resume looks beautiful or boring, if a screen reader can't interpret it, it may as well be a pile of turds.

Hiring managers experience disability too.

PSA: the next time you apply for a job, please make sure your resume is WCAG compliant.

Black dog with cute face sitting in front of a Rona hardware store

Happy Friday from this absolute babe

A post by Dr. McMillan Cottom that says "I buy my little sisters all their very first diamons, fancy dinner, & vacation because if all a man can show you is an entry level good tiem predicated on power assympetries then you will have bad sex & you're more likely to be abused. No sir and no ma'am. Not the McMillan girls"

I think about this post from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social a lot. It has subtly changed how I approach gifts for the young people in my life -- especially the girls and young women. As auntie or cool professor, I love getting to do "First Fancy" with them.

To be determined 😬
They just started turning black/blue late yesterday. A rite of passage!

Once I regain feeling in my toes, I will assess whether this is “first marathon” or “first and last”

Sure did! 😁

**special mention: they printed off a picture of my dog wearing a medal for one of the signs. This is art, folks. 🥹

Group of 10 friend holding up signs and cheering at a marathon

I ran my first marathon yesterday, and the absolute best part was my friends’ surprise cheering section.

If you know someone doing A Thing, even (especially) if you don’t understand it, come out for them. Support is such a game changer!

My coworker is retiring, so I immortalized her with cross stitch.

Y’all refreshing the Carleton results, meanwhile my eyes are glued to the close races

Don’t blame you for missing him, he wasn’t on 100% of the time

He’s there, they’ve got a rotating cast in the libero seat

Thankful for 21 Celsius + sunshine on election day today.

So much easier to vote when you don’t need to traverse a blizzard to get to the polling station!

My dream for consortial print services becomes less nutty with every passing day

Oh I should edit for clarity, thanks for this. I was looking at cases where shelf ready processing for European items happens in the US, which is a fun lil gray area

Backgrounder-Tariffs and Academic Libraries.docx Backgrounder: Tariffs on Print Books for Academic Librarians Prepared by Catie Sahadath, Associate University Librarian, Scholarly Resources 28 March 2025 Purpose The purpose of this report is to prov...

I am writing a backgrounder for Canadian academic librarians trying to navigate through a trade war.

I'm still working on it, and I'm about to TGIF, but there's enough in there to be useful for now! Enjoy :-)

WTO Moratorium on Customs Duties on Electronic Transmissions Rashid S. Kaukab explores developing countries' views on the WTO's decision not to renew the moratorium on the imposition of customs duties on electronic transmissions.

Hello, the World Trade Organization has a moratorium on member nations placing tariffs on electronic transmissions. This agreement is renewed every 2 years, and the current iteration is good until March 2026. This agreement is why we don't have tariffs on library e-resources.

Technically, CDN books won't be subject to tariffs in the US, we don't need a counter tariff on these items.

But I have good news!

The GoC is accepting feedback on the counter tariffs!

Please! Go now! Submit your feedback to the Gov! Tell them in grand numbers so they can't ignore it.

Canada's proposed counter measures include printed books (HS Code 4901). I think this may have been an oversight, as it is incredibly easy to miss the whole "books" thing from the US' Executive Order.

There is a section of the Executive Order placing 25% tariffs on Canada that excludes "information or informational materials...including publications..." (Section 1702B)

As of today, I have read every single US executive order and Canadian response / order-in-council that pertains to tariffs on print books and BOY ARE MY FEET TIRED.

BUT I learned some facts that are of paramount importance to Canadian libraries, so listen up!

Always amazed at authors who fill in our "suggest a purchase" form with their works. Like, is this the business development strategy? F'real?

Somewhere in my feed I saw the commentary "My brother in Christ, you are the suits."

The Government of Canada is collecting feedback on tariffs, until April 2.

The newly proposed tariffs include printed books (codes 4901.10-4901.99).

If you happen to be affected by this, this is your chance to have your say.

forms-formulaires.alpha.canada.ca/en/id/cm7upm...