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Librarian, Indy transplant. I read zines. I guess I'm supposed to be witty here or something. Zine Collection: https://www.librarything.com/catalog/E38IndyPLZines
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"Both content-based quizzes and student surveys indicate positive outcomes from zine supplemented study." #GraphicMedicine pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39958397/

This is how you do it Indy.

Cataloging friends, consider cueing up a local authority record for "Gulf of Mexico" for when the #LCSH is changed. If you're in a consortium, start those discussions now. #critcat

Wordle 1,330 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 There were 102 possible words left after my first guess. I beat the bot by two guesses. This was pure luck!

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

Guides to finding US Government data during the change in administration and efforts to preserve data: libguides.umn.edu/govpubs/admin subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue researchguides.library.syr.edu/data #academiclibraries #medlibs #researchdata 📚

I've been asking IndyPL admin what our AI policy is for ~6 mos. All I've heard is "We're talking about it."

If anyone has started making zines in the last few years and would like to talk about why they started making them, please message me here. I really want to get a perspective on why people have started recently. If you could signal boost this too, this would be great.

south korean politicians were literally scaling fences to protect their government and our senators are sending out pre-scheduled tweets about the super bowl while an unelected foreign billionaire seizes control of the treasury.

Looking for Tumnus... Highland Park. Rochester, NY

Getting ready to hand out some literature at the IPS School Board Meeting.

Library admin is complying in advance. I know it comes as a great shock to everyone.

Goodnight.

#winterathome

Authors should have 3 letters ready to go right now: 1. A letter of support to send to teachers and librarians who are fighting for our books 2. A letter to the school/library board condemning book bans/promoting freedom to read 3. A letter to the editor promoting the freedom to read

Reposting with alt text.

This is important.

lots of folks saying things like, "the government won't be able to revoke your passport for no reason, that's against the law!" I help people fight unlawful government decisions for a living. please believe me when I say that the government routinely breaks the law and they mostly get away with it.

happy birthday to Tom Baker, 91 years young today. And I am wearing my scarf today.

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard. #MosaicMonday

Was Ron Gibson useless in that public works committee meeting, or what?

What is this horseshit?

There are only *three* reference librarians for the largest film library in the world! They told me they automatically digitize all Umatic (3/4”) tapes because it’s so hard to find playback machines! And they showed me some paper prints! blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear...

If they can leave a whole lane unplowed on Emerson north of 70 that must mean a protected bike lane is on the table, right? And the fact that they replaced that bridge over Pogue's Run without completely repaving between the two lights is pretty appalling.

2025 is a great year for you to start captioning your images with alt text if you haven't yet. It helps people with low vision and blindness experience more of the web, gives your images a wider audience, and even enhances searchability of your posts! Perkins has a good "why" and "how" intro guide:

Quote with a favorite song cover.