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Robert Kingett

Librarians, oh please convince your boards to use the Palace Project instead of #Libby / #OverDrive! It is a far better experience and just all the chef's kisses, and it appears to treat libraries better too! I'm subscribed to 9 non-resident libraries and none of them use this! Here's a sample page. market.thepalaceproject.org/it #Library #Libraries #Librarian #PalaceProject #ThePalaceProject

market.thepalaceproject.orgThe Use of Myriad Arts - Wendy Palmer | Palace Marketplace
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Trystan Carter

On my blog I wrote about how @ia’s Writer app has given me the tools to abandon manually organizing my notes and become more focused and productive in my day-to-day as a #librarian cartography.pika.page/posts/ne

Never Look at Your Files Again: Wikilinks, Tags, and Search in iA Writer - Cartography
CartographyNever Look at Your Files Again: Wikilinks, Tags, and Search in iA Writer - CartographyThis is what my index files tend to look like: it’s much quicker to type out a list of links than do a bunch of dragging and dropping of the text files. If you’re anything like me and you’ve been in some area of knowledge work for most of your life, that probably means you’ve spent a great deal of your digital time in Microsoft Word or Google Docs, cranking out drafts of essays, assignments, or blog posts, and, subsequently, making a part time job out of organizing them. Perhaps you have everything in a single folder and scroll...
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Dylan

hey #library and #librarian fedi,

I'm in an interesting position where I might be able to suggest some exciting ideas for my local libraries around open access to computers and technology. Do you have stories of cool things your library/another library has done around digital equity?

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Bhante Subharo

@lavaeolus Calibre - the desktop app - provides a means to add author, title, tags, descriptions, covers, etc. to organize the pfs, greatly improving their search-ability *later on* in calibre-web. Once that meticulous librarian-style labor is done in Calibre for the desktop, then the resulting Calibre library (one giant, well-organized, human navigable folder) can be served out by calibre-web. Yes, the library is served out read-only, in that no new uploads are permitted to the users in Calibre-web. Adding new content is done in Calibre, the desktop app.

To my mind, yes, it all works well with pdf's given that all the above software is OpenSource. Calibre has some limited magic for working with pdfs in particular. Calibre would gently prefer you fed it epubs, since those are OpenSource as a file format. Calibre does a great job organizing pdfs into a decent, rhobust library structure. Commercial software can do more automated functions with pdfs, I'm sure.

#OpenSource#foss#library
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Tilde Lowengrimm

I’ve been thinking lately (always a mistake) about all the cultural works to which we don't have access. Everything removed from streaming; everything locked behind DRM so that most libraries and archives won't have copies which can redundantly survive disruption. Sometimes I get real sad about the future readers and historians and others who just won't be able to find copies of the incredible things made during the current digital dark age.

As ever, I try to let this radicalize me rather than lead me into despair. I know that there are lots of horrors worth raging against, but this is one I feel well-positioned to work against. It's low-stakes enough that I won't feel self-loathing if I burn out or need to take a break. It's no secret that I like to read and organize books so this is a topic close to my heart and one which can bring me joy and allow me to share it with those around me too. There is a fair bit of tech nerd stuff to it, enough that I have an opportunity to learn & practice new things, but not so much that I’m totally out of my depth. And there are plenty of communities out there to help and share strategies.

But the big thing I see missing from my understanding and many of the conversations about shadow libraries and unauthorized archivism is the social and professional practice of librarianship rather than mechanical practice of data storage. I don't have space to go to library school, but I could definitely stand to read (and archive) introductory books on the topic, or take an online class. Friends who know: what are some of the better places to get started with an introduction to library & information science and archive science?

#libraries #librarian #archivist #archives #archivism #archivist #libraryScience #informationScience #archiveScience #culture #repositories #dataHoard #archiving #piracy #unauthorizedArchives #guerillaArchives #shadowLibraries #digiPres #digitalPreservation

Infosec.TownTilde Lowengrimm (@tilde)Corporations hoard & suppress culture. They try to lock the collected art of the last century behind DRM & streaming. They want us to own nothing & have no rights. Pay and consume; never create, never control. These artificial psychopaths (run by ordinary human sociopaths) are parasites. They know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Art and culture are just tools for profit, not things which hold meaning, tell stories, or inspire. They have no respect for the society which supports them or for the people who create. We should have just as much respect for them. Simultaneously, the LLM-purveyors want to vacuum up every scrap of writing and every video & picture & podcast to replace human creation with synthetic slop. It's already ruined search & wordfreq. If the art-stealing robots are allowed to "train on" all art & culture so that they can churn out trash, then you sure as heck deserve to re-watch your own re-runs whenever you feel like it. Not just because it might inspire you to make something better than corporate synthetic dumbasses. But because you're a human person and that's a good enough reason to deserve a personal archive of all art and knowledge. The only obstacles to this are corporate & capitalist. Dust off your tricorn hat & update your NAS. Make local copies of the art which matters to you. Actual files on a physical hard drive or SD card in your hand. Back up your bookmarks offline — the web rots and that one post with the answer might not be there next time you need it. Don't rely on the Internet Archive; it's under attack and may not survive. Share with others; rebuild Alexandria. This is not a new thought. I wasn't the first to say it; I won't be the last. But it bears repeating. This is not a post about tools or tactics; it's about outrage and action, resilience and community. But I'd love to hear your suggestions. What's your favorite tool for guerilla archivism? How do you keep backups of your bookmarks? What should aspiring archivists know?
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River Crow

#Introduction

Hi! I'm River and I've been on Masto for a bit, but moved here to chat games n' stuff.

I've been gaming since the heady days of OG #BaldursGate, and am currently obsessed with #BaldursGate3 and #DragonAge #TheVeilguard.

When I'm not gaming, I'm an academic #librarian, a practicing #witch, an occasional #writer and #poet and a general all-round nerdy type.

I'm also queer and trans, so I will post about #LGBTQ stuff, but I will content warn anything political.

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Naomi P

#introduction post for sunny.garden

I'm a #knitting designer.
I also like #handspinning, #weaving, #sewing and many kinds of #yarn-related things as well as other handcrafts. I’ve learned a little #bookbinding, making several Coptic stitch notebooks.

I like #reading #SFF #fantasy #sciencefiction.

I'm prone to talking about #tea.

Finally, I'm a trained reference #librarian at large (not currently working as one), and have a question-answering reflex.

#introductions
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@ai6yr nodds in agreement

I work as a #sysadmin and whilst this may not sound exciting, it's kinda necessary, as one's the #janitor, #cleaner, garbage collector, #maid and #librarian together.

So yeah, #documentation, #backup & #restore ain't exciting but they need to fucking work, so in the worst case one can just follow the checklist of instructions.

  • It's like firefighting: You learn, train and stay prepared so that there ain't casualties at all...
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Ma:rta

I'm Märta, she/they, 35 yrs, living in the middle of Sweden with my SO and our elderly #NorwegianForestcat.

Our home is filled with #plants, of which some are successful and some are an experiment. I'm a #gamer, a #music enthusiast, a #hockey fan, #neurodivergent, a #yarn #crafter, #LGBTQIA+, a #baker, learning #foraging, and with a re-found love for #reading.

After 10 years of working as a university #librarian, I'm now studying #statistics with an #informatics profile.
#introduction

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Jill Minor

I am resisting in place. I won’t march, and I already hold public office, it’s called Public Librarian. I make queer and trans people feel at home and change their name in the catalog and if my coworkers change it back, I change it again. I make rainbow brochures and when they get stolen and trashed I make more. I put book challenge info on the website. I’m safe zone trained and in the trenches. We may need extra funding soon so please remember and support us.
#libraries #librarian #library

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A. Rivera

> On 20 Years of Blogging at Information Wants to be Free meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpre by Meredith Farkas

One of the last #librarian #bloggers still standing reflects on their 20 years on their #blog. Now come and hear a tale of a time when there was a biblioblogosphere and librarians of all types wrote.

I was there too, and I still blog here or there, but that is another story.

meredith.wolfwater.comOn 20 Years of Blogging at Information Wants to be Free – Information Wants To Be Free
#writing#Academia#HigherEd
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