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  1. I'm conducting research on the impact of library system migrations on library workers' process and morale. If your workplace has gone through a migration during your time there, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you: pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b1oVSRWW2lmvJCC
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  2. Just got a call from the dean -- I'm being tenured and promoted to Associate Librarian!! 🎉 I am excited, exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply aware of all the support -- at work, from colleagues, from family -- that I've had between my start here in Sept 2017 and today.
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  3. In completely different news, on Tuesday night I was given my ham radio club's Ham of the Year award for 2 years of learning, engagement, and also being willing to help with the grunt work... and then I had about a day-and-a-half to enjoy that before this news.
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  4. Putting this on here now because who knows how I'll be then. Sterling's cancer has returned and it's in his chest. He's already had an amputation, he's 15, we're not going to do anything drastic. We also don't have to say goodbye quite yet. Here he is yesterday:
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrbgKiJWAAI_oe9.jpg
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  5. So for a while, I've thought about what would happen to the EADiva site if something happened to me. It's just HTML/CSS/smidge of JS these days, on purpose, so I've put it into a couple of public repos: bit.ly/3EeyF7j
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  6. It sure is an introduction to what they can expect from the university, from the world, from the predominant logic of the "business" of higher ed and business in general @fino_steven/1624087735349772288
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  7. Temple's treatments of its graduate students, cutting off their health insurance, is reminding me of how they treated LaTanya Jenkins. This is a place that gives employees 10 days of sick leave (too few) and disciplines them for taking more than 6: bit.ly/3DSw4ji @pblest/1623741535446605825
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  8. On top of the many things that money and stuff can't fix, death throws a lot of expenses and financial uncertainty at you--and money can help with that. Some friends of @feministlib have put together a GoFundMe to help her wife manage the costs. bit.ly/3RyvBbB
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  9. I have cloth napkins from a persistent stitches/AWE Fund auction and every time I use them, I think of @feministlib, who made them. As I grabbed one today it was like my stomach fell out. A reminder of all the ways she cared for others.
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  10. This news was heartbreaking. The thread describes Anna so well. Some years we talked a lot, she and H were gracious enough to host me for dinner years ago when a conference took me to Boston. Some years we didn't talk much, but she shone so bright I never lost sight of her. @adorkablekati/1620213426055430144
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  11. If you haven't read my C&RL article "Indispensable, Interdependent, and Invisible: A Qualitative Inquiry into Library Systems Maintenance" -- or if you want to see it nicely formatted or share with a friend, it's now actually published! (open access) bit.ly/3GOHRAO
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  12. Reminded of the time @RachelMFleming said "You find 6 +1 arrows" and I looked at them and said "so... seven arrows?" Anyway, that's how in-jokes happen and this sounds GREAT. @ohcatrina/1599815501911556097
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  13. whomst among us has not thought about a spreadsheet "I wish I could do things differently than I did" except it's about a spreadsheet of library metadata, not of "billion dollar" transactions. @molly0xFFF/1591632959299280896
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  14. Library HVAC update: fine, a little chilly Summon listserv update: well, I just emailed the Summon listserv beginning with "ah frick" so... it's hot on there.
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  15. I have gotten several messages this week like "hey Ruth, remember the contents of your vote are secret, but whether or not you vote is public" and I'm like -- DO YOU FOLKS REALIZE THIS KIND OF SOUNDS LIKE A THREAT? It is also a bizarre message to receive.
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  1. “Why don’t women report rapes?” ...to who? These guys? @nwmalinowski/933904135619076096
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  2. Airlines: We have to keep burning carbon or we will lose our slots. Universities: we have to be in-person X percent or Y laws will kick in. Y'all know these are just agreements and we could... CHANGE THEM. WAIVE THEM. PUT THEM ON HOLD. @airlivenet/1480163323123490819
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  3. "Real food is things that your great-grandmother would recognize" -- sir, my great-grandmothers were born in the late 1800s. Before The Jungle was written. Do you have ANY idea what they ate?
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  4. Not confusing: bisexuality. Confusing: Whether this bimonthly publication comes 6 times or 24 times a year.
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  5. …in reply to @ruthbrarian
    Gonna read Virginia Sole-Smith's piece about this fallacy, which also looks at race, class, and misogyny: bit.ly/3n0IjlH
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  6. Reminder for folks going to GenCon, if you see someone in a Nazi uniform, they're breaking show rules. Tell staff gencon.com/attend/policies
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