ruthbrarian’s avatarruthbrarian’s Twitter Archive—№ 11,044

  1. In order to support our strategic plans toward sustainability, I'm please to announce that we will be adding the text: 💡🌱 Practice Sustainability: Consider the environment before printing the Catalog 🌱💡 to the top of every page in the Catalog.
    1. …in reply to @ruthbrarian
      (in immediately afterward to say yes, this is a joke. heck, print a record if you need to.)
      1. …in reply to @ruthbrarian
        but the joke is inspired by the fact that we DID print a BUNCH of copies of the catalog on microfilm in the 80s, talking like 20 copies!!
        1. …in reply to @ruthbrarian
          When the catalog ballooned in size in the years between two printings (this was not something you could do regularly) we printed so much that the microfilm folks on campus apparently told us not to come back to them! (we paid, but time & supplies & etc were run through)
          1. …in reply to @ruthbrarian
            so I've just been sitting on this since that interview.
    2. …in reply to @ruthbrarian
      last year it was -- driving patron engagement my putting a marquee effect on the hold request button to be sure they really want it: bit.ly/3719jfj
      1. …in reply to @ruthbrarian
        (we never actually did any of these because -- it's the catalog, you don't fuck around with the catalog -- but I have had fun with mockups)