Rebecca Hedreen @delibrarian@scholar.social

Library folks: I'm looking for feedback on this article draft: Creatures in the Stacks: Library Archives and Historical Ecology
https://mfr.osf.io/render?url=https://osf.io/dq6ta/?action=download%26mode=render (slightly updated from the last draft I posted)

Is it interesting?
Have I gone on too long or not long enough?
What questions are you left with?

Thanks!

You can see the flecked paint through the ice on the railing (metal pipe) of my back steps.
#ice #winter #pipe #icicles #photo

On sadder note though, USDA data is being seriously mess with.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-trump-trying-to-politicize-agricultural-data-some-former-usda-officials-suspect-yes/

GAHGH!

The Hu, a New Breakthrough Band from Mongolia, Plays Heavy Metal with Traditional Folk Instruments and Throat Singing http://www.openculture.com/?p=1059956 https://t.co/p6ZT4qTeYN

How to Spot Bullshit: A Primer by Princeton Philosopher Harry Frankfurt http://goo.gl/6eaKz9 https://t.co/8OhMVjjOWR

https://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html

Super cool! A list of open access logic textbooks! https://github.com/OpenLogicProject/OpenLogic/wiki/Other-Logic-Textbooks

#OER #opentextbooks #philosophy

Public Domain Day Is Finally Here!.

Copyrighted Works Have Entered the Public Domain Today for the First Time in 21 Years: http://www.openculture.com/?p=1059485 https://t.co/DDetCRTt78

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever. (2/2)

-Neil Gaiman, 2011
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/12/my-new-year-wish.html

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something. (1/2)

-Neil Gaiman, 2011
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/12/my-new-year-wish.html

Free catalogue of Indigenous (Canadian) films online: https://www.nfb.ca/indigenous-cinema/

6 picks from CBC editors:
https://www.cbc.ca/arts/there-s-a-massive-free-catalogue-of-indigenous-films-online-and-we-have-6-picks-to-get-you-started-1.4623884

Good points in this article about data and all that shapes its context to not actually be "raw" as implied. https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-data-is-never-raw