Jennifer Parsons @parsonsj@scholar.social
Actual Librarian. Wannabe Archivist. When not getting paid: parent, belly dancer, witch, Pagan, fatty, spare cat fur repository.
Joined Dec 2018
Our local arthouse theater has decided to make #COVID19 vaccination a requirement for entry, and my gods...
This summer, I had an intern who helped me build a physical and digital exhibit featuring stuff from our Archives.
This semester, I have an intern with whom I'm reading books and articles, and she's also going to help me with a future exhibit and with Archives reference.
My interns are the literal best. 😃
Jennifer Parsons
boosted
"Why are hyperlinks blue?" by Elise Blanchard https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/deep-dives/why-are-hyperlinks-blue/
Incredibly thorough history. I love stuff like this.
Jennifer Parsons
boosted
The Weeding Discourse is happening and so I am going to do a 🔓 thread and it's actually pretty fun and informative and it will involve some caps since my feels are high and my blood sugar is low! Follow along to learn some stuff about libraries and ... Satanism!*
*does not really contain Satanism
I've apparently reached the "is it exhaustion, impostor syndrome, or am I simply that incompetent?" portion of the semester early this year.
I like how as soon as I start to feel sort-of-caught-up-and-not-so-much-a-failure as an educator, I remember everything else I'm behind on.
,sarcasm>
Ah, good, I'm at the, "Plagiarism...EVERYWHERE!" *heave* portion of teaching my course.
</sarcasm>
Today I just learned that one of the students who works in the Library will be doing an Honors project about Margaret Fuller, and it was hard to not do cartwheels my office about it and thus give her away.
*climbs up on soapbox*
ATTENTION STUDENTS: IF YOU MAKE A PODCAST, I WILL LISTEN TO IT. I WILL LISTEN TO IT WITH GLEE.
THAT IS ALL.
Had a patron wave goodbye to me, while holding his mask in his hand. Smdh.
So...#AITA if, for a class in local history with archives and museums, I have students look at a virtual exhibit at that I made?
Not asking for a friend, only me.
Jennifer Parsons
boosted
"The poem below lists the reason why it is emotionally and physically costly for Indigenous, Black and racialized people to hold spaces for other people to learn about their complicity in systemic harm. Read the poem once and pay attention to the different kinds of responses it evokes in you. After you have read the poem once, read the instructions that follow for the second part of the exercise."
https://decolonialfutures.net/portfolio/why-i-cant-hold-space-for-you-anymore/
Jennifer Parsons
boosted
Etiquette
Before jumping into someone else's mentions:
✅ Am I being contrarian?
✅ Do I already have a relationship with this person, or am I being inappropriately familiar?
✅ Am I "ironically" doing exactly what this person just said not to do?
✅ Am I derailing another legitimate discussion in order to get on my own favourite hobby-horse or to one-up this person in my knowledge of social issues?
✅ Am I saying "Are you surprised?" when they're disappointed?
✅ Am I providing unsolicited advice?
Announcement: I have reached the "I'm a completely incompetent impostor WHY AM I HERE!?" stage of the grant paperwork process.
Jennifer Parsons
boosted
“If only they had consented to us collecting more of their personal data, this crisis could have been averted!”
... said no one, ever.
And NOW they're offering me a "free textbook list" in return for my contact information.
Squinting at communications from vendors offering my institution ebooks that are "DRM free".
Jennifer Parsons
boosted
Data sharing survey
PLoS is running a survey on the pleasures and pains of sharing scientific data. Still running until next week:
https://blogs.plos.org/plos/2020/05/what-are-your-priorities-for-data-sharing/
Jennifer Parsons
boosted
hahahahahahahahahahahaha why am I only just now learning the Folger Shakespeare Library has its origins in Standard Oil. My kingdom for someone to write a book about how closely linked the fossil fuel industry is with elite cultural heritage institutions
Actual Librarian. Wannabe Archivist. When not getting paid: parent, belly dancer, witch, Pagan, fatty, spare cat fur repository.
Joined Dec 2018
