The Librarian @thelibrarian@scholar.social

Use CWs as subject lines to give others more freedom of choice in what they read.

Help our vision-impaired friends know what we are talking about when we post images by adding a description.

Use #hashtags to make posts discoverable, if desirable.

Mastodon is about community, not celebrity.

It is perfectly fine to have more than one account, especially on different instances. Federation allows one to lessen context collapse this way.

I am planning on more frequently tooting passages from sources I'm reading and I am going to do so thus:

The *public* post will be reference information, comments, content notes, tags;

Interesting pull quotes/passages will be posted as comments in reply with a brief citation, so they are boostable. These will be reflective of things that can be considered in an edifying way, even if my personal opinion differs (a note may or may not indicate this).

Pinning this post for followers new & old.

Hi, I am an academic #librarian, #geospatial information scientist, computer scientist, #linguist (theoretically) and amateur #mathematician into #highered / #education, #public_policy, political theory & economics, societal issues (esp. interested in issues involving #social_emergence), and #systems_science. An #omnipologist if you will. Re-posting and pinning my #introduction for any new folks. alt-tags: #publicpolicy #socialemergence #systemsscience

One may RENT things from a business, but
BORROWS things from library.

Libraries, in general, ARE NOT businesses; they are cultural institutions.

Please enforce this distinction by using the appropriate verb, because the more people think of them as businesses they more likely they are to become businesses — to the detriment of the community in which they are situated.

Thank you for reading.

“Big Brother’s methods of control have been updated. … The new methods of sugar-coated digital control may show so effective they succeed in undermining critical thinking, autonomy, and self-determination. Not just in China.” — Hendricks & Vestergaard, Reality Lost: Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-00813-0

Bandcamp and a number of music-makers are donating their proceeds today (midnight to midnight Pacific Time) to the Voting Rights Project.

Music meets Citizenship, what's not to love?

Even if you do not participate today, *please* participate in the US midterm elections, if you are able.

My understand is that it morphed into newspapers, then zines, and now blogs. But it would be nice to have more pamphlets as a way of disseminating ideas to one's community.

What happened to pamphlet culture?