fuck this https://classweb.org/tentative-subjects/2609a.html

most of my work doesn't really look like work, it looks like some kind of fruitless struggle to bring order to the universe or at least to other people's work, or something.

devs coming into a room of smes and telling smes what to do. just ugh.

code4lib.social looking spiffy today

OCLC I just want you to know that every time you send me a promotional email all it does is remind me to go check the status of your bullshit lawsuit.

try to get your folks to put salary ranges on their postings, pleeeeassssseeee.

Oh good, AI in worldcat. It says it is from a third party and only shares author/title yet you have to make an account to use it, and it doesn't tell you who the third party is.

if you're to make some kind of sweeping statement about how librarians couldn't possibly understand some piece of tech, reconsider, i beg you.

alma doing a bunch of marketing to claim they are doing community driven development makes it sound like they've heard of folio

The shareholder boosted post relates to something I've been wondering about - I feel like when libraries interact or "collaborate" with vendors there's an expectation that we are supposed to remember that they "need to make money" but how much money? enough that just requires we do whatever they say or what?

plz stop using HP as your default example for everything

Also, I have no idea how to "quote boost."

The bifurcation of conferences into in person socializers and online contentizers? makes sense to me. I was perplexed that people wanted a "close to restaurants" venue over a conference center "easy to attend sessions" venue for c4l. But if people willing to go in person are mostly going for socializing, it makes sense.

So I really do not understand the obsession with what Marshall Breeding has to say, but also I do not get this survey. Why would the library LMS = automation?