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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now⁩ ⁨⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how it ought to be done in academic libraries. It does take a lot of librarians. You have a librarian for each subject area, which can be pretty granular depending on the size/budget of the library. My academic library has a business librarian who focuses on acquiring and weeding the business section. She has an undergrad degree in something businessy and an MSLis.

  Now, my academic library has been subject to funding cuts and so we don’t do everything we ought to do, especially in areas that aren’t major majors at our school, which is frustrating AF. We rely more on professors suggesting acquisitions.

  Public libraries have a broader remit, so often can go with purchasing what’s requested by their patrons and what’s on lists of good new books. They still have to know their subject matter to weed properly, especially in the nonfiction areas. Fiction tends to be weeded based on condition and circulation stats, especially in public libraries. (weeding is getting rid of books that no longer suit the collection. Easy examples: children’s book that was dropped in the mud. children’s book that still lists Pluto as a planet).

  Oh! As a librarian, you can also get pre-release versions of books to evaluate for your library. It’s a nice perk to read things months before it comes out. (you have to request them from the publisher, but publishers like sending these to librarians because librarians buy lots of books and talk to other people that buy lots of books)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  part of librarianship is knowing how to evaluate various books to determine if they’re worth acquiring for the collection. So, you’d look at book reviews by experts, ask the professor that teaches that subject if there’s anything they’d suggest. You research the author, find out if they’re involved in any scandals w.r.t. their research, if they have undisclosed conflicts of interest, what have you.

  Yes, that sounds trivial, but there’s a lot of things that go into it. Librarianship is mostly knowing how to find, store, and make available information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but you can work in a library without being a librarian. Check out code4lib. It’s a (free online) techie conference with associated slack channel, and it’s for folks that, roughly, code for libraries. Tbh, I think the techie route to working in a library is easier than the master’s degree. Source: engineering undergrad, have my mslis, work in a library, current position doesn’t require an mslis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich people don't understand us at all.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My college dorm was full gay couples. Some were even in thruples!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excellent rant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  danke 💕

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excellent rant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ELI5 WTF I’m looking at, please.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funny how that works⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m really sorry for your loss. That’s awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I do this every time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My current microwave’s “done” sound doesn’t piss me off, which is nice. It’s a short tune.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disc drive needed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My school, we had a CRT TV up in the corner of each room. How else would we see the student-produced morning announcements?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Certified post about shit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re pressed for space, you can keep an emesis bag by the toilet. Mine are purple. I also keep one in the door pocket of my car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Certified post about shit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe a vasovagal reaction? Drink water and cross your legs while on the toilet, try not to push too hard.

  I’ve definitely had it bad enough that I had to lay in a cool bath between rounds. It sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Autism Rule⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Knitting, with the really nice yarn.

  TBF, I get a lot of time with my $50 of yarn while I knit with it. Dollar per hour, it’s cheaper than going to the moves. And I get a neat object at the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the Home Alone house then and now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I bought me house, I remarked that I appreciated that it wasn’t freshly painted (there were dings in the corners) because I told me they weren’t trying to hide something under new paint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would Sam Altman have any idea what humans enjoy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I prize the “interesting problem” days. On the other hand, there are some days that I’m really not feeling it. Those days are such a slog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just think that. Keeping a more-full fridge is more efficient because when you open it there’s less cold air to fall out. (I’m really putting my college-level thermodynamics classes to good use…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Badge of Honor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like you need a better bra :p

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Badge of Honor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are! (if I’m reading my regex correctly)

  “^T(o|0)(o|0)l_shed$”,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kitty looking thicc⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I, at least, wear my compression capris (a subset of yoga pants, I think) for a medical reason (abdominal compression improves bloodflow more than compression socks, in POTS patients). They also make my butt look great, but I wouldn’t squeeze into them every day if they didn’t reduce my standing heart rate significantly.

  I’m not aware of a similar medical reason for wearing a pushup bra.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too Little Too Late 🕛⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My brother got a Sega Genesis, PS, PS2, N64, Dreamcast, XBox, and XBox360. I got an apple iie and a Gameboy color.

  He sold his systems as soon as a new one came out. Mine mysteriously disappeared while I was away at college. I’m totally not bitter.

  Anyways, neither one of us having kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valid point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. I didn’t know how to make it work but I had a rough idea how it worked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valid point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I left my wallet on my work desk and a youngling helped walk me through using my phone to pay for my drive-through coffee order. I felt so cool and high tech.

  Of course, when we got to “turn on NFC” the youngling asked what NFC was. I think I told him it was like Bluetooth and let the phone talk to the card reader.

  My older “forgot my wallet” technique was to make an online order for pick up and enter my organically memorized credit card information into the online form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valid point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I might drive my car, I might drive my partner’s, I might drive my coworker’s car. I might collapse on the street and someone needs to figure out who I am from what I’m carrying. The license/id stays with me, not the vehicle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of civilization costs $5⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep a couple jugs around for in case we lose power. We’re on well water and without power we don’t have tap water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Last time I was the pickup person for a surgery, the surgery went well and fast, then the first recovery room (the one where I wasn’t allowed to visit) took 4 hours. Poor friend was just so slow to get his mental faculties back after anesthesia. I blame his redheaded genes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why we have two-factor authentication.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, you’re only like 5 years younger than me. I work in a college library and the young adults keep making me feel my millenial age, so maybe I over-explained.

  Were you on dial-up, too? That dialtone just announced to everyone you were getting online, no way to hide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why we have two-factor authentication.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, it was an application on family computer. You know, the computer in the corner of the dining room where your parents and baby brother could read over your shoulder. (I had my own computer in my room, but it didn’t even have a network card or modem.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genius⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  TBF, anyone can wear any gender of pants.

  Spoken like someone that doesn’t have an aggressive hip-to-waist ratio.

  Anyways, I wear scrubs. They’re the cargo pants of the professional world. My 6" ereader fits in one of the pockets. Highly recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why we have two-factor authentication.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more like Google chat or your contacts list of folks you SMS with. People you probably know from high school and nowadays you’d text, but AOL Instant Messager was free, used a device with a full keyboard, and didn’t require a cell phone which you didn’t have because it was 2001.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genius⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  TBF, maybe they wear women’s pants. A pack of gum wouldn’t fit in those pockets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genius⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a strap attached to my popsocket. It’s nice to be certain you won’t drop the thing while walking around.