Nedda Ahmed

Dear @ebsco.bsky.social the new database interface is, in a word, awful. Exhibit A: WHY did you replace the easily understandable publication format icons with these nonsense images that make it HARDER for users to scan a list of results & see what's what??? #ebscohno Pls say this is being fixed???

Great book jacket? Or GREATEST book jacket? 🤔

This week’s audiobook + book-book reading. Both are super fun & highly entertaining. An excellent diversion from [waves hand around] all this. #readmore #readingisfundamental

Another book I might have to quit??? Current audiobook centers around a baking competition like #GBBO. The bakers are making bread and the author has them PUTTING THEIR DOUGH IN THE FRIDGE. THE FRIDGE?!? 😱🚩🍞🥖 #ohhellno #iamshook

Current reads… and a confession: gave up on Orbital 1/4 through… I almost never quit a book, but I need audiobooks that help keep me motivated to do my morning walks and… Orbital wasn’t doin’ it. #readingisfundamental #readmore

L➡️R: just finished; now listening; now reading. Hope I can finish Thursday Murder Club before the film comes out…
#readingisfundamental #readmore #whatimreading

These are very good suggestions, but a few key ones are missing: attend library board mtgs and speak in favor (many are on zoom), donate $, and vote for measures and bonds to increase funding. Patrons have real power. Don't let a handful of bigots destroy your library.

What I’m reading this week…
#readmore #readingisfundamental #libbylady

Last week’s reads. Highly recommend both. #readingisfundamental #readmore

On the bookshelf this week…
Last week I finished Dr. No, another highly enjoyable Percival Everett novel that I highly recommend to all friends working in academia.

But you should DEFINITELY read Thursday Murder Club

Fun escapist queer "romantasy"--a good palate cleanser type of book after you read something Literary and Serious.

It probably thinks you're a bot sent to extract tons of content illegally. Not sure how your campus has it set up, but our user login = our Ebsco login too, so you can automatically save searches & stuff.

Current reading (ears+eyes). #whatimreadingthisweek #readingisfundamental

#weeklyreading #libbylady #discworld

This week’s reading (audio and eyeball). My first time reading Ballard, but Pratchett is a long-standing favorite. (so glad audiobooks of the Discworld series are finally on Libby!)

Sometimes grad students remember stuff. And other times you have to get things put on a cake. #filmtvlitindex #letthemeatcake

Finished the last batch. What I’m reading now:
@scalzi.com Old Man’s War / @junodawson.bsky.social The Shadow Cabinet #currentlyreading #readingisfundamental

If civil war breaks out, meet up at the library. They don’t know where that is.

What I’m reading this week: #currentlyreading #libbylady #wirtw #readingisfundamental

Remember that libraries are proof that not every goddamned thing needs to be “for profit.”

Then I had to explain that, when I wanted to learn about becoming a librarian, I had to get on a computer at the Brooklyn Public Library because, again, ye olde days before we had computers and the internet in our pockets.

I love talking to the youths about librarianship but boy oh boy does it make me feel old. Yesterday I mentioned that I worked in the slide library as an undergrad. That led to me having to explain "This was ye olde days before digital photography... so art history lectures relied on slides." 👵

21 days left to submit your proposals! Come to Atlanta in June 2025!

SCMS Board expresses concern over cuts at Academy Film Archive & Margaret Herrick Library. These cuts risk compromising film preservation, research, and documentation of Hollywood's history. We urge AMPAS to reaffirm its commitment to preserving global film history. Full letter: bit.ly/3OfUWX1

Here for all your research and/or baking questions.