Lorena

Every five years I remember my @CSPAN #CSPAnniversary, and this year it's been 30 years! Where do the years go? It was along ago, during my @VoteSmart time....

Don't think of it as getting lost - think of it as getting your steps in ;-)

Dark forest background. Picture of a guy with curly brown hair. Text: Everybody Reads. Meet Travis Baldtree, author of Legends & Lattes. Wednesday, November 5th at 4pm in WSU's Terrell Library. www.everybody-reads.org

Please come meet Travis Baldtree, author of the cozy fantasy novel "Legends and Lattes," at the #WSU Terrell Library on Wednesday, Nov. 5th at 4pm.
It’s a hot cup of fantasy slice-of-life with a dollop of romantic froth!
More info: everybody-reads.org

Two notes: I asked which plant would be hardest to kill, and the rosette is from Dean of the Libraries Trevor, who got it at his quarter-century club induction 2 years ago. We're library-types, so we're going to keep passing it down to everyone else who hits that 25-year mark!

Lorena's quarter century club Hall: a framed certificate, awsu logo glass, a cute tote bag, and a plant!

I can't believe I've been at #WSU for 25 years, but I joined the WSU Quarter-Century Club today! I love that we all got a plant- it's a great acknowledgement of our land grant ag school status. I feel very very lucky to have found a professional home here.

@carabyrd.bsky.social - quoted in the New York Times! Congratulations!

Many things have changed since I started college 44 years ago, but it's nice to know that at least one thing hasn't - there is still a tent selling posters on the mall, and students are still eagerly buying them.

Written on the Dark Shared via Kindle. Description: <b>Both sweeping and intimate, a majestic novel of love and war that brilliantly evokes the drama and turbulence of medieval France</b><br /><br />Thierry Villar is a w...

Oh my gosh. A new @guygavrielkay : "Written on the Dark"
His books are total must-buys for me. Now I have to decide whether I want to read it immediately, or save it for when I might need it more!
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Just bumping one more time that we're hiring. We need more applicants, so please help us spread the word.

We especially need more applicants for the technical partnerships manager. It's an interesting role with a blend of technical and interpersonal skills. You folks are out there — apply!

Because, of course, it turns out, once again, that book banners were lying to the American people all along.

Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully.

You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.

Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

It's been a hard week. But 3 grad students at the GPSA Expo recognized me from my Zotero classes & love it, & today I got to show a student our Poetry Corner with chapbooks and she discovered new-to-her poems from her favorite poet, Nikki Giovanni, and more. I'll take those wins.

Eating a slice of Safeway soda bread with tea & the local paper, and missing my Nana & my cousin Eileen so much. They both made the best soda bread at the drop of a hat sans recipe. Our oven is still broken or I'd try to make some myself-not that it would be anything as good as theirs...

I was repulsed by the Orwellian doublespeak as well - oh, we're making it *better* for libraries! This is absolutely terrible.

Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov More than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time.

www.404media.co/archivists-w...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...