There literally was a cheer in the classroom when a student pointed this out during the break.

cataloging in the 21st century

Watched a webinar on AI in cataloging. No mention of AI hallucinations. No mention of data output quality. Only that you won't get the same answer twice but it shouldn't be significantly different. We work with hard data! What in the hell?

every iota of order that librarians wring out of the chaos that is the bibliographic universe is the product of work not talent

Puzzle Binding!

Tricky! These are almost as rare as hen's teeth, and we just...
Had One???
And, it includes HOW Many Books? (Five from Germany c. 1601 and a blank one at last count...) #Vexierbuch #DosADos @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case C 823 .966)

Bill C-15 Update: House Finance Committee amendment reinstates protection for Library Book Rate librarianship.ca/news/bill-c1...

didn't Libraries and Archives Canada guarantee we'd be able to use Worldcat without making an account? This also violates BC and QC law doesn't it?

Need to check this out and see if I can use it as a reading in my class.

Beach with blue sky.

Last day in Tofino had it all. Power outage. Thunderstorm. Hail. Windstorm with heavy rain. Flights cancelled due to mechanical issues. And a stroll on a sunny but cold beach.

Image is all shades of gray. Dark gray sky, Dark silhouettes of trees, white caps of waves and gray beach sand.

A morning at the beach in the wind and rain requires a nap before shopping.

View of a rocky coastline with trees. Waves crash against the rocks. The sky is gray.

Wild Pacific Trail in Ucluelet is such a lovely place for a stroll.

A raven welcomed us to the beach.

View out a plane window of a rugged coastline.

Off to Tofino for a little break.

They are old collections of records for ebooks and streaming video that came from third party vendors. Lots of things for my students to fix.

Looking forward to my students' reactions in a couple weeks. I have some horrible looking records for them to edit.

New 'elbows up' just dropped: Protecting our sovereignty by destroying our capacity to tell our country's history.

Ask any Canadian historian and they will tell you that things were already extremely dire at Library and Archives Canada. Not sure it will even be functional after this.

Round ball of pink rhododendron flowers against green leaves.

The weird weather continues and the rhododendrons are very early.

Orange metalwork of the old Pattullo Bridge, with a green sign showing how to get to Columbia St and Royal Ave.

View of the new stal̕əw̓asəm Bridge and the old Pattullo Bridge against a sunny blue sky.

Last time crossing the Pattullo Bridge, and my only time walking over it.

I saw two of those today. I wasn't anywhere good to do a recording but did track the ten species I saw today.

Sitting on my couch in the sunshine tracking all the visitors to our feeder. Will keep looking when I go out for a walk later.

Bright purple crocuses with orange centers.

This weather feels like Spring.

Lit up Maple leaf in front of a lake surrounded by festive lights, reflected in the water. In the background is a skyline of buildings against a dark sky.

Went back to Lafarge Lake for a much less crowded walk around the lake. The lights will not be up much longer and are very pretty on a clear light.

Met Museum photo of an Ancient Egyptian artist’s painting of a swallow on a flake of limestone, dated to the New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, c. 1479-1458 BC. The sparrow stands in profile with head to the right. It is delicately painted with a pinkish body. The outline and details are highlighted in a reddish/brown pigment. Its legs, eye, and beak are painted black. Limestone flake dimensions Height 6.6 cm x Width 10.6 cm. This may have been a practice drawing of the sparrow hieroglyph which was used for words meaning ‘small’, ‘poor’, or ‘bad’. Egyptian artisans who decorated tombs and temples made practice sketches on flakes of limestone which are known by egyptologists as ostraca (singular: ostracon). Sometimes the drawings were used as a template when transferring an image to the wall of a tomb or a temple. Limestone flakes were readily available for this purpose as by-products of the construction of temples and rock-cut tombs. A number of ostraca were recovered at Deir el-Bahri during the 1922-23 MMA excavations.

Artists have always loved to sketch!

Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC.

Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used flakes of limestone as sketchpads!

MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology

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machine classification and it's consequences

Libraries need to be more vocal about the digital pricing problem. I only buy for Sora (the school version of Libby) when specifically requested by a patron. I talk a lot about why I don't buy on the regular and patrons are always shocked at the price difference. I have to pay $75 not $1.99!

Perhaps weaponized incompetence? They were told to use the camera but don't want to and know they can get away with it.

Pale pink hellebore with a bee in it, in the sunshine.

Trying to get out into the sunshine while it is here.

Alarm as Canadian Register of Historic Places to Shut Down - National Trust for Canada The Canadian Register of Historic Places, better known as the historicplaces.ca website, is coming down. Parks Canada announced in late...

Nation-building isn’t just about infrastructure and resource extraction. It’s about culture. It’s about history. It’s about our stories, and the places that tell them.

This is the worst time imaginable to shut down the Register of Historic Places.
nationaltrustcanada.ca/online-stori...

View from a balcony of fog. The sun is a bright dot in the grey. You can see the outlines of a couple trees but not the river which is just past them.

This has been my view lately. There is a river out there somewhere.

A variety of types of ducks bob peaceful in the shallow water of Burnaby Lake.

Got to have a moment in the sun with some ducks.