@margymaclibrary.bsky.social
Retired librarian with time on her hands, interested in pretty much everything, but especially wildlife/ecology, SoTL, Indigenous matters/decolonization, science, medieval literature… Settler on unceded Songhees, Esquimalt & WSÁNEĆ territory.
“Medical doctors look at the human body after the disease has taken hold. (Artists) look at the body, the spirit, human spirit, before the disease takes hold. We take care of the soul.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Theatre #Ottawa #musical
Join @edrabinski.bsky.social & Karen Snow & Billey Albina & me for a free webinar, "Critical Cataloging & Librarianship Today: Ethics, Power, and Possibility" on Tuesday April 14th. Part of the Womack Lecture Series sponsored by @fresnostatelibrary.bsky.social. 📚 #critcat
Joséphine Bacon’s greatest pride is being able to speak her language. Her poetry collections are always bilingual, in Innu-aimun and French.
On Face to Face, she tells us how she decides which language her poems are first written in.
Full interview: youtu.be/v58u_1aYyiQ
Mychal’s picture book is absolutely delightful, just like him. It will be a perfect read aloud for storytimes and class visits.
Grand Chief Joey Pete said in a news release that the King was "very interested" in what the Indigenous leaders had to say.
Ping! The WhatsApps that should have been an email
timharford.com/2026/03/ping...
I should’ve shared this link instead; it contains the full abstract. The talk’s not all about AI :) We’ve got filing cabinets and volvelles and fabric swatches and pop-ups and, as you can see below, manicules!
Been sitting on this news for a while! There's going to be a Children of Time TTRPG courtesy of the amazing folk at Rowan Rook and Decard (Heart, Spire, DIE, Eat the Reich and many more).
If you're free on Friday at noon, I'm sharing "Pointing at Clouds: Indexing, Searching, and Citing in an Age of AI Smog" at the CUNY Grad Center's spring Friends of the Library lecture 👉🏽☁️
gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/03/05/d...
This is a very high information thread. I'm highly recommending reading the links in the thread and not just because one of them is mine.
We still have lots of these! Get 'em at SquidFacts.net
How Women Researchers Changed Our Understanding of Women’s Economic Lives
by Rachel F. Seidman
www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smiths...
#books #literature #womenhistoryMonth
About the notion of a snap federal election eamenard.substack.com/p/hold-the-w...
Support the development of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest through this extraordinary PhD placement opportunity.
Available to students currently registered at a UK HEI, three full-time, six-month placements. Applications open until Monday 6 April.
Find out more: link.bl.uk/dnv
Visiting every museum in New York City
A Q&A with Jane August, a content creator on a quest
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/vis...
#museums #travel
Brooklyn Museum
let's fucking go
Well done to these locals and city councillors. Fingers crossed that a solution that saves this treasured tree can be found! #bchydro www.richmond-news.com/local-news/b...
Canadian researchers develop AI tool to fight online disinformation www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
See also: disinfowatch.org/database/
Bummed that it's not for Canadian posts, too!
#disinformation
One thing i would like to know is how artists use ai.
Like, i actually enjoy the painful and often frustrating process of researching, writing, and rewriting.
Don’t artists enjoy having created a thing that came entirely from their brain?
Like ive said over and over - this is a theme. Federal libraries/archives and their services are being axed bsky.app/profile/loot...
“We made him aware of the separatism issue in Alberta and the threat to Treaty it represents. He expressed his concern and committed to learning more.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Albertaseparation #Treaty #Crown #KingCharlesIII
Congratulations! Hope you have something suitably celebratory planned!
#BlackSkyJobs
Friendships fostering at the Arctic Winter Games as APTN reporter Charlotte Morritt-Jacobs catches up with the young athletes aiming true and calling shots on the archery range at this year’s games.
It’s that time of year again as our Cree commentators gear up to return to APTN for another 3 games of Hockey Night in Canada in Cree.
Puck drops for the first game this Saturday, March 14th.
🤌🏿🤌🏿
