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Chicago, IL
Joined October 2008
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Ilana is a YIMBY?!?😍
WHY SHIT NOT WORKING: EPISODE 11
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Replying to @HealthEquity
@HealthEquity I am trying to activate my new card but can't reach anyone at the number provided for activation. Please help me so I can start using my card.
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For the record: MY usual response to The Dewey Question is "Believe it or not, my job doesn't really involve books!"
"It’s what happens next that, to me, is unforgivable. It’s when your eyes light up ever so slightly, that bemused, faraway look coalesces, and you turn to me and say: 'How ‘bout that Dewey Decimal System?'" mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-o…
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"Should I go to library school?" The answer, unless you're already working in a library, is almost always no.
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Thank you, @Avis!!! What a pleasant surprise
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This warms my heart 🥰
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We could have had a musical adaptation of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, or Four Quartets. Instead we got Cats.
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Thank you Alderman Martin for introducing this resolution and fighting for better CTA service on behalf of us constituents.
Replying to @AldMattMartin
Ald. Vasquez and I are introducing a resolution calling for a new CTA President. Already, 17 of our colleagues have co-sponsored it. (2)
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Pricey Nuts is my drag name
The Columbia protester diet: Students munch on Pret sandwiches, pricey nuts and sip Dunkin’ trib.al/8pdLpXS
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.@FedEx you sent me an email instructing me to update my address (screenshot 1) but then when i try to update it i get an error that the system is unavailable (screenshot 2). Please help me update my address.
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When I do it is!
Replying to @SS_strength
IT’S NOT HOMO IF IT’S A PR!
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My fiancé and I do this hehe
I’m not sure how many times we have to say this regarding spotting of the bench. If you are the spotter and your lifter hits a monster PR, it is absolutely your obligation to help rack the bar then lean over and give your homie a kiss on the forehead as congratulations. Quit messing this up!
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My favorite part of my workday is the 30-second lag between my attempting to log into .@duosec and receiving the push notification on my phone - meaning I can't do anything except patiently stare at my phone for those 30 seconds
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Librarian here. Information science is indeed a science. Librarianship OTOH, in the sense of the day-to-day work of most librarians, is most certainly not. It’s remarkably misleading to label the MLS “library science” and I wish the schools and the profession would abandon it.
People are incredulous when I tell them about "library and information science", one of my degrees. It's real, and it's very fake.
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Out of curiosity, I dug into my alma mater's @umsi salary report for 2022 grads. It was jaw-dropping. 1)
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Average starting salaries for the new librarians are HALF what their classmates working outside libraries are earning! And the overall average is $18k more than i am earning 13 years post-degree. Can i go back and redo school? 🤣😭 2)
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Hot accessibility take: ALL images in Powerpoint, Google Slides, web pages, etc should be marked decorative BY DEFAULT, since 95% of images in these types of content are in fact decorative. (1)
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I'm sitting here having to manually mark dozens of images as decorative in a slide deck for a class i'm co-teaching next week because PPT's accessibility checker does not provide a way to do so in bulk. Entirely unnecessary. (2)
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My first full-length research article in JMLA was published yesterday. I interviewed 12 information specialists about the databases they search for systematic review projects, and boy, did they have a lot to say! jmla.pitt.edu/ojs/jmla/artic…
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I had no idea going into this project how much fun it was going to be, and I can't wait to work on my next qualitative study. If you're looking for a collaborator on a qualitative or mixed-methods study, HMU.
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Replying to @depthsofwiki
@depthsofwiki if you haven’t yet featured Stevie Nicks’ Edge of Seventeen, this is a good one
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