craftyhilary
@craftyhilary.bsky.social
Apex librarian, crafter, reader. Chicagoan now living in New England. Personal account, all views my own.
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Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
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Print dictionaries: the original large language models
11/18/25
11/18/25
November 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Print dictionaries: the original large language models
11/18/25
11/18/25
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The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago.
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The People Want To Read: On Massive Budget Cuts Proposed in Chicago
If passed, Chicago Public Library will lose half their budget for acquiring new books and materials.
buttondown.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
Boolean thought of the day: Tuesday OR ("screaming into the void" N5 "library database*")
Boolean answer: OMG yes, both
Gemini: The specific proximity search you constructed is highly specialized and is unlikely to yield direct, factual results in a library database search.
Boolean answer: OMG yes, both
Gemini: The specific proximity search you constructed is highly specialized and is unlikely to yield direct, factual results in a library database search.
October 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Boolean thought of the day: Tuesday OR ("screaming into the void" N5 "library database*")
Boolean answer: OMG yes, both
Gemini: The specific proximity search you constructed is highly specialized and is unlikely to yield direct, factual results in a library database search.
Boolean answer: OMG yes, both
Gemini: The specific proximity search you constructed is highly specialized and is unlikely to yield direct, factual results in a library database search.
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An Amazon Web Services outage on Monday disrupted many online platforms, affecting banking services, chat apps, and more.
What, if anything, can you do to prepare for disruptions? Here are a few tips.
What, if anything, can you do to prepare for disruptions? Here are a few tips.
One Tech Tip: How to prepare for outages that impact our online lives, from banking to chatting apps
An Amazon Web Services outage on Monday disrupted many online platforms, affecting banking services, chat apps, and more.
bit.ly
October 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
An Amazon Web Services outage on Monday disrupted many online platforms, affecting banking services, chat apps, and more.
What, if anything, can you do to prepare for disruptions? Here are a few tips.
What, if anything, can you do to prepare for disruptions? Here are a few tips.
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Dive back into #theelflands this #spookyseason!
@pennyvixen.bsky.social /Katherine Addison completed her CEMETERIES OF AMALO trilogy following Thara Celehar earlier this year with THE TOMB OF DRAGONS. Now is the perfect time to return to this well loved universe and meet friends old and new!
@pennyvixen.bsky.social /Katherine Addison completed her CEMETERIES OF AMALO trilogy following Thara Celehar earlier this year with THE TOMB OF DRAGONS. Now is the perfect time to return to this well loved universe and meet friends old and new!
October 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Dive back into #theelflands this #spookyseason!
@pennyvixen.bsky.social /Katherine Addison completed her CEMETERIES OF AMALO trilogy following Thara Celehar earlier this year with THE TOMB OF DRAGONS. Now is the perfect time to return to this well loved universe and meet friends old and new!
@pennyvixen.bsky.social /Katherine Addison completed her CEMETERIES OF AMALO trilogy following Thara Celehar earlier this year with THE TOMB OF DRAGONS. Now is the perfect time to return to this well loved universe and meet friends old and new!
Save the date for the EBSCOhost Idea Exchange, an open forum for questions, solutions, and all things new-UI-related on Nov. 19, 12-1:30pm Central! Invite is making the rounds on the usual channels, so keep an eye out (or DM for an ics). Sponsored by the MLA UX Caucus but all are welcome! #medlibs
September 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Save the date for the EBSCOhost Idea Exchange, an open forum for questions, solutions, and all things new-UI-related on Nov. 19, 12-1:30pm Central! Invite is making the rounds on the usual channels, so keep an eye out (or DM for an ics). Sponsored by the MLA UX Caucus but all are welcome! #medlibs
This is a fantastic list of non-HP recommendations for young (and also not young!) readers who love magic and despise hate. I see a lot of my personal favorites on it: open.substack.com/pub/twobossy...
Dames Recs: Harry Potter Alternatives
When it comes to avoiding enriching J.K. Rowling, we are anything but just kidding.
open.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This is a fantastic list of non-HP recommendations for young (and also not young!) readers who love magic and despise hate. I see a lot of my personal favorites on it: open.substack.com/pub/twobossy...
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Hot girl summer is out, Edgar Allan Poe summer is in (asking a friend to wall me up in a quiet corner of their basement with a bottle of wine)
July 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Hot girl summer is out, Edgar Allan Poe summer is in (asking a friend to wall me up in a quiet corner of their basement with a bottle of wine)
Why, yes, I did buy Legos today so I could get the special Jane Austen gift with purchase set. Why do you ask? (How I anticipate loving it: ardently.)
June 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Why, yes, I did buy Legos today so I could get the special Jane Austen gift with purchase set. Why do you ask? (How I anticipate loving it: ardently.)
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Why, it contains no king.
June 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Why, it contains no king.
Web of Science has confirmed for me that the SAME proximity operator functions only within the Address (AD) field, "where it ensures that the specified terms appear within the same sentence." (Otherwise it just works like an AND, so there's no reason to use it.) #medlibs
June 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Web of Science has confirmed for me that the SAME proximity operator functions only within the Address (AD) field, "where it ensures that the specified terms appear within the same sentence." (Otherwise it just works like an AND, so there's no reason to use it.) #medlibs
I can't explain it, but I feel an unreasonable level of irritation when LibGuides WYSIWYG interface inserts instead of an ordinary space when I copy and paste. No one asked for this, LibGuides. No one.
June 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I can't explain it, but I feel an unreasonable level of irritation when LibGuides WYSIWYG interface inserts instead of an ordinary space when I copy and paste. No one asked for this, LibGuides. No one.
Waking up every morning with a sense of relief that I deleted Facebook and Instagram. I missed them the first week. Now I feel like my quality of life has improved dramatically.
June 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Waking up every morning with a sense of relief that I deleted Facebook and Instagram. I missed them the first week. Now I feel like my quality of life has improved dramatically.
This essay is so disturbing, as is the whole thread. People pushing AI as some magical solution to everything and an easy replacement for, even improvement over, actual human thinking processes are liars, fools, or both.
Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet.
h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
amandaguinzburg.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This essay is so disturbing, as is the whole thread. People pushing AI as some magical solution to everything and an easy replacement for, even improvement over, actual human thinking processes are liars, fools, or both.
So far I've spent about 6 hours disassembling a giant Lego kit. It originally took me approximately one LOTR extended edition Thanksgiving rewatch to build. Now I have no fingernails, but I can look forward a future LOTR Lego event this holiday season.
a man with a beard is holding a stick and says hope is kindled .
Alt: Gandalf says "hope is kindled" while watching the beacons light up.
media.tenor.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
So far I've spent about 6 hours disassembling a giant Lego kit. It originally took me approximately one LOTR extended edition Thanksgiving rewatch to build. Now I have no fingernails, but I can look forward a future LOTR Lego event this holiday season.
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Hello! The ACLU fundraiser featuring story collections from @genevavand.bsky.social, @klnoone.bsky.social, and me is officially open until late tomorrow night or until we sell out. Whichever comes first! First come, first serve! All proceeds go to the ACLU!
app.galabid.com/doingsomegoo...
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May 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Hello! The ACLU fundraiser featuring story collections from @genevavand.bsky.social, @klnoone.bsky.social, and me is officially open until late tomorrow night or until we sell out. Whichever comes first! First come, first serve! All proceeds go to the ACLU!
app.galabid.com/doingsomegoo...
app.galabid.com/doingsomegoo...
I have a send-no-substantive-emails-after-noon policy on Fridays, so I'm frantically typing on my keyboard like Kermit The Frog to get a bunch out before the 12pm buzzer.
kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a dark room .
Alt: kermit the frog smashing typewriter keys at impressive speed.
media.tenor.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I have a send-no-substantive-emails-after-noon policy on Fridays, so I'm frantically typing on my keyboard like Kermit The Frog to get a bunch out before the 12pm buzzer.
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Thank you for your email! I will get back to you as soon as the mandatory five day “if the world actually ends I’d never forgive myself for wasting time on this email” waiting period has elapsed.
Best.
Best.
May 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Thank you for your email! I will get back to you as soon as the mandatory five day “if the world actually ends I’d never forgive myself for wasting time on this email” waiting period has elapsed.
Best.
Best.
In a truly remarkable confluence of errors, a vendor WHOSE NAME IS ALSO HILLARY [sic] sent me an unsolicited email that didn't simply misspell my name but instead called me LORI. Mind-boggling. 0/10
May 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
In a truly remarkable confluence of errors, a vendor WHOSE NAME IS ALSO HILLARY [sic] sent me an unsolicited email that didn't simply misspell my name but instead called me LORI. Mind-boggling. 0/10
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Is this good (no citation rewards for retracted papers) or bad (journals will be even less motivated to retract a paper if it affects their impact factor)?
Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors
Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors
Clarivate will no longer include citations to and from retracted papers when calculating journal impact factors, the company announced today. The change comes after some have wondered over th…
retractionwatch.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Is this good (no citation rewards for retracted papers) or bad (journals will be even less motivated to retract a paper if it affects their impact factor)?
Is it an album cover, or just two turkeys side-eyeing me as I run by on the bike trail?
May 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Is it an album cover, or just two turkeys side-eyeing me as I run by on the bike trail?
Authors are free to choose the point of view and tense that works best for them and their books, but it’s still a relief and a pleasure to not be reading something written in present tense for a change.
May 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Authors are free to choose the point of view and tense that works best for them and their books, but it’s still a relief and a pleasure to not be reading something written in present tense for a change.