MARC in a Cold Climate
@marccold.bsky.social
Librarian, of sorts. I will always fight and I will never give up.
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The cybertruck lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, spinning its wheels trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this
December 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The cybertruck lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, spinning its wheels trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
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“St. Nick. Santy Claus. Kris Kringle. They’re all the same guy.”
“Oh I see. He don’t give his right name either.”
“Oh I see. He don’t give his right name either.”
December 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“St. Nick. Santy Claus. Kris Kringle. They’re all the same guy.”
“Oh I see. He don’t give his right name either.”
“Oh I see. He don’t give his right name either.”
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!
December 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!
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Alastair Sim as Scrooge in Scrooge (1951). The meme daddy.
So you *can* do it. Film & TV producers have made enough adaptions of Scrooge at the window to fill a whole advent calendar. They can do anything they like. Of course they can.
You there boy! What day is this?
To-day! Why, CHRISTMAS DAY!
So you *can* do it. Film & TV producers have made enough adaptions of Scrooge at the window to fill a whole advent calendar. They can do anything they like. Of course they can.
You there boy! What day is this?
To-day! Why, CHRISTMAS DAY!
December 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Alastair Sim as Scrooge in Scrooge (1951). The meme daddy.
So you *can* do it. Film & TV producers have made enough adaptions of Scrooge at the window to fill a whole advent calendar. They can do anything they like. Of course they can.
You there boy! What day is this?
To-day! Why, CHRISTMAS DAY!
So you *can* do it. Film & TV producers have made enough adaptions of Scrooge at the window to fill a whole advent calendar. They can do anything they like. Of course they can.
You there boy! What day is this?
To-day! Why, CHRISTMAS DAY!
going to decorate tree. enjoy my favorite Christmas video, a socially distanced Christmas with Chanticleer youtu.be/7-spwE0qNG0?...
CHANTICLEER: Christmas Time Is Here
YouTube video by Chanticleer
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
going to decorate tree. enjoy my favorite Christmas video, a socially distanced Christmas with Chanticleer youtu.be/7-spwE0qNG0?...
Gather 'round for the annual posting of...
"A Mixed MARC/BIBFRAME Environment; or, A Visit from Ms. Henriette."
"A Mixed MARC/BIBFRAME Environment; or, A Visit from Ms. Henriette."
December 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Gather 'round for the annual posting of...
"A Mixed MARC/BIBFRAME Environment; or, A Visit from Ms. Henriette."
"A Mixed MARC/BIBFRAME Environment; or, A Visit from Ms. Henriette."
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#OTD in 1925.
Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name in a children's story in the London Evening News for Christmas Eve.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-...
Winnie-the-Pooh at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098
#books #literature
Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name in a children's story in the London Evening News for Christmas Eve.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-...
Winnie-the-Pooh at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098
#books #literature
December 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
#OTD in 1925.
Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name in a children's story in the London Evening News for Christmas Eve.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-...
Winnie-the-Pooh at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098
#books #literature
Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name in a children's story in the London Evening News for Christmas Eve.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-...
Winnie-the-Pooh at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098
#books #literature
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
December 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
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James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
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it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set
December 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set
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And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and will return in Avengers: Doomsday
December 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and will return in Avengers: Doomsday
1) alcohol
2) a cleaning service
3) a second bathroom
4) gifts of jewelry, furs, and unguents
5) a platypus
6) a private detective for the inevitable murder (see 1)
7) a topic of conversation that is not politics or weather. eg your recent messy divorce, or the TV show Shining Time Station
2) a cleaning service
3) a second bathroom
4) gifts of jewelry, furs, and unguents
5) a platypus
6) a private detective for the inevitable murder (see 1)
7) a topic of conversation that is not politics or weather. eg your recent messy divorce, or the TV show Shining Time Station
December 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
1) alcohol
2) a cleaning service
3) a second bathroom
4) gifts of jewelry, furs, and unguents
5) a platypus
6) a private detective for the inevitable murder (see 1)
7) a topic of conversation that is not politics or weather. eg your recent messy divorce, or the TV show Shining Time Station
2) a cleaning service
3) a second bathroom
4) gifts of jewelry, furs, and unguents
5) a platypus
6) a private detective for the inevitable murder (see 1)
7) a topic of conversation that is not politics or weather. eg your recent messy divorce, or the TV show Shining Time Station
TCM does such a good job with these.
As the year comes to a close, TCM remembers the actors, filmmakers and creatives we lost this year.
Gone, but never forgotten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...
Song title and artist: "In the Western Wind and the Sunrise" by Dave Simonett and the Sunrise.
Gone, but never forgotten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...
Song title and artist: "In the Western Wind and the Sunrise" by Dave Simonett and the Sunrise.
December 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
TCM does such a good job with these.
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Trans instructor: “you didn’t do this assignment”
Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment”
Student: “I didn’t do the assignment”
University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask”
some days I just want to scream and scream
Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment”
Student: “I didn’t do the assignment”
University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask”
some days I just want to scream and scream
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Trans instructor: “you didn’t do this assignment”
Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment”
Student: “I didn’t do the assignment”
University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask”
some days I just want to scream and scream
Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment”
Student: “I didn’t do the assignment”
University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask”
some days I just want to scream and scream
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Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here
October 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here
I just bought a sack of bagels from a local bagelry. If you didn't give me a list then that's what you're getting as a gift.
December 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I just bought a sack of bagels from a local bagelry. If you didn't give me a list then that's what you're getting as a gift.
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any movie is a christmas movie if you simply give birth to the Savior while watching it
December 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
any movie is a christmas movie if you simply give birth to the Savior while watching it
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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Making this my anti-AI one liner: AI can't party, bro.
December 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Making this my anti-AI one liner: AI can't party, bro.
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🎶 Bring me sunshine
🎶 In your smile…
🎶 In your smile…
The University of Essex Library has marzipan busts of Roy Jenkins and David Owen in its SDP archive essexunilibrary.wordpress.com/2022/11/08/f...
December 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
🎶 Bring me sunshine
🎶 In your smile…
🎶 In your smile…
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Been working on this on and off for a while. The Mari Lwyd in St Fagans.
Wedi bod yn gweithio am hyn am sbel… fideo o’r Mari Lwyd yn Sain Ffagan.
youtu.be/q-HyaH-dvV4
@skullsandsheets.bsky.social
Wedi bod yn gweithio am hyn am sbel… fideo o’r Mari Lwyd yn Sain Ffagan.
youtu.be/q-HyaH-dvV4
@skullsandsheets.bsky.social
Y Mari Lwyd yn Sain Ffagan! The Mari Lwyd in St Fagans!
YouTube video by Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Been working on this on and off for a while. The Mari Lwyd in St Fagans.
Wedi bod yn gweithio am hyn am sbel… fideo o’r Mari Lwyd yn Sain Ffagan.
youtu.be/q-HyaH-dvV4
@skullsandsheets.bsky.social
Wedi bod yn gweithio am hyn am sbel… fideo o’r Mari Lwyd yn Sain Ffagan.
youtu.be/q-HyaH-dvV4
@skullsandsheets.bsky.social
Since we're having Digitization Discourse I should mention the time I got a list of suggestions of what we should digitize in the archives from someone who didn't have archival experience and one of the suggestions was "anything old"
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Since we're having Digitization Discourse I should mention the time I got a list of suggestions of what we should digitize in the archives from someone who didn't have archival experience and one of the suggestions was "anything old"
December 22 is a weird day to be at work
December 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
December 22 is a weird day to be at work
an antelope is a document, a group of snakes is a collection. it's all in how you think about it.
You get far more specific & less odd ones at academic archives desks but my favorite is a student who wandered in and said he had an assignment on "collections" and he wondered if a group of snakes would be a collection. I said that it certainly could be, and he seemed very satisfied.
If you want bizarre questions, work on library help desks.
December 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
an antelope is a document, a group of snakes is a collection. it's all in how you think about it.
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*and* the post-project infrastructure to keep things online. I spent an entire summer job smooshing stuff on a flatbed scanner. That work is now lost, like tears in rain.
Also, digitization isn’t free! People like to imagine there was some kind of effort to “digitize everything” or put “everything online” at some point. This did not and probably will never happen, absent a gigantic federal commitment to humanities, history and library funding.
December 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
*and* the post-project infrastructure to keep things online. I spent an entire summer job smooshing stuff on a flatbed scanner. That work is now lost, like tears in rain.