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If I somehow had billions of dollars, I would spend as much as possible funding people’s “unrealistic” dreams. I want you to buy that typewriter repair shop, to become an antiquarian book dealer, to create unimaginable good in this world.
Still looking for help with this!
Are there any catalogers/libraries with documentation for cataloging tarot decks using MARC? I’m writing documentation for our collection and want to make sure that I’m following best practices.
I know about Yale’s documentation, but it’s focused on historical playing cards.
I know about Yale’s documentation, but it’s focused on historical playing cards.
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Still looking for help with this!
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Here is a nice tile floor.
November 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Here is a nice tile floor.
Yo, I’m dead 💀
November 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Yo, I’m dead 💀
I’m trying to mute words/names, and do I actually have to account for punctuation variants like name+comma, name+period, etc.? Can I use regex?
November 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I’m trying to mute words/names, and do I actually have to account for punctuation variants like name+comma, name+period, etc.? Can I use regex?
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JOB POSTING! 📚📜
Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience).
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...
Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience).
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...
careers.yale.edu
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
JOB POSTING! 📚📜
Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience).
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...
Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience).
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...
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I’d believe in elves too if I lived on a magical landscape of naturally boiling water that explodes and bubbles from the ground.
November 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I’d believe in elves too if I lived on a magical landscape of naturally boiling water that explodes and bubbles from the ground.
Between 7:00 AM and 7:00 PM should not be allowable as a scheduled service window. It’s like when job ads say between $1 and $100K as a salary range if they are required to include a range.
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Between 7:00 AM and 7:00 PM should not be allowable as a scheduled service window. It’s like when job ads say between $1 and $100K as a salary range if they are required to include a range.
I’ve officially reached the point where I can’t tell if someone is sharing AI nonsense, a “Black Mirror Episode”, something real, or some combination of those possibilities. Blurring reality into meaninglessness is the goal, I suppose.
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I’ve officially reached the point where I can’t tell if someone is sharing AI nonsense, a “Black Mirror Episode”, something real, or some combination of those possibilities. Blurring reality into meaninglessness is the goal, I suppose.
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LCNAF & Trie – Storing +11M unique names in 50MB data structure in the browser
thisismattmiller.com/post/lcnaf-t...
- Optimizing LCNAF authorized headings into a trie data structure
- In browser MARC file name reconciliation + search tool
- OpenRefine / Command line tools for reconciliation
thisismattmiller.com/post/lcnaf-t...
- Optimizing LCNAF authorized headings into a trie data structure
- In browser MARC file name reconciliation + search tool
- OpenRefine / Command line tools for reconciliation
LCNAF & Trie
Storing +11M unique LCNAF names in 50MB Trie data structure
thisismattmiller.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
LCNAF & Trie – Storing +11M unique names in 50MB data structure in the browser
thisismattmiller.com/post/lcnaf-t...
- Optimizing LCNAF authorized headings into a trie data structure
- In browser MARC file name reconciliation + search tool
- OpenRefine / Command line tools for reconciliation
thisismattmiller.com/post/lcnaf-t...
- Optimizing LCNAF authorized headings into a trie data structure
- In browser MARC file name reconciliation + search tool
- OpenRefine / Command line tools for reconciliation
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If anybody would like to, or knows anybody who might like to, do a small amount of paid research work for me at the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh, I would be very glad to hear from them.
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
If anybody would like to, or knows anybody who might like to, do a small amount of paid research work for me at the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh, I would be very glad to hear from them.
I think I saw the northern lights. My phone photos look vaguely green. The light pollution where I live is so bad that I can never tell what is happening in the sky :(
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I think I saw the northern lights. My phone photos look vaguely green. The light pollution where I live is so bad that I can never tell what is happening in the sky :(
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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Does anyone in the #bookhistory or #history space know of a good article about the “publishing war” between the Old Farmer’s Almanac and the Farmer’s Almanac?
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Does anyone in the #bookhistory or #history space know of a good article about the “publishing war” between the Old Farmer’s Almanac and the Farmer’s Almanac?
Are there any catalogers/libraries with documentation for cataloging tarot decks using MARC? I’m writing documentation for our collection and want to make sure that I’m following best practices.
I know about Yale’s documentation, but it’s focused on historical playing cards.
I know about Yale’s documentation, but it’s focused on historical playing cards.
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Are there any catalogers/libraries with documentation for cataloging tarot decks using MARC? I’m writing documentation for our collection and want to make sure that I’m following best practices.
I know about Yale’s documentation, but it’s focused on historical playing cards.
I know about Yale’s documentation, but it’s focused on historical playing cards.
I’m a BlueSky elder, but today is the first time that I detached quote reposts and blocked an account. So not interested in arguing about unethical startups.
Also reported a scammy Kickstarter campaign for intellectual property theft. I’m not the one today.
Also reported a scammy Kickstarter campaign for intellectual property theft. I’m not the one today.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I’m a BlueSky elder, but today is the first time that I detached quote reposts and blocked an account. So not interested in arguing about unethical startups.
Also reported a scammy Kickstarter campaign for intellectual property theft. I’m not the one today.
Also reported a scammy Kickstarter campaign for intellectual property theft. I’m not the one today.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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This code will be active until Monday morning.
Get in there!
Get in there!
Because all y’all have been so supportive of my weird obsessive work:
This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This code will be active until Monday morning.
Get in there!
Get in there!
Thinking more about today’s book fair feelings, I am taking those feelings as a sign that I’ve reached a healthy place in my career. Rare books and librarianship aren’t who I am. I take my work seriously, but it isn’t my identity.
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Thinking more about today’s book fair feelings, I am taking those feelings as a sign that I’ve reached a healthy place in my career. Rare books and librarianship aren’t who I am. I take my work seriously, but it isn’t my identity.
At the ABAA Boston Book Fait and it feels weird to not be looking for anything. Neither for my institution or myself. Not bad just weird.
November 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
At the ABAA Boston Book Fait and it feels weird to not be looking for anything. Neither for my institution or myself. Not bad just weird.
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Oh, yes they did!
November 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Oh, yes they did!
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If you're an open digital zines girly (of any gender), upload your zines to Internet Archive, not Issuu or whatever, for stability and accessibility
November 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
If you're an open digital zines girly (of any gender), upload your zines to Internet Archive, not Issuu or whatever, for stability and accessibility
So much this. When employees constantly interact with me like that, I assume that I am being closely monitored. Anyhow, I will continue not shopping at Target.
The only store employees I need attention from are the ones I specifically ask for help or who are working the checkout counter.
Maybe this works for others but as a Black woman (and an introvert who hates shopping) I’d feel like you’re monitoring me and will still be staying away.
Maybe this works for others but as a Black woman (and an introvert who hates shopping) I’d feel like you’re monitoring me and will still be staying away.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
November 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
So much this. When employees constantly interact with me like that, I assume that I am being closely monitored. Anyhow, I will continue not shopping at Target.
I appreciate closed captioning mis-captioning the embryo selection startup Herasight’s name as “Parasite” in this annoying news segment.
November 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I appreciate closed captioning mis-captioning the embryo selection startup Herasight’s name as “Parasite” in this annoying news segment.
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I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point