Heather
@heyther.bsky.social
Mostly reading, walking, and looking at the sky (and no longer thinking about library budgets.) In midst of a slow phase of reinvention that comes with retirement.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Nova Scotia! You can now book your Covid and flu vaccines! Get on it!
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Today’s the day we break out the bottle of ice and the fan. Cheap, small scale cooling. (Yes it drips that’s why it’s in a bowl set on top of an old LRB.)
July 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Today’s the day we break out the bottle of ice and the fan. Cheap, small scale cooling. (Yes it drips that’s why it’s in a bowl set on top of an old LRB.)
The tiny chore list is done and now we get to sit in the fan’s breeze, listen to Chris Smither, and read. Donatus Martyr stories for him (no idea why) and Thien’s Book of Records for me.
July 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The tiny chore list is done and now we get to sit in the fan’s breeze, listen to Chris Smither, and read. Donatus Martyr stories for him (no idea why) and Thien’s Book of Records for me.
There were some tears for people long departed but I’ve managed to set about a shelf’s worth of inherited china aside to give away.
May 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
There were some tears for people long departed but I’ve managed to set about a shelf’s worth of inherited china aside to give away.
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I have heard it said over and over "why should we care about what's happening 'over there'?" or "They are always fighting over there." Too many people feel like what's happening in Gaza is not our business. 🧵
May 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I have heard it said over and over "why should we care about what's happening 'over there'?" or "They are always fighting over there." Too many people feel like what's happening in Gaza is not our business. 🧵
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If you ever said “wow libraries are great” then guess what? You support Canada Post, because they have a library shipping rate (reduced cost) and libraries use it a lot, to move books around and also spend more money on things like the collection you claim to love.
I see once again I’m going to have to beg pundits who haven’t lived outside of Toronto in decades to stop opining on how useful Canada Post is.
I don’t care how little you personally get or send mail. A public postal service with a mandate to get mail to every address in Canada is a public good.
I don’t care how little you personally get or send mail. A public postal service with a mandate to get mail to every address in Canada is a public good.
May 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
If you ever said “wow libraries are great” then guess what? You support Canada Post, because they have a library shipping rate (reduced cost) and libraries use it a lot, to move books around and also spend more money on things like the collection you claim to love.
So that happened: spent part of a bog-standard banking meeting talking about how a union might solve one of my banker's other client's problems. (Side note: it's asinine to try to move people from a monthly pay model to a once-a-year lump sum model. Don't care if it's "efficient".)
May 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
So that happened: spent part of a bog-standard banking meeting talking about how a union might solve one of my banker's other client's problems. (Side note: it's asinine to try to move people from a monthly pay model to a once-a-year lump sum model. Don't care if it's "efficient".)
Forsythia, daffodils, and spring sunshine make it much easier to be patient with my poor wracked ankle. Perfect strolling weather.
May 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Forsythia, daffodils, and spring sunshine make it much easier to be patient with my poor wracked ankle. Perfect strolling weather.
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Indigenous governments are rightly calling on international law to halt the HBCs plans to sell artefacts & who knows what else to the highest bidder: manitobachiefs.com/press_releas...
AMC, AFN and MKO Call for Immediate Repatriation of First Nations Cultural, Ceremonial and Sacred Items
Treaty 1 Territory, Winnipeg, MB – The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO) are joining the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) in calling for the immediate return…
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May 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Indigenous governments are rightly calling on international law to halt the HBCs plans to sell artefacts & who knows what else to the highest bidder: manitobachiefs.com/press_releas...
Surprised, again, by how much I enjoy Charles Ritchie's prose. Watching Elizabeth Bowen flit through Siren Years is a bonus.
May 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Surprised, again, by how much I enjoy Charles Ritchie's prose. Watching Elizabeth Bowen flit through Siren Years is a bonus.
What I learned from a following a loose end when tidying some research files: custody battles have always been messy; sometimes a guess about a conflict can be proven; what looks like a weird error can turn out to be a diminutive name. And keeping children's names out of the paper is an improvement.
April 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
What I learned from a following a loose end when tidying some research files: custody battles have always been messy; sometimes a guess about a conflict can be proven; what looks like a weird error can turn out to be a diminutive name. And keeping children's names out of the paper is an improvement.
Advanced poll was busier than I've seen before but we beat the line-up by going early. Lots of cheery people had the same idea.
April 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Advanced poll was busier than I've seen before but we beat the line-up by going early. Lots of cheery people had the same idea.
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Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
April 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
Must seek out ways to deploy this query: “why art thou fallen into the filth of thy former naughtiness”?
March 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Must seek out ways to deploy this query: “why art thou fallen into the filth of thy former naughtiness”?
Another sunny day with the usual treachery: it’s colder than it looks. Never mind that: my walk took me away from the geopolitical horrors and past many excellent, very eager dogs. So much to smell
March 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Another sunny day with the usual treachery: it’s colder than it looks. Never mind that: my walk took me away from the geopolitical horrors and past many excellent, very eager dogs. So much to smell
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February 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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I’m not in the collections budget trenches anymore but this is very problematic news from Clarivate/ProQuest. It aims to eliminate purchase/leasing models that academic libraries use to vastly expand their ebook holdings for a reasonable price.
Like everyone else - I have some thoughts on the Clarivate announcement: tinyurl.com/35jxfnwc
Not just a change in the model, but a representation of a larger shift in the landscape, and the dangers of monopolies and market consolidation - threatening the core mission of libraries globally.
Not just a change in the model, but a representation of a larger shift in the landscape, and the dangers of monopolies and market consolidation - threatening the core mission of libraries globally.
OPINION: A librarian's summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement - UKSG
Siobhan Haimé takes a look at detail the Clarivate announcement and its practical (and possibly unintentional transformational) effects.
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February 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I’m not in the collections budget trenches anymore but this is very problematic news from Clarivate/ProQuest. It aims to eliminate purchase/leasing models that academic libraries use to vastly expand their ebook holdings for a reasonable price.
These are the days of novel (and possibly odd) meals since the largely unwalkable sidewalks are keeping us indoors. Today's pleasant surprise: last bit of spicy black beans on top of buttery polenta.
February 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
These are the days of novel (and possibly odd) meals since the largely unwalkable sidewalks are keeping us indoors. Today's pleasant surprise: last bit of spicy black beans on top of buttery polenta.
A small good thing for today: my online book group met even though we didn’t have a shared book to talk about. The conversation was still lively and it cheered me up immensely.
February 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
A small good thing for today: my online book group met even though we didn’t have a shared book to talk about. The conversation was still lively and it cheered me up immensely.
My counter to today’s doom scrolling: Mavis Gallant’s Green Water, Green Sky. So much discrete folly. And Gallant spares no quarter for anyone’s pretensions.
January 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
My counter to today’s doom scrolling: Mavis Gallant’s Green Water, Green Sky. So much discrete folly. And Gallant spares no quarter for anyone’s pretensions.
Okay. Everyone's up and alert. Time for bagpipe-forward dance music. Better than a third cup of coffee.
January 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Okay. Everyone's up and alert. Time for bagpipe-forward dance music. Better than a third cup of coffee.
Hannah Arendt is breaking my brain. My understanding of whether her arguments are sound is shaky and her sentence structure is making me aware of my fragile attention span. Onward anyway: a small bit every day.
January 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Hannah Arendt is breaking my brain. My understanding of whether her arguments are sound is shaky and her sentence structure is making me aware of my fragile attention span. Onward anyway: a small bit every day.
Irmgard Keun’s After Midnight (1937) should be a speedy read at 150 pages but I keep tripping over reminders of how easily politics can veer in this direction. Plus there’s the whiplash shift in tone from Gigli (1931) and Artificial Silk Girl (1932) which fizz with energy and dubious decisions.
January 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Irmgard Keun’s After Midnight (1937) should be a speedy read at 150 pages but I keep tripping over reminders of how easily politics can veer in this direction. Plus there’s the whiplash shift in tone from Gigli (1931) and Artificial Silk Girl (1932) which fizz with energy and dubious decisions.
I’m pleased to announce that I did not cut my thumbs off chopping up that baguette for soup.
January 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I’m pleased to announce that I did not cut my thumbs off chopping up that baguette for soup.
One of the great joys of my online book group is its multilingual readers. The German speakers/readers are filling in gaps and pointing to translation quirks in a way that complicates our reading of Irmgard Keun. They’re also ruinous to my TBR.
January 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
One of the great joys of my online book group is its multilingual readers. The German speakers/readers are filling in gaps and pointing to translation quirks in a way that complicates our reading of Irmgard Keun. They’re also ruinous to my TBR.