No, library community. I am not ok.

I’m never going to be ok as long as this disaster exists.

Anyway, another nervous breakdown because I don’t have anyone to ask about 240s and poetry compilations/selections. 🙃

Guess that’s an interview consideration: how alone will you be?

Genuinely wish I dealt with OLAC stuff more. At least that’s written down and updated in the last decade.

Every single day my job is attempting to translate some explicit ancient AACR2 direction into modern use with very few resources. 2013 was a great year, too bad almost nobody kept up with free documentation once RDA changed.

You want a cataloger? Give them the tools to do the job.

Maybe this is why nobody can formulate a good insult anymore. The compilations were obscured by an opaque catalog.
(This is me advocating for freeform tags again if the standards can’t keep up with modern common language usage)

There is academic language, and then there’s SAT-level obscurity.

Come on, LCSH. Do better.

source: a history of being stuck in work events that progressively get worse as jobs change and the years go on.

Other notes:

1. Send a request for volunteers first. Don’t voluntell. That proves you can’t plan your way out of a paper bag.

2. Don’t automatically assign disabled people as mobile floaters and gophers. Again, sign up sheets are really helpful and at least let us pretend control.

Or, better yet, we need to get a LOT more transparent about the underlying income and support required for “dream” jobs:

You cannot expect a single (unmarried, childless) person to exist on 90% of these salaries, especially if they have a chronic illness AND ESPECIALLY without a support system.

I cannot afford $400/month. $250 isn’t good, but it isn’t disastrous.

Don’t work in libraries people. Don’t do it.

I work a job that assumes the household has a second income. Financially, nothing is good. I could get out, but there’s nowhere to go and nowhere to get out of it if I did.

The job search doesn’t get far when there aren’t any postings.

Or hell, how much research is admissible into a catalog record.

Part of this is a reparative description question. I’m not in a place to add notes like “includes racially insensitive depictions of x group”, but without it a subject re: that group doesn’t make sense.

I wish all self-published authors a great day…and the wisdom to get an editor and take the advice.

A supervisor from the past, sure. Someone who has any idea about my ability to work at a place that isn’t designed to ruin me, absolutely.

But you don’t want the supervisor in name and inaction.