Rebecca
@rkuglitsch.bsky.social
Librarian, hiker, and fretter in Colorado.
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“Whether leaders realize it or not, nonexempt staff are a big part of an institution’s reputation as an employer of choice. The development and retention of nonexempt staff is important for maintaining continuity and ensuring there are no surprise gaps in vital services.”
#AcademicStaff #HigherEd
#AcademicStaff #HigherEd
Report: Colleges Shrank Staff Who Make Campuses ‘Livable, Safe, and Vibrant’ by 9 percent
The food-service workers, electricians, groundskeepers, and other skilled craft workers were laid off amid budget cuts or their work was outsourced, according to experts.
www.chronicle.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“Whether leaders realize it or not, nonexempt staff are a big part of an institution’s reputation as an employer of choice. The development and retention of nonexempt staff is important for maintaining continuity and ensuring there are no surprise gaps in vital services.”
#AcademicStaff #HigherEd
#AcademicStaff #HigherEd
BHL is truly one of the niftiest things I've seen; I hope it can find a good home.
Latest update about the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL).
Get in contact with the BHL team with your comments and ideas #ILoveBHL
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
Get in contact with the BHL team with your comments and ideas #ILoveBHL
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A global consortium of over 660 contributors, BHL has made more …
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org
April 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
BHL is truly one of the niftiest things I've seen; I hope it can find a good home.
If you're at #ACRL2025 and want to chat about the Science & Engineering Librarian position at CU Boulder Libraries, please let me know so we can connect! It's part of the team I lead, which is full of lots of excellent people doing interesting things
April 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
If you're at #ACRL2025 and want to chat about the Science & Engineering Librarian position at CU Boulder Libraries, please let me know so we can connect! It's part of the team I lead, which is full of lots of excellent people doing interesting things
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I don't think a lot of people realize how much the IMLS impacts their world, even if they're not a library user. The databases your kids use at school to learn to be critical users of information? Programs that decrease the digital divide? Probably funded by IMLS. 5calls.org/issue/instit...
Save the Institute of Museum & Library Services ⭑ 5 Calls
On Friday, March 14th, Trump signed an executive order that calls for there elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the …
5calls.org
March 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I don't think a lot of people realize how much the IMLS impacts their world, even if they're not a library user. The databases your kids use at school to learn to be critical users of information? Programs that decrease the digital divide? Probably funded by IMLS. 5calls.org/issue/instit...
A lot is disastrous at the moment, but I am always pleased to see a campus unicycler.
March 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A lot is disastrous at the moment, but I am always pleased to see a campus unicycler.
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March 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
February 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
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Maintenance and operations is boring. People and politicians like ribbon cutting and Capital projects.
Shout out to all you in maintenance and operations.
Shout out to all you in maintenance and operations.
When we were grad students in the hist. of science, Roger Turner developed a concept that we need: a category of science called “infrastructural sciences”
They’re operated by the state, and since the administration is working to break as many as possible, we should think about what they are. 🧵
They’re operated by the state, and since the administration is working to break as many as possible, we should think about what they are. 🧵
January 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Maintenance and operations is boring. People and politicians like ribbon cutting and Capital projects.
Shout out to all you in maintenance and operations.
Shout out to all you in maintenance and operations.
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January 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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This is so disturbing
NASA is closing its Libraries, including at HQ and multiple centers, "with at least 5 librarians losing their positions:"
December 5, 2024 at 4:33 PM
This is so disturbing
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And NASA has already fired all of the librarians at NASA HQ and in multiple centers. So, when they purge those books there will be no one to hold them accountable and ensure accurate information =/
Well, it was nice having a public and publicly accountable astrophysics and space flight program while we had it 🔭
What people don't appreciate is that NASA is one of the world's largest climate change research organizations. So, fuck.
Fuck fuck fuck
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024...
What people don't appreciate is that NASA is one of the world's largest climate change research organizations. So, fuck.
Fuck fuck fuck
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024...
Trump picks billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman to head NASA
Isaacman has orbited the planet twice on private spaceflights.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2024 at 4:26 AM
And NASA has already fired all of the librarians at NASA HQ and in multiple centers. So, when they purge those books there will be no one to hold them accountable and ensure accurate information =/
Did you know kids can get HPV vaccines as early as 9 though it is normally scheduled for 11? Learned this from our pediatrician, in case this is relevant to kids in your life
FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, PLEASE GET ALL OF YOUR VACCINES NOW.
November 16, 2024 at 4:26 AM
Did you know kids can get HPV vaccines as early as 9 though it is normally scheduled for 11? Learned this from our pediatrician, in case this is relevant to kids in your life