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Tammy
@tmoorse.bsky.social
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Flâneuse of Canadian life. Knitter. Coffee lover. Librarian.

Someone calls me the queen of metadata. Data governance in the financial industry.

Pet Sounds will remain an epic album for me. RIP Brian Wilson.
June 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
You can’t really stop a librarian from doing what we do best with data and information. Organize and disseminate.
June 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Did you know that Canada produces around 3 million pounds of wool annually & 90% of it is sold on the international market? Meanwhile, 95% of the wool products Canadians consume are imported. Here's @longwayhomestead.bsky.social with more on this and an invitation to rethink our wool supply chain.
The True Cost of Wool: What's the State of Canada's Wool Supply Chain?
Did you know that Canada produces around 3 million pounds of wool annually, with 90% of it being sold on the international market? Meanwhile, 95% of the wool products Canadians consume are imported. Here's THE TRUE COST OF WOOL author Anna Hunter on this significant disconnect, with an invitation to challenge and rethink the current wool supply chain. The book will hit bookstore and craft shop shelves in Canada and the U.S. in June, 2025. Learn more or order directly here: https://shop.ninetenpublications.ca/products/the-true-cost-of-wool-by-anna-hunter or, for folks in the U.S., here: https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/publisher/nine-ten-publications/
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June 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Doug Ford’s Bill 5 hands sweeping power to override local govts, workers’ rights & environmental protections.

It’s MAGA-style politics—and CBC is one of the few institutions exposing it.

CBC holds power to account. That’s why it’s under attack.

Learn more:
r.pebmac.ca/https://www....
June 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Register if you'd like to join the conversation: ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Carla Hayden is a national treasure and doesn’t deserve this.
President Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
President Donald Trump has fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those perceived to oppose the Republican president and his agenda.
apnews.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Finished my #rifttee #riftsweater by #jacquelinecieslak in a wonderful thrifted soft merino wool.
April 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Canada will never be the 51st State.

#FanjoyVsPoilievre #CanadaStrong
April 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It is elections day in Canada! Elbows up folks!
April 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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You can register on site.
You can use a LOT of different things as ID.
Your boss has to give you time.
You can do this.
April 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion - BBC
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion
Swathes of scientific data deletions are sweeping across US government websites – with decades of research at risk. Now, scientists are racing to save their work before it's lost.
www.bbc.com
April 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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"At present, no miracle has happened. The WIU Librarians will be gone in under a month, as our layoffs take effect May 14."

Western Illinois University will attempt to be a university without a library.

It doesn't take a red state to destroy a public good.

savewiulibrarians.org/message.php
savewiulibrarians.org -- Message -- Spring 2025
savewiulibrarians.org
April 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Thursday April 24th: join me for a free webinar, "Working Together to Improve Disability and Medical Subject Headings." Thanks to Minitex for a terrific webinar series focusing on #critcat collective action! 📚 #MedLibs 🦀 minitex.umn.edu/events/webin...
Working Together to Improve Disability and Medical Subject Headings | Minitex
The library profession has undergone a sea change in controlled vocabulary in the past five years—cataloging librarians are working together to improve Library of Congress Subject Headings and rethink...
minitex.umn.edu
April 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Please stop calling it Kitchener stitch. He didn't invent it and the man was a monster. Like, invented the concentration camp kind of monster (Boer War). The technique existed before him and it had a perfectly good name before: grafting.
April 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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April 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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In good news, if you are an LIS student, the NCDS Data Internship program is open! Apply and become one of us (a data librarian)!!!

www.nnlm.gov/about/center...
NCDS Data Internship
www.nnlm.gov
April 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Ohhhhh "Data Rescue Day" has a fab ring. Let's do it in early March because there aren't enough holidays then.
one day, if America is lucky, there will be a holiday named after these folks
April 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Neat thing at this conference: a librarian crocheted a scarf based on how many emails they sent in a year -- posted with their permission.
April 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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We are saving as much public data as we can. The other thing you can do is speak out. Tell everyone you know about what is happening (here, IRL, everywhere). We need people to know the consequences of these actions.
Ohhh look! People care about our work! Come find out how to help.
Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever:

www.404media.co/nih-archives...
April 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Fog and the CN Tower #Toronto #FrontStreet
April 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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This is a list of URLs to work from forum.safeguar.de/t/noaa-all-s...
We will update you with news as soon as possible.
April 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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We've received multiple notes that NOAA research services (Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) may go offline at midnight. @safeguardingdata.bsky.social is working on web archiving, but if others want to nominate on this, that might be good: digital2.library.unt.edu/nomination/G...
Nomination Tool: Project URL Nomination
digital2.library.unt.edu
April 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Menopause 101 with Dr. Stacy De-Lin! She explains the changes women go through as they age, medications that can help, and offers support to people whose sex lives have to changed along with the women in their lives. And, non-potable water: Safe for douching or nah? Listen now at buff.ly/zRhrKZV
April 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Louise Penny says attacks on Canadian sovereignty are ‘beyond disconcerting' www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Rosemary Barton speaks with Canadian author Louise Penny about cancelling the U.S. dates on her book tour and supporting the Haskell Free Library and Opera House on the Canada-U.S. border.
Louise Penny says attacks on Canadian sovereignty are ‘beyond disconcerting'
Chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton speaks with Canadian author Louise Penny about cancelling the U.S. dates on her book tour and supporting the Haskell Free Library and Opera House on the C...
www.cbc.ca
March 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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CFLA releases 2025 Federal Election Advocacy Toolkit librarianship.ca/news/cfla-el...

The Canadian Federation of Library Associations, in partnership with their government relations firm (Impact Public Affairs), has released several elections-related documents.
March 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM