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In a recent meeting, a colleague and friend shared that our organization is one where we are allowed to be profoundly human. I find this insightfully captures what I appreciate about the UConn Library and what I seek in all organizations. Recognizing, supporting, and embracing our humanity is necessary.

I always appreciate data that supports equity, including data on standard costs/payments especially when that data is specific and contextualized. So, I was happy to see that Mandy Brown provides data on coaching rates (“current standard rate is $800/month, with a three-month commitment”) and on a tier approach that reduces costs to support equity. Brown’s… Continue reading How much for coaching? (like how much for honoraria/workshop)

SPARC has released a series of profiles of university libraries that have unbundled or cancelled journal packages. As SPARC explains, profiled libraries did this for cost containment and/or aligning budgets with values. It’s wonderful to see UConn as one of the profiles. UConn has done excellent work in ensuring access while controlling costs through unbundling… Continue reading SPARC – Profiles of University Libraries Unbundling/Cancelling Journal Packages

One of my goals this year is to read more about neurodiversity and belonging.  I’m posting a book list here as a start to my notes: Two books that I find most useful for my work and thinking: The Neurodiversity Edge: The Essential Guide to Embracing Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Neurological Differences for Any… Continue reading Reading more about neurodiversity and belonging

Experts at UConn do amazing work on cicadas, including digitally imaging and visualizing cicadas. UConn shared an article covering this awesome work, which covers “an innovative process is making 3D data of cicadas available to the world, just in time for this year’s rare co-emergence of Brood XIX and Brood XIII.” I love seeing amazing work… Continue reading Brood! A word for horror films and awesome cicadas

The full story is wonderful and all should read! I wanted to highlight the end: This BHS-dLOC-MIT Libraries partnership provides access to content not available through the existing subscription-based models and exemplifies MIT Libraries’ commitment to social justice and open, accessible, and equitable scholarship. It also constitutes a promising alternative model to providing access to… Continue reading Better thinking with library collection budgets; digitization of Libète newspaper published in Haiti in Kreyòl

It is always wonderful to see important new publications come out as Open Access, and Julian Chambliss and Ellen Moll have just released their edited collection, Making Sense of Digital Humanities: Transformations and Interventions in Technocultures!  I have not yet had time tor ead the full volume. The volume includes many familiar names for digital… Continue reading Just in time for the gift-giving season: Making Sense of Digital Humanities, edited by Julian Chambliss and Ellen Moll

ACURIL is amazing! To join, fill out the form at the bottom of this page: https://acuril.org/membership/ Then, the Treasurer will be in contact for the membership fee, which is only $25/year for personal members. By joining, you’ll receive emails on the annual conference, webinars, and other events. You’ll be better connected with the truly awe-inspiring… Continue reading Join ACURIL (Association of Caribbean University, Research, and Institutional Libraries)

I learned about explaining commitments in terms of glass and rubber balls from the amazing Chelsea Johston. I had not heard this analogy prior. In googling it, it looks like this comes to us from (at least one source, not sure if first, and good ideas normally have multiple firsts) Nora Roberts, who explained commitments… Continue reading Glass Balls and Rubber Balls: What can we drop today, and tomorrow, and tomorrow?

I’m working on an article for SOURCE Magazine at UF, on the history of the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) from UF’s perspective, in terms of UF’s long history of Caribbean collection building. This is super fun, and super long! The Libraries at UF have always identified as Caribbean libraries, so there’s a wealth… Continue reading Farmington Plan, Interlibrary Loan, and the Digital Age