But it’s a tool; we can use it. My biggest fear is that institutional admin will say “great we don’t need transcribers anymore,” and the already slim amount of time folks in library work got to do this will be out the window, and previously really good resources like EMMO will go the way of the past

Yes to all of this. I think the best method of using tools like Transkribus is to essentially treat it like another human colleague that is also doing a transcription, but…idk, I think in terms of skill building and collaboration, I’d still rather collab with a human in that case!

Same vibes as Tchaikovsky writing in a part for “artillery” in the 1812 overture tbh

So yes, on the one hand, it potentially makes the content of handwritten documents much more accessible; just (as the piece suggests!) use with care.

Though I will say, the second category is becoming “you do all of category 1 but you have no experience so we pay you in how grateful you are to Do What You Love”

Just asking if we can just have something between these two extremes that pays enough to live on?

“Hello, yes, I have some questions about the antinomian controversy? Yes I’ll hold”

Harold is also very helpful for what to do with a bunch of spare/extra yarn! He took exactly a week start to finish, and probably would have been completed sooner if I hadn’t been conferencing.

(You can make your own Harold here: wee-county-yarns.co.uk/free-pattern...)

I can’t tell you how many customers asked us to just “leave me alone” (and rightfully so!)