Emily Spunaugle
@embrarian.bsky.social
Librarian, book history, PhD, library history, blah blah at Oakland U.
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THIS.
Call your representatives today. They are counting, and it matters.
Call your representatives today. They are counting, and it matters.
January 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
THIS.
Call your representatives today. They are counting, and it matters.
Call your representatives today. They are counting, and it matters.
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every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”
January 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”
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Everyone who wants to push generative AI in teaching because it allegedly speeds up the learning process, should be forced to eat microwaved steak for a year.
Time is often what ensures a good outcome, especially in teaching.
Time is often what ensures a good outcome, especially in teaching.
Producing useless bullshit more quickly is not an improvement in educational outcomes. Why would doing things in "a fraction of the time" is usually takes be a good thing? Why do we so disrespect the labor of teaching and learning as to wish it away by outsourcing it to something that cannot think?
December 20, 2024 at 12:25 AM
Everyone who wants to push generative AI in teaching because it allegedly speeds up the learning process, should be forced to eat microwaved steak for a year.
Time is often what ensures a good outcome, especially in teaching.
Time is often what ensures a good outcome, especially in teaching.
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For S5E3 of the WPHP Monthly Mercury, join us as we interview @meganpeiser.bsky.social and @embrarian.bsky.social about their work on the Hicks Collection. This episode has it all—a badass woman book collector, a Boston marriage, and even a heist (!!!): womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/143
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The WPHP Monthly Mercury No 5.3
Bibliographic Intimacies
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Emily Spunaugle
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Vancouver and Saskatoon
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December 11, 2024 at 4:30 PM
For S5E3 of the WPHP Monthly Mercury, join us as we interview @meganpeiser.bsky.social and @embrarian.bsky.social about their work on the Hicks Collection. This episode has it all—a badass woman book collector, a Boston marriage, and even a heist (!!!): womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/143
Found some radical pubs misfiled as “fliers” in the university archives, including a significant number of feminist/pro-abortion newsletters and manifestos!
December 5, 2024 at 4:27 AM
Found some radical pubs misfiled as “fliers” in the university archives, including a significant number of feminist/pro-abortion newsletters and manifestos!
To all who are grading AI papers at the end of term, I have made this for us:
November 22, 2024 at 3:20 PM
To all who are grading AI papers at the end of term, I have made this for us:
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Sure! Available free to print or read online at violetbfox.info/against-ai/
A Librarian Against AI – Violet B. Fox
violetbfox.info
November 22, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Sure! Available free to print or read online at violetbfox.info/against-ai/
Seeking help with some Irish! Can anyone read the inscription?
November 20, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Seeking help with some Irish! Can anyone read the inscription?
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It really was so sweet of those frat dudes down in Mississippi to restage their grandparents’ college photos
May 4, 2024 at 6:09 PM
It really was so sweet of those frat dudes down in Mississippi to restage their grandparents’ college photos
Hey @colleenlovesbks.bsky.social my school out-sported your school last night. Anyhow, back to rare books 😎😎
March 23, 2024 at 12:48 AM
Hey @colleenlovesbks.bsky.social my school out-sported your school last night. Anyhow, back to rare books 😎😎
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This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation.
March 4, 2024 at 2:20 AM
This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation.
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The problem with slightly veiled right-wing censorship like this is that people who are into civil disobedience can flood it with fake (and possibly hilarious) reports.
Indiana AG's new "report a teacher" portal is truly something else. Not only can people upload "supporting documentation", but there's a curated collection of those documents for users to browse. It's a state funded website to facilitate targeted hate campaigns.
www.in.gov/attorneygene...
www.in.gov/attorneygene...
Eyes on Education
www.in.gov
February 17, 2024 at 6:47 PM
The problem with slightly veiled right-wing censorship like this is that people who are into civil disobedience can flood it with fake (and possibly hilarious) reports.
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Shitty ai being integrated into everything despite it being ass is like nepotism with a bunch of tech billionaires insisting we have to work with and take seriously their idiot robot son
February 16, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Shitty ai being integrated into everything despite it being ass is like nepotism with a bunch of tech billionaires insisting we have to work with and take seriously their idiot robot son
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UCLA California Rare Book School is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the second annual Queer Bibliography conference to be held between July 24-27, 2024, on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California. Full call for papers can be found at: www.calrbs.org/events/queer....
December 19, 2023 at 9:31 PM
UCLA California Rare Book School is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the second annual Queer Bibliography conference to be held between July 24-27, 2024, on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California. Full call for papers can be found at: www.calrbs.org/events/queer....
Friends! Can someone recommend a librarian at the Schlesinger Library? I have a question about their 1970s participation in the History of Women microform project. I’ll submit a query through their webform, but a personal contact would be awesome! Thank you!
February 2, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Friends! Can someone recommend a librarian at the Schlesinger Library? I have a question about their 1970s participation in the History of Women microform project. I’ll submit a query through their webform, but a personal contact would be awesome! Thank you!
Paleography halp, please! It’s an 1830 British will, in which a woman is leaving a painting of the ?!$&!)
Can anyone make sense of this?
Can anyone make sense of this?
December 4, 2023 at 10:36 PM
Paleography halp, please! It’s an 1830 British will, in which a woman is leaving a painting of the ?!$&!)
Can anyone make sense of this?
Can anyone make sense of this?
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I’ll be on the picket line tomorrow. I hope you will all support us 🙏🏼 CFA is the 29,000 faculty, librarians, counselors, and coaches in the Cal State system. We have four one-day strikes next week to demand better pay, parental leave, and gender neutral bathrooms. Cal Poly Pomona is going first. ✊🏼
December 3, 2023 at 8:57 PM
I’ll be on the picket line tomorrow. I hope you will all support us 🙏🏼 CFA is the 29,000 faculty, librarians, counselors, and coaches in the Cal State system. We have four one-day strikes next week to demand better pay, parental leave, and gender neutral bathrooms. Cal Poly Pomona is going first. ✊🏼
Anyone have access to Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (Alexander Street Press // Proquest) via their library? I’d pay for your troubles with a watercolor painting!
November 20, 2023 at 5:55 PM
Anyone have access to Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (Alexander Street Press // Proquest) via their library? I’d pay for your troubles with a watercolor painting!
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If you use your British Library password elsewhere, now would be a good time to stop doing that.
British Library data now apparently up for sale to the highest bidder. This screenshot now circulating in the other place.
November 20, 2023 at 10:52 AM
If you use your British Library password elsewhere, now would be a good time to stop doing that.
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I know we all thought we knew what a hermeneutics of suspicion is, but what if it's actually paranoia that every paper we read was AI generated and what if we fucking hate being here.
November 15, 2023 at 7:17 PM
I know we all thought we knew what a hermeneutics of suspicion is, but what if it's actually paranoia that every paper we read was AI generated and what if we fucking hate being here.
Looking for libraries whose holdings aren’t in OCLC who might have an early 19C edition of essays by a woman connected to British Congregationalists. Thoughts?
November 7, 2023 at 3:11 AM
Looking for libraries whose holdings aren’t in OCLC who might have an early 19C edition of essays by a woman connected to British Congregationalists. Thoughts?
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my favorite part about being a book historian is how many librarians i have gotten to meet and work with. y'all: they know everything and if they don't, they know how to find it. bless them and pay them much more please.
October 31, 2023 at 4:25 PM
my favorite part about being a book historian is how many librarians i have gotten to meet and work with. y'all: they know everything and if they don't, they know how to find it. bless them and pay them much more please.
I would once again like to thank the Canvas Test Student for *existing*
October 31, 2023 at 4:19 PM
I would once again like to thank the Canvas Test Student for *existing*
OU’s Center for Public Humanities is hosting Rose Hackman, author of *Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power*. Hybrid event! Good book!
Author Talk: Rose Hackman
Rose Hackman will speak about her book: Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power
www.eventbrite.com
October 25, 2023 at 7:17 PM
OU’s Center for Public Humanities is hosting Rose Hackman, author of *Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power*. Hybrid event! Good book!