Ethan Fenichel 🐲

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O Rare Tech Services generalist... also husband, dad, soccer fan, cat fan.

(cont) like, certainly some description. But the majority of the work is likely to be project management, metadata work, web design, etc. I think a lot of this is covered in DH lit, right? So, lib directors don't want to reskill. How do TS workers get there? AND are we going to still be paid as catalogers for doing PM and Web Design work?

Ugh... and what if the library can't convince scholars to produce collections and doesn't have much?

Alright, I'll stop. But this is where my heads at

(cont) Cultural heritage collection development - which seems to be where most of the coolest work in the lib metadata sector is happening anyhow. I mean unique collections. Things that scholars create or that universities happen to own. Applying ethical standards means ensuring these aren't all white-men things and that description is inclusive and accessible, right? But what traditional skills of catalogers will translate to this sort of work? (cont)

(cont) Instead, lib directors would rather the ethical component went into Info Lit training which it doesn't seem the rest of the faculty think their students need - or at least doesn't think of the library to provide it. So, perhaps for lib directors, this is not the thing but just another thing. Spaces are a big part of lib $, too, but great lib spaces shouldn't be unique WRT study spaces on campus.

So, I go back to cultural heritage collection development and access. (cont)

thinking about libraries... gonna try this space. There is so much about technical services that seems to be out of style in Ac libraries. I think that is in part because Ac libraries are short on budgets and need to show value. The processing and provision of access to resources has largely been outsourced so that now it is just a bit of processing and not much original metadata work. So all the ethical training in the world for TS libs won't really result in expanded work. (cont)

cannot figure out how to tell my colleague to stop signing her initials "af" on emails to immature people born after 1982.

I'm an immature person born after 1982. I giggle every damn time.

learning about leadership usually makes me want to get a new job :disappointed_relieved:
Uh oh someone sent me a box of masculinity again.
Code4Lib in DC 2018 - i'm going to try to make that happen. Need an idea on a proposal.
also re: the united flight incident - i appreciate that bystanders had the wherewithal to record it and express their outrage, but it also seems like they just stood by... trying to figure out what I'd do in that situation sitting next to my spouse and child.
fuzzy data matching it great - when else can you cuddle with data?