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Melissa Hubbard Jan 24, 2025

Also, if you're looking for an internet distraction from the horrors, please join me in breathlessly following the saga of the freighter Manitoulin, currently stuck in ice in the Buffalo Harbor. https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/freighter-boat-stuck-in-ice-out-on-lake-erie-wny-boat-buffalo-water/71-fc1d95ce-949f-4d6d-9e86-cec5861c285d

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Melissa Hubbard Jan 24, 2025

Hello friends! This is just a quick proof-of-life post. Social media is mostly not where I want to be these days, but I hope all of you brilliant, beautiful people are as well as can be.

I'm not really posting anywhere at present, but I do check in on this platform, as well as bluesky and facebook. Please DM me if you would like an alternative contact method. Connections with people I like and respect are what I miss most about spending more time on these platforms.

Melissa Hubbard Oct 3, 2024

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Margaret Fero Oct 3, 2024

Burnout isn't about working too much, it's about moral injury: watching or participating in betrayals of your ethics or values. Larger gaps between stated and practiced values create more burnout. - @phire at #Monktoberfest

Melissa Hubbard May 9, 2024

Cat Hicks May 9, 2024

Thinking about slow work, of which all justice work is a part, in a world that wants you to feel worthless for it. Thinking about how I got off a plane in time to hug my wife after we saw a picture of snipers on her campus surveilling her students. Thinking about how many backyard bbqs we've had those students over for (rented tables outside, our tiny cottage can't hold them all). Thinking what is the exchange rate of bbqs to guns on campus in the calculus of whether a student feels safe

Melissa Hubbard May 8, 2024

John Overholt May 8, 2024

Re: last boost, volunteer support for RBMS, the section of ALA for special collections librarianship, has plunged since the pandemic (even as its work has moved to virtual) and its leaders are looking to understand the issues.

I wonder, are other similar academic organizations that run on volunteer labor having the same issues? @bibliothecar

Melissa Hubbard May 8, 2024

Hello! I haven't been here much. But today I'm here with a request for my spec coll friends: Please read and share this message, and comment with any thoughts you have.

https://rbms.info/chairs-blog/2024/05/08/rbms-and-the-current-volunteer-environment/

RBMS and the Current Volunteer Environment | RBMS Chair's Blog

Melissa Hubbard Dec 8, 2023

Are there any map librarians or others with expertise on Sanborn maps on here who would be willing to answer a couple of quick questions? Specifically, I have questions about notations on the maps that are not delineated in the key.

Melissa Hubbard Dec 3, 2023

Camerontw Dec 2, 2023

It is the fault of consultant-oriented managerialism, but also of mis-directed academic priorities, but it is constantly dumb-founding to me when universities do not make use of their own expertise: the campus designed by architecture faculty members, external communications designed by design school teachers; strategy, change, even business models designed by the business school researchers. Imagine a university that was proud to eat its own lunch.

Melissa Hubbard Nov 28, 2023

A paid organizer for a group I volunteer with made me this poster to help gauge neighbors' feelings about a proposed crypto-mining operation on the Niagara River, and I was so delighted with it that I must share this image on all platforms.

Melissa Hubbard Nov 16, 2023

There is a lot going on in my local political world that I would normally be very involved in. So understandably, a lot of people are reaching out and asking me to be involved. And I'm saying no to all of them because I need to take a step back for my mental health for a bit. And I've been here before and I know I'm doing the right thing for longevity, but oof it's still so hard to say no when everything is on fire.