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IriDas
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Not much going on except finals this weekend. I finished my exam this morning. I‘m slogging through my project the next two days. This is one of those classes where I‘ll be glad with an A- (which in my program is 96%).

#chatterday
#mlis
#gradschool
#academia
#finalsweek

TheBookHippie ♥️ 4d
kspenmoll Best of luck! 3d
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ManyWordsLater
The Five Laws of Library Science | Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan
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I‘m having difficulty articulating to friends the difference because library curation and banning books.

How do you guys explain the difference?

Thanks @Riveted_Reader_Melissa for the inspo.

#unbanbooks #readbannedbooks

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @shortsarahrose Thank you for answering on my post too. 1w
shortsarahrose Copy/paste what I put on @Riveted_Reader_Melissa post: I‘ll add, as a library worker/person with a masters in library science, collection development has more to do with building a collection that reflects a wide range of viewpoints on any given topic - even those that we may not personally agree with or that the majority of our community may not agree with. Censorship is removing or refusing to purchase items that don‘t align with a certain view. 1w
shortsarahrose Of course, there is more that goes into collection development than that (I took a whole semester long course on it!), but I think the above gets to the heart of what librarians try to do versus what censors do. Your local library should have a collection development policy that covers why they add/remove some things and not others. 1w
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shortsarahrose And your local librarians would probably be happy to answer questions about this, too, as long as it was coming from a place of curiosity/good faith rather than hostility. 1w
ManyWordsLater @shortsarahrose thank you for you explanation. It certainly is coming from a place of curiosity and good faith. (edited) 1w
shortsarahrose I figured as much from how the question was put 🥰 glad I could help. 1w
mcctrish I would think in a nutshell they‘d have to encompass a variety of views/voices on subject matters and meet a readership demand - books might be missing but not because they were banned but because of funding or popularity (edited) 1w
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IriDas
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Purpleness
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What a shame we‘re weeding this one😜
#creepycovers
#weeding

Chelsea.Poole Oh. My. Word. 😵‍💫 3mo
TheKidUpstairs Terrifying 😨😨😨 3mo
dabbe Holy guacamole, Batman! 😱😱😱 3mo
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Christine 😳 [shiver] 3mo
Susanita Lots of judgement in those eyes 😬 3mo
Susanita Judgment* 🤦🏻‍♀️ 3mo
BookBr 😳😭 3mo
DogMomIrene Could save that cover for Halloween decor 😂 3mo
Pogue The doll in the middle front looks like a disapproving mother of 12 boys. 😹 3mo
Jess861 What nightmares are made of 😐 2mo
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julieclair
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Hello #MonthlyNonfiction2025 friends! Both @willaful and @TheAromaofBooks suggested that since there are 11 Dewey classifications, it might be fun to read one classification per month.

If anyone would like to do that, I have updated the StoryGraph challenge to include the Dewey classifications as Bonus prompts.

So you can track your monthly reading in the regular monthly prompts (#1-12) and your Dewey reading in Bonus prompts #13-23. ⬇️

julieclair Prompts #24-25 are labeled “Extra” for folks to use as suits their needs. It is possible to add a book to more than one prompt within the StoryGraph challenge. For example, I have added the book I‘m reading this month (Wintering, by Katherine May) to Prompt #1 -January AND Prompt #21 - Dewey 800-899. (edited) 4mo
julieclair The use of the bonus Dewey prompts is totally optional. 😃 (For that matter, the use of the whole SG challenge is totally optional! 😉) Questions? Please ask. And as always, all are welcome to join! 4mo
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TheAromaofBooks Oh nice!!! I actually missed the SG link the first time so I'm glad you reposted it 😂 4mo
kspenmoll I will look for this & join in.😀 4mo
julieclair @kspenmoll Yay! I‘ll add you to the tag list! 😃 Also… I tried to send you a friend request on SG, but couldn‘t… maybe your privacy settings don‘t allow random friend requests? 🤔 If you‘d like, please send me a request. I‘m julieclair on SG, just like on Litsy. 😉 4mo
julieclair @TheAromaofBooks Oh good! I will try to remember to repost it periodically. 🩵 4mo
MonicaLoves2Read Oh, I have a lot of nonfiction I need to read. Count me in! 4mo
julieclair @MonicaLoves2Read Yay! So glad you're joining us! 😃 4mo
ferskner Please add me to the tag list! 4mo
julieclair @ferskner Yay! So glad you‘re joining us! 😃 4mo
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Rachel.Rencher
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Cozy Sunday getting some work done. Corgi is supervising. Coffee needs a refill. Dreaming about what it would be like to work for the Library of Congress as all this tedium in metadata and subject analysis is proving to be quite enjoyable for me.

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Rachel.Rencher
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*read in Hermione Granger's voice*: "I checked this out for a big of light reading". ?
Let another semester of librarian school begin! After this semester, I'll have taken enough credits to officially gain certification as a school media specialist. ?? I can't believe it! The funny thing is, I'm not sure that I'll want to leave the classroom for a few more years, but it'll be there when I'm ready. ??

shortsarahrose I‘m pretty sure that‘s the same textbook I had for my Information Organization class when I was getting my MLIS 8mo
SaraBeagle @shortsarahrose Same! 15 years ago 8mo
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shortsarahrose
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Approximately two and a half weeks left of grad school. Fueling up while reading about disseminating research.

TheBookHippie 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉You can do it!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉♥️ 13mo
Lin3han YOU GOT THIS!!! 13mo
dabbe Almost there! 🤩🤩🤩 13mo
Sace You‘ve got this! 13mo
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shortsarahrose
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“The MAS [Master of Archival Studies at the University of British Columbia] program is designed to nurture a distinctive disciplinary and professional identity while fostering alliances with other disciplines, partnerships with other departments and faculties at home and in other universities worldwide, and collaboration with other professions. The prestige it has acquired over the years has proven the validity of such an approach.”

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shortsarahrose
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“As a matter of fact, ANOVA and the Kruskal-Wallace test are both for situations where groups being compared are not related, the more commonly encountered situation. If the groups are related, then we should use repeated measure ANOVA instead of the ordinary ANOVA discussed in this book, and the Friedman test instead of the Kruskal-Wallis test. These tests are not usually covered in basic statistics books.”

Chrissyreadit I do not miss statistics, and i have deep respect for people who fluently speak statistical analysis. 13mo
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