daniel

had to leave this face behind to go do some library working this morning, eurgh #catsofmastodon

Made it to the top of the allotment list and just got assigned this beauty. Let my Old Man period commence (continue) #allotment #gardening

second allotment harvest! now to spend 5 hours preparing the artichoke then thinking about what to do with 1 gram of artichoke... an ongoing sott'olio jar I can add to?

#allotment

delighted to be in the unconditioned archives reading room today for 5 hours. Air conditioning is possible in the archives store to protect the documents but is apparently an impossible thing to achieve to protect humans.

Our institution has subscribed to copilot, and it embeds itself in Office in such a way that whenever I open up a word document it automatically, pre-populates an AI summary of it without asking me whether I want that or not.

And it seems Microsoft don't allow this to be an opt out for subscribing institutions, so your choice is either:

a) have your autonomy to decide if and when and where you want to use AI (or not) removed from you, or

b) have it removed entirely.

nothing inbetween.

amongst a collection of marxist posters a rather odd anomaly of a dog looking tired (or, as the catalogue meanly describes him, "pathetic")

We have a new job vacancy which is "designed as an in-training post for a paraprofessional archivist and is offered as a development opportunity to gain further experience of cataloguing, under the supervision of a professional archivist"

London, UK, Fixed term 7 months

You'll be working on a project to catalogue the Records of the Sheba Feminist Press.

Details: https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/5557/0/468194/15539/cataloguing-officer

#archives #archivists @archivistodon@a.gup.pe #jobs #libraries #cataloguing #London #LSE