Notices by Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] (platypus@glammr.us)

Also, seriously, three sentences or something to the effect that COVID keeps evolving so we all need updated protection is better than nothing and what I’ve seen there weren’t TOO many comments… like a few hundred of us could make a dent in %s.

Because I’m cynical about the government, I talked about how the newest wave is effecting us at work, caused meeting to be canceled and deadlines missed, etc.

If you’re a public facing librarian you might talk about how these waves of illness make it harder to keep libraries open … again, cynical but they don’t actually care about us so 🤷🏻♀️

US folks, the CDC is still taking comments before their meeting to review and approve the newest COVID booster. The form is only open another day or so. They’ve been talking about limiting who can get it. You can leave a comment here: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/CDC-2023-0060-0001

Even a simple, short comment could be good. I don’t know if it’ll make a difference but I do know that all the friends who’ve gotten sick lately are fully vaccinated and boosted — so we all need the updated booster.

@MK2boogaloo it means that it becomes less effective as new variants developed and being vaccinated and boosted a year ago has much less impact now, so since the new booster is formulated to newer variants, it should help prevent more illness.

Glad I could clear that up for you! 🫡

Not a morbid turn, but after a coworker's sudden death in December and other deaths in my life in the past year, I pulled myself together and got the HTML/CSS for EADiva.com into two public repos + as a .zip file on my site.

Over the last couple years, I've worked to make it easy to manage, so it's really just HTML/CSS/touch of JS. It's linked at the bottom of sidebars. If y'all think it's useful, you'll be able to keep it going.

https://eadiva.com/contingency-plan/

@wndlb no. We weed print based on use and space, which is certainly its own loss.

We lose digital because of a) negligence from publishers, b) publishers/hosts going under, but primarily c) things never being preserved in the first place and our inability to afford access to lots of content we'd like even at well-resourced institutions.

Journalists have seen whole back catalogs disappear offline and not been saved properly, etc.

In some ways, maybe it's fine, but also maybe it's not. However the broadsides and pamphlets metaphor is a good one (and one I'm pretty sure I've heard at least one archivist use before)

And since the top of the thread is getting a lot of eyes, I'll reiterate the above, that 100% capture and preservation is not what librarians and archivists have all been wanting when they've made these observations.

Ephemerality can be good! Some things should come and go.

But the idea that things are online so they're stable and permanent and LESS volatile than a book has been... a real bane for a lot of us.

Thousands of archivists and librarians over here gesticulating *yes, finally, we've been saying this for a decade+*