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  • Don’t give up the higher ground when you fight your flight booking “ai”

    The Max Power Travel Agent: Wrong but Faster

    Mita Williams

    April 11, 2025
    notes
    llm
  • The Ones Who Walk Away from the Algorithms

    Never let the weeds get higher than the garden. Always keep a diamond in your mind.

    Mita Williams

    April 8, 2025
    notes
  • How I Use Obsidian (and Why)

    This is a post about how I use the note-taking software known as Obsidian.

    Mita Williams

    March 31, 2025
    notes
  • Remembering The Group of Five

    A bit of Canadian library history that’s not well understood outside of law libraries.

    Mita Williams

    March 25, 2025
    notes
  • Library Jail For 1000 Years

    Well I fight Authority (records)

    Mita Williams

    March 16, 2025
    notes
  • Where do you stand?

    “I always tell my students: ‘A style is a means of insisting on something.’ A line of Sontag’s. — Zadie Smith, Imitations

    Mita Williams

    February 4, 2025
    notes
  • Bibliomancy as the new PKM

    I love the practice of bibliomancy because it re-introduces myself to the books that I have bought, and it re-animates my writing with ideas that I’ve already responded to and may have forgotten.

    Mita Williams

    January 24, 2025
    citations, notes
  • In Praise of Bibliomancy

    Borge. Copying. Mimesis. Autofiction. Bibliomancy. Copying. Mimesis. Autofiction. Bibliomancy. Copying. Mimesis. Autofiction. Bibliomancy. Borges.

    Mita Williams

    January 16, 2025
    citations, notes
  • Summary Judgements

    § Occam’s Razor Blade § Headnotes reproduced verbatim and presented as ‘case summaries’ § Not keywords but Key People who help unlock knowledge § Not that one. The Eugene Garfield from Web of Science § Annual Reviews is pandering to librarians and I am here for it. § It is Time for Libraries to Claim…

    Mita Williams

    November 21, 2024
    collection
  • The City As Classroom vs. The City As Advertising Platform

    On May 2nd, 2016 I had the pleasure of speaking to York University Libraries as part of their Library Futures Series. This is what I said all those years ago.

    Mita Williams

    November 12, 2024
    ludo, notes
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