Author: Mita Williams
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Libraries can provide alternatives to Ai with queryable databases
I cannot ask my library catalogue to give me a list of Canadian Law Reviews and Journals we currently subscribe to but I *can* ask Wikidata which Canadian Law Review titles are open access..
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Using TRMNL to make digital signs with LibCal
Let’s use old amazon kindles to make meeting room signs at your local library and organize!
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The Bureau of Library Tourism
I just walked back from the lovely Cookie Bar in Ford City, Ontario, where I was one of the six “fun” speakers at the Bike Windsor Essex AGM. The theme was transportation and the format was pecha kucha: 20 slides that auto forward every 20 seconds. This is what I was supposed to have said.
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A Wikidata Query: Would you also like to have intervener added as a property?
I would like to add the property of ‘intervener’ to Wikidata but I cannot do this alone.
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The Ones Who Walk Away from the Algorithms
Never let the weeds get higher than the garden. Always keep a diamond in your mind.
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How I Use Obsidian (and Why)
This is a post about how I use the note-taking software known as Obsidian.
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Remembering The Group of Five
A bit of Canadian library history that’s not well understood outside of law libraries.
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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
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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.