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Librarian of Things

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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.

    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
  • Ways of Seeing into and out of the Black Box of AI

    Where does knowledge reside? Is it on the page or within the one who holds it in their line of vision? Or is it in this black box?

    Mita Williams

    October 21, 2024
    notes
    llm
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