LB: "I cannot talk to anyone except StudentName about their course work or grades unless there is paperwork on file with the College granting permission to do so."
@coral A friend of mine who used to work in the faculty of engineering doing student advising LOVED it when parents phoned to find out/complain about Junior's grades.
Today's Survey Demographic Questions include:
Gender Identity
Race
Age range (decades)
Years in Libraries
Highest Degree of Ed
MLS y/n
Disability y/n
Caregiver y/n
Job Class (faculty, staff)
Library Dept type
Are a Manager y/n
Geographic Region
University Type
Faith based uni y/n
FTE students
Library FTE
Union y/n
Y'all at this point just ask my first and last name, it'd be easier.
@platypus@hedgielib Damn. How did they get all that past the IRB? (Not that it's hard to justify any demographics you want, but it does make storage and dissemination more difficult).
I managed to talk my research group of the cliff. We're only asking, "Do you identify as a member of an equity-deserving group?"
I really love how there's a provincial party in British Columbia that is the "BC Liberals" but they are actually really conservative and there's another party called the "BC Conservatives" which, in the interests of balance, should be super liberal but no, they are not
idea (prompted by this podcast I'm listening to): write and publish an article making frequent use of "scatological" and "eschatological", cunningly crafted to leave the reader uncertain whether I know which is which
Completed a huge personal milestone today. Facilitated my first ever talk at an #Accessibility conference! Thanks to the #UofGuelph for putting it on, and thanks to all of the attendees who came out (even though I experienced a little technical difficulty)!
One fascinating little thing in library automation historyβwe are not βbig dataβ these days, but back then we were stretching the bounds of what commercial providers were ready and able to give us. Even our necessarily compact data was big and our expectations for simultaneous user numbers (patrons and workers) were high.
@platypus yeah. The card catalogue was far better for simultaneous access back in the day. But at least those were all read only, with only a limited number of users making updates
Ok #DuckDuckGo -- I am really curious about this one!
I searched for: david sedaris blood work
because I wanted to see if the piece was online anywhere. The result I got on both my phone's Firefox Focus and my work laptop's Firefox says "not many results contain test, search for david sedaris blood 'test'?"
but the word "test" is not anywhere in my query.
Searching for: lab blood work
does not get me this. Nor do other things I've tried.