Jane Schmidt

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I'm on Team Cat, but I play for Team Dog occasionally. Librarian at TMU. Politicians will not save us.

Slide about media literacy showing four recent examples of how media companies are run (AI slop, TikTok in US, Bari Weiss and CBS, Bezos and Washington Post layoffs)
Orange kitten in my lap
Orange tabby cat in the basin of a dishwasher
Screen cap of my deactivated Twitter account.
Poll about how folks are feeling with pictures of Moo Deng, the baby hippo
I would like to acknowledge the Apple corporation. Your steadfast commitment to the exploitation of women’s and children’s labour in environmentally unregulated parts of the world, combined with your determination to ensure all necessary code is written by underpaid computer scientists in faraway places who have no recourse to improved working conditions and fair compensation, and your humility in looking the other way in the face of human rights abuses perpetrated in the name of corporate profit have given me the MacBook that allowed me to write this book.
Orange tabby kitten on a keyboard
TMU launching a new purchasing program with Amazon Business To: Leaders, financial systems users and departmental and administrative assistants Purchasing Services is pleased to announce the launch of a new purchasing program between Toronto Metropolitan University and Amazon Business. On June 24, 2024, TMU will launch a new central Amazon Business account, simplifying the process for employees who purchase items on behalf of the university, and providing an expansive product selection with preferred pricing reserved for Amazon Business accounts.
These are so-called “third spaces”: not work and not home. The library is a third space but without much fanfare, without the earnestness that sometimes comes with the creation of community spaces. Those are good things, but the library just is what it is. In the tech world or "innovation" sectors something like the library might be branded a "co-working space," but let’s never do that. It’s just the library.
Kids these days know how algorithms work. They just don't care. Change my mind. On a poster attached to a table with a white man drinking coffee in a park. Also known as the "change my mind" meme.
From the end-user side the meta-deta and format comments on this great post make the most sense. Like many people, I rely upon internet databases to do research. Academic edited volumes rarely have per chapter tagging. So, the book may not be tagged according to my interest or search because it is too broad. And there is no tagging for the chapter that would have been helpful. And, if I do find the chapter rarely can I read it online, even when using university library proxies. They simply don’t scan chapters that way. That means a trip to check the book out. While I do that frequently I can understand being in the field or working on a diss from afar and that being a roadblock. Finally, why aren’t academic volumes routinely in e-formats? And even when they are why are they so damned expensive?? $80 for an e-book is not uncommon in my experience. That’s for a chapter I’m not sure I need because I can’t read it beforehand, by the way. By TRESSIEMC22AUG 28, 2012, 10:35 AM
The gang from Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
A black kitten in a boys arms
Lexi, a Shepard mix dog laying on a wood floor
Portrait of a darned handsome cat gazing at flowers on a sunny table
Screenshot from the game Jumpman