Now Hiring! Adjunct Reference and Scholarly Communication Librarian The Mina Rees Library of the CUNY Graduate Center is seeking a part-time Reference and Scholarly Communication Librarian (Non-Teaching […]

Fish shellOne upside of installing GhostBSD is that I have been introduced to the fish shell. Fish is an alternative to the bash shell. It turns out it is quite nice! I suppose I could have found this sooner, but I have never gone

GhostBSDI have been half-following some of the criticisms of systemd, the multi-purpose linux system manager. These criticisms range from technical complaints, to privacy concerns, to concerns over centralization. No doubt some of

Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2025–26 Art by Fernando Martí (Justseeds) Today is Commencement Day at the Graduate Center, and we are again marking the occasion by […]

Welcome, Rachel Finn – Adjunct Reference Librarian (Dissertation Office) The Mina Rees library is pleased to introduce Rachel Finn, who has recently joined the Dissertation Office as an adjunct reference […]

On credibilityThe call for papers for Code4Lib Journal’s special issue on static websites ended very recently and the results have been exceptional. The guest editors for the special issue have clearly done a good job conceptualizing and

New themeThe pending WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility compliance deadlines for public colleges, at both the federal level (now postponed) and New York state level (not postponed yet, as far as I know), have me looking at our department’s

LLMs and librarianship in one's second languageMy last post led to a thread on Mastodon about the merits of LLM-assisted writing in one’s second language. There were some […]

Seeing like my students: writing in a second languageCe billet de blogue constitue une tentative de rédaction dans ma langue adoptée. Il procède d’un désir de mieux comprendre mes étu […]

In praise of "Practical Web Accessibility"This post is quite simply a big thank you to Ashley Firth, who has written a wonderful book called Practical Web Accessibility: A […]

Blogging as an embarrassingly rough draftIf you’ve followed this blog for a while, I am honestly quite confused. This blog is not particularly insightful or well thought […]

Code4Lib 2026I’m currently on my way to Philadelphia to attend the last day of the Code4Lib 2026 conference. While I would have loved to attend […]

CfPThe first Call for Papers for Humanities Methods in Librarianship went out on Friday. For those of us who have been working on […]

Projectification, vibes and the libraryOne thing that programmers are very comfortable with is a project. We tend to instinctively break things down into project-sized […]

YeggeI had a couple of hours to kill recently so I installed Steve Yegge’s Beads. I am hoping this solves a problem for me, which is […]