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We want to remind Congress to honor Lewiston with action. Congress must not move on. Today, the funerals for the 18 innocent people who were killed by a mass shooter with an assault weapon is just beginning. #HonorWithAction #EndGunViolence
mainepublic.org/maine/2023-1… – at Grapevine, TX
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a casual reminder of JFK’s college essay
(this is real theatlantic.com/education/ar…)
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We are two presentations into Day 2 on the Acquisitions Institute with a full house! @kkohn00 is currently talking about the effects of the @WileyGlobal 2022 textbook mishap! #aitl23 #librarytwitter
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neil gaiman lost my book - he offered to try find it to give me a proper pull quote and I was like no this is much funnier, change nothing, I have everything I need
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For our library friends and colleagues, the call for proposals for the 2023 POC in LIS Summit is open! The deadline to apply is April 14. We are also hosting info sessions if you have questions about your proposal. #POCinLIS loom.ly/Zw_kJ_g
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A few examples of what NOT to say this Thanksgiving:
-Wow! That's a full plate
-You look great, have you lost weight?
-I can't believe you managed to eat all that
-I'm going to pay for this at the gym
-We're being so bad today
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I also want to make it clear, I don’t think Richard knew that she’s not a drag performer. But now that we know, let’s correct it.
The Cumulative Advantage of a Unionized Career for Lifetime Earnings - Zachary Parolin, Tom VanHeuvelen, 2022 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Things I want Wiley to know:
1. Faculty may be on 10-month contracts and not checking work email over the summer. Giving them July and August to prepare for a change is not enough. 1/2
newsroom.wiley.com/press-rel…
2. Libraries rarely know which faculty are using which textbooks, so it's hard for us to inform them we've lost access - esp over the summer!
3. Students often can't afford their textbooks!!! #textbookaffordability #ebooksos
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The farmer and the cow man should be friends! So should the publisher and the librarian, but sometimes that’s… difficult, as this quick roundup on the Wiley/ProQuest ebook situation might demonstrate. [1/4]
youtu.be/Vg5cwSBnyQU
"Once the books are reinstated to ProQuest Academic Complete, the multidisciplinary subscription collection, they will remain there through June 2023."
This is not terribly helpful, though it shows that bad publicity for @WileyGlobal pushed them a little bit.
Breaking news about the Wiley ebook debacle. Thank you Wiley for reversing this action but let's keep giving students access to this content. It's the right thing to do.
Publisher reinstates blocked ebooks, but librarians unsatisfied insidehighered.com/news/2022…
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Pleased to see this strong statement from @SPARC_NA and @library_futures condemning Wiley's withdrawal of ebooks and no longer allowing academic #Libraries to provide student access to them.
sparcopen.org/news/2022/libr…
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The Library Association of Ireland & 3 other Irish library orgs strongly condemn the recent removal of 1,300 titles by @WileyGlobal from ebook collections. The nature & timing of this move is abhorrent & underlines the importance of the #ebookSOS campaign libraryassociation.ie/irish-…
In June my library was told that Wiley would be removing 1,379 ebooks from our subscription packages. Because many of these books were heavily used, we looked into purchasing them with perpetual access but were told they were considered textbooks. #librarians 1/2
So basically, because these books were heavily used, Wiley decided to stop letting libraries buy them as ebooks. To top it off, we lost access the second week of classes. Faculty had planned their courses around students having library access to the texts. 2/2 #TextbookEquity




















