Starting a full month of vacation thanks to the winter break and Harvard’s bonus vacation award for my 20th service anniversary. I love my job, but I love not doing it too.
Applications are due January 17th for Houghton Library's next cycle of visiting fellowships, a $4500 stipend to support four weeks of research in our collections:
AI that sometimes generates true information when true information is needed, and sometimes generates indistinguishably false information, is not better than nothing. It is in fact considerably worse than nothing.
The Hippocratic Oath for librarianship needs to start with "First, tell no lies."
The power went out in our neighborhood just after sunset, so I have nothing to do but entertain myself the way my ancestors did, sitting in the dark listening to previously downloaded podcasts.
The Rosenbach is one of a number of libraries working on projects to revise their cataloging to give names to women formerly only identified as “Mrs. [Husband]”
