#Libraries

Irenes (many)

ireneista

The thing you have to understand about America is that anyone who grew up there, grew up being fed propaganda that most of us took at face value. That sounds

Dr. Margaret K. Merga

MKMerga

Library/literacy research needed? Get it here. Here are 12 of my 2019/2020 open-access and pre-print recent (2019-2020) papers for the @aslanational people so you don't need to scroll through my

Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン

rakyll

Productionization new languages at Google is a lot of work. As a person who witnessed two attempts, this thread is what I learned. Google has an incubation policy for new

Ram V

therightram

Long before I read comics, my father bought me a second-hand copy of an illustrated book from one of the numerous second-hand bookstores in Mumbai at the time. They were

Sarah Waters

srawaters

Going to this for research for my extended essay at sixth form was my first foray into research and a research library. Almost 10 years later I'm still at it.https://twitter.com/theULSpecColl/status/1247881368182243329

KTP

KeysThePrince

Started the year with a meeting with a label telling me we should go our separate ways because they thought I resented them for not working efficiently. Went from having

Harry Lee Kassen

leekassen

While thinking about piracy, it’s worth remembering that one view isn’t the same as a lost sale for a number of reasons. I’m not advocating for piracy but it’s worth

Jagrity Sablok

jagritysablok1

'ISLAM AND THE WEST'A part of Speech by The Prince Charles at Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford 1993 :"If there is much misunderstanding in the West about the nature of #Islam, there

Molly Oak

MollyAndAMic

BREAKING: Gov. @GregAbbott_TX announcements on reopening Texas (thread): @KVUE For hospital regions where COVID hospitalizations are

Cody Miller

CodyMillerELA

Started Felix Ever After and I really love it so far! I hope y’all put it in your classroom libraries, and I hope cis teachers do some intentional reading and

banistan #washyourhands

RationalBrigade

Pakistan's single national curriculum - sharing some thoughts from previous rants on this topic. Having a single curriculum sounds good, a great national equalizer, but unfortunately the curriculum is way

Jelena Brankovic

jelena3121

What is a citation?Are all #citations equal?Do, for example, self-citations from one's own preprints also count? There are scholars with huge Google Scholar citation count because they self-cite a lot,

Josh Honn

_jshhnn

I'm finding that most fellow academics have very little idea about the pricing and access-levels of ebooks, so I'm gonna share a few things I've learned as a librarian responsible

Izzat 🌱

IzzChubb

Books are expensive. Reading books is a privilege. Not everyone has the luxury to buy books. Even a simple English novel could be up to RM 50 each. That's probably

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teandoranges

Inspired to create a thread of books/authors that are rarely shelved/quickly trashed - mostly children's books - in case any publishers out there feel like donating copies to underfunded public/school

Andy Arthur

cocteautriplets

Today's auction house artefact is this measuring gauge and conversion slide rule for ropes, wires and chains issued by the "Edinburgh Roperie & Sailcloth Co., Leith" The Roperie was established