I published another book chapter last month and the book it’s in is for Human Resources of Academic Libraries, a first of it’s kind for me. I talk about how academic libraries have been using flexible work arrangements for over 30 years and why pretending it's impossible to do in the workplace today is an inclusivity issue. Read it for free: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14201599

I led a workshop for my data science project, Relational Possibilities, at the Virtual DLF Forum in October and finally got around to depositing our slides. I was told to email my slides to a OSF email address and discovered it was a robo-deposit! If you look at the “Recent Activity” box, you can see the original email I sent thinking I was going to interact with a human.

A Crow Dana cameo is upcoming in the next newsletter issue. I make little comics to summarize what I did in the past year and made an original character, Crow Dana, to illustrate the 2024 edition. Do you doodle to destress?

I’m deep in the bowels of spreadsheet hell and creating a taxonomy for some very messy data for some clients in a marketing department. I also gave a presentation on why cleaning data now costs less (resources, money, time, staff) than if you push it off for the future. Gif by spongebob on Giphy