Month: June 2023
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it’s not the invisible hand that puts packages on our porches
As someone who tries on the regular to drop critiques of the passive voice and its role in the obfuscation of the infrastructural, it’s very nice to see someone making the same point from a much larger soapbox than my own: Through passive voice and other forms of labor-erasing language, delivery notifications ask us to…
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03JUN23 / accessions
Not done one of these in a while; acquired a few new titles in the interim, but workload throughout the institution has necessitated the, ah, temporary shelving of outreach activities in the accessions division*. Rather than go back and catch up, we’re just picking up from the present moment. So: I’ve never actually read The…