@copystar

Law Librarian at Windsor Law. Changing the rules so more can win.

 Windsor, Ontario
uwindsor.ca/law/library/mita_williams_law_library
Joined September 2008
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Announcing our panel for #SPDays24! Artificial Intelligence: Apprehension & Anticipation. Panelists: Mita Williams & Dr. Maura Grossman Moderator: Michael Ridley View the full SP Days Agenda: ocul.on.ca/spday/2024/agenda… Register now: bit.ly/49vAqtE
Colourful graphic announcing the panel presentation for Scholars Portal Days 2024.

ALT Colourful graphic announcing the panel presentation for Scholars Portal Days 2024.

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Just published! A new @ProgHist lesson by @copystar: doi.org/10.46430/phen0118 Thanks to @drchrisjyoung and Adam Porter for their reviews, and to Rolando Rodriguez for editing.

Designing a Deck of Timeline Cards for Tabletops and Tabletop Simulator

This lesson demonstrates how to use nanDECK to design and publish your own deck of printed or digital playing cards, and use them to test a group's knowledge of historical events through a _Time...

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T Jenkins@pgwillia13 Oct 2022
Inspired by @copystar's sabbatical thinking about games and play doi.org/10.5920/jpa.1016 #AccessLibConf

Play where you are

This article argues for the position that libraries should develop, host, and encourage the community-creation of location-based games. While Pokémon Go has demonstrated that there is a sizable...

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Flexing like a goddamn acrobat
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Librarian of Things: What is Wikidata and Why You Should Do Data Entry for the Greater Good librarian.aedileworks.com/20… #CALLACBD2023

What is Wikidata and Why You Should Do Data Entry for the Greater Good

On May 31 2023, I spoke at CALL ACBD 2023. These are my slides and some of the things I’ve said.

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Librarian of Things: Weeknote 12, 2023 §1 Pentiment §2 Ms. Attribution §3 The Social Future of Academic Libraries §4 One of only seven Black scholars to receive Information Science PhDs in her year librarian.aedileworks.com/20…

Weeknote 12, 2023

§1 Pentiment §2 Ms. Attribution §3 The Social Future of Academic Libraries §4 One of only seven Black scholars to receive Information Science PhDs in her year

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Bonnie Stewart@bonstewart29 Mar 2023
for anyone interested, the slides from the talk are also here...though do NOT miss the best part of the video at the end :) the open convo has cameos from @lucasj__ @actualham @harmonygritz + great chat contributions from @hey_km @copystar & more docs.google.com/presentation…
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The push to AI is meant to devalue the open web so we will move to web3 for compensation: librarian.aedileworks.com/20…

The push to AI is meant to devalue the open web so we will move to web3 for compensation

Google’s Bard, the new Bing, ChatGPT are extractive and bypass creators work on the web and in doing so, disincentivize creators from sharing works on the internet. This is by design.

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Super interesting article. All the hits - TikTok as the new google, ChatGPT but best of all "authentic human results". Loved it! librarian.aedileworks.com/20…

Authentic human results

AI-generated text will only accelerate the move “from pages to people”.

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"Almost 50 Canadian universities and colleges signed the Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion in Canadian Higher Education. The charter...acknowledged the ethical responsibility of universities “to give voice to alternative ways of knowing.”
The Conversation Canada@ConversationCA8 Nov 2022
To solve society's challenges, universities must engage with alternative ways of knowing theconversation.com/to-solve…

To solve society’s challenges, universities must engage with alternative ways of knowing

Through the Scarborough Charter, many Canadian universities committed to fostering alternative ways of knowing. But more must be done to realize that commitment.

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❤️ This was all I ever wanted! ❤️
Access Library Conference 2024@AccessLibConf14 Oct 2022
Playing @copystar 's game at lunch, with much laughter ensuing!
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Here's a partial bibliography of my #AccessLibConf lightning talk, The Metagame: The Libraryland edition The Journal of Play in Adulthood has special issues on play in libraries, play in academia and play for learning: journalofplayinadulthood.org…
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You can no longer buy the original Metagame but you can print and play that game here: metaga.me/
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This slide about tabletop games as paper computers comes from this inspiring syllabi from Jentery Sayers jntry.work/archive/syllabi/5…
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OMG. I just realized that I should have included in my pre-recorded @AccessLibConf talk which is the story of myself, a librarian, who used nanDECK to design playing cards for printing. You know what other tech was designed for librarians to print out cards? MARC RECORDS!!!
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Inspired by @genmon, I'm making note of words and phrases that are interesting to me in a twitter thread: tend and befriend, narrative dissonance, hype house, nft, delta-8, breadtube, hope labour, keanu, vaporwave, ghost kitchen
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triadic closure, DYOR (Do Your Own Research), From Pet to Threat, strategic discrimination, elite overproduction, The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
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min maxing, The Waffle House Index, mole hunt, competitive mooting, book dummies
The category is bey
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You should subscribe to my newsletter, The University of Winds. I write it and send it out every Saturday morning. tinyletter.com/UniversityofW…
background image: bookstore at night; dark outside but books inside bathed in a warm light text reads: University of Winds by Mita Williams Three links to wonderful and thought-provoking things in the world every Saturday morning from a librarian and civic activist in Windsor, Ontario (just across the river from Detroit).

ALT background image: bookstore at night; dark outside but books inside bathed in a warm light text reads: University of Winds by Mita Williams Three links to wonderful and thought-provoking things in the world every Saturday morning from a librarian and civic activist in Windsor, Ontario (just across the river from Detroit).

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