April Hines
@UFCJCLibrarian
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Journalism and Mass Communications Librarian @uflibrarywest at @uflib & @UF. Proud @UFJSchool grad.
Gainesville, FL
Joined August 2013
About to embark on another busy semester. Am I ready? No. But let’s do this friends.
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So question, and sorry if this makes me sound old, but are we really supposed to be downloading apps for every store, restaurant, and event we go to? And that’s just OK with everybody now?.
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Funny convo I had with an instructor this week:. Me: If you are short on time you can always tell your students they can reach out and meet with me for research help. Them: Do students actually do that?.Me: Yeah, all the time. I have two consultations scheduled today. Them: Oh.🤣.
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Every time I walk past these classrooms I think about the time I took a creative writing class in this same building and I wrote a short story that one of my classmates HATED and tore apart during the evaluation, while another told me it was his favorite of the whole class. 🤣
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He hired me so he knows what he’s talking about. 👏👏.
Patrick Reakes will serve as interim dean of the George A. Smathers Libraries, effective July 21. “My leadership approach has always been to hire good people and let them do their jobs.". Read the full announcement here: .
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"The media center at Winter Park was often used for standardized testing, so it never seemed available for students to come in." Well, duh - Of course they are not checking out books! Library resources need to be promoted via outreach and spaces should be inviting and inclusive.
In June, Florida told school libraries to yank ‘pornographic’ books. But most had never been checked out, new data shows. In fact, book checkouts are down by a million in OCPS since 2016, largely because of smart phones. My latest for @orlandosentinel:
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Ya’ll: If one more thing prompts me to use AI without me even turning it on…No, I don’t need AI to write a two sentence email. I think I can handle it - thanks! 🤦♀️.
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This app is pretty deserted these days, but I thought I would stop by and say hi to the last 5 people who interact with me on here. 👋
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Ya'll: I hate submitting stats/forms/paperwork/reports with A PASSION DEEP WITHIN MY SOUL. If I had a secretary I would be unstoppable. That is all.
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RT @uflib: We're sharing a centennial feature project over these next few weeks to highlight 100 years of Smathers. Interested in seeing th….
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At least once a day I have the thought that if I ever actually got my act together the world wouldn't be ready. 😜.
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Conferencing! FLA was the first library conference I ever went to and remains one of my favorites to this day.
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My 10-year-old son: . “For Mother’s Day I’ll watch that show with you that you like. The one with the mother and daughter.”. Me: “Gilmore Girls?!”. Him: “Yeah”. Me: 😭😭.
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A quality I love in a person - someone who gets outraged on your behalf. My dad has always been this way like “they said WHAT?! How dare they?!” Meanwhile he has no idea who said person is. 🤣🤣.
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My husband is such an extreme introvert that when he approached me with a face of horror I thought he was about to tell me someone died and all he said was “my boss wants us to come to his house for dinner.” 😂.
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I’m kind of the perfect librarian to be on the @uflib research assistance desk around finals time because I’ve always been a last minute person, so when a student tells me their paper is due in 3 days I’m like “Oh plenty of time! You got this!” and they always look so relieved.🤣.
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Those of us that grew up in a Lawton Chiles Florida know it CAN be different in this state and I think it makes it just that much sadder.
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