Mita Williams

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Law Librarian at Windsor Law.

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Mita Williams@copystar· 9d

This is from another park in the same city

Mita Williams@copystar· 9d

Today I visited the work of public art that I dislike the most…

A metal cube as sculpture with the word’s inclusion

Mita Williams@copystar· Jul 6

Speaking of journaling games, this weekend I bought a copy of the solo RPG *The Librarian's Apprentice* from Toronto's 401 Games. They sent me a digital download code to redeem from the publisher. The digital download includes a MARC record (!!!)

A screenshot of a File Explorer screen with a folder reading MARC record for libraries

Mita Williams@copystar· May 20

Hey 📚 Friends! I'm giving the opening keynote at the upcoming @capal-acbes.bsky.social annual conference on June 22nd. My talk is called "Now Is The Time of Facing Monsters" www. conference.capalibrarians.org/capalkeynotes2026

This keynote will address the contemporary intersection of technology and academic libraries using the framework of Eric Zimmerman's Manifesto of the Ludic Century. Zimmerman argues that games are the definitional cultural form of the 21st century and that the logic of games will increasingly shape culture.

Games are like libraries - interesting, beautiful, and useless -- useless until animated by others who decide to join in. Looking at the world through the lens of game design can be useful when exploring life with agentic systems, as games can be understood as an art form where agency itself is explored. Games allow us to explore systems that are already familiar to us while allowing us to also explore and co-create new potential futures. The qualities that make play so joyful and generative are not unlike the qualities of what Ursula Franklin called holistic technologies: technologies that allow the individual to change rules and conditions to better fit their immediate needs. Games show us that we can find freedom within constraint through a ludic approach. Indeed, our collective planetary survival may depend upon our ability to accept limitations and to change ourselves rather than our environment. Games model technologies that afford consent, a feature tragically missing from the encroaching Ai infrastructures that are currently taking root. And gamification illustrates the dangers of when we unduly focus on the score instead of the play.

And a dorky picture of me, a middle aged woman with glasses looking to the horizon with a bit of a worried experssion

Mita Williams@copystar· Feb 3

I'm once again, reminded of these words: newsletter.galavantmedia.org/archive/o-wh...

Even later, as more and more of those names resurface, you will realize what happened to those women, what was happening to those women, what is happening to those women. You will realize who happened to those women.

And it begins to dawn on you that the stories were all myths and the epics were all narrated by the villains and the history books were written to rewrite the histories and that so much of what you thought defined excellence merely concealed grift.

Mita Williams@copystar· Dec 30

Inspired by Blackbird Spyplane recent essay on discovery built from curiosity (www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/you-cant-p...), I found the list of songs that I had used my iphone shazam's feature to identify over the past year. (To do this, long press the icon for the history page to appear).

screen titled History. Under Sept 2025, Paloma Blanca, Good Life (Impilo Emnade, There it Is) Under Aug 2025, Only (feat. Lydia Kitto), The Wall and I

Mita Williams@copystar· Dec 3

Wikipedia’s Year-End Wrap up is my absolute favourite. Being an editor feels good!

You’re Edits have been viewed more than 15,569 times recently. Readers around the world appreciate your contributions. In the last two months articles you’ve edited have received 15,569 total views.

Mita Williams@copystar· Nov 4

Meanwhile in Ontario… www.cleanairalliance.org/rates-to-ris...

Mita Williams@copystar· Oct 11

Me: "Blogging is dead". Also me: 📚 Librarian of Things (librarian.aedileworks.com) has had 20K views since 2020 🥳

Librarian of Things All Time Views 20.0K

Mita Williams@copystar· Aug 28

To give you an idea of how absurd and bad a breach this is, when TicketMaster had a data breach, and they offered myself (and others) temporarily free access to Transunion's security monitoring to "as a precaution" to "further protect your identity" 😬

Mita Williams@copystar· Aug 12

From reddit's /windsorontario

The "Is this" meme with the man being Drew Dilkens, the butterfly as Surveillance cams, and the caption, "Is this revitalization"?

Mita Williams@copystar· Jul 28

stickers on a laptop including one that reads, how you play is what you win

Mita Williams@copystar· Jul 26

Delighted to see a local colleague’s work mentioned in this piece.

Mita Williams@copystar· Jul 1

I am astounded how much time and effort is saved by using the MPMB DnD Character Sheet. It contains several simple forms that drive rich computation along with helpful text and all embedded in a single PDF. This is what a university course calendar should be! Or any series of forms! www.flapkan.com

Mita Williams@copystar· Jun 26

Someone must have written about Paul Otlet’s work and the aspirations of LLMs, but I haven’t come across it. If you have or know a piece, let me know! 📚 (quote below from Ronald E. Day’s 2001 “The modern invention of Information)

This is brought out in Otlet's book Monde, where "the ultimate problem of documentation" is envisioned: the creation of a technological device that would unify information but also transform it in such a way as to present it in the most "advantageous" manner to each viewer. The final goal of such a project would be the presentation of all the "facts" of existence to all the people a sort of Hegelian vision of absolute being with information playing the role of Hegel's notion of truth. Epistemic trans-formation," here, ends with a form of total representation. History, for

Mita Williams@copystar· Jun 13

In 2016, I helped with a small local hackathon by hosting cycling data from Strava on a dkan open data server web.archive.org/web/20161030... I am telling you this because *today* I walked past a sticker that I designed for that event on my workplace parking garage. Unsure if I am being messed with

Mita Williams@copystar· Jun 4

Another update: I've added another image that shows that the QR code displayed on the TRMNL is good enough to bring you to a LibCal booking screen:

small framed e-ink screen reading, Study Room Information as available and a QR code for booking

Mita Williams@copystar· Jun 2

Update: I've added an image that shows what an upcoming booking screen can look like:

2401 - Study Room Space Information
m***@uwindsor.ca
8:30am - 9:00am
next booking

Mita Williams@copystar· May 25

Hey friends in #yqg. I'm currently working on my 20 slides for the "fun" portion of the Bike Windsor Essex AGM. The AGM and slideshows are going to be held on Wed May 28 at the Cookie Bar, if you would like to join us all.

bike windsor essex annual general meeting and community converation talking about transiet wed may 28 formal meeting at 5pm fun community partner pecha kucha presentations from 6:30pm The Cookie Bar, 1093 Drouillard Road, Ford City, baby

Mita Williams@copystar· Apr 21

I'm shutting down my just-for-fun omeka-hosted collection of Library Punch Cards on reclaim.hosting (libraryofcards.reclaim.hosting) and moving these 12 cards to Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/mita/... Happy to take submissions!

library book card with punch holes on the top. image of a library and heading reading, The Library University of Windsor

Mita Williams@copystar· Apr 4

I'm at #werobot2025 and I'm making a bibliography of all the books that I've heard mentioned (librarian gotta librarian). www.zotero.org/copystar/col... I've included *Sourdough*, because it includes a story-line of training a robot to crack an egg. Let me know what I've missed.

I added an image of a this captcha just because I think its funny

Mita Williams@copystar· Mar 25

... I literally just clicked a link on a BlueSky post and was greeted with this page...

We just want to make sure we aren't dealing with a robot. Please complete the CAPTCHA challenge below.

Mita Williams@copystar· Mar 17

For lobbying, go to www.oico.on.ca/en/lobbyists... and click on search registry. You can't see full registration so its difficult to know if keyword searching works at all, so I would just search for 'health' in the ministry field and browse through the results.

Lobbyist Last Amendment Date Client Name Company/Organization Lobbyist Type Registration No. Status
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Peter Curtis 03-14-2025 Ontario Provincial Police Association (OPPA) Pathway Group Inc. Consultant Lobbyist CL0736-20230131029579 Active
Jeffrey Bangs 03-14-2025 Ontario Provincial Police Association (OPPA) Pathway Group Inc. Consultant Lobbyist CL0809-20230126029527 Active
Mélanie Valcin 03-14-2025 United for Literacy / Littératie Ensemble In-house Organization OL0345-20080130140142 Active
David Goodman 03-14-2025 Pharmascience Inc. In-house Persons & Partnerships PP2282-20210208026282 Active
Meera Mahadeo 03-14-2025 Parkbridge Lifestyle Communities Inc. Counsel Public Affairs Inc. Consultant Lobbyist CL9939-20230615030362 Inactive
Amin Massoudi 03-14-2025 Epilepsy Ontario Business No: 118900844RR0001 Atlas Strategic Advisors Inc. Consultant Lobbyist CL10151-20240410031999 Active
Veronique Parry 03-13-2025 Hologic Rubicon Strategy Consultant Lobbyist CL10646-20250313033655 Active
Veronique Parry 03-13-2025 Canada Mental Health Association, Ontario Division Rubicon Strategy Consultant Lobbyist CL10646-20250306033606 Active
Lily Mesh 03-13-2025 Ontario Personal Support Workers Association (OPSWA) Wellington Dupont Public Affairs Consultant Lobbyist CL4980-20210203026249 Active

Mita Williams@copystar· Mar 9

UofWinds 407, Week 10 2025: Does Voting Matter in Ontario, Political Parties Are Illegal in the United States, Utopian Realism, No Neutral Ground in a Burning World, Phronesis, Make Life Possible: www.uofwinds.com/407/

Everyone digs seeing like a state: "MY CASE IS THAT CERTAIN KINDS OF STATES, DRIVEN BY UTOPIAN PLANS AND AN AUTHORITARIAN DISREGARD FOR THE VALUES, DESIRES, AND OBJECTIONS OF THEIR SUBJECTS, ARE INDEED A MORTAL THREAT TO HUMAN WELL-BEING." James C. Scott. THE MORE STATIC, STANDARDIZED, AND UNIFORM A POPULATION OR SOCIAL SPACE IS, THE MORE LEGIBLE IT IS, AND THE MORE AMENABLE IT IS TO THE TECHNIQUES OF STATE OFFICIALS

Mita Williams@copystar· Mar 8

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Mita Williams@copystar· Feb 19

Small grey plastic case reading Internet in a box

Menu of items including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, world maps

Sample Wikipedia page : the Supreme Court of Canada

Mita Williams@copystar· Feb 16

Point of order: Point of order: I think the None of the Above Party needs to have a party bylaw that only allows those with a last name beginning with XY or Z to be allowed to run:

2025 Ontario general election
The 2025 general election will be held on February 27.
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
None of the Above Mark Dewdney
Progressive Conservative Tony Francis
Ontario Party Matthew Giancola
New Democratic Lisa Gretzky
New Blue Joshua Griffin
Green Nick Kolasky

Mita Williams@copystar· Feb 16

Thinking about this art work in Canada’s National Gallery today www.gallery.ca/magazine/you...

Mita Williams@copystar· Feb 1

I've decided that contribution to the Wikipedia project is to upload details about each Supreme Court of Canada decision to Wikidata. I've just added 2025 SCC 1, R. v. Hanrahan at www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125275... And I know that people have seen the work because of this 'Wikipedia Unwrapped' thing!

_L L Your edits have been viewed more than 5,339 times recently Readers around the world appreciate your contributions. In the last 2 months, articles you've edited have received 5,339 total views. Thanks to editors like you, Wikipedia is a steadily improving, fact-based, and reliable knowledge resource for to the world th Share . Next

Mita Williams@copystar· Jan 23

Guys, bibliomancy works! This text found me just days ago: librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/01/16/i...