Has anyone studied how researchers and academics use library catalogues? I'm struggling to find any literature on researcher (not student) information needs and information seeking behavior. Any leads? My focus is rare books/archives/special collections, but I'm looking broadly right now.

What is the academic equivalent of #NoTechForICE? A colleague has proposed #NoPapersForICE... A lot of the journals we publish in and subscribe to are behind some of the grossest targeting of humans in the US. See also: bsky.app/profile/jamb...

#AcademicSky worth noting this, considering Elsevier is also a subsidiary of RelX. Elsevier products include Scopus, SciVal, Mendeley, and ScienceDirect.

Kinda feels important to know that ReedPOP's parent company has ties to ICE. There's some things we can do in the comics community to make our voices heard. 1/3 Open letter from BookCon authors: reactormag.com/authors-open... Check the RELX, LexisNexis, and ReedPOP ties yourself: www.relx.com

Academics that claim these things can be used for analysing qualitative texts: HOW? Why would it work for your corpus if it doesn't work here? The disconnect is real.

Holy sweet mother of god

Law librarians, a thread for you to have a bit of a scream about and an example of how not citing properly might get you humiliated by a judge

As well as releasing our Catalogue of open research practices in AHSS (catalogue.morphss.work), the MORPHSS project has just published our first major report: *Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM*

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It would be difficult to overstate the influence of Fobazi Ettarh's work on a generation of library workers. Sending love to all in her orbit. Join me in supporting her family in this difficult time. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

'On 5 February, the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) announced that staff had “overwhelmingly” voted to approve the branch’s acceptance of the latest pay offer from the British Library.' 1/2

I wrote about some of the unreasonable requests I've gotten as a candidate for library jobs, and how employers might make the interview process less dehumanizing. acrlog.org/2026/02/05/m... 📚

We are delighted to share our call for papers for Medical Humanities. @georgesevers.bsky.social, Naomi Samake-Bäckert and I are guest editing a topic collection titled “Race, Sexual and Reproductive Health: Histories, Inequalities, Futures. Deadline: 31 October 2026 mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

The work of Fobazi Ettarh was inspired, influential beyond words and has fundamentally changed how (some but growing number) librarians talk about themselves and their profession, her impact was phenomenal. This is a tragic, tragic loss and my thoughts are with those who loved her. What a voice.

Ah no, The Conversation is not a pre-print server

I'm pleased to have co-authored a new article out today in the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship. Kevin Sanders, @sluginkpress.bsky.social, and I reflect on the Radical Librarians Collective and how we situate radical librarianship alongside critical librarianship. doi.org/10.33137/cja...

The cruelty of making this decision the way that the did, without even the decency of telling people. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Discovered a new thing I will block people for: callousness about tragic news stories from places that have voted right-wing. It’s just smug cruelty.

The thing about critical librarianship is you try to write a helpful little list of tools and do some research and then you're in a full-blown existential crisis about, amongst other things, AI and the precarity of knowledge infrastructure and academic dependence on profoundly unethical companies

I really need to do an update of this post soon, considering the current #GoogleBooks outage.

Anyone else having problems with Google Books? #library #archive #research #HigherEd

Holy shit. Well said, Ricky D'Andrea Crano.

✨This was such an amazing event today 👏 For more resources check out @olivia.science 's Critical AI literacy page: olivia.science/ai

Such a great event, and I've accumulated a massive reading list of things to follow up on!

Can anyone help? The Scholar national online learning platform is under threat and @hwucu.bsky.social are asking for notes of endorsement: sites.google.com/view/scholar...

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

Regrettably our members will be commencing strike action from 9 February over the victimisation of our Health and Safety Officer. uniteucu.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/u...

Yeah the thing that immediately pissed me off about this is how IT basics are taught in libraries and are essential to modern living and have huge - like years long - queues but where’s the funding for that?

After announcing it in the summer, today the UK government launched free training courses to AI upskill workers. It's free because it's funded by big-tech companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others, and not by local organisations in the UK who have been working with communities->

Happy #GoblinWeek to all who celebrate, here is Goblin the Cat

If you reply to this with the title of one of the queer books you're most looking forward to in 2026, I'll enter you into a draw to win one of two £20 gift cards for @portalbookshop.bsky.social! No repost required. I'll need your email address in order to send the prize. Draw on Thursday evening.

Start of term! Just catching you up in case you missed it over the break: 1: a female engineer won an important employment tribunal case and showed how arbitrary criteria & decisions made in email threads rather than formal procedures lead to outcomes 'tainted by sex'

are YOU a university professor, professor emeriti or associate professor of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion? Did you know you can nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize?

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UCU - Union condemns continued docking of staff pay following strike action at University of Sheffield www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...

Lots of interesting reading here! I've been collating a Zotero library of stuff on knowledge equity/citational justice, I'm happy to grant access to anyone who would like - www.zotero.org/groups/54546...

Perfect timing for an upcoming guest lecture on epistemic injustice (and algorithms and AI). This whole issue of Kula looks excellent: kula.uvic.ca/index.php/ku... Great to be reading Sam Popowich again!

New from Sam Popowich - Young's Five Faces of Oppression & Citational Justice, in an issue of Kula focused on Citational Justice that has some other interesting articles for librarians and pedagogues too! kula.uvic.ca/index.php/ku...

Just got my Public Lending Right statement and I'm here to remind authors of all kinds in the UK/Ireland: sign up for Public Lending Right! Not only do you get paid when people access your intellectual property (imagine that, GenAI Bros!) but you also get to see how many people borrowed your book!

Ludicrous from Sheffield management. If they want lost teaching rescheduled, they should return deducted strike pay – simple. Solidarity with Mark and all other @sheffielducu.bsky.social members dealing with this BS – and do fling them some pennies if you can afford to spare anything. #UKHE #UCU

🚨🚨 UPDATE FOR MEMBERS 🚨🚨 The indicative ballot for our next round of industrial action over Future Nottingham is officially in your inbox! Click the link and VOTE NOW!

FYI for anyone considering switching to Libro.fm they currently have an offer of two free ebooks when you start a new subscription

Interesting how I keep politely saying "a publishing disaster" rather than "my ex-publishers stole more than £20,000 of earnings from me".

I jokingly say that no-one can get my name correct, but I really do mean it, so far *this year* I have been called Kristen and Kirsty twice each and there have been mistakes in my name in a doctor's note, certificate from an electrician and a letter from a solicitor.

Interesting - "We reserve the right to refuse applications if there is evidence to show that there has been significant input from Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. Applications should be a true reflection of the applicants knowledge, skills and experience." www.lpft.nhs.uk/work-us/curr...

I'm running a popular romance course at the University of Liverpool... but only if enough people sign up! Come and join us! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

Sent the messages I have been procrastinating over for 1-2 months! Well done me!

Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social has been taking strike action in defence of jobs this term. But in an alarming escalation, Sheffield management has threatened to "lock out", ie. deduct pay at 100% for each day, if members refuse to reschedule marking, beginning with the start of 2026. 🧵1/7

FULL solidarity with @sheffielducu.bsky.social in their fight against these horrible tactics. Ways of supporting their efforts in the thread below. They are also holding an online solidarity event on 12/1 at 3:30. Attend if you can! ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I haven't been an NHS librarian for over two years but I will still promote KnowledgeShare at every opportunity and will never stop being cross about the loss of NHS Evidence Search and HDAS