Fields of Mistria launches into 1.0 on August 5, 2026! ✨ The full release includes: 💍 Marriage 🍼 Children 🌻 New Saturday Market NPCs ✨ And more! More reveals are on the way, so stay tuned! 🌱

It is so validating that the navigation updates that EBS/CO is rolling out are majority rollbacks from the new user interface that I pointed out in my ACRLog post about how bad that interface was lol

Having to become a "you need to read books" guy. Podcasts and summaries and youtube videos are not enough to become a critical thinking person. You have to engage with long form scholarship that you struggle with.

LIBRARYPUNK LIVE: Critical AI Takes Too Hot for the Mainstage! @librarypunk.bsky.social @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social 6/27 @ 6:30pm Sarah Appedu @kslater.bsky.social @ezerrenner.bsky.social ticket proceeds ➡️ IL Coalition on Immigrant & Refugee Rights RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/librarypun...

"The Library as a Business: Proving Value, Securing Funding, Driving Impact" cue my biggest eyeroll ever.

Introduce yourself with 10 artists you’ve seen live Twenty One Pilots (10x...) Fall Out Boy Panic! at the Disco Bastille Marianas Trench Chappell Roan Kesha MARINA boygenius Hozier

Washing pillows is such an Endeavor

The attempts to make AI culturally cool have failed in a way I’m not sure I’ve ever seen with any other form of technology

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Yeehaw I am 0/2 on Library Trends article proposals lol

4 years ago today I graduated with my MLIS, and today, I completed the promotion process to become a Librarian II. Feeling very nostalgic and grateful all at once.

Today on things found in donated books to the library:

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One of my favorite elements of my specific work culture is that we have a Leslie Jordan emoji (see photo) that is used for celebration, shade, really anything. Leslie infiltrates all Slack convos.

thinking about how colleagues and i presented on trying to limit the ai slop you might buy for your library and the next day the keynote speaker asked us to imagine libraries in 2056 as a discussion, then on the very next slide told us they asked chatgpt for their conceptualization.

it’s an insult to imagination to use chatgpt and other gen-ai ilk to “imagine a future”

If anyone is at the MLA/DLA conference in Cambridge, MD, I’d love to chat! :)

"Vendor values aren't librarianship values" Understatement of the century

New on ACRLog... All we’re doing is reading today. "Their professor then stepped in to explain what we were doing today, which was to find something that caught your eye and give it your (reading) attention for an hour." - Emily Zerrenner bit.ly/4n7kI0g

Wrote up a post about my "read for an hour" classes! acrlog.org/2026/04/30/a...

Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space”

I dumped some feelings in a blog post about teaching DH right now. mackenziekbrooks.info/update/2026/...

My librarian win for the year maybe?: The chair of one of my depts, Environmental Studies, told me that a student in one of my "pick a book and read" classes ended up changing her major to ENVR largely because of a book she checked out from that class. I'm legitimately weepy. #libraryjoy

I wrote the beginnings of a novel that explored infertility, queerness, and the relationship between sisters who are navigating those things in life.

I received the Shirley Olofson Memorial Award from ALA-NMRT!! Deeply honored and very excited. I’m now going to ALA Annual 🎉

I’m honestly devastated that I can’t go see Interstellar with a live orchestra at Royal Albert Hall

schools, libraries, and bookstores are not data centers... data centers are data centers! stop making the labor of knowledge workers invisible!

I know many people who'll want to read the new zine "Disability, Technoethics, and Power: Exploring AI Refusal" by librarians Anna Boutin-Cooper & Andrea Puglisi. journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/un... Excellent insights into the use of AI tools as self-accommodations for disabilities. 📚 #CripLib

I am very emotional that I was able to do this

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

Seven students checked out eight books they would not have otherwise in our class dedicated to reading yesterday. One of them, a junior, checked out books for the very first time. I am going to be riding that win all week.

I cannot believe how well this library session worked just now. I gathered books about the class's overall topic and we told students to pick one and read for an hour. They checked out books!!! My favorite lesson they learned in reflection: "To be friendly with yourself when reading dense things."

Whew, one thing hyper-local politics is NOT is boring. Why are you referencing Romans 1:25-27 at 7:30 in the morning on an email chain?

no one takes your “refusal is a bad stance for the ‘reality’ of AI” take seriously when you don’t do any research on why people have that stance in the first place

Why is every tech ceo the villain from the Lorax

Librarian at the Library of Congress just out here hiding books for decades. 📚

I’ve lost track of how many times students have asked if we’re AI on chat. Students look downright RELIEVED in class when I say it’s a real person on the other end!

feeling like shaming works 😌 acrlog.org/2025/10/03/e... (October, 2025)

Very real. I heard this reflected in my dissertation research interviews, not even asking about AI, but brought up by participants re burnout for instruction librarians

My colleagues at ACRLog wrote short tributes to the life and work of Fobazi Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social. I wrote about her work on disability, which I think deserves more recognition. acrlog.org/2026/03/04/t... Thanks @ezerrenner.bsky.social for coordinating. #CripLib #VocationalAwe

just let patrick stump hoot and holler on whatever song he wants. it’ll be better for it.

The audacity of capital f faculty continues to astound me, even in the wake of a student death.

this weekend really caught up with me, depression-wise. just want to say, it’s so silly how the things that would make me feel better (exercise, eating well, cleaning) are exactly what my brain refuses to do.

First real classes of the semester today! Trying an activity my colleague does to draw your research process.

If you need something good in your day: over 70 people have given and mailed me 227 quilt blocks in support of trans pride. That’s nothing short of amazing.

New on ACRLog... I Bought Slop: A Conversation on the Accidental Purchase of AI-Generated Material "This is a discussion between four librarians about Large Language Model- and/or AI-generated books. It was spurred by the influx of “AI-slop” purchased unknowingly by staff." bit.ly/4anDWbI

Many of you already know that our colleague and founding board member, Fobazi Ettarh, has passed away. We want to take a moment to acknowledge her loss and honor what she meant to libraries, our community, and her friends and loved ones. www.thrivelib.com/news/honoring-fobazi-ettarh