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

I wrote a post with three of my colleagues about the proliferation of AI slop in our library purchasing. I am immensely proud of what we wrote, and I hope it spurs on needed conversations, especially with our publishers and vendors.

Why don’t we bring Tupperware to a restaurant for leftovers?

i am convinced that the phrase “AI is here to stay” is a psyop

New on ACRLog... Let’s Discuss: How Should We Handle AI in One-Shots? "I worry that students, never the most enthusiastic one-shot attendees, now feel that library research skills are less relevant than ever." - Eleanor Ball bit.ly/45qkREp

New on ACRLog... OpenAlex and values-aligned tools "For those unfamiliar with OpenAlex, it is essentially a large database of scholarly works and related metadata." - Sam Winemiller bit.ly/4rj1tlg

"Please, just use my evil technology. What’s so wrong with that? Just use it. I’m begging you. I want to continue living my immoral technofascist life without any criticism."

New on ACRLog... Finding Friends as a New Librarian "As someone who grew up being scared to present in front of an audience, even in front of family during holiday karaoke time, I never thought I would turn into an ambivert of sorts." - Lisa Shin bit.ly/3LEYNPB

"...in the rush to build its Generative AI Gemini product, Google illegally copied millions of books rather than reach licensing deals with copyright owners." www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

If all you're willing to do is say "We're cooked" on a social media site, maybe it is all over. If you're willing to struggle alongside your friends and neighbors for democracy, then we've got a chance.

There, we fixed that for you. /7 www.wordsandmoney.com/content/file...

I am so OVER these giant vendors in libraries bending a knee to the AI techno-utopianists that pretend they’re going to save us all with their slop machines. GenAI is a solution to a problem we NEVER HAD.

B-Corps should automatically lose their certification if they start using GenAI You aren't doing good for people or planet

Today's early Spring semester reminder that if your academic library doesn't have an eBook you want and/or tells you they can't provide it, it is most likely not the library staff's fault. We can't buy what vendors refuse to sell.

“A Maryland man is navigating two devastating blows to his family after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested his wife just days before their 15-year-old son’s death from cancer.” www.kkco11news.com/2026/01/12/t...

I wrote a bit about the books I read in 2025, which included The AI Con by Bender & Hanna (obviously) and Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin. acrlog.org/2026/01/09/a...

started 2026 with bronchitis. let’s go. 🫠

And tbh we had better, because this shit at scale is going to introduce so many more harms we can’t even fully comprehend yet.

what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know: you are loved you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)

So… evidently my librarian-ness just shines everywhere I go because I was just browsing books in the public library and a teen came up to me to ask where the anime/manga was. I told them, but still. 😂

Why read a 300-word "abstract" summary of a paper written by the actual authors when one can read a 300-word summary produced by an AI prone to hallucinations?

You need to look at the Euphoria Quilt’s new archive of all the blocks and notes. It’s truly amazing. www.euphoriaquilt.com/quilt-archive

I SUBMITTED MY PROMOTION PACKET. The sigh of relief I just let out. I can go on winter break in peace.

I want to repost @fobettarh.bsky.social's fundraiser as she needed to be moved to the ICU a few weeks ago and remains there. Her support network can use more coins from those in a position to donate, or to boost/spread the word. Fobazi is a wonderful human being: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Look everything is awful, but I did get Christmas photos with my dog yesterday if you need some joy.

HOW DO YOU ASSESS WHAT A SPOILER IS, AMAZON An LLM, and I cannot emphasize this enough, cannot discern what a "SPOILER" is