In which: I crash out a bit about EBSCO's new interface acrlog.org/2025/10/03/e...

Still rolling with this project. We had a person donate an ENTIRE finished quilt this last week. <3

THE WAIT IS OVER – The first episode of We Reads: The Podcast is now available! 🎧 Tune in as hosts dive into their reading journeys, genre preferences, and what to expect from this coming season 🤭 www.wehere.space/we-reads-pod... #WeReadsthePodcast

ebsco is like totally broken on our campus lol. love that. how are YALL doing?????

Can we finish funding this classroom by dinner? Only $125 to go! www.donorschoose.org/project/book...

I opened this kind of assuming it'd be kind of out of touch but 4 out of 5 apply to me 🫢

“We do not advance private interests at the expense of library users, colleagues, or our employing institutions.” what a relevant tenet of our Code of Ethics—so why is the field so intent on making an exception for generative AI? www.ala.org/tools/ethics

AI data scraping is causing major problems for digital archives. Many publishers of cool historical material (free for the public), like @hagleycenter.bsky.social, are being hit w/ bot swarms akin to denial of service attacks. Latest in The Lint Trap linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/when-ai-da...

Happy twenty one pilots album release day to all who celebrate 

I've seen several people refer to AI-resisters as having their heads in the sand over the last few days. But resisting doesn't mean the same thing as ignoring something. On the contrary, resisting means engaging with research, parsing information, offering critique, and making informed choices.

Your semi-regular reminder: You are not your work! You are a worthwhile person regardless of whether or not you have a job, have a "good" job, hear back from places you apply, have interviews, have successful interviews, etc. You are valued and valuable, just as you are.

This article from part 2 of the Library Trends issue on Generative AI is a must read, from Kay Slater. "In seeking to bridge the digital divide and save ourselves time, do we sacrifice our principles in favor of acquiescing to the latest trends in technology?" muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Wow a hit tweet (comment)

Hallucinations don’t come from the sources you train AI on. The problem is it is an LLM- a language learning model. It is trying to sound like human language but it doesn’t actually “know” what those words mean so occasionally it strings them together in a way that makes no sense or is inaccurate.

Will spend the rest of my life considering how we were rushed into "going paperless" for the good of the environment only for the next generation of digital tools to become far worse for the environment.

New academic librarians, come blog with us at ACRLog this year! Info here, applications due 9/22: acrlog.org/2025/08/18/s...

Deleting 1,000 emails would have a carbon benefit of about five grams CO2e. Using a laptop for 30 minutes to delete those emails would emit about 28 grams of CO2e. Destroying the corporations responsible for climate collapse would be so much more fun and effective.

I've been thinking a lot about how I really hate the implication that AI skeptics are luddites because most of the AI skeptics I know are relatively tech savvy while the biggest AI champions I know can barely use email

I am vibrating with rage

"fancy autocomplete" really summed up the whole technology right at the beginning arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/r...

TECH COMPANIES AND THEIR UPDATES: Stop disrespecting muscle memory and user experience for the love of GOD (yes, this is about both Windows 11 and E/B/S/C/O's interface update)

horribly depressing to search for examples of ai-generated books for this presentation i'm doing with a coworker on genai and collection development

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Surprising no one Cassandra-ing about AI in K-12 education: "[tools like MagicSchool, Khanmingo, Curipod, and Google Gemini for Education] could also promote bias in lesson planning and classroom management recommendations."

Artificial systems have "catapulted... into our inboxes, file storage, discovery systems, and nearly every element of our daily lives without our consent." How to resist? Library Futures and friends have tips! www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/tips-fr...

Why in the ever loving heck would you do this?! 😭 #adventuresinweeding

[Blogged] The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search - From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...

82 people are signed up, and since I've posted this we've added Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arkansas. I'm so glad this project is resonating.

The @aaup.org report on AI is so hugely important. Among other key takeaways is the fact that most AI programs have been introduced by administrative fiat and by circumventing meaningful faculty, student, & staff consultation. shorturl.at/InI5Q

I just need to scream into the void for a second because the song Bob Dylan by Fall Out Boy is TOP TIER.

ACRLog has published 1,800 posts over twenty years but I guess I'm the first person to write a post about student debt?? 🤷‍♀️ "On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt" acrlog.org/2025/07/24/o...

I tested it in Primo Research Assistant, not surprising, I got similar results since Summon Research Assistant is sister product and both work the same by using LLM to generate Boolean search strategy. Gaza war shows no results. Tusla Race riots get a scary error message but does generate answer(1)

why is it that ACRLog has consistently better and more relevant articles than [-- suddenly yanked off stage by friends who want me to shut up about it]

This guest post by Jay Singley on ACRLog is a must-read. "In the age of AI, our access to information is not spared from these attacks. We must uncover answers to the questions Safiya Noble, Joy Buolamwini, and others elicit: Who and what is safeguarded through AI tools in discovery searches?"

Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures by Andrea Baer "rather than rushing to adopt and promote new technologies whose ethical implications raise major questions, we might slow down and claim more time & space for considering .... implications of GenAI"

📚 Library Colleagues -- if you're thinking ahead to August and a book display on AI, here's the worldcat links to 31 books that critically approach the topic, compiled by me and my Squids. Most are written for an advanced consumer audience. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

always gonna be the #1 MANIA by fall out boy defender

Disability in LIS Journal Seeking Peer Reviewers! Volunteer form, contact information, and links to related content are available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

New on ACRLog... White Fragility in Decolonial Spaces: When Inclusion Becomes Extraction "Decolonial work isn’t just a workshop topic. It’s a lifelong commitment. It involves building relationships, being accountable, and learning to unlearn." bit.ly/3Twt6rZ

A strong statement of resistance to the relentless marketing of "AI" in education spaces. I encourage all educators to have a look and consider signing on: openletter.earth/an-open-lett...

Just read this *excellent* piece about AI as an ideology, not a technology. (Shared by @suyidavies.com in his newsletter, which I also recommend as a source of many excellent reads.)

Today’s adventures in weeding. 1977.

Fresh tomato and burrata cheese on bread is god tier anyway, but I added truffle aioli from Trader Joe’s today and MY GOD.

Things are feeling grim for so many. Libraries- central to democracy- are under attack. Here are 8 different ways for you to support your local public library. It may seem small, but taking steps to support your local public library is an action item that you can do which will have great impact.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Hello, all! Here are guidelines for the blocks I'm seeking. The sign up form is in this page's bio. I have added complete alt text to each slide. Thank you for your interest - I am excited to see what we do together. :)

Congress just passed a bill to create an army of secret police and industrial concentration camps.

If you have the capacity pleas consider applying! #LibraryWorkers #Librarians #LibraryWorkerSupport #LibraryTrauma #PublicLibraries #SchoolLibraries #AcademicLibraries

There’s really no respect for muscle memory. I am STILL constantly hitting the “create” button in Spotify because that’s where “my library” used to be.