If you're a journalist, why wouldn't you want a full 8-hour day freed up from having to actually WRITE something?

Libraries Collaborate on Mass Book Digitization Pilot Project library.ucdavis.edu/news/librari...

Final Report on the Material Selection Pilot from the Google Books Partners Working Group. escholarship.org/uc/item/6dv3...

New version of our preprint on bioRxiv about bioRxiv up. Now that’s what I call a revision – 6 years after the first version! It has new data about our progress and highlights from a massive user survey. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our colleague shared his thoughts on his first year of experience in the scholarly publishing industry. Read his thoughts here: https://www.silverchair.com/news/one-year-in/

This discussion of how one university is rethinking approaches to collection management is really quite interesting. It addresses how the institutional library derives value from collections encompassing both print as well as digital materials. Worth a read.

Quote: When someone asks whether AI makes libraries obsolete, the questioner...accepts a definition of libraries as information retrieval systems. That is a definition that was always reductive and is now actively misleading. Libraries are epistemic infrastructure. laurenpressley.com/library/2026...

I don't ever ask for support or donations on the News feed because its infrastructure is all run on Graze, which provides an incredible service to the Bluesky community. Please consider sending them a few bucks to help with costs if you find this feed useful! 💚

A lot of truth in this post. Cozy Girl Lifestyle is a rational response... freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/cozy-girl-...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... How a nice grandmother from the UK ended up detained by ICE for a six week period. No excuse for this.

This is an interesting read -- at least, from my perspective. LibGuides serve a purpose but that doesn't mean that they should be treated as static in nature. acrlog.org/2026/02/16/l...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Longitudinal data from Delta Think’s Data & Analytics Tool (DAT) about the adoption and prevalence of license types helps reveal how openness is evolving across the research ecosystem. #ScholComm #OpenAccess #OASPA #ResearchTrends #PublishingStrategy #EvidenceBased

From Anthropic, an article regarding how the use of AI may actually hinder mastery of a skill. www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

Interesting piece regarding institutional digital collections and how their effectiveness may be hindered due to lack of scaleability. about.jstor.org/blog/the-pur...

We will be awash in sloppy nostalgic representations of the American Revolution this year. That’s why sharp careful analyses of the distance between those representations and evidence-based history is so important. Also I really appreciate @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social !

Review the letter from the University of Kentucky and the associations with which it has terminated partnerships. Read the five areas used as the basis for those terminations. To say that this is disconcerting is too much of an understatement.

Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … Part Two: The Path Forward scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/29/g...

Google, AI search, creator controls -- keep alert. blog.google/products-and...

Want to get mad about something? Get mad about this: cnn.com/2026/01/27/e... We're sending ICE agents over to "help" with security at the Olympics.

Think hard about any counter-measures to be adopted when dealing with use of AI. (Read the post.)

Wonderful, exciting news – my Reynard the Fox is now an audiobook! Completely unabridged and read by the perfect narrator, Joseph Edward Degnan. It's available now at all the usual places, see below for links and a clip!

Emerald Publishing partnered with Silverchair to deliver an intuitive research experience while freeing their team from technical management. Now they're positioned to embrace open research, multimedia content, and whatever comes next. 📖 View the case study: https://bit.ly/49IrFyx

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

It's a crisis when you do it but it's impressive when a robot does it

If you've not seen this paper, take the time to read it. Quote "The affordances of AI systems have the effect of eroding expertise, short-circuiting decision-making, and isolating people from each other." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

How quickly the day turns to this.

Great read! Make time to go through it.

I particularly agree with Phill's point about the need for a sustainable on-going tech/security strategy. Information entities ought not to hold back on upgrades.

We believe the future of AI in scholarly publishing is built on collaboration—combining technology capabilities with the deep domain expertise that publishers bring to every stage of the research journey. Learn more about our approach: https://www.silverchair.com/news/from-prototypes-to-production/

AOC: ICE has less accountability than virtually any law enforcement agency in the U.S., yet they are some of the most well-funded, operating with impunity—and we just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood in the street.

If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.

Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

Worth a read: www.npr.org/2026/01/07/n...

Let's read all the words here. Long-standing treaties allow the US a great deal of latitude in what it is allowed to do in Greenland. It's just that it's not for sale. (Gift article from The New York Times). www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...

Brian O'Leary Receives 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award from Publishers Weekly. Entirely well-deserved and I'm thrilled for him. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Project Implicit is a research nonprofit behind tools millions use to understand bias. Like many public science orgs, sustaining this work has become increasingly difficult. We are at risk of closing without additional support. Help protect this impt work by donating here: 4agc.com/donate/impli...

📣 It's here! In the fifth annual report on publishing technology trends from Silverchair & Hum, sixteen scholarly publishing leaders weigh in on their predictions for 2026 and beyond. Download your copy today: https://www.silverchair.com/news/tech-trends-2026/?utm_campaign=tt26&utm_source=social

This is a good read: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01...

Want to level up your library career this year? We’re looking for international mid-career library and archive professionals to join us this summer at our International Library Leaders Programme. Learn more link.bl.uk/ILLP2026

"There needs to be an industry-wide evaluation of the entire process and a strategy in place to avoid a repeat of this mess next year.” Supply chain issues caused problems for booksellers in 2025. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

This article from The Guardian is more than two years old, but still worth considering. www.theguardian.com/books/2023/o...

The citation catastrophe: Propagation of AI-generated counterfeit citations in scholarship www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A+ librarian research. Slop citations having real citation counts in Ggle Scholar is bad. So many use Scholar as their only source of info, but the pool is full of piss.

I am without words for this type of cost-cutting. They ultimately plan to completely close down the university library. It's just too short-sighted. depauliaonline.com/80758/news/d...

Fifteen Years of #ISNI: A Milestone for Global Identity Management isni.org/page/article... #metadata #libraries #scholcomm @oclc.org

Like I was saying last week! “There’s a simple truth here that I feel the larger publishing industry has forgotten: if you make cheap books, you will bring in more readers.”

Announcing new Leadership for Ithaka S+R sr.ithaka.org/blog/announc...

In The Messy Middle. A post by Charlie Rapple. Quote: ...for publishers to really understand and meet the needs of libraries, it’s helpful to get a really rounded, visceral feel for the day-to-day reality" scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/12/15/i...