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...

So excited to announce that my book "God and the Little Grey Cells: Religion in Agatha Christie's Poirot Stories" is now out in paperback! And the Kindle version is less than $20! Just in time for Christmas 🎅 www.bloomsbury.com/us/god-and-t...

ICYMI (as I had)

Folks, if you follow me, I check out your thread. If all I see there are repostings and nothing in your own voice -- then I am going to assume you're a 'bot and block you. Why do people here use the same bad habits encountered on other social platforms. Try To Be Authentic. You're pissing me off.

Excellent piece --> Print Books vs E-Books: 5 reasons why print books persist in the digital age librarianth.home.blog/2025/11/28/p...

Silverchair today announced the full commercial launch of ScholarOne Gateway, a modern interface that transforms how researchers engage with publishers throughout the submission and peer review process. www.silverchair.com/news/silverc...

⏳ Don't forget to share feedback on the draft Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Infrastructure Project Recommended Practice by **next Monday,** December 15! View the draft; leave a comment, or view others' 'comments on the project website: niso.org/standards-co... #libraries #AcademicLibraries

Powerful new AI features have been added to #OCLCworldshare Record Manager and #OCLCconnexion, helping catalogers save time and improve accuracy by automatically suggesting classification numbers and subject headings. ⤵️ Read more. 🧵 1/4 #OCLCnews

Sweet article by Robert McCrum with a sweeter Oscar Wilde quote: www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

SEO Still Matters: Building Blocks for the Future of Content Discoverability scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/12/09/s...

Congratulations to 2025 AUPresses Stand UP Award recipient Brett Bobley, former director @neh-odh.bsky.social. This award recognizes his decades-long leadership that empowered university presses to use digital technologies to experiment, collaborate & reach new audiences. https://bit.ly/3XJ3ydj

The thinking here seems realistic in its outlook: www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-ai-bus...

I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary. www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

Funniest thing I've read about artificial intelligence thus far: terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...

Releasing the Public Interest Corpus Principles and Goals (www.authorsalliance.org/2025/12/03/r...) The initial focus of the service is on a corpus development, discovery, and access solution for books data (digitized and/or born digital text with metadata) at scale.

Impelsys and Delta Think Join Forces to Expand Strategy and Technology Capabilities www.deltathink.com/impelsys-and...

What is the advantage of a DOI (Digital Object Identifier)? https://bit.ly/3l50Qem University press publishers answer frequently asked questions like this one on our #AskUP site. Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!

Friends, please share? Brown2026 is advertising for its 3rd year of fellowships. Would love to have you consider this opportunity to work with us as we face 2026. Link to position and application info in the thread: And more info about the initiative is here: brown2026democracy.brown.edu 1/

I honestly found some of this to be surprising as an analysis of my activity on Bluesky. Check out your 2025 Bluesky Harvest from @anisota.net! anisota.net/harvest/

In case you may have missed this announcement (as I had).

"...college libraries face shrinking budgets, limited space, reduced staffing, and growing pressure to do more with less." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/12/02/g...

"Importantly, adopting an AI-first strategy does not mean removing humans from the loop." www.knowledgespeak.com/news/knowled...

Sharing 100 percent just for the pics LOL 🎁

Read the full text of the press release for the rationale behind cancelation. www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...

Wonderful writing! Highly recommended.

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Now the problem is "device-hoarding". People are holding on to their smart phones for a horrifying 29 months rather than upgrading! Legacy tech is a problem, granted, but how sustainable is it to expect upgrades on hardware every two years? www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...

Doing all I could this morning to keep the few undergrads who even turned up awake, & even this ghastly but interesting image, a prop to my discussion of the female Gothic & "Get Out" didn't quite do the job. So I'll try with YOU. It's an illustration to Bluebeard by Winslow Homer, of all people.

This is an amazing (and most worthwhile) virtual experience.

Comin' atcha with a trunk full of updates! November 2025 edition features the latest buzz in the Resource Sharing pilot, 19 million items, the Member Meeting recording and more. #trusty #digitallibraries

Our executive director Peter Berkery responds, "The education of student interns is an additional benefit of university-based publishing initiatives, not a substitute for the essential function that university presses play in the curation and advancement of the scholarly record." bit.ly/47HnLF3

Are we reading, watching, or listening to the news? www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... Admittedly, no real surprises here.

Interesting thread here...

The most important point from this article is this quote: "We ignore research infrastructures at our peril." Pay attention to what's happening with the British Library. www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Lyrasis, the Big Ten Academic Alliance Center for Library Programs and the California Digital Library have been awarded a grant to advance community-governed, open access scholarly publishing in the United States. Read more about the #DiamondOA mapping project here, https://ow.ly/QCKC50Xu6vU#DiamondOA

Meet Merrilee Proffitt, Director of Democracy’s Library US (Internet Archive) blog.archive.org/2025/11/18/m...

ICYMI: AI Chatbots are prolific letter-writers to the detriment of the scientific publishing process. (Nov 4, 2025, NYTimes Gift Article) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...

“We’re Good at Search”… Just Not the Kind That the AI era Demands - a Provocation open.substack.com/pub/aarontay...

As noted in the piece, "We need to rethink the ecosystem, and the incentives that are applied...Too many submissions are funnelled through a limited pool of reviewers, creating unsustainable workloads and threatening the effectiveness, speed and fairness of peer review."

This one might cause many of us to clutch our pearls. www.axios.com/2025/11/12/c...

Legal filing with the Supreme Court by Copyright Office's Sherla Perlmutter seeks to overturn her removal by current administration. rollcall.com/2025/11/10/c...

Reformation of Science Publishing: "It is high time to reevaluate current publishing models and outline a global plan" that over time will ensure trustworthiness and integrity. Worth a read. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...