A lovely post from Jeanette Croen, a PhD placement student, on her work at the British Library doing computational analysis on early printed book descriptions www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

Sustainable Libraries Initiative has been awarded a grant for Operationalizing Community Resilience: Creating a Training and Partnership Model for #Libraries #sustainability

So much this. I long for the world where, instead of breaking the internet with algorithms and AI, we just paid librarians for curation services. Could you imagine that? I can; and it makes me hurt.

Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.

Scientists just discovered 5.6 million bees under a New York cemetery www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

I am always so mystified when other parents don’t go to the library. What do you…do with them??? Mine killed two hours there today, and then we came home with 10 books each that is going to buy me hours of peace. Why are you not quietmaxxing your parenthood lol

I've created a new @zotero translator for the State Library of Victoria. It captures metadata from the main catalogue, and metadata and digital files (PDFs & images) from the SLV's digital file viewer. I've submitted it for review & inclusion in the main Z repo, but in the meantime you can test […]

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-tool-is-in-mortal-peril/

Today's free newsletter is about the dangers of treating AI as being more than it is - a website or app built on expensive technology, with dubious reliability and inherently unsustainable economics. The rhetoric from AI labs has to change. www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never-respect-a-website/

I keep turning off Copilot and Outlook keeps turning it back on. No one wants this crap, I don't need a 2 sentence email summarized, I wish I could physically and permanently rip this useless garbage being forced on us out of the email app.

outdated books, no librarians and zero-dollar budgets impact nearly half of Australia’s most disadvantaged schools operating their libraries on less than $1000 a year - and one in five reporting no dedicated library budget #libraries

I'm seeing people defending this decision by saying things like "this is eliminating prison LIBRARIANS, not LIBRARIES" so let's take a closer look at that. 1/

Northern Plains Dance teams up w/ Bismarck Library for free five-week dance series starting tonight! www.kfyrtv.com/video/2026/0... #EngagedLibraries

Immunotherapy's goal is to unmask those cancer cells so the immune system can see them for what they are. It bolsters the immune system's defenses so it can locate and destroy cancerous cells – with potentially incredible results. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The Internet's Most Powerful #Archiving Tool Is in Peril (via @wired.com) www.wired.com/story/the-in... #archives #webarchives #digipres #publishers @archive.org

AI and Library Publishing: A Reflection | Society & AI | Society-Centered Artificial Intelligence Research & Practice https://societyandai.org/perspectives/ai-library-publishing/

I agree some bad friction is removed by AI search but to me good friction is qualitatively different: it slows us down & enables engagement & deep learning. in my own pedagogy i sometimes think my job is creating an environment for people to work through pain of good friction to reach deep learning.

New Research: “The Impact of AI-Generated #Text on the #Internet” www.infodocket.com/2026/04/11/n... #AI

Using secure messaging services for all communications and considering what content you post on social media are just two easy ways to build an online space that feels as free and safe as speaking with those closest to us in the offline world. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

“Did you finish the books you bought last time before buying new books?” “… was I supposed to?” #booksale #booklover 📚

A blessing on public libraries, who--unlike tech companies--serve communities in so many ways beyond lending books.

"Libraries belong inside this conversation. [...] If one knowledge system sits at the center and another appears only as recovery, enrichment, or special programming, the imbalance continues in quieter form." www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2026/04...

NASA's Artemis II mission has traveled farther from Earth than any mission before. Here's how to watch the crew's return landing in the Pacific Ocean.

Our Information Literacy Framework Review and Revision Task Force is pleased to announce that the first draft of the revised Framework is ready for feedback from the community. Details on feedback opportunities, including two webinars this month, are available on ACRL Insider. https://bit.ly/4vmkWUF

Amazon may stop supporting your Kindle, but your public library won’t stop supporting *you.* just saying. 📚

Congrats to my old friend Aadam Jacobs, deservingly receiving international recognition from numerous press sites for creating probably the most important live music archive of the past 30 years, simply by being Aadam.

Thank you to everyone who has posted a memory or thank you to The Women's Library at 100. Please do have a read, or come and use the collection, and add your messages to this webpage. padlet.com/cmcollison/t...

I’ve been writing again on my experience learning to create Bloomberg Query Language formulas (in which I continue to have breakthroughs!). And on supporting students with this. In my new blog post I also go on a bit on why I haven’t just used generative AI to create formulas for me :) #AliceWrites

I'm telling you, the solution to many problems in education is to hire school librarians (at a liveable wage, with administrative support, and adequate resources). Your students don't need an LLM, they need a librarian.

A 47-year-old mother endures months in a Dresden hospital, surviving on daily blood transfusions as her immune system ruthlessly attacks her very own blood. Yet, today, she thrives. This miraculous reversal highlights CAR-T cell therapy, a cancer treatment now resetting serious autoimmune illnesses.

Transparency Hub Reveals What You Really Agreed to Online (New Research Tool from #TheLabBKC) hls.harvard.edu/today/transp... #legal #policies #Internet #privacy

Professor Bobbi Newman on the Library Land Loves podcast talks about wellbeing in the library workplace #libraries

This is catastrophic.

How our digital devices are putting our right to privacy at risk. Law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson chats with Ars about his new book, "Your Data Will Be Used Against You." arstechnica.com/culture/2026...

Hoooow did I not know about this earlier... 👀 livingwithmachines.ac.uk/georeferenci...

Security researchers exposed a spying campaign by a hack-for-hire group that used Android spyware and phishing to steal iCloud credentials and hack victims’ devices.

"Porto became the Florida Museum's first curator of artificial intelligence for natural history and biodiversity. He now creates AI models from scratch that help in-house researchers — like himself — extract information from digitized natural history collections" www.floridatrend.com/feature/2026...

Open Metadata: The Invisible Bridge to Sustainability and Visibility of Academic Books https://zenodo.org/records/18886742

Reminder: Applications Open Today (4/8) For #Libraries and Local #News Initiative (via Urban Libraries Council and More Perfect) www.urbanlibraries.org/initiatives/... ||| Overview/Background www.urbanlibraries.org/newsroom/mor...

One reason why it's bad that university libraries have stopped buying physical books is that when the website goes down, that's kind of it. There's no backup or alternative to an ebook that is now wholly unaccessible.

Drawing on my #medlibs experience to share my current thoughts about AI search tools 📚

Librarians need to decide what books to offer in their libraries; not the government or a few individuals. "Books are for use." (Ranganathan's 1st law of library science) #BookSky #BookBans

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A new environment for license negotiations: 40% of recent articles in the top publishers' subscription/hybrid journals are freely available online www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“At a time when the rights and freedoms of women are under attack in many countries, the Women’s Library remains a symbol of struggle as well as strength.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

MIT #Libraries Launches Unified Search Tool (Beta) libraries.mit.edu/news/find-mo... @clarivateag.bsky.social

Isn’t it weird how “AI literacy” being pushed on students isn’t about learning how it works, the cost of how it works, learning to spot disinformation, media and tech literacy. But instead is just “employers will like it if you get it to write your emails :)”

If you like data, or making things with textile crafts (sewing, knitting, crochet, weaving, etc.), I've finally written something up about data visualization with textiles. More words coming over the next few months! #DHmakes

12 research #libraries launched the Statement of Shared Practice on #AI Training Requests and Unique Cultural Collections