"A fully searchable edition of 240,000 digitised primary sources about eighteenth-century London, with a particular focus on plebeian Londoners, providing access to 3.35 million names ..."

Can Semantic Multilingual Search Improve the Accessibility of Research Outputs Across Languages? A COAR Proposal – COAR https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/can-semantic-multilingual-search-for-scholarly-content-improve-the-accessibility-of-research-outputs-across-languages-a-coar-proposal/

New research on how public libraries and librarians in England tackle mis/dis-information - short survey, please complete & share app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/stirling/a... #IntellectualFreedom

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Metro stations, country homes and a picnic shelter: Australia’s 2025 national architecture award winners – in pictures ino.to/VeEGxgp

The 7 Types of Rest Librarians Actually Need and How to Get Them librarianbyday.net/2025/11/06/t...

I don't trust anyone who doesn't consult their pets when making important life decisions.

Library as News Publisher: $650K Deal For Library to Buy Ann Arbor Observer Still in Talks, Concerns (via @mlive.com) raised www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb... #libraries #publiclibraries

life events have gotten me thinking about what matters to me. in the top tier is books. i love books. i am made out of books. all my life i have discovered myself and re-discovered myself through books, and i am a librarian because i want these transformative opportunities for everyone.

"Was told when offered the position that actually, someone in XYZ position has just left so the position I interviewed and was offered was also going to take on THOSE job duties - without any increase in pay"

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to inhale the intoxicating aroma of vintage books in a quaint bookstore on a cobblestone side street in Edinburgh during a pouring rain?

Homemade Sourdough English Muffins www.biggerbolderbaking.com/sourdough-en...

Knowledge doesn’t curate itself – and it is in all of our interests that those who do it are visible and valued. Stand up for #PublicGoodCuration senseaboutscience.org/championing-... Enjoyed contributing to this Sense about Science & Sage report

Data Rescue Projects receives support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to support data rescue efforts https://www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-projects-receives-support-from-the-john-d-and-catherine-t-macarthur-foundation-to-support-data-rescue-efforts/

#digitalhumanities folk: could you please recommend significant work on topic modeling and small language models that you might have come across?

Local author launches touching children's book in honor of lost son share.google/L8qc6OtoxSwj...

AI and Machine Learning in Libraries: Promising, But Not Ready Yet www.openobjects.org.uk/2025/10/ai-a...

Over 70 pies lined tablecloth-covered folded tables at the Boathouse inside the South Philly park on Nov. 2 for Philly’s inaugural pie picnic, organized by Wilmington resident Sophie Rust.

Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +

Report: "E-Borrowing Exceeds Print at Vancouver #Libraries — Can It Keep Up With the Cost? (via CBC News) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #publiclibraries #ebooks

I love when people who didn't really go to the library as children discover the library as adults and are shaken to the core by how much it rules

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

The Mental Health Benefits of Reading You Didn’t Know About Discover how reading reduces stress, strengthens the brain, and helps fight anxiety in a fast-paced, tech-driven world. magazine.1000libraries.com/the-mental-h...

Great read!! www.thecollector.com/interesting-...

What if libraries provided 1-page info sheets for job candidates? For a cataloger position, this might look like: we've been using [x] ILS for [x] many years, we're part of [x] consortia, our departmental strengths are [x, y, z], the projects on our horizon are [a, b, c]. 📚

Apple releases version 26.1 of its full family of OSes, including a "tinted" option for the Liquid Glass design to reduce transparency and increase contrast (John Voorhees/MacStories) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Dear Canada, can someone explain why we are not doing this?? electrek.co/2025/11/02/n...

Why Wikipedia Is Losing Traffic to AI Overviews on Google The beloved online encyclopedia has been dropping in pageviews over the last few months. www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Open access art: At SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst we just redesigned our themes/collections of artworks on our online collection to make them more useful. 👉 open.smk.dk/en/themes Next up: Transparent display of AI-generated metadata. #openglam #musetech

Work at the British Library on pulling structured information from scanned card catalogues: https://web.archive.org/web/20250805102551/https:/blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/09/convert-a-card-past-present-and-future-of-catalogue-cards-retroconversion.html [1/2]

I have been thinking a lot about what the future of libraries could be in an algorithmic economy. A real pleasure to share these thoughts and provocations through the fantastic Katina Magazine. Let me know what you think? katinamagazine.org/content/arti... #Libraries #FutureofWork #FutureLibrary

Libraries are so wild, man. Rooms filled with thousands of books, and you can read any one of them. For free! One of humanity’s greatest inventions.

The 100 Greatest Children’s Books of All Time, According to 177 Books Experts from 56 Countries

"There are only so many selfies, photos of my dog, and funny-shaped carpet stains I can share before I come off as a shallow, boring influencer. So, I decided to post an image in my dump of a book a roommate left behind—The Picture of Dorian Gray."

🌏 Open Access Week 2025 - Thank You! Open Access Australasia was pleased to present three distinct webinars with a diverse international and regional array of speakers #OAWeek2025 🎥event recordings are now available for you to watch at your convenience oaaustralasia.org/open-access-...

AI browsers can bypass some paywalls; OpenAI's Atlas seems to avoid content from companies suing OpenAI, providing summaries or alternate reporting instead (Columbia Journalism Review) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Don't Handle Old Books with White Gloves On

"Rather than simply making medieval books cheaper and more abundant, these changes may represent printing technology’s true contribution to European economic development." -- spotted by Tyler Cowen frlom Technological Change and the Market for Books, 1450-1550 marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

[blogged] “We’re Good at Search”… Just Not the Kind That the AI era Demands - a Provocation aarontay.substack.com/p/were-good-...

How Seattle, King County #Libraries Get #Books Into Your Hands (via @seattletimes.com) www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... @spl.org @kcls.org #libraries #publiclibraries

The Sweet Halloween Archives of a Candy Historian @atlasobscura.com www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the...

Bluesky is looking to a new signal — "dislikes" — to personalize users' feeds.

Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch "dislikes" in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

I wrote what is probably one of the most focused, small audience browser extensions ever. It's targeted at librarians using Polaris ILS and SimplyReports. And if you don't know what that means, then it'll be worthless for you. 😅

Was great to see the British Library's roaming Unearthed exhibition (& team) at #GreenLibraries Conference dcmslibraries.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/24/u...

Library (archives, research) folk, could you give me your best one liners about Why Cataloguing Matters, please? Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be. Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚

"CLIR Awards $3.9 Million Through Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices" www.clir.org/2025/10/clir...

Speaking as an author, I don't care if you read my #books in paperback or ebook, or listen to them as audio books. All those formats are equally valid. What matters is that you enjoy the stories, that they entertain you, and that you get something from them.

Reminder to anyone who needs it today: Reading books (at home, on the bus, in Starbucks); owning books; loving books; discussing books. None of these things are “performative” unless you’re selling tickets.