"A specific risk is that generative AI tools always produce an answer, even when the historical sources are incomplete or silent. ... If you received an archival reference or document description from an AI chatbot, please keep in mind that it may be inaccurate."

Some real "First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence" energy here.

17, only because: a. my early career was in a workplace that was even more analog-based where a fax machine was an unwanted luxury; b. I was a Hotmail/ICQ user, not an AOL user; and c. my family (nor their friends) wasn't nearly fancy enough for a waterbed.

need something fun to watch? how about this: THREE MEN IN A BOAT (1975), dramatized by Tom fuckin' Stoppard and starring Tim Curry and Michael Palin www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgwk...

A summary of rumours from multiple sources RE: #ValourFC - Wade Miller (Winnipeg Football Club) was approached by a buyer, and a deal was drafted. - WFC demanded stipulations about using the stadium and cuts of concession income - Buyer balks and walks after additional stips added by WFC #CanPL /1

#ValourFC wasn’t just my second-favourite team because they were the underdog; they were my second favourite team because they were the sole representative of central Canada, the great plains, the connecting thread between east and west, and they had an amazing jersey every year.

Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...

Congratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem. Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...

My Q&A with @hfxwanderersfc.bsky.social president Derek Martin covering: -Not renewing Patrice Gheisar -The coaching search -Mark Watson's future -A new coach 'before the end of the year' -Selling Tiago Coimbra and much more #CanPL

In today’s post Aly Firth explores drag during the First World War through the life of Ross Hamilton from Nova Scotia. This post is part of our Queering Atlantic Canada series. Check out this post and the entire series!

November 16 marks a milestone for @dalhousie.bsky.social Geographic Information Systems Centre (GIS Centre); 20 years of innovation, collaboration, and impact: blogs.dal.ca/libraries/20...

Quite fond of Zoon and Elisapie as well

#CBCNS posted this rare coloured footage from #Halifax #NovaScotia between 1939 to 1945 during #WWII. Living in Halifax for over 20yrs, I still recognize the landmarks. Even #WinstonChurchill is seen in clips. Amazing to see this old footage #RemembranceDay 2025

The great Neil Young turns 80 tomorrow. To celebrate, we asked 80 artists including Jeff Tweedy, Dave Matthews, Brittany Howard, Michael Stipe, Open Mike Eagle, Jewel, Tom Morello, Kurt Vile, Allison Russell, Matt Berninger, Perfume Genius, A-Trak, and many more about their favorite Neil song:

A #RemembranceDay #archives thread: December 20th, 1915 was a day of "rather unusual activity" in the trenches for a young Lieutenant in the 25th Battalion, as Dalhousie ('11) Owen Bell Jones was subject to a "peculiar coincidence", which he relates in a letter to his mentor Archibald MacMechan.

The beautiful chaos of a used bookstore is unmatched.

Grammys announcing Gaga's nominations this morning

new British Library digital preservation policy www.bl.uk/stories/blog... "The policy is built around 4 interdependent principles that shape the BL approach to digital preservation: pragmatism, consistency, risk awareness, and sustainability." via Maureen Pennock #DigiPres #iPres25 #wdpd25

Increasingly the Venn diagram of my intellectual interests & commitments—digital humanities, book history/bibliography, book arts, critical making—perhaps meet in the region "Luddite Humanities" Not technological rejection—but slower, deliberate, critical, historicized engagement with technology

Did you know today, Nov. 6, is World Digital Preservation Day? This year's theme is 'Why preserve?'. In this video, Renée from the Halifax Municipal Archives team shares her thoughts on the importance of preserving digital information for the long term. Learn more at: halifax.ca/archives #WDPD2025

What a time to be alive

Free online workshops for high school educators across Canada! 🎓 Discover how to use rich primary materials from The ArQuives to bring 2SLGBTQIA+ histories into your lessons, discussions, and assignments. Register: https://arquives.ca/activating-queer-history-in-the-classroom-with-the-arquives/

Do you work with linked data in the humanities or cultural heritage sectors? The Forward Linking partnership wants your input on the current state + future of the linked data ecosystem. Fill this 15-20 min survey ➡️ tinyurl.com/LOD-Ecosystem Led by Kim Martin + Susan Brown @uofguelph.bsky.social

The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives (@arquives.ca) is launching its largest-ever digitization initiative focusing on hidden Canadian 2SLGBTQIA+ histories. Learn more: arquives.ca/the-arquives...

yes, you have a right to privacy in the library! the mission of public libraries is to afford everyone, in the broadest sense of the word, free access to the products of culture, in the broadest sense of the word—where “free” means both “you don’t have to pay” and “you are left the fuck alone.” 📚

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Breaking: @hfxwanderersfc.bsky.social won't bring back head coach Patrice Gheisar for the 2026 #CanPL season. The move comes less than 48-hours after the club's heartbreaking shootout loss to York United FC.

I was blown away by them front row centre for a festival show. Was already a fan but became a lifer. Sadly it was near the end of their final tour & they were the lead-in to a band whose fans had no time for them; the set ended with Rob saying "you were awful & we're never playing this hole again".

"Hey ChatGPT please write an incident report in the format of a Krasznahorkai novel"

If you don't understand the threat Amazon poses to bookstores in the immediate term, and to readers, authors, everyone in the long term, then...

Real leadership in libraries means looking your community - including your boss's boss - in the face and saying to them that fewer staff means less services. There is no way around it. That's the truth of the matter. The community is either okay with that or not.

Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings

"Autonomy without authority" is an applicable phrase indeed. #Digipres2025

A worthy laureate. Timely, given his “compelling, visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms art's power.” I won't say I've 'enjoyed' those works of his I've read, but I've definitely been both engaged & horrified by his dystopic melancholies. Must revisit them soon.

if your business model is only viable if you can steal from other people then you don’t have a legitimate business.

Libraries, archives & museums are under pressure, but cultural memory can survive. Hear author @TJOwens.bsky.social of AFTER DISRUPTION: A FUTURE FOR CULTURAL MEMORY chat with @ShannonNattern.bsky.social on the Future Knowledge #podcast. 🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm

Saddened to hear about the recent passing of Ivan Klima at 94. I discovered his works while travelling in Boston, trying to fulfil of book request list of authors I'd not read or heard of. A couple of Klima's titles were on the list, and a host of other eastern Europeans.

An old military maxim often attributed to Napoleon is “an army marches on its stomach” and I feel the same way that a university thinks via its library. The slow and steady financial diminution of research libraries and the librarians who staff them is, to me, a slow-rolling higher Ed catastrophe.

A list of words for coffee in ten different languages... 10. Welsh = coffi 9. French = café 8. Manx = caffee 7. Romanian = cafea 6. Dutch = koffie 5. German = kaffee 4. Swedish = kaffe 3. Malagasy = kafe 2. Icelandic = kaffi 1. Ojibwe = makade-mashkikiwaaboo (literally “black medicine water”)

Ossoff: "We have a president who's completely out of control, a crook engaged in unprecedented corruption, who's passing one of the most unpopular agendas in history. The public is turning against him. The opposition is motivated. We can win & we have to win, but we don't have the luxury of despair"

20 years plus a day since one of my favorite concerts: Pearl Jam's only (so far? pls?) visit to Halifax, supported by a phenomenal set from Sleater-Kinney. Magnificent evening.

The digital age threatens our cultural memory. Can libraries, archives & museums create a just, sustainable future? 📖 Learn how in the #booktalk for AFTER DISRUPTION with Trevor Owens & Shannon Mattern. 📅 Thurs Sept 25 🕖 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 ONLINE 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1633230118...

In hindsight, all the problems started when we moved away from hand-written library catalog cards.

Irony is truly dead.

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

Not only is today the 1st day of the Best Season, it is also #HobbitDay (celebrated based on Sept 22nd being both Bilbo's & Frodo's birthday). I'm celebrating by continuing reading my 50th anniversary HoughtonMifflin edition with the lad. He's iffy on it so far, but I'm enjoying a nostalgic revisit.

This Sunday afternoon! Visit HCC to talk cycling infrastructure, or learn about the Cycling Guide app. Drop off your bike for safekeeping at our bike valet, get some bike maintenance from 12-2pm, get a bike fit from physio Adrian Wong from 2-4pm. HCC members can pick up their free anti-theft shield.

One takeaway for Canadians watching what’s happening in the United States right now is that we need to put more pressure on governments / parties to strengthen democratic institutions and the fourth estate You can also defend democracy by supporting the work of journalists and civil society groups