Are we talking in libraryland about the amount of garbage we now get when we put in any sort of reasonable search into our common (Proquest/EBSCO) interfaces? In terms of relevant results for the exact same search, Google Scholar is far outpacing the databases we pay $$$$$ for in EVERY instance.📚

I'm thrilllled this research is finally out there! Library hiring prob isn't the worst out there, but as a field we have a long way to go when it comes to being inclusive of neurodivergent job candidates. TY Lead Pipe for being such a wonderful group to publish my first peer-reviewed article with!

"messages that librarians should be enthusiastic + optimistic about technological changes... frequently described as inevitable, often imply or outright assert that those who question or resist certain tech developments are simply overwhelmed by irrational fear + anxiety that they need to overcome."

"what if emotional responses like “AI anxiety” are in large part deeply intelligent...? What if the cognitive dissonance that many of us experience when reading articles about AI anxiety or the necessity of AI adoption is worth our attention and curiosity?"

I've never felt more validated by a journal article, phewwwwwww.

New blog post on ACRLog, "AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide." Got a lot of comments during a recent presentation that people hadn't heard of the concept of AI refusal, so here's some places to start. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...

"It just really comes as a shock that such accomplished intellectuals, who’ve spent their entire careers pushing the upper bounds of human achievement, could be judgy about a machine that runs the entirety of human imagination through a shredder and glues together what comes out."

I wrote about the widespread adoption of AI in education, and why there needs to be more resistance to it open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...

I'm so enjoying how UK librarians are critically approaching libraries at #CALC2025. Happy coincidence of today - I'd ordered an awesome-sounding book for a student's honors thesis a couple months ago, only to discover I'd be hearing from its speaker @sachacoward.bsky.social this morning!

Here's something you can do right now. Let's all become members of the National Museum of African American History and Culture! support.si.edu/site/Donatio...

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

Research librarian confessions: of the 6 research consults I've had this week, my first step for 5 of them has been Google Scholar. And it's worked way better than the subscription databases.

Not gonna lie, I'm feeling pretty ancient sitting here in a session about two decades of critical info lit - wasn't it one decade like, last year? @eamontewell.bsky.social #ACRL2025

*stares in "doesn't want to attend a single AI session yet it feels like that is 50% of the talks this year"*

ICYMI we don't think that using GAI tools is inevitable or desireable digitalispeople.org/beige-by-des...

Also having major brain fog - like I know I spent time with friends at ACRL in 2019, I know I enjoyed myself, but trying to remember who I saw and who's even in libraries anymore is proving mega challenging.

I'm going to #ACRL2025, my first national conference pre-pandemic, and it feels like starting all over again. How does one conference? (Also, please tell me if you'll be there, because there's nothing like a good conference meetup to make librarianship feel like the smallest of small worlds.)

Having been v disengaged from library social media for the last 4 years (just treading water raising a tiny human, it's all good), I'm trying to get back into it! The firehose be firehosing but I'd love any starter packs y'all have of librarians to recommend, ty!

Happy to say that I'll be co-presenting "Creating change or checking a box?: Experiences of EDI chairs in academic libraries" at #ACRL2025! Let's get (moderately) spicy about what it means to chair a DEI committee in academic libraries.

Ahh I didn't see this until after our session but I love our little poster! Thanks to everyone who attended our #LibCALM session and everyone at CALM who's put in so much work to make this conference an incredible experience both as presenter and attendee 😍

Have things to say about lib EDI committees achieving initiatives, addressing probs or building inclusive environments? Join our study! We're conducting anonymous convos to learn about experiences of EDI comms that lack formal authority w/in their academic library. Email [email protected] to join!

Preliminary results from the Denver Basic Income Project that's providing cash to hundreds of unhoused people for one year using the first 6 months of data: • NO ONE receiving $1,000/mo still sleeping outside • Full-time employment increased • Fewer visits to the ER • Fewer nights spent in jail

📣Calling all current/former chairs of EDI committees in academic libraries!📣 We're conducting guided discussions to learn about experiences of EDI committees that lack formal authority within their library. 1/2

PSA: the CDC has a program that pays for your COVID vaccine if your insurer won't. The guy at CVS told me that my insurer had not added the new vaccine to its formulary yet, so I'd need to pay $190. I told him about this program, showed him the website, and paid nothing. 🤗

When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem-- which did we fail?

It's always kind of amazing to me how I can be like "ahhhh I have no idea how to write or present on this thing, there are way too many things happening in my head" only for it to be Totally Fine as soon as I commit my thoughts to paper.

I finally downloaded the Bluesky app on my phone so I think I'm officially a convert?