Thanks to the amazing team at @chashub.bsky.social for hosting another wonderful Charleston conference. As always, it was a productive and enjoyable week. We appreciate all the hard work that goes into executing this event! #CHSCon25

The comment period for the Draft NISO Recommended Practice RP-46-202X, Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Infrastructure Project (CCLIP), is now open from November 6 - December 15, 2025 Access the draft and provide your feedback here: www.niso.org/standards-co...

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar #scholpublishing #research #integrity doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

A tide of fabricated research risks scientific integrity on.ft.com/490bhut | opinion

Dempsey- Copilot and #AI in MS Office is just the new Clippy #CHSCon25

Dempsey: No longer are librarians focused on collection management, they are moved to strategic questions around how and what to collect and how the ecosystem functions and how library resources should be distributed to meet institutional goals.

Dempsey: Libraries are not independent or stand alone, they are always embedded in an institution or society. Library is always relational to their users and community Therefore Libraries are not static, they are dynamic, constantly evolving and adapting to changing tech & user needs. #CHSCon25

Lorcan Dempsey quoting Eleanor Jo Rodger at #CHSCon25 “Similarly, public libraries are society's way of paying attention to learning and equity.”

Lorcan Dempsey providing some thoughts about LIS education and trends in library leadership at #CHSCon25

Kicking off 45th Charleston Library conference #CHSCon25

Don’t start happy hour at #CHSCon25 Thursday early! You’ll miss our session on #AI, quality and integrity for scholarship at 5:00 pm

We’re starting to see the challenges of funding #OpenAccess research through library budgets, because those resources are being significantly constrained #CHScon25

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

It used to be that (redacted) library would support #OpenAccess fees and that was split across the library and the administration, but now none of them have the money. So we will Only pay for #OA fees, if the grant requires it and there is no other source of funding #CHScon25

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is one of many experiments designed to replace human-generated writing with LLMs. But Ryan McGrady argues that its defining feature is its use of technological power to re-exert top-down authority over information and knowledge. buff.ly/odvgs4q

Oxford University Press Announces Agreement to Acquire Karger www.infodocket.com/2025/11/04/o... #publishing #scholcomm #libraries

If you have nothing nice to say about someone, don’t say anything. #Advice

Thank you to the dedicated government employees who are working today despite the wretched and incompetent leadership in DC. Your commitment to the citizens of this country should put those Congressmen to shame. Someone appreciates your service! #shutdown25

If you're headed to Charleston this week: @9thprime.bsky.social is speaking w/Gaëlle Bequet & Boaz Nadav-Manes on Smart Standards, Trusted Data: Leveraging AI for Quality & Integrity in Publishing & Collections Development (Thurs. 5pm in the Gaillard Center): www.charleston-hub.com/the-charlest...

Happy Halloween everyone!!! 🎃 👻

Musk is aiming to fill the internet with AI schlock with his new Wikipedia knock off. I tried it out and it is exactly what you might expect from a troll-centered AI bot. It’s right about 60% of the time, filled with specious citations and false information

Who was the dumb-ass idiot who thought the flag should be displayed backwards? It is disgraceful, disrespectful and just plain wrong

Some friend of Donald’s anonymously donated $130 million to pay military salaries. Or roughly $10 per active duty personnel. A kind gesture. However, I wonder what they should be paying in taxes and whether they’ve fought against cutting taxes on the rich?

The East Wing is gone, and Trump turns to damage control And you thought The Orange was only metaphorically destroying the White House and its traditions. Nope. Actual wrecking crew dismantling one symbol of our country. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

An overview from @9thprime.bsky.social, NISO, of Crossref's leadership over the last quarter century and its emphasis on community-building ("social infrastructure") in the scholarly communications environment, resulting in tightly connected links between digital research objects. #Crossref2025

So much Frankfurt #fbm25

Headed to #FBM25 next week? @9thprime.bsky.social will be there and would love to talk to you about what's happening at NISO, including new projects on #AI in #ScholComm, our recently published draft Recommended Practice for #OA Business Processes, and more. PM us to get in touch!

No early morning wake up call from Stockholm this morning for “our dear leader”. Whatever will he do to Denmark in retaliation?

More bad news from the world of book distribution. Baker & Taylor is shutting down. B&T is one of the largest distributors of print and audiovisual materials for libraries, serving more than 4,000 institutions americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/10/08/b...

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Joyeux anniversaire ISSN. In Paris this week celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the ISSN at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) 50years.issn.org/conference

Portland Community College campus is looking especially war-torn today.

Because there are really important standards in the world, you should all be aware of this newest #ISO Technical Specification ISO TS 5617 Tea — Classification by chemical composition (1st edition, published September 2025) www.iso.org/standard/814...

Last year IMLS awarded National Leadership grants for Libraries to 50 projects totaling $13,206,160. This year, apparently it’s given roughly the same amount to 8 projects.

Just got an email that ShakeShack is updating their TOS. Seriously? A fast food restaurant has a ToS? This world and its lawyers have gotten way out of hand!

I just gotta say, people, don’t take health advice from quacks and charlatans. Looks back through history, shrugs.

Listening to Eric Larson talking during the inaugural Booked for Baltimore County hosted by #FoundationforBCPL #BaltimoreCounty #PublicLibrary #BCPL.

To the friends of Kirk, sending you “Thoughts and prayers” #StopGunViolence

The DC Appeals Court has now ruled that Shira Perlmutter’s termination as the Register of #Copyright in the Library of Congress was improper. Via Gary Price Ruling: media.cadc.uscourts.gov/orders/docs/...

How do we measure the usage and impact of #scholarly research in #ArtificialIntellugence #AI systems? A new COUNTER working group is working on defining how to do this: Generative and Agentic AI: updates from our working group www.countermetrics.org/ai-bots-group/

Off to a week of ISO meeting in Redmond this week hosted at the @microsoft.com offices We’re talking document structure and semantics, archiving EPUBS, data papers, and Office Document file structures. I know you are jealous!

Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.

There is profoundly wrong with a President threatening an American city full of American citizens with “WAR” just because they don’t support him 🇺🇸

When you update an app there is a 50-50 chance that one (or more) of the things you like will be removed. Enshitification at work. @nytimes.com

One check on power wielded by those in office in a democracy is the knowledge they some day will be out of office. One would be reluctant to, say, pursue every minor misstatement on a mortgage app as a felony, if one worried the same tactics would be used against them when they are out of power.

@jeffjarvis.bsky.social little point: You mentioned last week in TWIT Intelligent Machines you “get the WSJ for free because you are an academic”. IDK for sure but I expect your access is through your university library & is paid via a subscription operating behind the scenes with IP auth & not free

If I read a headline that says, “I asked ChatGPT”, I presume the rest of the article is complete drivel and move on.

Doesn’t the GOP and this administration understand that government ownership of corporations is literally the definition of communism? Via @washingtonpost.com (gift link): wapo.st/45O3T28

Oddly coincidental that five of the six states sending troops to DC are former CSA states that had sent troops in an attempt to overthrow the government by force of arms and still honor that successionist history

Do birds feel sad, when they push their hatchlings out of the nest?