Check out my newest blog for some of my top tips to make this year great! knowledgequest.aasl.org/10-real-talk... What is a piece of advice you'd give to new or returning librarians? #Skybrarians #SchoolLibrary #TLChat

These hilarious stories shared by librarians will brighten your day.

Public #Libraries are 'essential for more equitable access to books, texts and digital resources', a new report from Literacy Lab @edinburghuni.bsky.social on the future of books and reading notes. blogs.ed.ac.uk/literacylab/... #Reading

Anthropic, an #AI startup reached a US$1.5 billion settlement (AU$2.28 billion) in a class-action copyright lawsuit initiated in 2024 by novelist Andrea Bartz and non-fiction writers Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson

The Australian War Memorial is in the news for reportedly retrospectively changing the rules of its Les Carlyon prize for military history.

5 new Australian publishers are making defiant, weird, grass-roots books theconversation.com/5-new-austra...

From stunning old webpages to personal archives like ancient DeviantArt drawings, the Wayback Machine preserves art, experiences, and data that might otherwise vanish. Its existence keeps our digital creativity alive—and our memories safe. 💾🎨 #Wayback1T

Hi! The @archive.org has many epic features like saving sites and viewing deleted pages, but it's also got some little useful functions like tracking edits, searching broadcasts and visualising topics in news items. I visit all of them in this YouTube tutorial 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwuX...

We often underestimate our own creative potential, believing it belongs to artists, writers, or performers. But creativity is inherently human - it's about showing up with generosity and curiosity.

1000 Libraries has named the world’s ten most beautiful book-cafés, and Sydney is home to one of them.

All hype about the power of facilitating "human-AI collaboration" aside, we don't quickly implement extremely strong norms of disclosure around AI use, science is cooked. From arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12282, one of many many efforts in this direction.

Academia.edu account terms and conditions now give them the right to use your image/ideas/everything for any purpose. Check your account settings.

UNSW Sydney inks Australia’s biggest ChatGPT Edu deal with OpenAI

❓Maybe taking charge of our own AI development and use could lead to a brighter tomorrow? 2026.everythingopen.au/news/opensou... ⏰ Share with us at #EverythingOpen Canberra 2026. ⏰ #CFP closes 21 Sep 2025! 2026.everythingopen.au/programme/pr... #EO2026 #conference #openSource #OpenSourceAI

We concluded day one #ndf25 with Cade Diehm's 'Who will remember us when the servers go dark' a sobering reality check about the risks associated with the infrastructure GLAM organisations use for archiving taonga

The average lifespan of a web page is 100 days, and the average lifespan of a website is only 2.7 years. Online content is often at greater risk than older analogue content. #ndf25

Library of Congress has a really good planning framework: libraryofcongress.github.io/labs-ai-fram...

Just leaving this here to look at later (via @ndfnz.bsky.social ): www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d4u... #NDF2025 #GLAM #AI

Do you truly understand the value of your institution as your audiences perceive it? The complexity of serving diverse audiences with varied expectations? How is your museum distinguishable from the other institutions doing similar things in your community?

AI REVISITED – ATTITUDES, CONSUMERS, TOURISM AND MUSEUMS I have been looking a little into AI in the past year or so (posts here and here), and am now revisiting in light of how fast things are moving in this space, and as I undertake more research for a variety of clients. Here’s where I've…

Our friends over at #iPRES2025 would love to see you in Wellington (or online) in November to explore digital preservation in depth. It’s the first time the conference has ever been held in Aotearoa, so do take advantage of the opportunity if you can.

Public #Libraries of Aotearoa: Impact Backed by Data: PLNZ’s Community #Impact loveyourlibrary.org.nz/libraries-in...

AI data scraping is causing major problems for digital archives. Many publishers of cool historical material (free for the public), like @hagleycenter.bsky.social, are being hit w/ bot swarms akin to denial of service attacks. Latest in The Lint Trap linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/when-ai-da...

We're rethinking on-site digital for SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst. The future is bring-your-own-device based, QR based and extremely data-driven. We can't wait to get started and there's even a blogpost (!) #musetech

Some nice examples in the 'use cases' section of AI for Humanists aiforhumanists.com/guides/useca... - from OCR to annotation to identifying voices and styles

We deserve better AI models: 'the subjectivity of a task or instance negatively affects the performance of a model – an observation that is particularly worrying for humanities research'. From Small Language Models for libraries and computational humanities repository.jisc.ac.uk/10219/1/smal...

More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site www.bl.uk/collection/d... And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!

"Nerd Harder: A Typology of Techno-Legal Solutionist Logics in Child Online Safety Laws" by Amanda Reid, Lorcan Neill, and Evan Ringel onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

"if I find that candidates routinely stumble or misunderstand a specific question, I rephrase it or remove it altogether; usually, this is an indication that it's unclear. I never want to stump or trick anyone in an interview. That's not helpful for anyone. "

A Librarian’s Guide to #AI in Academic Search Tools #libraries by @aarontay.bsky.social

Maximizing the Values of #OpenAccess in Cultural Heritage Institutions #GLAMS via @creativecommons.bsky.social

Not all art hangs in museums. Across 1 trillion web pages it lives in sketches, fan sites, & web design. The Wayback Machine keeps this digital gallery open for all to enjoy. 🎨🧑‍🎨 📝 Tell us what irreplaceable works the Wayback Machine saved for you! ⤵️ forms.gle/c3XqotHUToKe... #Wayback1T

For those looking to bring an autism-affirming approach to their work, let's revisit -- Autistic Students and Academic Library Research: Recommendations for a Neurodiversity-Informed Approach by Jessica Hinton-Williams

Support your local library. 📚

How do you make your patron base aware of everything your library offers?

A 12-year-old bookworm has travelled 900 miles to visit all 42 public #Libraries in North Yorkshire over her summer holidays! What terrific commitment to libraries and #Reading! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “It turns out that when kids aren’t allowed to doom scroll, take rude pictures of each other or rot their brains on TikTok during lunch hour or in study hall, they get bored enough to go to the library,” Jessica Grose writes.

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Audio, Video, Posters and Slides- Oh My! How to use New AI Tools to Help Repackage Your Findings library.smu.edu.sg/topics-insig... something i wrote

Robert Munsch, the beloved Canadian children’s author who has sold more than 82 million books worldwide, has been approved for medical assistance in dying as he lives with dementia and Parkinson’s disease.

"Turn off the TV for an hour a night. Read in front of your kids. Have books in the house". -Robert Munsch a TRUE Canadian🇨🇦

There's a bigger threat to books than bans: monopoly of distribution, by @mariabustillos.com. www.cjr.org/analysis/the...

New research argues the problem of AI and assessment is way more difficult than media debates have been making out. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/our-new...

The Australian Creative Histories and Futures Project is running a survey to investigate data use across the arts and culture sectors. If you're a researcher, artist, or GLAM worker you might like to give your feedback: https://unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_78qwtk2SZhWOoku #glam

In other words, it’s not JUST contact with a piece of (mis)information (related to its spread) that shape our belief, but our perceptions of who else believes it. And digital systems have completely reconfigured how perceptions of social consensus form.

New work about how perceptions of social consensus shape belief. My sense is that the design of social media, w/ signals of engagement on top of massive attention flows, shapes social consensus… a key factor (IMO ) of information disorder.

Making reading central to everything we do … rewriting our school’s story

1 trillion pages saved, countless connections made. The web brings us together, expanding how we learn, share & build community beyond our immediate surroundings. 📝 Share how the web has shaped your world 🌐 ➡️ blog.archive.org/trillion/ #Wayback1T

What if stepping into a library wasn’t just finding a desk, but stepping into your personalized study universe? 🛸

Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation l NPR www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s...