As part of the world’s oldest digital library, Project Gutenberg’s Philippine section focuses on texts where the copyright has expired. It is the definitive source for those looking to download foundational works of Filipino literature in multiple formats. www.abs-cbn.com/news/technol...

Dog-eared page-turners: how Tashi and 388 other canines are helping Australian children to read

12 research #libraries launched the Statement of Shared Practice on #AI Training Requests and Unique Cultural Collections

I moved to substack in June 2025, here are some of the posts at aarontay.substack.com that I am proudest of (1)

What uses more? Compare the environmental footprint of digital tasks: what-uses-more.com

Anthropic is racing to contain the fallout after accidentally leaking Claude Code source code, issuing copyright takedown requests to remove 8,000+ copies.

A resource on meaningful Acknowledgement of Country #FirstNations #Australia #Respect

We Prepare to Survive Disasters - but how well are we preparing for the impacts of disasters? #Australia - Kate Brady | TEDxUNSW Salon youtu.be/ddogc3GvBN4

The two types of librarian conflict management as illustrated by Richard Scarry. Which are you?

A New York Times critic used #AI to write his review – but criticism is deeply human

Even Microsoft admits that their free Copilot functions are not serious. www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...

The Australian way of life displayed in The Magic Pudding revolves around the life of the belly, not the life of the mind.

Happy April Fool’s Day to all who remember a good prank. theconversation.com/from-spaghet...

A Kansas publishing house sold 300 MILLION affordable books during the Depression. Here are a few

Guay, S. (2026). Engagement Practices of Canadian Academic Libraries for the Advancement of Student Voices . Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 21(1), 22–56. doi.org/10.18438/ebl... #libraries

Opinion: The UK needs a national strategy on open access involving funders, universities, libraries, publishers and scholarly communities, says Lindsay Farmer #openaccess https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/longform-open-access-cant-rely-unfunded-mandates

Citizens have contributed to science in Australia for many decades – and the field is now undergoing rapid growth

Beyond the Stacks: Social Work, Libraries, and Community Care with Dr. Beth Wahler (The Socially Engaged Podcast) #libraries

Today, the Archive published a Disappearing Data Chronology--a timeline tracking changes in access to federal information under Trump, including major data losses and restorations, legal challenges to information takedowns, and threats to archival collections. nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...

👀ICYMI: "a narrow focus on auditing outputs overlooks the wider benefits that emerge across the whole lifecycle of research" #ResearchImpact #ResearchEvaluation

You never know what data will be used for! I uploaded a @britishlibrary.bsky.social dataset to Hugging Face in 2022. IIRC one of my first PR to a HF repo! 4 years later, someone trains a Victorian chatbot on it More libraries should be sharing their public domain collections for AI to build on!

Writer Beware® assists writers tracking, exposing, and raising awareness about schemes, scams, and other bad practice in the publishing industry, with the aim of providing writers with tools to protect themselves from exploitation. writerbeware.blog/about/

New author scam dropped. Jenny Hickman’s FB profile photo was generated into video on an account attempting to fleece readers. When she started posting about it on other sites, the scammer used the fake profile to negatively rate other books and to accuse other authors of AI use.

Why the library is an author's friend and how Public Lending Rights (PLR) Programs take that relationship to whole new level #libraries

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

Someone who knows what she is talking about. “Signal President Meredith Whittaker warns of "real danger" in agentic AI hype. To be "magic genie bots" (concert booking etc.), they need root access to all your data: browser, cards, messages.” youtube.com/watch?v=jY8c...

Margaret Medcalf ensured that some of Western Australia's most important documents were preserved. #archives #GLAMS

Vocational Awe and Librarianship by Fobazi Ettarh is an article every library worker should read. Sharing it here in case someone has missed it: www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocatio... 📚📜

"[N]ow more than ever, we need the humanities. Because it teaches us human skills and what it is to be human. These will be the most valuable skills in the future; not just at work, but also to have a good life." (Thanks to @ecolleary.bsky.social for sharing this comic on IG.) #humanities 🗃️📜📚

The library that made me : I borrowed my first books in Mumbai. Now, Sydney’s #libraries are home

“Dragging a ladder through long rows of bookshelves can be exhausting. It’s much more efficient to have a co-worker who’s able to reach the top shelves on their own or at least give you a boost climbing up.” #miragaia #stegosaur #dinosaur #paleoart #library #librarian #books

"Every step we take towards deGoogling, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction." New from me: The first step toward getting off Google, feat. @cyberlyra.bsky.social buttondown.com/creativegood...

AI Preparedness Guidelines for Archivists via FLAME (AI for Libraries, Archives and Museums) project provide practical guidance to help the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums #GLAMS sector approach #AI adoption in a responsible and informed way www.archives.org.uk/ai-preparedn...

If you do one thing for yourself, please read a book. Bonus points if that book is written by someone who looks nothing like you.

“I never realized the importance of third places until they were out of my life.” @joshkozelj27.bsky.social on how the local pool is key for community. 🏊

The concept of "AI slop" highlights the imbalance in effort between creators and consumers of content generated by artificial intelligence. As production becomes effortless, the burden shifts to the consumer. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation#AIEdu#AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu

Rosander, M., & Nielsen, M. B. (2026). Workplace Bullying in the Open: the Risks Associated with Working in an Open Office. Occupational Health Science, 10(1). doi.org/10.1007/s415...

Open-plan offices are supposed to encourage collaboration and communication. But evidence suggests they have been linked to higher levels of sick leave, lower wellbeing, reduced face-to-face interaction and new research suggests, increased risk of workplace bullying.

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

Researchers and publishers have expressed scepticism about a proposed exception to UK copyright law that would permit data mining by artificial intelligence developers purely for science and research. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...

Libraries have to be a fundamental part of University strategies - knowledge access and stewardship are fundamentally important to the future success of HEIs, particularly in the age of generative AI, misinformation & suppression #RLUK26

Journalists have been asking us again and again about how to spot deepfakes. Here’s our best advice for now, though it may evolve quickly, as AI advancements are happening in weeks and months rather than years. deepfakestracker.org/deepfake-spo...

Feminist Librarianship: Principles, Practices and Provocations #libraries

"How Good are Libraries" campaign - Public #Libraries Sooth Australia campaign

"DigitalArc (DA), was designed to support the creation of low-cost sustainable digital exhibits and archives built by and for communities who want to control how their histories are presented online."

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok are all bad at crediting news outlets, but ChatGPT is the worst (at least in this study) www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/chat... Haven't read the paper, but wish they'd thrown in Perplexity as well. #Attribution

🚨Illustrators: The Australian Booksellers Association are looking to commission an illustrator for the 2026 Love Your Bookshop Day campaign! Fill out an Expression of Interest (EOI) form by 5:00 pm AEST, Monday 6 April 2026: forms.gle/jKJ6A6EmVobBK3CF6

Considering we don’t have national infrastructure (or mandates) for open access in Aotearoa - our universities repositories and OA agreements are shifting the dial but not sure if we can get to 70% without them. Congrats to Massey and Lincoln who have! #OpenResearch tesaunders.github.io/oa-nz/

Taylor & Francis increase the number of open access articles in our professional journal JALIA #libraries collaboration