Not a great look that so many university libraries are promoting AI. Libraries have always been a space for valuing authors' work and showing how to locate and properly cite sources--not encouraging tech that steals from authors and produces slop.

Using Overdrive Libby app and Sora, readers borrowed more than 820 million digital titles worldwide in 2025 #libraries

Alberta Unbound, featuring Pilar Martinez on the role of #libraries podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...

Now available Finger by Dieter Froelich This #album by Hanover-based artist #DieterFroehlich contains two #broadsheets depicting fingers and hands that were accidentally captured on scanned book pages during their digitalisation by #GoogleBooks. #Bilderbogen #Sammelalbum #zine #malenkinet

It doesn’t matter if this accessibility problem is only temporarily. We should not rely on a US-based big tech player when it comes to digitized cultural heritage. Full point. #GoogleBooks

Respecting First Nations Knowledges in UQ library #FirstNations #libraries

'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3

Working on adding research expedition data into #Wikidata & attributing specimens of expedition collectors in @bionomia.net Got discouraged as the dataset I'm linking to is CC BY NC licensed i.e. a closed license. Discourages folk like me from enriching that institutions data via #Bionomia.

New blog post! This one describes the *my place* app which brings the place-based collections I worked on during my SLV residency together in a single interface – just try searching for an address! https://updates.timsherratt.org/2026/02/02/my-place-exploring-slv-collections.html #glam […]

Congrats to @brewster.kahle.org for being named to the Computer History Museum 2026 Fellows! "For pioneering roles in online search engines, and in digital preservation and open access to knowledge provided by the Internet Archive" More info ➡️ computerhistory.org/2026-fellow-...

Licensing Is Speedrunning the Destruction of the Historical Record (Again) 📚📜 copyrightfightclub.substack.com/p/licensing-...

I love the idea of this partnership between a museum and the local public library's special collections for a podcast. 📜 www.kwqc.com/2026/01/29/a...

9200 librarians/Guardians of the word from all over the world sharing knowledge, experience and innovative thoughts on the future of libraries are waiting for your stories. Thnks for being there UROCK linkedin.com/groups/3933248/

NEW Research Paper (preprint): The ‘Big Three’ of Scientific Information: A Comparative #Bibliometric Review of Web of Science, #Scopus, and #OpenAlex www.infodocket.com/2026/01/30/r... @clarivateag.bsky.social @elsevierconnect.bsky.social #libraries #scholcomm

#AI utilised to represent Indigenous peoples, knowledges and cultures with no community accountability or relationships with Indigenous peoples= cultural appropriation

Case Exemplars of How Academic Libraries Promote Sustainable Communities (Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 59) bookstore.emerald.com/case-exempla...

The Recording Academy banned fully AI-generated music from Grammy consideration, but the line between acceptable AI tools and problematic AI creation is blurry. Using AI to organize files is fine. Using it to generate a song's hook is not. Or is it?

Gemini-powered machine translation of the Internet Archive TV News Archive's entire quarter-century archive of more than 2.4 million non-English broadcasts.

The research guide on Environmental History that I wrote for The National Archives, UK is now live! Includes research advice and resources on colonial environments, pollution, agriculture, and animal histories. Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo... #envhist #envhum

‘I was so, so stupid’: how Animalia and The Eleventh Hour made Graeme Base an unlikely bestseller | Guardian buff.ly/JGRhhqH

National Social Impact Study on urban public #libraries in Canada. culc.ca/project/soci...

On our latest, host Emily is joined by Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders, coauthors of REWIRING DEMOCRACY, to envision how AI might be harnessed for the good of the people. Find the episode anywhere you get your podcasts or online: www.overdueingit.org/home/episode...

Today on the blog: @circulatingideas.bsky.social featuring @vantine.bsky.social w/ more from her about the passive RA training she can offer your library: raforall.blogspot.com/2026/01/circ...

I too mourn the passing of that golden age

📚 Some of our most historic collections for #LibraryShelfieDay! ⭐This part of our collection is known as the ‘Stars’, from the paper asterisks stuck on their spines. It contains the contents of the Library as it stood in 1714. Photo by @liamsims.bsky.social

The true worth of literacy is a cluster of skills that allow us to understand expressed communication.

A guide to the tools and databases librarians use, plus a personal fact-checking workflow you can run in under 60 seconds

Swimming at the beach was largely banned in Australia until the early 19th century – now, it’s intrinsic to our national identity. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/beach-s...

New Report Published: International Metadata Recommendations and Platform-Specific Requirements for Open Access Books and Chapters | Copim community https://copim.pub/new-report-published-international-metadata-recommendations-and-platform-specific-requirements-for-open-access-books-and-chapters/

The internet's memory isn’t a cloud—it’s heat, power, and hard drives 🔥💾 Inside the Internet Archive’s trillion-page fight against digital forgetting, from PetaBox servers to legal battles over memory itself ⚙️📚 ➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now... #InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #WebHistory

Our latest Surviving the Stacks podcast is available. This episode looks at measurement of outcome s to demonstrate impact of #library programs. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/s...

It is important to me to announce that Wikimedia Australia has engaged Terri Janke and Co to scope the requirements for an Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property and Indigenous Data Sovereignty Protocol for WMAU. #FirstNations #FirstPeoplesFirst #IndigenousKnowledge #ICIP @wmau.bsky.social

Latest Episode of @ala-booklist.bsky.social's Shelf Care The Podcast with a FREE Training Opportunity and a Survey. Please participate: raforall.blogspot.com/2026/01/late...

Circulating Ideas 306: Passive Readers' Advisory with Lila Denning @vantine.bsky.social circulatingideas.com/2026/01/26/3...

“how do librarians best serve all patrons in a professional way during a crisis, while staying safe and setting healthy boundaries for themselves?” #libraries

First UnSpun journal club episode is live! Efforts to stop misinformation focus on helping people recognize it. New research suggests sometimes people share fake news on purpose. @danieleffron.bsky.social & colleagues tested a way to reduce that. Find it here or where you pod. bit.ly/UnSpunPod

Free and available for everyone, you can access the learning here: librariesrising.org.uk/sparkspace-c...

SparkSpace is finally here! Co-created with children and young people with support from Participation People, SparkSpace is a free training platform for library staff and volunteers to help library teams meaningfully engage and empower young people. Funded by the Foyle Foundation.

We built a thing impactkit.com/blog/announc...

Went to my local library this morning to do a bit of research for my current book project and my goodness such a life-affirming space! There was an adult being taught to read on the next table, children enjoying story time, countless people taking out books. So grateful for our libraries ❤️

The medium is the message. Book Riot's reporting of the Youth Media Award winners is legible, clear, and has links to all the titles (on Amazon, no one's perfect). I tried three different library association award lists and none had all three. Enjoy this list. Buy some good books. Thank you, Kelly.

The London Consensus is free to read and download via #OpenAccess publishing here: doi.org/10.31389/lse... @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social

🤔Ancient Greek Star Map Revealed by X-Rays on Erased Manuscript linked to Hipparchus greekreporter.com/2026/01/27/a...

#Reading has been named as a key priority of the new Federal arts body, Writing Australia, in the first round of funding, announced today. australiareads.org.au/news/writing...

We publish articles written by experts because of the web of knowledge “knotted together by visible signals of trust, such as degrees, publications, affiliations and accreditations.” But public trust in science is fracturing along party lines: buff.ly/LmPVZGr

Astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg named Australian of the Year for 2026

Very excited to publish this interview with Greg Wiedeman on @bloggers.bsky.social! Greg has good insights on simplifying LAM tech to be sustainable in the context of limited resources. It was great to talk to him, and I'm glad to share our conversation saaers.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/k...

Digital Preservation Coalition’s (DPC) Novice to Know-How (N2KH) training provides a structured learning pathway to build confidence and practical skills #DigitalPreservation

New on bloggERS! saaers.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/l...