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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 21h

"Backlogs and beyond: #AI in primary cataloging workflows" discusses how libraries are addressing cataloging backlogs, legacy metadata issues, and language challenges by exploring the practical support AI can provide, while keeping human expertise central. hangingtogether.org/backlogs-and...

Backlogs and beyond: AI in primary cataloging workflows - Hanging Together

Facing backlogs, legacy metadata issues, and language challenges, libraries are exploring how AI may offer practical support—while keeping human expertise central.

hangingtogether.org

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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 21h

It’s easy to assume that “everybody knows #libraries are for books and learning,” but that doesn’t mean people have any idea of the depth and breadth of collections, let alone how those items can help improve their lives.

www.infotoday.com

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NLISN @nlisn.bsky.social · 1d

'Addressing Language and Ableism in Information Technology: A Call to Action for Academic Librarians'🔽

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#Librarian 📚
#LibraryWorker
#Academia
#HE
#Neurodiversity
#CripLib

Addressing Language and Ableism in Information Technology: A Call to Action for Academic Librarians

This column explores the pervasive influence of information technologies in academic libraries and underscores the critical role of librarians and professional staff in navigating and thriving with...

www.tandfonline.com

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.bsky.social · 23h

This is the first in a series of 3 @oclc.org webinars about practical applications of "Reimagine Descriptive Workflows" www.oclc.org/research/pub... presenting case studies of reparative and inclusive descriptive practices.
Here's the 🧵...

Reimagine Descriptive Workflows: A Community-informed Agenda for Reparative and Inclusive Descriptive Practice

The Reimagine Descriptive Workflows project convened a group of experts, practitioners, and community members to determine ways of improving descriptive practices, tools, infrastructure, and workflows...

www.oclc.org

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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 1d

Vanessa Bartlett and Jasmin Pfefferkorn - how artists working with #AI are reshaping how we think about responsibility, creativity, and care. What it means for the #GLAMs sector and how galleries, libraries, archives and museums can navigate ethical questions not just in policy, but in practice.

Rethinking Ethics in the Age of AI Art | SLV LAB

A podcast with Vanessa Bartlett & Jasmin Pfefferkorn on AI art practice in the GLAM sector and their book Decentring Ethics. Ethics as practice, care and creativity in action.

lab.slv.vic.gov.au

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 3d

Don't miss our free, online Open and Engaged Conference 2025, as part of #InternationaOpenAccessWeek.

This year we're exploring the power, ethics, and responsibility embedded in how cultural heritage is created, shared, and preserved.

Register for free: bit.ly/BLEngagedCon...

A collage of images including a person with headphones on working at a desk, a person weaving straw together and someone in a lab holding a bottle. A open padlock graphic is laid over each image and text reads Open and Engaged 2025. Who owns our knowledge? Monday 20th, Wednesday 22nd, Thursday 23rd October, online conference..

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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 1d

#AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are #LLMs really? (via @nature.com ) www.nature.com/articles/d41... #GenAI

AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?

Tests of large language models reveal that they can behave in deceptive and potentially harmful ways. What does this mean for the future?

www.nature.com

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Libraries Connected @librariesconnected.bsky.social · 1d

Our Chief Executive @ih1968.bsky.social MBE introduces our Libraries 175 event at Manchester Central #Library.

Public #Libraries, Isobel reminds us, are one of the most effective tools we have to bring people together when divisions threaten the fabric of our society.

@dcmsgovuk.bsky.social

The stained glass inside Manchester Central Library.

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Libraries Connected @librariesconnected.bsky.social · 1d

Councillor John Hacking from Manchester City Council notes at #Libraries175 that public #Libraries are the 'beating heart of communities'. Libraries, he says, can and do combat the polarisation in our cities.

The inside of Manchester Central Library showing two colonnades.

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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 1d

The Cloud Ate My Homework: Why Artists and Arts Orgs Need a Digital Archive artsmidwest.org/resources/id...

The Cloud Ate My Homework: Why Artists and Arts Orgs Need a Digital Archive

Creating a digital archive can help you preserve your legacy, strengthen your storytelling, and make your work easier to access in the future.

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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 1d

From magical manuscripts to romantic meet-cutes, Katie Goh explores #libraries in pop culture as places of growth and transformation.

From Matilda to Buffy: Libraries in pop culture | National Library of Scotland

Writer Katie Goh explores how fictional libraries offer mystery, romance, and transformation—echoing the magic of real ones we love.

www.nls.uk

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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 1d

🔍 Can registries make AI training data more lawful? Our CommonsDB workshop explored this with experts from pleias, @creativecommons.bsky.social , @commoncrawl.bsky.social and @kb.nl. We're building bridges between digital assets, rights info, and AI. www.commonsdb.org/blog/explori...

Exploring CommonsDB’s role in AI training data

Participants at a recent CommonsDB workshop explored whether the registry can support lawful, traceable data for AI training

www.commonsdb.org

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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 1d

More than 50,000 journal articles on BHL now have DOIs, including the very first scientific description of the Duck-billed Platypus, published in 1799: lnkd.in/g5WMsRb5 www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/304567

Details - The Duck-Billed Platypus, Platypus anatinus [Pl. 385-386] - Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

www.biodiversitylibrary.org

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 1d

In 1996, Brewster Kahle wrote "Preserving the Internet" for Scientific American. Nearly 30 years later, it’s striking how many of his predictions about digital preservation came true—and how many challenges remain.

Let’s compare 1996 vs 2025 🧵

Page from March 1997 Scientific American featuring Brewster Kahle’s article 'Preserving the Internet.' Text describes the Internet Archive’s mission to save digital information. Includes a photo of a Smithsonian exhibit with 1996 U.S. election web memorabilia.

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Marshall Breeding @mbreeding.bsky.social · May 1

My 2025 Library Systems Report has been published by American Libraries.
"Companies see platform upgrades, new leadership, and AI enhancements"
americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/05/01/2...

2025 Library Systems Report | American Libraries Magazine

In the 2025 Library Systems Report, technology consultant Marshall Breeding covers recent platform upgrades, leadership changes, and AI enhancements in library tech.

americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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Marshall Breeding @mbreeding.bsky.social · 1d

More information on the closure of Baker & Taylor.

Baker & Taylor to Cease Operations | American Libraries Magazine

Despite measures to continue operations and preserve pending contracts with libraries, the book distributor Baker & Taylor will shutter.

americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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Authors Alliance @authorsalliance.bsky.social · 1d

We recently received a question regarding the AI scraping of Institutional Repositories: (1) Do open access Institutional Repositories permit the use of the IR’s materials for AI training? and (2) Are there legal mechanisms that would prevent the use of IR materials in AI training?

Institutional Repositories and AI Scraping

We recently received a question regarding the AI scraping of Institutional Repositories, by which we mean online digital archives that provide access to the intellectual output of scholars, often a…

www.authorsalliance.org

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2d

We were at the American Library Association Conference this summer talking with librarians about the importance of everyone having access to books that represent all kinds of different backgrounds and experiences.

Thank you to every librarian working to defend our right to read.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 2d

Distribution is THE under-reported story in book publishing (outside of the trade publications) and losing B&T is going to have untold ripple effects on the industry, small presses, and authors.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2d

seems very bad www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down

At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.

www.publishersweekly.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

doomscroll break

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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 2d

Creative Commons released the Open Heritage Statement: A global call for equitable access to public domain heritage in the digital environment. openheritagestatement.org #GLAMS

Open Heritage Statement

openheritagestatement.org

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Mar 6

This video is kind of silly, but as a very-first-encounter with machine learning, I actually think it's pretty good! www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_uw...

What is Machine Learning?

YouTube video by OxfordSparks

www.youtube.com

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Mar 6

OK, every year I try to explain to my students how LLMs work, and every year I have to do a big trawl for good resources and activities. Here's this year's haul of *introductory* materials. (In-class activities + visualizations, not so much readings.)

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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 3d

A new report shows that kids need the time, space and a little helping hand to fall in love with #reading. So why don't we have more dedicated spaces for kids to explore books?
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

How to stop the decline in young readers, and will AI "actresses" take over the screen? - ABC listen

Children are reading less and less. And adults? Well, we're not much better. A new report shows that kids need the time, space and a little helping hand to fall in love with reading. So why don't we h...

www.abc.net.au

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d

The book is not dead. (But it may no longer be on the right library shelf).

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...

www.theguardian.com

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