children are human beings. that's what almost everybody refuses to acknowledge. they are /people/. and hating people for who they are is actually pretty uncool at best

“You can tell [the book] was made by some early-gen AI bot, because it can’t even spell monetization correctly” Clayton Cheever, Sarah Manning, @tuphlos.bsky.social @sonderbooks.com & others talk about the thorny problem of LLM-made books in libraries.

americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/09/02/b...

It’s possible you might want to read my poem in the new issue of Bennington Review taken almost entirely from lines in the @nytimes.com that begin with “Scientists say…”? www.benningtonreview.org/fourteen-mei... #ecopoetry #poetry

oh!!! very excited vagabond city is the home of a finalist this year! go read Teddy L. Friedline's "self portrait as roadkill" in issue 92!

highly recommend playing board games with library teenagers for two hours to recover from having your conference proposal rejected~

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"messages that librarians should be enthusiastic + optimistic about technological changes... frequently described as inevitable, often imply or outright assert that those who question or resist certain tech developments are simply overwhelmed by irrational fear + anxiety that they need to overcome."

Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.

absolutely stoked that my prints from @tommyarnoldart.com came in the mail today! unfortunately impossible to capture print + my abhorsen tattoo (on the other side of my arm ha)

Open Letter to College & Research Libraries from the academic wing of #CripLib

Alice Notley got it. She GOT it.

as a writer and a librarian, this is so, so deeply insulting.

Hey all, here's a post at @ssrc.org about how anti-trans talking points are getting wrapped into Google's AI search results.

AI search not only cites anti-trans disinfo, but sanitizes it, making practices like conversion therapy sound legitimate and safe.

dw i 'di bod yn dysgu siarad Cymraeg am bedwar mis rŵan! really proud actually of my progress (dw i'n hapus efo faint dw i 'di dysgu mewn amser byr!)

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the rayne, and the wynde, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir.

The chatbot people are so upset. What are you going to do? Come to my home and force me to use ChatGPT?

she wrote a bit more about it here if interested, at the time (last fall) we didn't really find anyone with explicit policies: alki.pubpub.org/pub/4es8rosh...

my best addition to this conversation is that another of our librarians drafted a new portion of our collection dev policy to address AI generated books and it was adopted (2.1.5.C.e): www.nols.org/policies/

Published today: Research on Diversity in Youth Literature (RDYL) 6.2! Check out our peer-reviewed articles + book reviews + art. Many thanks to our writers, artist, co-editors, reviewers!

iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/rdyl

#RDYL #iSchoolUI #iSchoolCCB #YouthLit #ChildLit #YALit #OpenAccess

Some may claim racism has no place in science fiction, but sadly SF has a long history of enabling fascist worldbuilding

That's why you need to read @jordanscarroll.bsky.social's "Speculative Whiteness," a first-rate takedown of racist subtext in sci-fi

Blog: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

whatever it's fine

publicola.com/2025/04/29/n...

Parents have a responsibility to ENGAGE with what their children are reading and to help GUIDE them in smart choices.

They absolutely do NOT have a right to control their kids' reading. No one does.

one told me "keep being you (you're awesome)" which is just not something anyone usually tells you anymore once you're in your 30s and why not?!

my coworker had my teen advisory board make me a birthday card last week when i was off work & 😭 truly cannot express how much i needed a card telling me i'm someone's favorite librarian rn