Amanda Runyon
@arunyon.bsky.social
This is 100% true in the legal field and is why it is critical that we reverse course and make room in the curriculum for robust legal research education. You can’t check for errors if you don’t have good legal information literacy skills.
suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
December 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This is 100% true in the legal field and is why it is critical that we reverse course and make room in the curriculum for robust legal research education. You can’t check for errors if you don’t have good legal information literacy skills.
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New reporting about AI slop in libraries from rockstar reporter @clurrese.bsky.social featuring some rockstar librarians! 🥰
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Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books
It’s a trippy time to have a library card.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
New reporting about AI slop in libraries from rockstar reporter @clurrese.bsky.social featuring some rockstar librarians! 🥰
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July 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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For 225 years, the Library of Congress has collected America’s stories and kept Congress informed. The American Library Association stands with America’s library.
![The Library of Congress belongs to Congress and the American people. [Logos: Show up for our libraries - American Library Association]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q5qyswhppr7tiskw43xhcv7f/bafkreib3eioahb3b27g7vdp65hu4bmfloqxp3k3frylkwhdtg6bnfbl7iy@jpeg)
May 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
For 225 years, the Library of Congress has collected America’s stories and kept Congress informed. The American Library Association stands with America’s library.
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Please call your representatives about the ongoing attack on THEIR library. This is not a partisan issue; even Republicans should want to defend their own agency.
This is a huge deal. The US Copyright Office is a part of the Library of Congress and it is NOT an executive agency. Congress needs to defend its library now!
May 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Please call your representatives about the ongoing attack on THEIR library. This is not a partisan issue; even Republicans should want to defend their own agency.
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If anyone knows what is actually going on at LOC/Copyright, I would like to talk with you. Please reach out via Signal — crg.32 — via a nonwork phone.
May 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
If anyone knows what is actually going on at LOC/Copyright, I would like to talk with you. Please reach out via Signal — crg.32 — via a nonwork phone.
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This may have significant consequences for U.S. copyright policy, as the Librarian supervises the Register of Copyrights. I would pay attention to any maneuvering in the Copyright Office, particularly given its relatively cool attitude toward AI copyrightability and training fair use.
Oh this absolutely sucks. Carla Hayden was an amazing Librarian of Congress, and a *massive* improvement over her predecessor who was there forever and was terrible.
BREAKING: President Trump just fired our nation's Librarian. My statement here:
May 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This may have significant consequences for U.S. copyright policy, as the Librarian supervises the Register of Copyrights. I would pay attention to any maneuvering in the Copyright Office, particularly given its relatively cool attitude toward AI copyrightability and training fair use.
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Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...
The Data Rescue Tracker
We are excited to introduce the Data Rescue Tracker, a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you c...
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February 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...
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U Penn Carey Law Biddle Law Library speaker series, Feb. 6. www.law.upenn.edu/calendar/eve...
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Biddle Speaker Series - Jennifer Chapman presents “Slave Cases and Ingrained Racism in Legal Infor...
Prof. Chapman will present her recent work, Slave Cases and Ingrained Racism in Legal Information Infrastructures. The long shadow of slavery ...
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January 9, 2024 at 3:29 PM
I'm excited & honored to be part of the
U Penn Carey Law Biddle Law Library speaker series, Feb. 6. www.law.upenn.edu/calendar/eve...
U Penn Carey Law Biddle Law Library speaker series, Feb. 6. www.law.upenn.edu/calendar/eve...