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?

@rarebookschool.bsky.social doesn't generally accept high school students but they made an exception for Gauri in my Fragmentology class last summer. I am so proud of her! LOOK WHAT SHE DID! #IIIF #MedievalSky timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices...

New grandma story just dropped: apparently when my uncle turned 18, she hired a belly dancer to do a totally surprise performance for him, at his high school, in front of all his classmates. people took pictures and it made the yearbook

If you happen to be in Columbus & would like to see sci-fi fanzines, pulp magazines, UFOlogy reports & publications, Star Trek scripts, etc. later this month! library.osu.edu/events/out-o....

Proud to serve as the publishing editor for this fantastic piece. The authors position refusal as an ethical/methodological stance for working with "materials that depend on the objectification of, and through that objectification the commodification of, human subjects." It's a must read!

the 5 stages of grief are actually:

1) throwing ceramics in the alley
2) cigarettes
3) America's Next Top Model marathon
4) writing a manifesto
5) The Sims

LOL

All I’m saying is, if I’m playing as Princess Peach you shouldn’t be allowed to blue shell me, being the ruler of the kingdom should mean something

OMG HE'S IN ANIMAL CROSSING!!!! celeb sighting

Every bit of messaging in the universe right now is telling me I should have stayed home today and played Mario Kart, but my hubris brought me out into the world instead and now I am paying the price

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

My book chapter, Don't Do More With Less: Sustainable Work as a Management Value, has arrived! This chapter explores my first years as a manager and how I did my best to embrace slow librarianship, push back on overcommitment and vocational awe, and make my department and its work sustainable. 📚📜

Any questions?

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An old military maxim often attributed to Napoleon is “an army marches on its stomach” and I feel the same way that a university thinks via its library. The slow and steady financial diminution of research libraries and the librarians who staff them is, to me, a slow-rolling higher Ed catastrophe.

Every thirty minutes I remember that Saudi Arabia now owns Dragon Age and I scream a little. Things are great

Absolutely! That was the way I was taught in grad school and I have definitely not continued to think about significant properties in that way.

I think the general framework is still very much useful in thinking about digital preservation, especially within the constraints of limited resources/staffing and the pragmatic necessity of “good enough.”

If a PDF dared speak to me I would kill it with a big Sword

It's important to maintain a level of empathy for our library users, and for that reason I spent several hours this morning trying to get access to online full text of a book, only to realize when I finally broke through that it was actually full text of the book _review_

I'm a "do whatever you want with your own books" librarian, not a "anything printed and bound is now a sacred untouchable object" librarian

"company that has been buying and shuttering your favorite video game studios and projects for decades bought out by Saudi-Trumpist allied financial empire" ok my brain has officially had enough