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Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) @ala-acrl.bsky.social · 2d

New on ACRLog... EBS-No; or, a rant

"Overall, this is indicative of a long-running problem in librarianship; we are at the mercy of the vendors whose products we rely on." - Emily Zerrenner

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Emily Zerrenner @ezerrenner.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing twenty one pilots for the 10th time tonight in Virginia Beach! 🩵
Also used the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel for the first time… Not A Fan 🫣

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Emily Zerrenner @ezerrenner.bsky.social · 5d

In which: I crash out a bit about EBSCO's new interface acrlog.org/2025/10/03/e...

EBS-No; or, a rant - ACRLog

Please, permit me to rant about EBSCO’s new UI for a little while. Ours changed over in August, and up until this point, I've been quite busy with teaching and the general chaos of the beginning of fa...

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Emily Zerrenner @ezerrenner.bsky.social · 6d

Still rolling with this project. We had a person donate an ENTIRE finished quilt this last week. <3

Trans Pride Quilt Project @transpridequilt.bsky.social · 7d

AN ENTIRE QUILT!!!! This is from Yara and it is absolutely beautiful. I cannot wait to find a home for it - thank you so much, Yara.
Everybody sound off a thank you below!!!
#transpridequilt #quiltproject #quilting #quiltsky

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we here®️ @wehere.bsky.social · 13d

THE WAIT IS OVER – The first episode of We Reads: The Podcast is now available! 🎧

Tune in as hosts dive into their reading journeys, genre preferences, and what to expect from this coming season 🤭

www.wehere.space/we-reads-pod...
#WeReadsthePodcast

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Emily Zerrenner @ezerrenner.bsky.social · 15d

ebsco is like totally broken on our campus lol. love that. how are YALL doing?????

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 19d

Can we finish funding this classroom by dinner? Only $125 to go! www.donorschoose.org/project/book...

Books That Serve as Mirrors and Windows, a project from Ms. Russo

Help me give my students a diverse selection of graphic novels that expose them to different cultures and ways of being. Our students are kind, dedicated, insightful and smart. They are a diverse g...

www.donorschoose.org

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Emily Zerrenner @ezerrenner.bsky.social · 21d

I opened this kind of assuming it'd be kind of out of touch but 4 out of 5 apply to me 🫢

5 Surprising Things I’ve Learned about Gen Z College Students - Choice 360

How can we design library user experience around Gen Z college students? Robin Davis provides insights and observations.

www.choice360.org

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 22d

“We do not advance private interests at the expense of library users, colleagues, or our employing institutions.”

what a relevant tenet of our Code of Ethics—so why is the field so intent on making an exception for generative AI?

www.ala.org/tools/ethics

ALA Code of Ethics

A framework of values and ethical responsibilities for the profession of librarianship.

www.ala.org

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Michael Socolow @michaelsocolow.bsky.social · 24d

AI data scraping is causing major problems for digital archives.

Many publishers of cool historical material (free for the public), like @hagleycenter.bsky.social, are being hit w/ bot swarms akin to denial of service attacks.

Latest in The Lint Trap

linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/when-ai-da...

Over an image of the Hagley Library's website, the following text is written: "When AI Data Scraping Causes Problems for Digitized Archives. This summer one of my favorite archival websites was hit by so much AI bot traffic it amounted to a denial of service. Which is bad, because the Hagley Digital Archives are awesome."

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Emily Zerrenner @ezerrenner.bsky.social · 26d

Violet I am so sorry.

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Emily Zerrenner @ezerrenner.bsky.social · 26d

Happy twenty one pilots album release day to all who celebrate

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · Sep 8

I've seen several people refer to AI-resisters as having their heads in the sand over the last few days. But resisting doesn't mean the same thing as ignoring something. On the contrary, resisting means engaging with research, parsing information, offering critique, and making informed choices.

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Hiring Librarians @hiringlibrarians.com · Sep 5

Your semi-regular reminder: You are not your work! You are a worthwhile person regardless of whether or not you have a job, have a "good" job, hear back from places you apply, have interviews, have successful interviews, etc. You are valued and valuable, just as you are.

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Emily Zerrenner @ezerrenner.bsky.social · Sep 5

This article from part 2 of the Library Trends issue on Generative AI is a must read, from Kay Slater.
"In seeking to bridge the digital divide and save ourselves time, do we sacrifice our principles in favor of acquiescing to the latest trends in technology?" muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Project MUSE - Against AI: Critical Refusal in the Library

muse.jhu.edu

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Emily Zerrenner @ezerrenner.bsky.social · Sep 4

Wow a hit tweet (comment)

972 comments total - a tiktok comment from Emily, librarian that reads “or - as your resident librarian - you never went BEYOND Google????”

Emily Zerrenner @ezerrenner.bsky.social · Sep 4

in an ebsco email earlier lol

As an organization who may still be relying on IP authentication to access EBSCO resources, you may have noticed it's not as reliable as it used to be. With evolving user expectations, access issues are becoming more common - and more frustrating.

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Emily Zerrenner @ezerrenner.bsky.social · Sep 4

Me too! It's nice to have something change and not be worse lol

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hallucinations don’t come from the sources you train AI on.
The problem is it is an LLM- a language learning model. It is trying to sound like human language but it doesn’t actually “know” what those words mean so occasionally it strings them together in a way that makes no sense or is inaccurate.

HistorySmith @historysmith.bsky.social · Sep 4

The JSTOR AI “creates” summaries of the docs and offers a natural language search interface (utilizing an OpenAI model).

They say that the output is limited to the JSTOR articles… so it doesn’t pull search results from OpenAI, but I’m not convinced that’s proof against hallucinations.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Aug 26

Will spend the rest of my life considering how we were rushed into "going paperless" for the good of the environment only for the next generation of digital tools to become far worse for the environment.

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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · Aug 20

New academic librarians, come blog with us at ACRLog this year! Info here, applications due 9/22: acrlog.org/2025/08/18/s...

Seeking First Year Academic Librarian Bloggers - ACRLog

As we enter a new academic year, we’re looking to bring on a few new bloggers here at ACRLog. We’d like to thank our 2024-25 FYAL bloggers Jonathan Rowe, Heidi Uhey, and Brianna Calomino for their ter...

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · Aug 12

Deleting 1,000 emails would have a carbon benefit of about five grams CO2e. Using a laptop for 30 minutes to delete those emails would emit about 28 grams of CO2e.

Destroying the corporations responsible for climate collapse would be so much more fun and effective.

Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · Aug 12

sorry you're experiencing record breaking temperatures and drought. Have you tried deleted some of photos of your grandmother about it?

UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought

As Britain experiences one of its worst droughts in decades, its leaders suggest people get rid of old data to reduce stress on data centers.

www.404media.co

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👻 Eastern European hard candy 👻 @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social · Aug 14

I've been thinking a lot about how I really hate the implication that AI skeptics are luddites because most of the AI skeptics I know are relatively tech savvy while the biggest AI champions I know can barely use email

Ksandra @ksandrarpg.bsky.social · Aug 12

Funny how when it comes to AI people are all "adapt or be left behind" but when it comes to remote work the same people insist that things must go back to how they were at all cost.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · Aug 14

A Border Leicester sheep, overlaid with a motivational message: "I’m plotting on ur rise bro. I’m literally up in the lab scheming on the beautiful abundance for you. I’m cooking up ways for a rising tide to lift all of our boats. I’m praying for your gains. I’m lighting a candle to your inevitable splendor dude."

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Emily Zerrenner @ezerrenner.bsky.social · Aug 12

That entire survey is awful since it's predicated on using AI.

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