Our acquisitions person has been checking every book that comes in. This is the fourth AI-generated book in four weeks. I’m willing to admit that I bought this, mistakenly thinking I could trust what GOBI highlighted on their book lists.

11/11 "...our understandings of history and ourselves rest on those invisible foundations. This book clarifies those foundations [labor and theory that upholds archives] while offering new possibilities for imagining archival futures in and outside of institutional holdings."

www.weherepress.org

6/ "We determine which voices are under- or over-represented in relation to the political composition of the collection as well as its content and we trace the origins of these biases in the digitisation process."

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

5/ "This article explores the methodological and epistemological issues of using colonial records of violence from the Caribbean as a starting point for life writing about the enslaved."

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

2/ "Materiality looms large in the world of archives in storage, conservation, and shape or materials of the records. How does this materiality change in the digital age?"

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

It’s one of the the great library stories/potential disasters of our era.