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Michelle Reed @librariansreed.bsky.social · 15d

Extremely excited to kick-off a new webinar series on “AI” with guests Chris Gilliard & Christa Albrecht-Crane. This session won’t be recorded so sign up now & join us for a deep dive into what we’re really talking about. Happening Thursday!!!

#edusky #academicsky #skybrarians 📚

Library Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · 16d

Maybe you can't read Ray Carver at work, but you CAN talk about AI, and we've got the webinar series you've been waiting for. Join @hypervisible.blacksky.app, Christa Albrecht-Crane, and Library Futures this Thursday 9/25 for the first installment!

nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 25d

"Key issues research libraries face in next 5 yrs?" Recently retired, longtime UVA Library Dean @junsworth.bsky.social: "In a nutshell, the challenge we face in libraries and in higher education and beyond in the US is government-sponsored fascism"

University of Virginia Library @uvalibrary.bsky.social · 26d

"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them."

ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025

www.arl.org/blog/john-un...

Portrait of John Unsworth in a suit, standing in sunlight with a shadowed background.

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 27d

Amplifying this with a repost. All reposts help spread the word. Thanks for any help!

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 28d

A student in our MSc is doing a project titled "Reimagining Reference Management Tools as Living Knowledge Management Systems". I know many of my followers here use Mendeley, Zotero, etc. Please help her with her survey? cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Michelle Reed @librariansreed.bsky.social · Aug 15

🎁 Gift Article

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone

www.nytimes.com

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · Aug 9

What’s your favorite food fact that is true but sounds totally made up?

I’ll start: about half of the mushrooms produced across the United States of America each year (more than 300 million pounds of mushrooms in recent years) are produced in *one county* in Pennsylvania.

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Library Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · Jul 31

Artificial systems have "catapulted... into our inboxes, file storage, discovery systems, and nearly every element of our daily lives without our consent." How to resist? Library Futures and friends have tips!

www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/tips-fr...

Resistance, Rebellion, Refusal: 7 Tips from Librarians for Navigating “AI” — Civics of Technology

This is a special conference-themed blog contribution from Michelle Reed , Hayley Park , Justin White , and Mike Nason Communal resistance to artificial systems Join the Resistance Today a...

www.civicsoftechnology.org

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Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · Jul 7

Exciting job
Doing impactful work
With a fantastic team

What more could you want?

jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · Jul 7

Do you care about institutional contracts and norm setting? Have you negotiated contracts on behalf of clients? Do you want to join a library organization that's taking a new approach to digital rights advocacy? (And having a lot of fun doing it?!)

Apply!
www.libraryfutures.net/apply-to-be-...

Apply to Be the Library Futures Staff Attorney

Research and advocacy for the future of libraries.

www.libraryfutures.net

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jul 7

Carla Hayden, the ex-Librarian of Congress who was fired by Trump, has a new role as senior fellow with the Mellon Foundation

Former Librarian of Congress, fired by Trump, vows to improve public information in new Mellon role

Carla Hayden, the former Librarian of Congress fired by President Donald Trump, has joined the the country's foremost philanthropic supporter of the arts.

apnews.com

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · Jul 7

Mellon Foundation announces appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as Mellon Senior Fellow 📚📜
librarytechnology.org/pr/31511

Mellon Foundation announces appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as Mellon Senior Fellow

Press Release: Mellon Foundation announces appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as Mellon Senior Fellow. The Mellon Foundation announced the appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as a senior fellow. As part of ...

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · Jul 7

really don't love that we've sleep-walked into a world where creative media being temporary and revokable after purchase is a ubiquitous default.

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Michelle Reed @librariansreed.bsky.social · Jun 18

I like big beets and I cannot lie. 🌱

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Michelle Reed @librariansreed.bsky.social · Jun 12

“When I heard [comments about inappropriate books for children], I was concerned that there might not have been as much of an awareness of what the Library of Congress does." The library's primary function is to fulfil research requests from members of Congress…

CBS News @cbsnews.com · Jun 9

Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden speaks out on her firing by Trump
https://cbsn.ws/3ZiiFf6

Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden speaks out on her firing by Trump

Last month, Carla Hayden, the first woman and first African American to serve as Librarian of Congress, received an email announcing her dismissal. She talks about libraries as bastions of democracy, for which the "freedom to read," she says, is essential.

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Michelle Reed @librariansreed.bsky.social · Jun 10

Garden soup #BeetFarming 🌱

Five beets freshly pulled from the garden are covered in dirt and hanging over the edge of a raised bed.

Bowl of deep pink borscht sprinkled with fresh dill.

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Michelle Reed @librariansreed.bsky.social · May 28

Gorgeous! What kind are those with the big bushy centers?

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Michelle Reed @librariansreed.bsky.social · May 28

It’s clematis season! 💜🌱

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Michelle Reed @librariansreed.bsky.social · May 23

🌷🌳💨🌳💝🌱

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Michelle Reed @librariansreed.bsky.social · May 22

Love it!

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Michelle Reed @librariansreed.bsky.social · May 22

Pink! 🌱

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Michelle Reed @librariansreed.bsky.social · May 21

For flower heads low to the ground that are actually being eaten, may be rabbits.

Michelle Reed @librariansreed.bsky.social · May 21

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Michelle Reed @librariansreed.bsky.social · Apr 30

Someone has been beheading my tulips. What’s up with this? #FlowerReport 🌱

Pink and white tulip bloom separated from stem is being held in hand.

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Michelle Reed @librariansreed.bsky.social · May 21

Probably squirrels. They aren’t eating them, just sabotage. They’ve done the same thing to my tulips.

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Michelle Reed @librariansreed.bsky.social · May 21

Allium 🌱

Star-shaped white blooms of a giant onion.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · May 20

I went into my library's database of Chicago area newspapers to confirm this isn't fake, and it's not.

@chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?

Image of a page from the May 18, 2025, edition of the print Chicago Sun-Times. It has "Summer reading list for 2025" as its headline. It is an AI-generated list of books–the authors are real but none of the book titles are. For example, "The Last Algorithm" by Andy Weir, "The Collector's Piece" by Taylor Jenkins Reid, etc. None of the descriptions of these books are real either.

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Michelle Reed @librariansreed.bsky.social · May 20

Join us online next week! Bring ice cream! 🍦

Library Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · May 13

Got misinformation? We've got the antidote. Join Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, @melissa1776.bsky.social, and @ajenningsroche.bsky.social on 5/28 (1 pm ET/10 am PT) for a book talk and all the information you won't want to miss!

nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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