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Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · 3d

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AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide - ACRLog

This week I was on a panel at the Generative AI in Libraries (GAIL) virtual conference. Along with my fellow panelists Andrea Baer and Emily Zerrenner, I joined moderator Sarah Appedu to discuss the c...

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Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · 13d

More on the failures/erasures that ai chatbots introduce into library search tools aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...

The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search

From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched

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Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · 19d

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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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Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · Jul 31

When a president gets to decide what counts as American history
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Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum

A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

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Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · Jul 24

Librarians are finding that their AI assisted commercially produced search tools are providing no search results for topics like Tulsa race riot, Covid, January 6, Gaza War, lynching and history of genocides acrlog.org/2025/07/21/w...

“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question” - ACRLog

Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...

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Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · Mar 16

"Determined not to let this stage of American history become “lost culture”, the publishers believe that old-fashioned print is still the best way to preserve for the future" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6952...

The book publisher prepping for Trump censorship

Indie publisher Melville House is racing to preserve history, before the US government buries the evidence

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Mar 7

It’s so devastating to watch Depp v. Heard happen over and over again, pushing more women into conservatism and damaging the cultural narratives around sexual harassment, violence, and abuse each time
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Right wing creators are dominating Lively-Baldoni coverage

Conservative commentators are leveraging the case to dismantle support for #MeToo and amass unprecedented audience growth.

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Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · Mar 5

Tools for Feminist and Women’s Studies Scholars in Literature: Issues and Problems." Bibliography in Literature, Folklore, Language and Linguistics: Essays on the Status of the Field (2003) (No electronic copy)

Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · Mar 5

Historical context? In 2003 the editor of a chapter I contributed to a volume on bibliography in literature informed me that I could not use the phrase “feminist literary bibliography” in the title as such a thing did not exist.

Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · Mar 3

Five years ago, I published "Rationale for Feminist Bibliography." Today, I counted how many times it uses words currently "banned" by Elon's administration: more than 250 occurrences. So I edited my document accordingly; feel free to only cite this in the future. I stand by it 🤙

screenshot of a journal document that is heavily edited and censored. The only words not crossed out are "Feminist" "women's" and their iterations.

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Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · Feb 28

The People Carrying Out Musk’s Plans at DOGE www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Who Is in DOGE? Tracking Its Staffers and Allies in the Federal Government

The Times identified 49 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group formed by Elon Musk that in a short few weeks has radically upended federal agencies.

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Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · Feb 1

My 2017 essay on the disappearance of government information (and attempts to save it) under the first Trump administration is creepily relevant: works.hcommons.org/records/aytt...

Archival Silence in the Age of Trump

The Trump presidency has fueled growing apprehension about a media landscape rife with lies, bogus news, and conspiracy theories. These concerns can be situated within a discourse of archival silence ...

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Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · Jan 16

Like I was saying, we are losing control over the film, music, books, games, etc that we can now only rent

Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · Jan 16

Quick search.

The following films are “not available to view on any streaming services.”

Eraserhead
Blue Velvet
Wild At Heart
Lost Highway
Mulholland Drive

If you’ve got them on DVD, great. Otherwise, digital streaming doesn’t curate, doesn’t care.

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Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · Jan 3

"just as the arts are more than mere nutrients, the medium is more than a delivery system: it has an aesthetic and a psychology of its own"
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What We Lose When Streaming Companies Choose What We Watch

Maybe don’t throw away all your DVDs just yet.

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Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · Jan 2

Defying the Algorithm #25

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Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · Dec 28

If ever there were an opportune moment to make the case for the value of higher education and for the Dept of Education this would seem to be it

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Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · Dec 26

When neither my room key nor my partner's could get us back into our hotel room it took a security guard then a maintenance guy & finally someone who could reprogram the lock to get us back in. Sometimes analog is just simpler

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Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · Dec 15

The relentless contraction of our ability to own and maintain control over the music, films, books, games and other media that we now merely rent
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The optical disc onslaught continues, with LG quitting Blu-ray players

Streaming uncertainty has some people clinging to their discs.

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Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · Dec 10

The importance of national archives:
www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2...

Nat'l archives agency requests preservation of martial law documents

The state-run archives agency on Friday requested the presidential office and the defense ministry to preserve all documents related to this week's botched martial law declaration.

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Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · Dec 9

Happy holidays to you. It's great to find a new community away from the other place

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · Dec 8

THIS is why we wrote this. archive.is/2024.10.31-1...

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Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · Dec 5

Fortunately (or perhaps sadly), recent preparations to protect scientific and other information from potential erasure or manipulation by the incoming Trump administration are benefitting from the experience and infrastructure created during his last administration.
www.forbes.com/sites/dougla...

Safeguarding Against a Trump Data Dump

Various organizations race to preserve invaluable scientific, educational, and economic data at potential risk during another Trump administration.

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