Can anyone recommend an academic audiobook that was well done? Looking for a good example of how to handle citations, footnotes, bibliography, etc. in audiobook format. Ideally an academic monograph. Please only recommend if you've read the audiobook and thought it was well done.

Yes, like all forms of leisure.

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

New Media & Society's issue on artificial sociality is out! Super relevant in re: AI "girlfriends," etc. I'm looking forward to reading!

journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/10

Inside, our paper applies Hochschild's feeling rules to interactions w/ ChatGPT, Tessa, Replika.

doi.org/10.1177/1461...

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹

This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨

Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...

Wikipedia. Not unproblematic, but still perhaps the greatest thing to come out of internet utopianism and optimism about collective behaviour. And they want to destroy it.

Actually, when they got iced in, they coped by putting on plays

Just kidding, it's St-Viateur all the way.

ICYMI, there's an October 15 deadline for papers, etc. for the Information Seeking In Context (ISIC) conference, Montréal, June 2026.

I'm co-chairing papers and happy to help with questions. Except the question of Fairmont bagels vs St-Viateur bagels - that's personal.

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www.mcgill.ca/isic2026/

Tech women! My friend is doing a study on women in tech and information systems. Interview and a few diary entries, easy. All tech connections welcome.

Hi y'all Andrew Asher and I are teaching a CPD course for library workers on Qual Methods if you would like an intro/opportunity to explore. Ttimes are hard & budgets tight but I've seen this course be a gateway to community for many who are feeling isolated. libraryjuiceacademy.com/shop/course/...

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Heartbreaking, but it’s been amazing to watch the Canadian side. They’ve been incredible.

“We should want to take advantage of the post office’s unique, nationwide infrastructure to provide more and better services to Canadians instead of dismantling something that we may never be able to rebuild.” @parismarx.com

With both crypto and AI, there are humans involved at every level of the stack. Narratives of automation make it seem like the process is merely mechanical, but if there are humans involved, there are points for regulatory intervention (and in this case, humans who may need legal protections)

A request for help. I am looking for article-length examples of historiography that takes place and built environment seriously. I don't think exactly architectural history, but emphasizing people occupying and using particular places. This is a methodological example for an undergraduate project. 🗃️

Same goes for public schools, colleges, and universities.

"In Clipboards We Trust."

*increases fervor of box saving*

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University of Alberta Library Digital Scholarship Graduate Student Fellowship Program - Call for Applications

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kjqfCgfEEY7_WEcOH6xD7eV8fByXBYHMWQxxWc0Zo0I/edit

This will be our third year offering these fellowships - digital scholarship is so broad that it […]

Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time

Ahem

*voice of the little green aliens from Toy Story*

IT'S THE CLAW