All these AI "features" showing up everywhere really feels like someone is remotely turning on all my house lights in the middle of the night - not helpful or wanted, and a huge waste of electricity
"These wins are temporary and only as good as the extent to which they are upheld throughout the appeals process... Library advocates will not rest until libraries in every state receive the funding promised and IMLS is back in full" - ALA President Cindy Hohl.
This development is welcome news - but it is limited and temporary. We will not rest until IMLS and its funding are fully restored. #ForOurLibraries (2/2)
When you remove trained book reviewers, trained editors ... remove PEOPLE from the AI equation, you get bs
SCOOP: Two men claiming to be newly appointed Trump administration officials tried to enter the US Copyright Office in Washington, DC on Monday, but left before gaining access to the building, sources tell WIRED.
What is happening?
Picture of Carla Hayden smiling, in a teal jacket, along with her quote "Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy - where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don't realize what is at stake when that is put at risk."
Losing Hayden at the Library of Congress is a huge blow to our democracy
Jacqueline Woodson, yes plz
Yay! Comic book creators showing up for libraries and the freedom to read
We digitize historical photographs to make visible our history - this "purge" is obscene
Challenge America (supporting art for under-served communities) is out. Semiquincentennial projects are in? Oh, what exciting art that will be. RIP NEA
Working in higher education, you wouldn't believe how many "data security" type trainings they make us take. Then to just let randos sift through sensitive financial and personal info about our students?!
websites come and go - let's hope Internet Archive is forev
Since 2004, Internet Archive has collaborated with a group of libraries and research organizations on the End of Term Web Archive. 💾 Learn more about the effort: eotarchive.org
I'm a sucker for a good mentor-mentee story - and excited to read more about baby monster-hunter Erica
hot take after book club: V for Vendetta hits way different for Gen X vs. Gen Z
The web is ephemeral - without the Internet Archive so much our history will fall into the black hole of time and make it easier to paint over what really happened
Bardcore is where it's at : youtu.be/V7jOobdrdGo?...
Reread Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá's Daytripper again for our library's graphic novel book club and damn, that book just tears me up every time
Because we can't and shouldn't digitize everything. But we do get to digitize as much of the sweet stuff we can and should (when we got time and $)
Cataloging some slice-of-life manga from Erica Sakurazawa and have to share this on-point upset nose-drippy toddler
More murmurations plz
Oh man, I missed a holiday in Michigan. Happy belated Shake Your Mailbox day to you all.
This Nate Powell comic book
Just wait until the to-be-read pile in the living room joins in the fight
Excited to introduce Ruth Kitchin Tillman at today's Linked Data User Group's fall meeting / us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Hello world
