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I also can't help but think these types of changes (alongside locking down their APIs: www.oclc.org/developer/su...) is happening within the context of their ongoing lawsuit against Anna's Archive

– 2024 coverage: torrentfreak.com/lawsuit-accu...

– 2026 coverage: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

With the mycology angle I'll add the New York Mycological Society's artistic origins as a class at The New School led by artists John Cage and Lois Long (among others including the fascinating Guy Nearing). Many recent/current members of NYMS are also artists including Phyllis Ma and Andrew Cannon!

The Gatherers - MoMA PS1 Exhibition. Apr 24 – Oct 6, 2025. As our lives become increasingly shaped by the glut of garbage and information, The Gatherers brings into focus current artistic practices grappling with global waste...

The same curator as Jumana Manna's show (Ruba Katrib) also recently organized this potentially related exhibition at PS1: www.momaps1.org/en/programs/...

searching for specific web search platforms + "enshittification" might yield some leads, including this post by (coiner of the term) Cory Doctorow: pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/n...

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

maybe this one…? www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

Introducing Discovery Systems | Ruth Kitchin Tillman This is the text of a presentation I recorded for an IST 616 course at Syracuse's library school. I was asked to introduce library discovery in 10 minutes, or less, with some focus on how metadata is ...

+ re: discovery systems generally, Ruth Kitchin Tillman has a great introduction:
ruthtillman.com/talk/introdu...
She also writes on the maintenance and labor of metadata and system librarianship:
ruthtillman.com/publication/...
ruthtillman.com/talk/interde...
ruthtillman.com/post/whats-u...

There's also a great chart related to this created by Marshall Breeding: librarytechnology.org/mergers/

Guest Post — Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism - The Scholarly Kitchen In an era of information abundance and epistemic chaos, libraries serve as crucial sites for democratic knowledge practices -- protecting them is critical to preserving the infrastructure of informed ...

Not in NYC, but Mike Olson at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse recently wrote about this: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/26/g...

I sense the nexus of energy around GLAM labs is now in Europe (www.glamlabs.io). Outside of NYC, also thinking of Yale's LUX platform, the LD4 Discovery Affinity Group, UNLV's wikiframeVG, and emerging work on discovery for digital archives (e.g. DadoCM).

The closest I can think of is Carnegie Hall Data Lab (data.carnegiehall.org/datalab/), otherwise I'm not aware of much active/local institutional experimentation re: discovery, particularly as libraries are increasingly implementing commercial/vendor systems and AI is taking up much of this space.

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this is what happens when I put my phone in my pocket after looking at Bluesky! 😅