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Interested in eBooks, film, humanities, linked data, machine learning, metadata, instruction, open access, oer and open innovation.
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Geoffrey A. Fowler @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social · 8h
ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.

@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.

My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution.
OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.
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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 1d
In the sleepiest towns I found bustling, light-filled places eager for conversations about books and writing #libraries
A 3,200km tour of small Australian libraries taught me just how vital they are | Paul Daley
In the sleepiest towns I found bustling, light-filled places eager for conversations about books and writing
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Mary Grace 🍂🍁🎃👻🍎 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 1d
The Digital Preservation Coalition has great free courses. Register for the Novice-to-Know-How courses on digital preservation for beginners, email preservation, creating a digital assets register, and providing access to preserved digital content. #digipres #archives

dpc.getlearnworlds.com/courses
Courses
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Jess Bates @jessicabates.bsky.social · 6h
Happy Book Week NI! www.librariesni.org.uk/browse-read/... Share any activities you are part of! What’s everyone currently reading? Check out the Book Week NI events and the Bookcited Podcast @librariesni.bsky.social
Book Week NI, October 2025
www.librariesni.org.uk
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 12h
Interesting post on the CILIP website: 'AI Wars - The Libraries Fight Back' www.cilip.org.uk/news/712840/...

Timed for Green Libraries Week, which is examining the environmental impact of AI www.cilip.org.uk/page/GreenLi...

#AI4LAM #GreenLibrariesWeek
AI Wars - The Libraries Fight Back
Open Fifth explains how library management systems are fending off the AI bot attacks… for now.
www.cilip.org.uk
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ai@cam @ai.cam.ac.uk · 6d
Centuries of #culturalheritage lie in archives, libraries and museums, yet much remains hidden or fragmented.

Through the new AI for Cultural Heritage Hub (ArCH) project, researchers are using #AI to uncover lost stories & reconnect the past.

Read more on the blog: www.ai.cam.ac.uk/blog/from-fr...
From Fragments to Findings: How AI is Transforming Access to Collections
AI is reshaping the way we access and interpret cultural heritage collections, from transcribing fragile manuscripts to piecing together fragmented artefacts. At Cambridge University Library, Dr Ameli...
www.ai.cam.ac.uk
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Caz 💖💜💙 @wabbits.bsky.social · 5h
So the IKEA doll bed was finally back in stock: obviously I cracked and ordered one for the buns. 😅

#Housebunnies #Houserabbits
A large grey-brown house rabbit sniffing at treats placed on top of a doll’s bed while also side-eyeing the camera Same rabbit on top of the doll bed, snuffling the treats scattered on top A view from the side of the whole doll bed, bunny sitting in the very middle (still giving me side-eye)
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Iris Cook @montrose.bsky.social · 7h
Stolen Louvre treasures are uninsured, France says share.google/RA1Fc8ZlwKGA...
Stolen Louvre treasures are uninsured, France says
Government confirms country will not be reimbursed for loss of jewels from Paris museum heist
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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 8h
Open or Proprietary? AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response https://works.hcommons.org/records/6ftf4-5xg24
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 5h
Pls. repost and share: #OA #OER free scholar-produced resource for teachinge and readinge *The Canterbury Tales* at the Universitye level: THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales – The new way to learn about old books
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
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Cyberpunk Librarian @cyberpunklibrarian.bsky.social · 12h
I've a systems librarian nerd level paper here co-authored by a friend and colleague. They discuss AI bots scraping the online catalogue, bringing it down by creating thousands of complex faceted searches.

AI takes and takes and does so multiple times per second

journal.code4lib.org/articles/18489
The Code4Lib Journal – Mitigating Aggressive Crawler Traffic in the Age of Generative AI: A Collaborative Approach from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries
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The Book Shepherd @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 5d
Highlight of this week’s classroom presentations to grade 5s about the library was when one boy stood up and told me everything I was saying was “too good to be true” and that “That can’t all possibly be free”. Thanks for the great advertising, kid!
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 4d
Okay new idea for a library service: leave a hobby take a hobby. When people get bored with a hobby they can come and leave their supplies and books and half-finished things, and exchange them for someone else’s supplies and books and half-finished things. Hobby swap.
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 2d
One of the real joys of librarianship is when you show someone that they can not only request books that other libraries that we don't be sent to our location, but that we can request all sorts of things from libraries around the world.

The pleased surprise on the person's face is a job perq.
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West Coast Librarian @sylvianurse.bsky.social · 2d
Cons of Digital Libraries: ivypanda.com/essays/digit...
Disadvantages of Digital Libraries:
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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 3d
If you’re struggling with iOS 26 (it was making me feel queasy) the accessibility options are your friend. Settings - Accessibility - Reduce motion - Enable.
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 2d
More on @adi-keinan.bsky.social @bldigischol.bsky.social 's work on Wikisource diff.wikimedia.org/2023/08/28/t... #KnowledgeIsHuman
The British Library Loves Manuscripts on Wikisource
The British Library has joined hands with the Wikimedia Foundation to support the Wikisource Loves Manuscripts (WiLMa) project, sharing 76 Javanese manuscripts, including what is probably the large…
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Doug Mirams @dmirams.bsky.social · 2d
Bloomsburg PA Public Library launches spate of community dementia programs www.northcentralpa.com/community/bl...
Bloomsburg Public Library launches spate of community dementia programs
Bloomsburg, Pa. — The public, including individuals with dementia and their care partners, family, friends, social service and other health professionals, and individuals who are interested in volunte...
www.northcentralpa.com
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The Butter Cookie @thebuttercookie.bsky.social · 4d
This 𝗖𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗸𝗲 disappears quickly, its that good!!
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗲:thebuttercookie.com/old-fashione...
#Breakfast #RecipeoftheDay #Dessert
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 3d
"In a major investigation, a young reporter uncovers a powerful technology used to spy on thousands of people across the world" revealnews.org/podcast/cell...
A young reporter discovers a mysterious trove of data that exposes a global surveillance empire.
In a major investigation, a young reporter uncovers a powerful technology used to spy on thousands of people across the world.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 3d
Remember, if someone has the audacity to tell you that there’s “no market” for a career as the eccentric yet mysterious owner of a quaint bookstore on a cobblestone side street in Edinburgh that doubles as a café and triples as a cat rescue, then they were never your true friend.
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Paul R. Pival he/him @ppival.bsky.social · 2d
Your Students May Not Have Read the Syllabus. But This Tool Did. katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

This was new to me.

#OER
Your Students May Not Have Read the Syllabus. But This Tool Did.
Open Syllabus Analytics is a one-of-a-kind resource that offers promising analysis of millions of syllabi. But the execution disappoints.
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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 2d
Why are universities still teaching referencing styles? www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/why-ar...
Why are universities still teaching referencing styles?
In the digital era, inserting a reference into a text is as easy as pressing control-K. So why do universities still insist on troubling students with the minutiae of traditional referencing styles th...
www.timeshighereducation.com
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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03196-0
Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03196-0 Scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices.
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AaronM @aaronm.bsky.social · 2d
Massive traumatic insane AWS outage. It's so bad that the tools people use to debug their outages, which run in AWS, are all down too. I took a long lunch
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