West Coast Librarian
West Coast Librarian
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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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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.
wapo.st
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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
dpc.getlearnworlds.com
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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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So the IKEA doll bed was finally back in stock: obviously I cracked and ordered one for the buns. 😅

#Housebunnies #Houserabbits
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Open or Proprietary? AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response https://works.hcommons.org/records/6ftf4-5xg24
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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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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
journal.code4lib.org
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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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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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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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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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This 𝗖𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗸𝗲 disappears quickly, its that good!!
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗲:thebuttercookie.com/old-fashione...
#Breakfast #RecipeoftheDay #Dessert
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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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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