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LOEX @loex.bsky.social · 1d

"Inclusion and Empathy Are Not Enough: Cultivating Student Belonging in the Academic Library Through Compassion" by Emily Reed, Penn State Harrisburg (portal: Libraries and the Academy)
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Project MUSE - Inclusion and Empathy Are Not Enough: Cultivating Student Belonging in the Academic Library Through Compassion

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6d

“We’ve decided to make it so society can’t trust anything they’ve shown so you’re just going to have to “evolve” with that.”

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d

Cyberlibertarianism.

He positioned the launch’s speed bumps as learning opportunities. “Not for much longer will we have the only good video model out there, and there’s going to be a ton of videos with none of our safeguards, and that’s fine, that’s the way the world works,” Altman said, adding, “We can use this window to get society to really understand, ‘Hey, the playing field changed, we can generate almost indistinguishable video in some cases now, and you’ve got to be ready for that.’”
Altman said he feels that people don’t pay attention to OpenAI’s technology when people at the company talk about it, only when they release it. “We’ve got to have … this sort of technological and societal co-evolution,” Altman said. “I believe that works, and I actually don’t know anything else that works. There are clearly going to be challenges for society contending with this quality, and what will get much better, with the video generation. But the only way that we know of to help mitigate it is to get the world to experience it and figure out how that’s going to go.”

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LOEX @loex.bsky.social · 6d

The ACRL University Libraries Section Professional Development Committee has issued a Call for Proposals for online programs that further ACRL members' professional development, knowledge, and practice.
Due Oct 31, 2025.

More details about this webinar series at forms.gle/BJk9Swh9wWBa...

ACRL University Library Section (ULS) Professional Development Committee, Call for Proposals

The ULS Professional Development Committee (PDC) hosts several online programs throughout the year (prior programs available at https://acrl.libguides.com/uls/committees/professional-development). Th...

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LOEX @loex.bsky.social · 11d

This is next week!

LOEX @loex.bsky.social · 26d

Free Online Presentation: "Citational Privilege: Disrupting the Patriarchy and Empowering Students Through Feminist Citation Practices" by Laura Sheets et al (BGSU) - October 8, 2025, 2-3pm ET

Sponsored by the ACRL ULS Professional Development Committee. Register ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ACRL ULS PDC: Citational Privilege: Disrupting the Patriarchy and Empowering Students Through Feminist Citation Practices. After registering, you will recei...

Coined by Sara Ahmed in Living a Feminist Life, citational privilege is alive and well in academia. Citation practices have the power to create canons and shift scholarly discourse. They can offer a w...

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LOEX @loex.bsky.social · 11d

"Reading Between the Lines: Celebrating Banned Books Week Through the Lens of the Information Literacy Framework" by Chakraborty and Ford (C&RL News)

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California Conference on Library Instruction @cclinstruction.bsky.social · 14d

The proposal topic for the California Conference on Library Instruction #ccli2026 is ready! Propose by October 29, 2025 for our in-person conference May 29, 2026 at Cal State Monterey Bay. More information on our site: www.cclibinstruction.org

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LOEX @loex.bsky.social · 13d

The call for LOEX 2026 (Norfolk, VA, May 7-9) Breakout Session Proposals is posted! "Oceans of Knowledge:
Diving into Information Literacy" loexconference.org/proposals/br... Due December 1, 2025 #loex2026

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LOEX @loex.bsky.social · 17d

"Librarians as Faculty Developers: Shaping Disciplinary Classroom Experiences through Information Literacy" by Rachel Fundator et al. (C&RL)

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Librarians as Faculty Developers: Shaping Disciplinary Classroom Experiences through Information Literacy | Fundator | College & Research Libraries

Librarians as Faculty Developers: Shaping Disciplinary Classroom Experiences through Information Literacy

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LOEX @loex.bsky.social · 26d

Free Online Presentation: "Citational Privilege: Disrupting the Patriarchy and Empowering Students Through Feminist Citation Practices" by Laura Sheets et al (BGSU) - October 8, 2025, 2-3pm ET

Sponsored by the ACRL ULS Professional Development Committee. Register ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ACRL ULS PDC: Citational Privilege: Disrupting the Patriarchy and Empowering Students Through Feminist Citation Practices. After registering, you will recei...

Coined by Sara Ahmed in Living a Feminist Life, citational privilege is alive and well in academia. Citation practices have the power to create canons and shift scholarly discourse. They can offer a w...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26d

“Chrome’s cheating tool exemplifies Big Tech’s continuing gold rush approach to AI: launch first, consider consequences later and let society clean up the mess.”

Column | Teachers got mad about a cheat button in Chrome. Now Google’s pausing it.

Google quietly added a “homework help” button to the world’s most-used web browser. Educators say it makes cheating too easy.

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LOEX @loex.bsky.social · Sep 11

"For-Credit Library Instruction: Exploring the Experiences of Academic Librarians Serving as Instructors of Record" by Elizabeth Nelson and Angela Davis (C&RL)

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For-Credit Library Instruction: Exploring the Experiences of Academic Librarians Serving as Instructors of Record | Nelson | College & Research Libraries

For-Credit Library Instruction: Exploring the Experiences of Academic Librarians Serving as Instructors of Record

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LOEX @loex.bsky.social · Sep 10

"Effectiveness of Academic Library Research Guides for Building College Students’ Information Literacy Skills: A Scoping Review" by Erica Lynn DeFrain, Leslie Sult, Nicole Pagowsky (C&RL) rebrand.ly/eawa2ne

Effectiveness of Academic Library Research Guides for Building College Students’ Information Literacy Skills: A Scoping Review | DeFrain | College & Research Libraries

Effectiveness of Academic Library Research Guides for Building College Students’ Information Literacy Skills: A Scoping Review

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LOEX @loex.bsky.social · Sep 10

Free Online Presentation: "A Discussion of Faculty and Predatory Journals: The Potential Role of Librarians" by Stephanie Wiegand et al (OSU) - September 17, 2025, 2-3 pm ET

Sponsored by the ACRL ULS Professional Development Committee. Register ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ACRL ULS PDC: A Discussion of Faculty and Predatory Journals: The Potential Role of Librarians. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email abo...

As a webinar registrant, you will receive follow-up correspondence from ACRL specifically related to this webinar (including, but not limited to, instructions for accessing both the live webinar and i...

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · Sep 7

This is a good post on how to get better at using AI. It's the product of pretty intensive research on what consistently works although I don't surface that research directly in it.

Bluesky and AI, so obviously comments on this are off. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/is-the-llm...

Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it?

Many "errors" in search-assisted LLMs are not errors at all, but the result of an investigation aborted too soon. Here's how to up your LLM-based verification game by going to round two.

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LOEX @loex.bsky.social · Sep 4

These are due tomorrow!

LOEX @loex.bsky.social · Jul 17

Call for Proposals for LOEX Fall Focus 2025 (Online) has been posted. Due September 5. #loexff2025

Conference will be held over November 17-19 loexfallfocus.org/proposals/

Proposals

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Sep 3

AI "boring history" slop has taken over YouTube and is particularly insidious because it flattens history and drowns out the tireless work of creators who have been integral to legitimizing YouTube as a place for high-quality history videos

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AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History

"These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past."

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LOEX @loex.bsky.social · Sep 2

The ALAO Annual Conference is taking place November 6 & 7, 2025 at the OCLC Convention Center in Dublin, Ohio (just outside of Columbus). Registration is now live. Note that early bird rates will end on September 19, 2025.

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ALAO 2025 Conference

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LOEX @loex.bsky.social · Aug 27

I just had my first (actual) reference question of the year. A FY student asked for "books on anatomy."

A textbook question?

No! He wanted comprehensive, overview books that he could read ahead of the class to "get ready."

I found 3 books, explained the LOC, knighted him, and sent him on his way.

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LOEX @loex.bsky.social · Aug 22

The fire alarm just went off at LOEX HQ in Ypsi, completely surprising me, and my body clenched so hard I almost pulled something.

Glad it's just a test and I can easily hear it!

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LOEX @loex.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ha! Well, he was wrong there...that was one loud & often obnoxious movie (Mater was insufferable) but I appreciate the sentiment & understand where he was coming from.

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LOEX @loex.bsky.social · Aug 19

Exactly. Ebert had broad tastes. The man loved movies of all shapes & sizes, and could tell you why--in a sound bite or in long form.

It's terrible to lose critic positions. Just like librarians, they can help people sift through an avalanche of content & guide you towards the good stuff.

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LOEX @loex.bsky.social · Aug 19

Your assertion is that Roger Ebert, the man who wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, rarely liked fun movies?

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LOEX @loex.bsky.social · Aug 18

Call for Proposals for ALA 2026 in Chicago next June. #alaac26

Program and Poster Proposals are open through September 22, 2025

Celebrating 150 years of the American Library Association.

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Call for Proposals | 2026 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition

Submit a proposal for an education session at the world's largest library event, the ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · Aug 18

“[Students] wondered why faculty weren’t doing more to adjust teaching practices to match the fundamental changes wrought by new technologies—and potentially improve the learning experience in the process.”

Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · Aug 17

This year's rising seniors have never experienced a year of college without generative AI. It's AI's senior year, too. And AI is ubiquitous: Over 90 percent of college students now use it in some way.

I wrote about how AI already changed college forever. (Gift link)

College Students Have Already Changed Forever

Members of the class of 2026 have had access to AI since they were freshmen. Almost all of them are using it to do their work.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Aug 12

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge

This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…

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