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Peter Musser
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EN, SP, 中文, FR // Librarian, OER person, once and future YouTubeEDU'er. US Navy vet now living in 🍁

Queer as heck🏳️‍🌈
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Hi, I build and maintain digital libraries of Open educational resources for a living and help people do the same.

It's pretty neat.
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Hour 6 of OERcamp.global is live! 🚀
More sessions coming up:
• 🌍 Open for Norway
• 📚 OER Live for Open Education Week
• 🌱 Democratizing Knowledge
• 🖥️ Updating Open Textbooks
• 📖 Breaking Barriers to Learning Resources
Join us: oercamp.de/veranstaltun...

#OERcamp #OERde
OERcamp.global 2025 – #OERcamp
November 25-26, 2025 | globally
oercamp.de
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I need you all to know that a ton of folks put a HEROIC amount of effort into keeping Archive going this week
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Its near "super intelligence" "replacing professionals" in the PR rounds, then once everyone is convinced and uses them for legal and medical advice, following the deceptive marketing, they slip it in the terms of service that you shouldn't do that.

buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users
OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbot should be used for medical or legal advice.
buttondown.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Handy resource for indicating human vs. machine provenance of works! C/O Fontys University, and @kwantlenu.bsky.social for mentioning them in their pressbooks template.

mmmlabel.tech
Me & My Machine (MMM) labels
mmmlabel.tech
November 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Reference question that I'm crowdsourcing:
Does anyone know of any guides or resources for someone who is trying to transition to a new name in professional settings? This is specifically in the LIS field.
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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for me refusal is about protest (& broadly a feminist pedagogy), which i know is not something every library worker is interested in, or even feeling capable of engaging with. the goal of critique (& the goal of my questioning, posting, scholarship) at large is to increase possibility of capability
November 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Hey @zeerak.bsky.social! Soooo I may have grabbed the Q's from the Q&A and saw you had a couple questions. I'm in an answering mood, so here we go!

Gonna use screenshots with alt text for your q's and then answer in text.
November 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Whoever anonymously gave me (as Stacks & Facts) a shout out as their personal man-crush in the Q&A part of the session I was in:

RIGHT BACK AT YA!
November 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Hi friends!

If it's up your alley, I'll be one of a few folks tomorrow "in a conversation that will explore how the evolving relationship between AI and libraries reshapes our understanding of access to knowledge, learning, and vital social infrastructure."

dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/co-opt...
Co-Opting AI: Libraries - DTD Lab
Join panelists, Shauntee Burns-Simpson, director of youth and family services at the District of Columbia Public Library, Eric Klinenberg, director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York Un...
dtdlab.virginia.edu
November 19, 2025 at 5:08 AM
FINALLY!
November 19, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Ok so this is a pretty neat tool to help address book bans, searchable by title and keywords! bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org
Unite Against Book Bans Book Résumés
A new free resource to support librarians, educators, parents, students, and other community advocates in their efforts to keep frequently challenged books on shelves.
bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
A little late coming, but I'll be at ALA #CoreForum2025 in Denver this week. If you will too, gimme a holler and let's sup together!
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I would like to call attention to the following about Zohran Mamdani in NYC and Rob Jettens in the Netherlands:
- both won out against deeply conservative competitors
- both are leftist enough to shiver Fox hosts' timbers
- both are under 40
- both are just, oof, hot as beans

Sunny days, folks.
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
A while back I mentioned that I was invited by the National Library of Korea to write something. Well, it's out!

Link below is to the 1st issue of Library Plus, which contains "Vendors All the Way Down: Generative AI in US and Canadian Libraries."

E... Enjoy? 😬

www.nl.go.kr/afile/fileDo...
www.nl.go.kr
November 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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This was a delight to stuble across. @petermusser.com! I still assign one of your videos in class. We just watched it last week.
alacorenews.org/2025/10/03/i...
#IAmCore: Peter Musser – Core News
alacorenews.org
October 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
For what it's worth, I'm a fan of @theconversation.com because things like this: theconversation.com/many-book-ba...
Many book bans could be judging titles mainly by their covers
A study of more than 1,600 books suggests that book ban advocates may not look past the cover art.
theconversation.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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📢Employment opportunity at PKP!

PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact.

If you are interested, learn more at:
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project
The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director
pkp.sfu.ca
September 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
@pjnewwest.bsky.social can you pass on thanks to the city staff who cut back the weeds and grass overtaking the sidewalk on Duncan, eastbound just past Mercer on Qborough? I put in a req for it on SeeClickFix app, and mentioned it to the city staff at the farmers market last week, & they delivered!
September 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I got the results of my Freedom of Information Request back from Worksafe BC looking for more info about claims made broken out by gender, industry, nature of injury, and outcome, and they sent me a spreadsheet with 200,000 rows, so that's neat.
September 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Wellllll @hankgreen.bsky.social and @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social and @projectforawesome.bsky.social, I'm happy to announce that our car's inaugural decor is the (very lovely) P4A bumper magnet!

Happy to rep nerd fighters across all of British Columbia :D
September 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The only things getting me through this hellscape year are a) my library's exceedingly healthy ebook budget and b) my child's desperate need for me to stop narrating the news to him in silly voices
August 19, 2025 at 4:52 AM
So, do we think that members of congress have started filtering their emails for innocuous words like "spine" and "grow" and "pair" yet?
August 19, 2025 at 4:45 AM
popping in to say "woohoo I filed my first freedom of information request since becoming canadian!"

Something something informed population something bulwark something democracy!
August 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Amazing set of #RDM (research data management) workshops this fall by @ubclibrary.bsky.social -- free and online!
libcal.library.ubc.ca/calendar/van...
UBC Vancouver Library Public Events - LibCal - University of British Columbia
libcal.library.ubc.ca
July 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Expected AI ethics discussion aside: GOOD hecking RIDDANCE!

Workers Deserve Rest, and productivity mindset can calm TF down.
July 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM