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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 23h

My neighbors have filled the Little Free Libraries with whistles so we can warn each other about ICE. Chicago is not afraid.

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 3d

They are the best evidence that professors don't indoctrinate.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 5d

It's October 2025 and the federal government is shut down.

So what's currently going on at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)? Well, a lot of money seems to be "missing," among other things.

buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

The Current State of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (October 2025 Edition)

Grant money that should be going to library projects is going to state-sponsored propaganda, among other IMLS updates.

buttondown.com

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 7d

📣 NEWS: Digital Science has made a series of recommendations for Australia’s research future in a report published today into the use of persistent identifiers #PIDs in research.

The report was commissioned by @ardc.edu.au.

🔗 See our announcement: ow.ly/GTSN50X8XjO

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 8d

Great piece as always from @himself.bsky.social, on authoritarianism as a competitive instance of the coordination problem.

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 8d

:)

I do honestly draw on this knowledge pretty often myself but rarely these days is there a convo like Twitter of olden days...

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 8d

(I am awash with this sort of data ... that's what all the coursework towards a PhD in global high ed policy gets you ... a lot of facts rarely useful!)

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 8d

Just another point of comparison ... 5k+ institutions of higher ed in India have access thru ONOS. The US has only 6k institutions when you include all the beaty, barber, automotive, etc.

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 8d

I agree everyone deserves info. But is it a tragedy if beauty and barber schools don't provision their students with the research literature? nces.ed.gov/collegenavig...

College Navigator - Search Results

nces.ed.gov

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 8d

You should start by understanding what counts as an institute of higher ed in India. You might be surprised how wide the scope is in the US too!

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 8d

The number of private institutions of higher ed in India is immense. wenr.wes.org/2023/11/high...

Higher Education Privatization in South Asia: Trends and Outlook

Higher education in South Asia has become increasingly privatized. India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka all have a growing presence of non-state actors in education.

wenr.wes.org

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 8d

I feel like the explanation might be pretty simple? FAQ #3 ... private schools are not eligible. www.onos.gov.in/faq

ONOS | India

The One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) initiative is aimed at providing access to scholarly research content to all individuals in the country. ONOS intends to acquire national licenses for e-journal/...

www.onos.gov.in

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 9d

Presuming you are paying this person, you deserve a refund!

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 9d

I was head of a library with a laser disc collection no less!

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 9d

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 9d

Oh, I assure you we do. Many things are very esoteric so there would be many things worth funding long before very niche items.

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 9d

Together, these groups represent a coordinated effort to safeguard the credibility of scholarly communication.

We are short on global participation from funders and institutions.

Please get in touch if that’s you! Message your interest to: [email protected]

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 9d

* Funder Outreach Working Group: Engages research funders to embed integrity safeguards and align efforts against paper mills.

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 9d

working groups

* Education Working Group: Implements and promotes the use of educational resources to strengthen community vigilance against paper mills.
* Stakeholder Responsibilities Working Group: Drives adoption of guidance on stakeholder roles in preventing and addressing paper mill activity.

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 9d

Training resources, guidance, and publications were developed by five working groups in Phase 1. As we move into the next phase, a 2-year collaborative project centered on implementation and outreach, we are building three

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 9d

Funders & Institutions: Join the Fight Against Paper Mills

United2Act, an international multi-stakeholder project aimed at tackling paper mills (which I co-chair w Nandita Quaderi), is seeking to boost funder and institutional participation.

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 9d

“At the end of the day, us librarians just want to help people, so we're just trying to find the best ways to do that right now with the resources we have.”

www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

www.404media.co

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 9d

“At the end of the day, us librarians just want to help people, so we're just trying to find the best ways to do that right now with the resources we have.”

www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

www.404media.co

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 9d

This just activated every research librarian everywhere.

Microfiche, microfilm, and microcards ... each needing a different reader. Fun times!

Also reminded of when the young librarian translating my talk into Chinese stopped me and said, "I don't know that word."

Reader, the word was CD-ROM.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9d

I have been trying to explain a microfiche machine to one of my dear, brilliant, talented, but clearly too young to be alive collaborators. And it is taking the last of my soul.

“Micro…fish?? I have never heard that word in my life.” I recorded the timestamp so it can be put on my tombstone.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9d

I have been trying to explain a microfiche machine to one of my dear, brilliant, talented, but clearly too young to be alive collaborators. And it is taking the last of my soul.

“Micro…fish?? I have never heard that word in my life.” I recorded the timestamp so it can be put on my tombstone.

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 9d

I attended as a high school student. It was amazing and mind-blowing (expanding). I had the poster hanging in my room and then my dorm room during college.

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 10d

agreed

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 10d

"Openness and sharing are both core values in libraries; however, there are many ways in which academic libraries are complicit in information capitalism despite resistance efforts." joi-ojs-txstate.tdl.org/joi/article/...

The Myth of Open: Academic Libraries’ Role in Open Movements and Its Contention with Capitalism | Journal of Open Initiatives in Academic Libraries

joi-ojs-txstate.tdl.org

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 11d

I am really unsure about this. What we call things does matter and open access has different modalities that work differently in different cases. If we don't correct misconceptions, with new terminology, then people will never learn.

Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11d

When Focusing on Terminology Becomes a Hurdle to Open Access Outreach | Katina Magazine https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/focusing-on-terminology-hurdle-open-access-outreach

When Focusing on Terminology Becomes a Hurdle to Open Access Outreach

Conversations about open access can be riddled with distracting language. But what if we treated these failures to communicate as opportunities to learn more?

katinamagazine.org

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