Keith Webster
@cmkeithw.bsky.social
Dean of Libraries at Carnegie Mellon. Professional futurist. Speaker. Facilitator. Coach. Librarian. Running. Classical music.
British-American
@cmulibraries.bsky.social
@carnegiemellon.bsky.social
https://www.library.cmu.edu/
British-American
@cmulibraries.bsky.social
@carnegiemellon.bsky.social
https://www.library.cmu.edu/
Congratulations to my colleagues at @cmulibraries.bsky.social on a) reaching 1K followers and b) having more followers than any other unit at CMU, including the main @cmu.edu account! Kudos! The team posts a lot of good content and is worth following.
March 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Congratulations to my colleagues at @cmulibraries.bsky.social on a) reaching 1K followers and b) having more followers than any other unit at CMU, including the main @cmu.edu account! Kudos! The team posts a lot of good content and is worth following.
I'm reading this piece - Who benefits from ‘collegial’ academic workplaces? - from @lseimpactblog.bsky.social sitting in my University's Presidents' Dining Room (not as grand as it sounds) surrounded by paintings of former Presidents. The image in the post resonates! blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
March 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I'm reading this piece - Who benefits from ‘collegial’ academic workplaces? - from @lseimpactblog.bsky.social sitting in my University's Presidents' Dining Room (not as grand as it sounds) surrounded by paintings of former Presidents. The image in the post resonates! blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Join us @cmulibraries.bsky.social today for the next installment of our Fine & Rare series - a live event where curator @samlemley.bsky.social will show off some of our recent special collections. A teaser - we’ll be sharing some very exciting news. Be amongst the first to hear! cmu.is/Fine-Rare-V
March 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Join us @cmulibraries.bsky.social today for the next installment of our Fine & Rare series - a live event where curator @samlemley.bsky.social will show off some of our recent special collections. A teaser - we’ll be sharing some very exciting news. Be amongst the first to hear! cmu.is/Fine-Rare-V
I look forward to hosting a conversation with my colleagues where we’ll explore the intersection of technology and creativity - open to all. www.givecampus.com/schools/Carn...
March 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I look forward to hosting a conversation with my colleagues where we’ll explore the intersection of technology and creativity - open to all. www.givecampus.com/schools/Carn...
Stunning - from the FT. “The PM will bring people together and politely make sure they realise that there is only one negotiation in town — and that’s President Trump’s.”
March 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Stunning - from the FT. “The PM will bring people together and politely make sure they realise that there is only one negotiation in town — and that’s President Trump’s.”
This is a fantastic example of collaboration between a faculty member at @cmulibraries.bsky.social and a grad student to map @carnegiemellon.bsky.social research library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
February 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This is a fantastic example of collaboration between a faculty member at @cmulibraries.bsky.social and a grad student to map @carnegiemellon.bsky.social research library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
The plumbing behind an effective retraction alerts system incorporating @nisoinfo.bsky.social CREC, @orcid.org and GetFTR - first session of #R2RCONF Day 2
February 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The plumbing behind an effective retraction alerts system incorporating @nisoinfo.bsky.social CREC, @orcid.org and GetFTR - first session of #R2RCONF Day 2
And so it begins.
February 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
And so it begins.
Shared responsibility for data policies by @drbeth.bsky.social at #R2RCONF
February 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Shared responsibility for data policies by @drbeth.bsky.social at #R2RCONF
Glad to be at #R2RCONF for two days of debate and discussion of trends in publishing, scholarship and libraries. John Willinsky of @pkp.sfu.ca getting us underway with a great overview of issues in predatory publishing and much more.
February 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Glad to be at #R2RCONF for two days of debate and discussion of trends in publishing, scholarship and libraries. John Willinsky of @pkp.sfu.ca getting us underway with a great overview of issues in predatory publishing and much more.
Saturday puzzle fun. Let me know if I can help solve this clue.
February 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Saturday puzzle fun. Let me know if I can help solve this clue.
This gets better every time I look. Surely another spoof, but this is on a federal government website.
HR1161 To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland"
This is going to fill up the Google maps screen quickly!
HR1161 To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland"
This is going to fill up the Google maps screen quickly!
February 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This gets better every time I look. Surely another spoof, but this is on a federal government website.
HR1161 To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland"
This is going to fill up the Google maps screen quickly!
HR1161 To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland"
This is going to fill up the Google maps screen quickly!
Want to interact with research exploring the nuance of Large Language Models?
We're hosting a hackathon focused on replicating and exploring research from CMU, investigating the way Al writes.
Register for Reproducibility Hackathon 2025: lnkd.in/esPNXn_G
Tue Feb 18
4:30-8:30 p.m.
Hunt Library
We're hosting a hackathon focused on replicating and exploring research from CMU, investigating the way Al writes.
Register for Reproducibility Hackathon 2025: lnkd.in/esPNXn_G
Tue Feb 18
4:30-8:30 p.m.
Hunt Library
February 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Want to interact with research exploring the nuance of Large Language Models?
We're hosting a hackathon focused on replicating and exploring research from CMU, investigating the way Al writes.
Register for Reproducibility Hackathon 2025: lnkd.in/esPNXn_G
Tue Feb 18
4:30-8:30 p.m.
Hunt Library
We're hosting a hackathon focused on replicating and exploring research from CMU, investigating the way Al writes.
Register for Reproducibility Hackathon 2025: lnkd.in/esPNXn_G
Tue Feb 18
4:30-8:30 p.m.
Hunt Library
We're excited to develop our first dedicated special collections library @cmulibraries.bsky.social - we'll be supporting researchers from @carnegiemellon.bsky.social as well as visiting scholars in a reimagined Posner Center when we open this summer www.library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
January 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
We're excited to develop our first dedicated special collections library @cmulibraries.bsky.social - we'll be supporting researchers from @carnegiemellon.bsky.social as well as visiting scholars in a reimagined Posner Center when we open this summer www.library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
Not much green on the departures board at DFW. It’s a beautiful day outside, but strong winds are causing delays and runway closures.
January 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Not much green on the departures board at DFW. It’s a beautiful day outside, but strong winds are causing delays and runway closures.
It's interesting to compare this with the Nat Acad Review of Evidence on Alcohol and Health - prepub at nap.nationalacademies.org/download/28582 - and critiqued here at www.nytimes.com/2025/01/01/h...
January 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It's interesting to compare this with the Nat Acad Review of Evidence on Alcohol and Health - prepub at nap.nationalacademies.org/download/28582 - and critiqued here at www.nytimes.com/2025/01/01/h...
Non-work fun - an evening at the Pittsburgh Symphony.
December 19, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Non-work fun - an evening at the Pittsburgh Symphony.
We're inviting applications for our open science primer training program. Closing date for applications 3 Jan 2025. Events will run across the country during 2025 - details at guides.library.cmu.edu/opensciencep...
As always grateful thanks to our friends at IMLS inc @james3neal.bsky.social
As always grateful thanks to our friends at IMLS inc @james3neal.bsky.social
December 16, 2024 at 8:35 PM
We're inviting applications for our open science primer training program. Closing date for applications 3 Jan 2025. Events will run across the country during 2025 - details at guides.library.cmu.edu/opensciencep...
As always grateful thanks to our friends at IMLS inc @james3neal.bsky.social
As always grateful thanks to our friends at IMLS inc @james3neal.bsky.social
Is there a topic related to AI and algorithms; data and computation; or media and mis- and dis-information that you don’t think is getting enough attention. We're looking for 30 editors for our IMLS funded project @cmulibraries.bsky.social
Call for editors - library.cmu.edu/poem
Call for editors - library.cmu.edu/poem
December 16, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Is there a topic related to AI and algorithms; data and computation; or media and mis- and dis-information that you don’t think is getting enough attention. We're looking for 30 editors for our IMLS funded project @cmulibraries.bsky.social
Call for editors - library.cmu.edu/poem
Call for editors - library.cmu.edu/poem
Last week I facilitated a forum exploring @arlnews.bsky.social @cni-org.bsky.social scenarios for AI (www.arl.org/wp-content/u...) -Key issues inc "How should libraries position themselves to remain relevant and influential in a rapidly changing AI-enhanced higher education environment?"
December 13, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Last week I facilitated a forum exploring @arlnews.bsky.social @cni-org.bsky.social scenarios for AI (www.arl.org/wp-content/u...) -Key issues inc "How should libraries position themselves to remain relevant and influential in a rapidly changing AI-enhanced higher education environment?"
More great work from my colleagues @cmulibraries.bsky.social including @chaszg.bsky.social - three of my colleagues who expanded their scientific disciplinary training to careers advancing #openscience and science librarianship - From the Lab to Librarianship: Advancing Open Science
December 12, 2024 at 5:48 PM
More great work from my colleagues @cmulibraries.bsky.social including @chaszg.bsky.social - three of my colleagues who expanded their scientific disciplinary training to careers advancing #openscience and science librarianship - From the Lab to Librarianship: Advancing Open Science
I feel I need a few more followers to get above 666!
November 27, 2024 at 8:14 PM
I feel I need a few more followers to get above 666!
Here’s one slide (apologies for my bad photography) that says more
November 23, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Here’s one slide (apologies for my bad photography) that says more
The Research Information Management Service at @cmulibraries.bsky.social allows @carnegiemellon.bsky.social researchers to collate information about their #research outputs, grants etc into one place. But it's how they use that info that is important. Much more: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
November 22, 2024 at 6:21 PM
The Research Information Management Service at @cmulibraries.bsky.social allows @carnegiemellon.bsky.social researchers to collate information about their #research outputs, grants etc into one place. But it's how they use that info that is important. Much more: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...