"She seems like an interesting character." librarian | writer | Iowa native, Wyoming expatriate, NYC aspirant | comms @libraryfutures.bsky.social
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Laura Crossett
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Someone please make fabric in this pattern. I need it.
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1971 press release from the @uaw.org advocating, on behalf of the public good, for a certain number of channels being reserved for public broadcasting and public-access on the newest development in entertainment…cable TV. 📺 From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.
Yes, @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, pls explain including an AI vendor exhibitor with the marketing: “intelligent enough to not need a trained librarian”? This association's entire purpose is to support + advocate for librarians, & this is not that. See aischoollibrarian.substack.com/p/why-is-ala...
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This is awful and was probably predictable
Laura Crossett
fucking genocidal
Seriously how many James Patterson books does your library own. When I last did collection development, I bought FIVE new hardback copies of everyone one of his books--plus I don't know how many ebooks.
Per Meredith Broussard, "AI companies [are] the catalyst for the latest skirmish in a very old battle." Laura Edit: Yes, the battle that happens when libraries can't do their jobs.
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Please enjoy this post about my ridiculous project in which I forgot to tag myself.
UAW Archivist
I won an argument with someone on the internet this morning.
Nicole Pagowsky, Ph.D.
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Matthew Noe 🔜 #alaac26
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Libraries are fighting cuts, deprofessionalization, and attacks on expertise. This feels like the wrong message at the wrong time.
As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.
