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...
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.
Today I got to explain objective and subjective genitives to someone and now my work here is done.
See also sports people.
Please enjoy this post about my ridiculous project in which I forgot to tag myself.
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.
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Someone please make fabric in this pattern. I need it.
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.
www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more...
Libraries are fighting cuts, deprofessionalization, and attacks on expertise. This feels like the wrong message at the wrong time.