ICYMI: Libraries, AI and the Shock by David Lankes, Virginia and Charles Bowden Professor of Librarianship at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information www.libraryjournal.com/story/litera...

Literacy, AI, and the Shock | Faith in Our Future

As AI transforms information and knowledge creation, the future of librarianship rests with claiming our role as accountable partners in learning.

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Guess who won an Emmy!!!! @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

Cutest couple at the Emmy Awards: Janique, our wonderful producer, and Paulius, our sweetheart cinematographer. Love you both! @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

78th Emmy Awards Night One - Governors Gala

Janique L. Robillard, left, winner of the Emmy for Outstanding Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking for "The Librarians," and Paulius Kontijevas attend night one of the Governors Gala following...

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Seems so basic as an advisable practice might be concerned. What is the point of your research, that is, what is your intended research agenda? gavialib.com/2026/09/for-...

Dr. Peter Embi Named As New Director of National Library of Medicine www.nih.gov/news-events/...

Physician-scientist and informatics leader Dr. Peter Embí to helm NIH’s National Library of Medicine

He is anticipated to begin his role on Sept. 10, 2026.

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What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? - defector.com/what-do-book...

What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | Defector

If you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a sligh...

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A professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work. Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’

Provenance is tricky…as you know. Last year, the Getty Research Institute received an unexpected email from colleagues at the Kupferstich-Kabinett, a museum of prints, drawings and photographs in Dresden. (Comic by Nathan Gelgud)

Was having a conversation on this topic just recently. A book (or story or painting or movie or whatever) is not a puzzle with a Correct Solution. It's an experience to think about and with, to chew over and then bring to other experiences.

Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 4w ago

Writinge about literature ys not undirstondinge a booke completelye and then sayinge somethinge clever. It ys, by contrast, failinge agayne and agayne to undirstonde a booke completelye and makinge the moost descryptive notes possible about the resultes. Meaninge ys a process, not a schoolboy prize.

What a nightmare PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation | Tom's Hardware share.google/ExvNkuiN1bIl...

PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archiv...

This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives.

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On this week’s episode of the Against the Grain podcast, guest host Michael Upshall sits down with Russell Michalak, Library Director at Goldey-Beacom College and Founding Partner of Inclusive Knowledge Solutions.

A Conversation with Russell Michalak, Library Director, Goldey-Beacom College

YouTube video by Charleston Hub

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How to succeed in college the old-fashioned way | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/ideas/how-to... Great piece for a rising population of students.

How to succeed in college the old-fashioned way

Around two thousand years ago, in a Greek city that had long been both politically and culturally under the sway of the Roman empire, a teenaged boy named Nicander participated in a coming-of-age ritu...

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These changes are necessary to reduce costs in a challenging funding environment, and we aim to remove redundancy with other open research infrastructure to reduce competition for limited resources. Please see this post for why these changes are being made. www.cos.io/blog/osf-cha...

OSF Changes: A Note to Users

The Center for Open Science announced a significant change to the Open Science Framework (OSF). This post shares what led to the change, implications, and what's next.

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The Slippery Slope of Letting the Government Decide What We Read: Call Congress to Vote NO on H.R. 7661 & S. 4925 katielcarroll.com/the-slippery...

The Slippery Slope of Letting the Government Decide What We Read: Call Congress to Vote NO on H.R. 7661 & S. 4925

Currently, four different book banning bills are under consideration in Congress: H.R. 7661, S. 4925, H.R. 2616, and H.R. 8705. I’m encouraging everyone who supports the right to read to cont…

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Quote: "a 44 percent decline in spending on course materials over the past decade." I don't believe this decline can or will continue for as long as everyone may hope.. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Digital Boom Drives Down Cost of College Course Materials

The rising popularity of digital course materials is helping students save money, a new survey shows.

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ICYMI: The Genesis Mission is a Department of Energy initiative to build the American Science and Security Platform, an AI-driven infrastructure designed to accelerate scientific discovery and harness AI to deliver real-world impact... newsroom.wiley.com/press-releas...

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

Springer Nature’s (@springernature.com) "strong" first half of 2026 has had it raising its its full-year outlook as revenue hit €939.8m (£805.7m) in the first six months of the year, up 6.2% on an underlying basis 👇

Springer Nature raises outlook as research division drives first-half growth

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If Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" has inspired you to learn more about Homer's epic, we've curated a list of free articles from "Classical Antiquity." www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/b...

Beyond the Big Screen: Explore the "Odyssey" with "Classical Antiquity"

If Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" has you thinking about Homer's epic, dive deeper with a curated selection of free-to-read scholarship from "Classical Antiquity" that reveals new ways to understan...

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Regarding the scholarly monograph, this is an interesting thread.

Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · last mo.

reading the bookforum review of Middlemen and I expect that the scholarly publishing equivalent of the agent is the freelance developmental editor. if conglomeration drove the rise of the agent, austerity drove the rise of the latter—the editor who actually edits, helps w/ the proposal, etc.

Fascinating thread.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2mo ago

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

Worth your time to read.

Olivia Waite@oliviawaite.com · 2mo ago

A thread on special editions, luxury books, and publishing history: In 1903, J. M. Dent created Everyman’s Library, intended as a cheap line of hardbacks to make a classical education accessible as mass literacy rates were on the rise.

Interesting foray into the question of whether researchers should pour time into composing written papers. Where should the effort and time really be placed? hahnel.substack.com/p/do-we-actu...

Do we actually need to write research papers at all?

If we are going to lean on the creativity and the cross-domain thinking of human researchers, then surely that should be where the human time goes.

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Thanks, I hate it.

Lady Luddite (KJ Colt)@moistenedtart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

futurism.com/artificial-i... Excuse me while I go cry

“Click to open the document” can be an item on your to-do list, if you need the dopamine hit badly enough.

New research led by Kudos reveals that AI has already captured a third of scholarly information-seeking, with many researchers unaware of the extent to which their view of the scientific literature is now AI-mediated. blog.growkudos.com/news/ai-disc...

AI has captured a third of research discovery. Study sets out actions required for publishers to make content visible via new channels.

Understanding how AI changes discovery is no longer optional. This report gives scholarly publishers and platforms insights, actionable recommendations and a strategic roadmap.

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UVA and Elsevier partnering to bring a "research-grade AI workspace" to the research community on campus... www.elsevier.com/en-in/resour...

University of Virginia Expands Research Resources with LeapSpace™

University of Virginia Expands Research Resources with LeapSpace™

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Gifted article from NY Times. Familiarize yourself with the influence of Roger Summit on the ways in online search and discovery of information operates today. Obituary www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/t...

Roger Summit, Who Invented an Early Online Search Service, Dies at 95 (Gift Article)

A research scientist at Lockheed, he came up with the idea for a computer system that would search scientific and technical literature almost instantaneously.

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Quote from survey participant: "And I told everybody, ‘My God, they are going to cut.’ ‘We are not cutting, but can you tell us what kind of journals you want?’ I said, ‘All of them" See full text here: crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr... Faculty and students have caught on. They're not very happy.

Really interesting NPR article on how the Chinese have constructed a nearly unbeatable manufacturing supply chain. www.npr.org/2026/07/12/n...

What a Monopoly importer learned when it tried to make things in the U.S.A.

After getting hit with tariffs for the imported board games he sells, Jonathan Silva decided to see if he could produce a version of his Monopoly game in the United States. This is what he learned.

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