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Jason W. Dean

@jasonwdean.com

FSA Associate Librarian, Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Bibliographer & librarian on the edge of the western prairie. Website: https://www.jasonwdean.com Faculty Profile: https://spencer.lib.ku.edu/people/jason-dean

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Jason W. Dean@jasonwdean.com · 2w ago

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

Jeffrey Wright: Never Do That Again

ALT: Jeffrey Wright: Never Do That Again

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CrazyMyra@outonthemoors.bsky.social · 2w ago

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

Ben Gross@bhgross144.bsky.social · 4w ago

I am once again asking a historian of science or technology* to review this exhibition... (* Preferably someone deeply familiar with the early modern period or the history of computing. Or both, like Mike Mahoney!) #histSTM #histsci #histtech 🗃️📜

Considering his recent push to regulate the development of AI, I suspect Bernie Sanders would not be a fan of the artwork shown below.
Sally Crosson@commandercups.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The library where I work assembled this art exhibition by AI created by an LLM, and it does the most *amazing* job of showing the deep (by which I also mean shallow) white, male, and corporate biases of dominant LLMs…

Rebecca Baumann@arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · last mo.

“Leaving well is a leadership act. Knowing when your continued presence becomes consent is a leadership act. Refusing to disappear quietly when you have been pushed to the margins is a leadership act […]. Look at your room. Ask what your continued presence is signing for.”

Jason W. Dean@jasonwdean.com · last mo.

Was having fun doing little skits and bits in an email of a professional nature, but to friends, and I manage to just mangle the name of the subject of the email. Cool.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab.bsky.social · last mo.

Today, 12-4! We have air conditioning and cool documents! See copies of the Emancipation Proclamation, David Walker’s Appeal, E. C. Stanton’s copy of the Seneca Falls Declaration, The Combahee River Collective statement, letters from Toussaint Louverture & Dessalines, and more!

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab.bsky.social · last mo.

If you’re in Boston on July 2, stop by BPL for Special Collections’ open house/pop-up exhibition with items relating to revolutions, declarations, and liberation. 12-4pm in the BPL exhibition hall. My colleagues have worked so hard on this & have chosen some truly fantastic items to share!

Jason W. Dean@jasonwdean.com · last mo.

Organized by my friend and colleague John McEwan, cosponsored by @kulibraries.bsky.social, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk, and the @bibsocamer.bsky.social ! A good confluence indeed. 📜 #libsky #rarebooks #booksky

KU Libraries@kulibraries.bsky.social · last mo.

How did 17th-century antiquarians, Victorian collectors, and modern librarians shape what we know about medieval seals? Find out at this free hybrid symposium, July 2-3, with scholars from KU, Oxford, France & beyond – live from Oxford's Weston Library. rockcha.lk/seals26

Tim R@elibtronic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Before you get warm feelings about this story, keep in mind it was **labour and contract protections** that got these people back. Not some grand realization that Librarianship is necessary. Get unionized people. 1 / 2

A Regional College Laid Off All Its Librarians in 2024. Now It Has to Hire Them Back.

Western Illinois University claimed the library was not an academic program when it essentially was, an arbitrator has ruled, and therefore failed to follow the correct process for eliminating the job...

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