Super exciting to present at #EverythingOpen today with Rebecca Barber from ANU! Also what an awesome day for #GLAM sessions and some really interesting discussions around data ownership and privacy.

More fulsome notes to come, but these are the summary ~vibes~ of each session:

🔑 Keynote: “Peak Text: AI and the Golden Age of Libraries and Archives” by Keir Winesmith, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
😎 Vibe: A galvanising affirmation of serving the public good.

🎙️Session: “I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy insight into librarianship” by @hugh, La Trobe University
😎 Vibe: A warm hug for the weary soul.

🎙️Session: “A university library’s journey in making tech training resources FAIR” by Stéphane Guillou, The University of Queensland
😎 Vibe: Quietly leading with practical expertise.

🎙️Session: ”How one ISO standard led the way for national library infrastructure” by @saera, CAVAL
😎 Vibe: Actively equitable and gets the thing done.

🎙️ Session: “My degoogled life” by Joshua Hesketh, Grafana Labs
😎 Vibe: Seriously amused and terrifyingly pragmatic.

Check out the schedule and keep an eye out for the recordings! https://lnkd.in/g3qzqsSd

#EO26 #CAUL #Libraries #HigherEducation #OpenKnowledge #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #OpenScholarship #OpenEducation

Super exciting to present at #EverythingOpen today with Rebecca Barber from ANU! Also what an awesome day for #GLAM sessions and some really interesting discussions around data ownership and privacy.

More fulsome notes to come, but these are the summary ~vibes~ of each session:

🔑 Keynote: “Peak Text: AI and the Golden Age of Libraries and Archives” by Keir Winesmith, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
😎 Vibe: A galvanising affirmation of serving the public good.

🎙️Session: “I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy insight into librarianship” by @hugh, La Trobe University
😎 Vibe: A warm hug for the weary soul.

🎙️Session: “A university library’s journey in making tech training resources FAIR” by Stéphane Guillou, The University of Queensland
😎 Vibe: Quietly leading with practical expertise.

🎙️Session: ”How one ISO standard led the way for national library infrastructure” by @saera, CAVAL
😎 Vibe: Actively equitable and gets the thing done.

🎙️ Session: “My degoogled life” by Joshua Hesketh, Grafana Labs
😎 Vibe: Seriously amused and terrifyingly pragmatic.

Check out the schedule and keep an eye out for the recordings! https://lnkd.in/g3qzqsSd

#EO26 #CAUL #Libraries #HigherEducation #OpenKnowledge #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #OpenScholarship #OpenEducation

Nice to see VLA has a seminar today on identifying #AI books in your library.
#libraries
https://libraryaware.com/3744/Posts/View/23dd7284-7ddd-4989-890d-0548d85751a0

Nice to see VLA has a seminar today on identifying #AI books in your library.
#libraries
https://libraryaware.com/3744/Posts/View/23dd7284-7ddd-4989-890d-0548d85751a0

#Microsoft is phasing out its library -- print and digital books, and subscriptions to print and digital journals and news media. It's asking employees to use #AI instead.
https://archive.is/ySSPU

PS: I'd call this a strategic opportunity for its competitors. But some benighted school administrators will follow suit, as if Microsoft must know what it's doing. Dog is my copilot.

#Libraries #WTF

Cachekit – High performance caching policies library in Rust

https://github.com/OxidizeLabs/cachekit

#HackerNews #Cachekit #Rust #Caching #HighPerformance #OpenSource #Libraries

My new book is out with Bloomsbury: LiveJournal and Russian Disinformation: The Rise of Epistemic Sabotage. It uses LiveJournal as an early case of how platform affordances were weaponized and develops a framework (“epistemic sabotage”) for knowledge-system destabilization. If you want access without the academic price tag, please request it through your library. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/livejournal-and-russian-disinformation-9781666954555/ #disinformation #platformstudies #mediastudies #libraries #digitalhumanities #Bookstodon

on that note, not among many peoples main things to look for when choosing a city...

But one of my reasons to settle in Auckland (not the only one but a big one) was the awesome library network here.

It is just so easy to navigate, so vast and complete. I love it.
And librarians are consistently among the best people.

So yeah, this is a Auckland City Libraries appreciation toot.

#Libraries #loveYourLibrary #TamakiMakaurau

whenever my wife shelves returns at the library, she checks them for bookmarks/junk readers have accidentally left inside

she arranged a month's worth of them into a collage and put the work up on the wall in the library. i love it.

#libraries #epl #yeg #art

I maintain a list of all the public library websites in the state of Vermont. I run a link checker against it maybe once or twice a year to see what's changed. There are ~180 websites. A few trends I noticed on this most recent check.

- fewer libraries using Facebook as their library website
- fewer libraries using part of the town's website as their library website
- more libraries using https

All good trends!

https://vermontlibraries.org/vermonts-public-libraries

#Vermont #Libraries

I maintain a list of all the public library websites in the state of Vermont. I run a link checker against it maybe once or twice a year to see what's changed. There are ~180 websites. A few trends I noticed on this most recent check.

- fewer libraries using Facebook as their library website
- fewer libraries using part of the town's website as their library website
- more libraries using https

All good trends!

https://vermontlibraries.org/vermonts-public-libraries

#Vermont #Libraries

Micro library on a Norwegian train! ❤️📚🇧🇻

#books #libraries #norge

🎉Thrilled to share the publication of our #OpenAccess book 'Opening up our Heritage: Opportunities in Digitising and Promoting Cultural and Research #Collections', a collection of 19 chapters written by librarians and researchers on the #digitisation and promotion of cultural and scientific #heritage.

👉 HTML: https://e-publish.uliege.be/opening-up-our-heritage
👉 PDF and ePub: https://e-publish.uliege.be/opening-up-our-heritage/front-matter/free-download-buy/

#DigitalArchives #DigitalCollections #Preservation #Libraries #Metadata #Discoverability #OpenScience #Pressbooks

Hooray for libraries!
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Public library visitor numbers return to pre-COVID levels as cost-of-living crisis bites https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-06/public-libraries-australia-visitors-up-cost-of-living-crisis/106152152

#libraries #library #book #books

You can also help by requesting that your library carry #solarpunk! Helps the authors with both purchases by the library and discovery by the patrons. Helps people discover and try solarpunk risk-free. Helps the libraries know what to stock. Win all around!

10 Solarpunk Books Every Library Should Have: https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/for-libraries

#bookstodon #libraries

#Bergen University Library

#pratchett #terrypratchett #books #libraries

@rhipratchett

#Bergen University Library

#pratchett #terrypratchett #books #libraries

@rhipratchett

@libraries @stefan @Beachbum this branch replaced Meyer Branch, where I was a children's librarian...my first job after getting my MLS from Univ of N Texas! #libraries

Dr. Shannon Walker Neighborhood Library, library in Westbury, Houston, Texas, USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Shannon_Walker_Library

#libraries #books #map