Krista Godfrey

YouTube video by Higher Education Strategy Associates Canadian Federal Budget 2025 Part 2

Second budget update: on research, CSLP and more:

Get to act as a judge and provide closing remarks at our Excellence in Graduate Research Symposium today. Love seeing the amazing research being done on campus.

Dean of Libraries - University of New Brunswick - Royer Thompson Lead, innovate, and inspire one of Canada’s most recognized research-intensive library systems University of New Brunswick (UNB) is a top comprehensive university in Canada with more than 100 world-...

UNB is hiring a Dean of Libraries this is an interesting opportunity to work with some good eggs. www.royerthompson.com/opportunitie...

also -- oop get ready for so much more of this

Friends, we are hiring 2 positions on our Collections & Content Team.

1. A Continuing-Appointment track Collections & Content Librarian. Focus is on copyright and licensing
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2. A Contract ERM Librarian
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new journal: Journal of Open Initiatives in Academic Libraries joi-ojs-txstate.tdl.org/joi/index

A photo of a student services office at a university, taken from outside the entry way. The words "Student Services" are above the entry and inside you can see pairs of staff advisers and students conferring at three different tables, in addition to two staff members standing and talking.

Opinion | Academic Staff Need Academic Freedom, Too

Colleges cannot continue to operate as if all staff work is identical, Aaron Stoller writes. https://bit.ly/46xyL8D

only just starting this but am fairly certain that this might resonate with others too: Don’t Do More With Less: Sustainable Work as a Management Value oasis.library.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcont...

yes and yet, trying to find a known email is a whole thing in MS

Software Engineer (Full-stack) - ITHAKA ITHAKA’s mission is to expand access to knowledge and education around the world. Our services — Artstor, JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R — enable people everywhere to learn, to grow, and to overcome b...

What's that? My team is HIRING a SOFTWARE DEVELOPER?!? www.ithaka.org/job/46013390...

omg yeah we totally are

This won't be open long, so don't sleep on it! But if I know you & your work, hit me up for a referral link first. Happy to answer questions.

i definitely blame covid. and sadly, they still get used poorly by some but times have certainly changed behaviours to their advantage.

for reals. i remember trying to implement them and getting a ton of flack for it.

The State of Postsecondary Education in Canada, 2025 | HESA Hi all. Today, HESA is releasing the eighth edition of The State of Postsecondary Education in Canada, co-authored by myself … Continued

Our annual statisical publication, The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada is out today. The book is very pretty: the state of postsecondary education in Canada isn't.

Google Scholar Is Doomed Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

How Trump is reshaping government data The Trump administration has influenced data used by researchers, economists and scientists — an effort that drew more attention after the president fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

How Trump is reshaping government data www.nbcnews.com/politics/don... via @nbcnews.com

i love the idea and hope more folks adopt it. (also, good lightning talk, just sayin' ;) )

In which we ask Copilot to do the team a solid So, I wrote an alien artifact no one else on my team understood. (I know, I know.) I’m not a monster — it has documentation and tests, it went through code review for all that that didn…

interesting read from @thatandromeda.bsky.social andromedayelton.com/2025/07/30/i... Also, I wish I had done more code reviews/walk through with my previous team when we did code. Such a great opportunity to build shared knowledge and avoid single points of failure.

The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched

good follow up on the AI Research Assistant issues aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...

liking your comment seems the wrong thing but ugh :(

been eyeing these too

“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question” - ACRLog Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...

i know this is making the rounds but sharing anyway because it is so terrible acrlog.org/2025/07/21/w...

How Black artists use citational art to build upon one another's legacies | CBC Arts "Black citational art is a kind of code that allows artists to speak in secret ... Everything comes together for the viewer who 'reads' all the references."

neat piece on citation as art www.cbc.ca/arts/how-bla...

i hate the push away from physical cards. it assumes everyone has a phone and that it's always connected and charged.

After 20+ years, I have an office with a window. This excites me likely more than it should.

You know things are getting real when the Teams invites start rolling in. Only 1 day left at UWaterloo. Craziness

So, with Bill 33, the Ontario government is now giving itself the power to decide what "merit" is and which students should and should not be admitted to each college and university.

(it's and anti-EDI measure, if that's not abundantly clear. Fully Trumpian)

truth

Clarivate Expands its Academic AI Platform, Introducing Agentic AI for Research and Learning /PRNewswire/ -- Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today announced the expansion of its Academic AI Platform, helping...

agentic ai comes to clarivate www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

i see there is a call to host Access in the CARL e-alert. i wonder if anyone will step up