Christina Zoricic

If you have any shovels in your special collections/archives (like, dedicatory shovels, ceremonial shovels, things like that), could you snap a picture for me? We are doing a lunch tomorrow to celebrate the archives and I want to have a slideshow of archives shovel friends. Thanks!

"We are shifting to a model where [libraries] are basically seeing their collections disappear. Like Snapchat stories.” — Caroline De Cock

That’s why @ifla.org endorsed the Four Digital Rights for Memory Institutions.

Details from @internetarchive.eu ⤵️
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The CAPAL/ACBES Awards Committee is pleased to announce Kristin Hoffmann as the recipient of the inaugural 2025 Contributions to the Association Award.

Congratulations to Kristin and thank you for your lasting impact on CAPAL!

The way tech is trying to shove AI down our throats is making me even more disinterested and disdainful.

This might be a case worth watching.

Artificial Intelligence on Campus | Cambridge Core Blog Artificial intelligence (AI), while not a new topic, has risen in popularity since the development of software like ChatGPT and image generators that create...

Artificial Intelligence on Campus www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20... (via @cambridgeup.bsky.social) #AI

It is a research afternoon for me working on a project with some of my colleagues related to AI. I've read "ChatGPT" and "unbiased" used together so many times that I want to barf. "The program is unbiased, but the training data might contain bias." but what is the program without the training data?

"Good morning Alison! I enjoy reading your column and the comments of your readers. Your advice is almost always spot on, although your political commentary is distracting and ill-advised. I wonder if you are concerned that you have become too much of a “niche” , a product suitable only to those who voted for Kamala Harris - quite possibly the worst presidential candidate of my lifetime: inauthentic, inarticulate, incompetent, an unqualified DEI disaster. To paraphrase Michael Jordan, Republicans have jobs and may need professional advice at times too ! I would have responded in your comment section, but you must know that you actively discourage conservative voices, constantly reminding your readers to report all the “trolls”. Facebook and Twitter , among others, have abandoned left-wing censorship policies of free speech. Perhaps you should consider that too. Best wishes!"

literally only men send me stuff like this

I hate to think who he will appoint in her place - best case scenario is someone who doesn't understand anything about how libraries work. Anyone who works at LoC: weaponized incompetence is your friend and an effective way to resist from the inside.

A timely quote from Dr. Carla Hayden: “Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy—where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.”

So, the fascist cheeto fired the Librarian of Congress. only took him 6 months to figure out there was a library. All of our contingency action plans need to be activated today and through the weekend to start capturing moment in time information from loc.gov including LCC and LCSH. *#libsky

It feels like we just skipped over the moral and ethical discussion and evaluation of AI entirely. It is incredibly frustrating as a library person.

Questioning AI Resource List Excellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another g...

If you need any sources on AI being shitty, I've been collecting and compiling them: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Un immense livre en train d’être brûlé par des petits personnages avec marqué « I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books »

Good Night World

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Vance is an energy vampire, isn’t he. That’s how he did it.

when he sends citizens to foreign concentration camps, it’s no longer a slide to authoritarianism—it’s full blown fascism! 😔 this is not an administration, it’s a criminal regime in a hostile takeover of 🇺🇸 democracy. #FightFascism #TraitorTrump #DefendLiberty 🔔

only the most free thinking business genius would try to undercut the market monopoly enjoyed by PhD candidates making $240,000+/year

This article is well worth a read as both a personal story and an explanation of why trans rights matter.

And once their teeth start rotting away and falling out of their mouths, they'll blame Obama.

Who belongs in Indigenous academia? Amy Shawanda and Gabriel Maracle explore this question in the newest Yellowhead Institute Special Report, Pretendians and Publications: The Problem and Solutions to Redface Research.

Read the full report on our website -
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March 31st is the International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV). Trans rights are human rights. Keep politics and religion out of health care. My love to all those that keep fighting.

CULC, CFLA respond to proposed 25% tariff on books, newspapers, magazines, DVDs, and CDs

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I'd say we're close to doing that here locally, but as we move to doing this work more OCUL-y, that's where some larger governance questions come in, which my working group is looking at making recommendation on.

I also worry about our reliance on MESH/NLM to describe and classify our medical content. We have a moment in time copy of that too, but we haven't been watching it as closely.

I say this as a Canadian higher ed metadata librarian. We have a lot more power as a consortium than we think we do. This slow work has definitely been energized by our unstable neighbour.