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Heads up! #loex2026 (Norfolk, VA) Conference Registration opens this Friday, Feb 13 at 1PM Eastern / 10am Pacific.
"Oceans of Knowledge: Diving into Information Literacy"

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The life cycle of a conference friendship I know, in theory, that it is important to let people go. Some relationships come with an end, but just because someone isn’t in your life forever doesn’t mean your time together wasn’t valuable. At s...

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Letting the Students In When I took a college teaching class years ago, I was really struck by a framework we covered called Transparency in Teaching and Learning (TILT) Higher Ed. This practice, of making the learning proce...

By David Lemmons

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"Outdated Notion? Teaching Scholarly Articles as the Gold Standard" by Adrienne Warner and Alyssa Russo (C&RL News)

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ACRL ULS Professional Development Committee: Embracing Slow Library Management: Reflections On Leading With Care. After registering, you will receive a conf... Join us to learn practical strategies for fostering meaningful connections with their team and prioritizing autonomy and empowerment in the workplace - Examples of exercises that support well-being an...

Free Online Presentation: "Embracing Slow Library Management: Reflections On Leading With Care" by Alyssa Brissett (NYU) - February 25, 2026, 2-3pm ET

Sponsored by the ACRL ULS Professional Development Committee. Register at ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"Social Network Analysis of Liaison Librarian Relationships" by Ellen Hampton Filgo and Joshua Been (C&RL) rebrand.ly/466149

Jesse Minter Set to Become Ravens' Next Head Coach The Ravens have agreed to terms with Jesse Minter to become their fourth head coach.

...and the fact it turns out that Baltimore did, in fact, hire Jesse Minter just makes it more interesting (but they hired him an hour ago, not 20 hours ago; and I'd be willing to be big money Greg Roman will not be involved)

www.baltimoreravens.com/news/jesse-m...

From the MichiganWolverines community on Reddit: But no it was a guy with binoculars and an iPhone as the reason Michigan won a National Championship. Totally had nothing to do with the 2 NFL HCs on s... Explore this post and more from the MichiganWolverines community

I will be using this post next week in class as a perfect example of how to use @mikecaulfield.bsky.social SIFT when taking in news, particularly from social media

The nice thing, is a few folks in the comments (e.g., JJARTJJ) know how to evaluate this "news".

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White House shares doctored image portraying arrested church protester in tears The photo of an attorney arrested after a Minnesota church protest was edited to make it look like she was crying. The White House’s X post had been seen roughly 2.5 million times by Thursday afternoo...

Image-forensic expert Hany Farid confirmed it's a fake.

@donmoyn.bsky.social told me this moves us "closer to the Stalinesque manipulation of images that we think about with authoritarian propaganda, where you really cannot trust materials the state is putting out"

Gift link: wapo.st/4sUEnmr

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Maybe the best thing on the internet still? Certainly the most essential counter we have to our current shitstream of social media-driven misinformation.

Among many issues, the "What went wrong" section is baffling. It doesn't explain anything useful -- when I'm using a program, that's what I want to know (e.g., wrong file extension; the data was corrupted; not a capability of the tool).

Instead it just says "my bad!" and pretend apologizes.

Tinker, EMU's facilities dog, helps students reduce stress in "open paw-fice hours" – Concentrate Since fall 2024, Tinker the facilities dog has been available to students four days a week on campus.

I am more a cat person than a dog person, but it is always nice to see Tinker at her "office hours" at EMU's Halle Library. She is well-behaved & visitors seem to really enjoy her company.

Special shout out to my colleague Alexis, one of Tinker's handlers!

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For Real, a Natural History of Misinformation

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One day, AI might be better than you at surfing the web. That day isn’t today. For sale: walking shoes? Not with AI

Hi, I spent several weeks testing five AI browsers to see if they could help me buy a pair of New Balances, sort my emails, rip transcripts from YouTube videos, and a whole bunch of other scenarios.

They're not great, Bob.

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Support Academic Library Workers this Giving Tuesday! Today, ACRL is celebrating Giving Tuesday, a global day where people come together to reimagine a world built upon shared humanity and generosity. In this season of gratitude and reflection, we ar...

This #GivingTuesday, support academic library workers who are working to advance learning, transform scholarship, and create diverse and inclusive communities by donating to the ACRL Advancement Fund! https://bit.ly/4ovWZpk

I am going through the #loexff2025 recordings to make sure they are properly trimmed (e.g., no unnecessary cross talk) and man, Zoom's auto-transcription for closed captioning is impressive. Beyond getting proper names wrong sometimes (e.g., LOEX is not LOX, Zoom!) it gets 99% of the rest right.

Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.

Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.

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"Defining Engagement for Academic Librarians" by Ellis, Indiana University Bloomington and Becker, University of Kansas (C&RL)

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Reminder -- these are due next Monday!

Can You Believe the Documentary You’re Watching?

As basically anyone who’s talked to me since the summer knows, I’ve been working on this for months. Thanks to everyone who shared their insights. (I’ve got a lot more to say in the future, too.)

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"Information in the Age of Infocracy: Recalibrating the Definition of Information for Library Instruction" by Richard M. Cho, UC Irvine (C&RL News) rebrand.ly/xz3b51e

I've saw two SpongeBobs in just my parking lot in Ypsilanti.

YouTube video by chris debnam Glenn Danzig Interview on the topic of books

It's that time of year -- time for Glenn Danzig and his Readers' Advisory Service.

#halloween #bookcollection #alldocumented #alltrue

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I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
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Reminder that this is due next Friday, Oct 31!

Registration is now open for LOEX Fall Focus 2025! This is an online, information literacy & library instruction conference focused on:
- Focus 1: Artificial Intelligence
- Focus 2: Archives & Special Collections
- Focus 3: Sense of Belonging

loexfallfocus.org

November 17-19, #loexff2025

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

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"Inclusion and Empathy Are Not Enough: Cultivating Student Belonging in the Academic Library Through Compassion" by Emily Reed, Penn State Harrisburg (portal: Libraries and the Academy)
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“We’ve decided to make it so society can’t trust anything they’ve shown so you’re just going to have to “evolve” with that.”