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Absolutely thrilled to have placed my #poem "My Mother Asks Why I Never Relax" in San Pedro River Review's next issue! I'm a long-time fan of SPRR and Blue Horse's chaps, so I'm over here dancing about it!
#booksky 💙📚 #poetry 📝 #writing 📖 #poetsky #skypoets 📖

Spotted this song sparrow singing loudly this morning at a little free library in my neighborhood. Maybe it found some bookworms? 📚🐛 🪶 #birdsofwestseattle #fauntleroy

I saw a post recently that talked about "we need to develop a gym for the mind, much like how gyms were developed when manual labor became optional."

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It's called reading, and critical discussion of what you read...

Bartz

🚨BREAKING: Federal judge concludes that using copyrighted works to train generative A.I. is transformative and ultimately a fair use. (Nevertheless, Anthropic can’t beat the lawsuit because it pirated books for another purpose too.) First of kind ruling. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Asked to give a training session to IL librarians here on Primo Research assistant. Not sure i am the right person - I do understand the mechanics quite well but because I don't use it as much as other tools I dont have a good sense of where it tends to fail

RESEARCH NETWORK REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS / Black woman with headphones. Above her head float graphics of a mortarboard on a globe, a pair of headphones, a book, and cloud storage / Library Futures logo.

Got a big, bold idea on digital libraries? Need a little funding to work on it? Love Library Futures? Our Research Network Request for Proposals is out!

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Fair Use Isn’t Optional: Judges Can Help Reclaim It for Creators Fair use is more than an "affirmative defense" that a party in default waives. This post goes into details about the procedural aspect of the fair use defense.

“Fair use, in essence, is the First Amendment safety valve written into the Copyright Act.”

More from @authorsalliance.bsky.social

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Really interesting findings from @qualitydog.bsky.social about use of digital book use. Rigour of research gave great credibility to their findings #LibPMC2025

Practicing Deliberate InfoLit with Various Media... and the optimal cases and contexts for using each type of media.

My longest post BY FAR on Substack...
#infolit #genai #ailiteracy #informationliteracy #librarysky #skybrary #library #edusky #aiedusky

reedhepler.substack.com/p/practicing...

This OSU Collection Strategist position actually comes with a solid salary

$100,00 - $120,000

This is a full-time, regular, 12-month appointment as a tenure-track faculty member.

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joblist.ala.org/job/78191943

Facing Cuts to Vital Online Resources, School Librarians Look to States for Help - EdSurge News An Oval Office executive order threatens access to trusted databases used by thousands of students in public libraries. “People are angry,” says Deb ...

There aren’t as many librarians in schools as there used to be.

First, it wasn’t noticeable, as the reductions were local, and the losses were absorbed by teachers.

Nor did it happen all at once: Roles were left vacant after retirements, or they were replaced with lower paid aides

30 years of Information Research The open access journal Information Research is celebrating 30 years of high quality publication with a special issue (Vol 30 no. 2, 2025). Information Research has maintained this quality without charging author fees. The issue includes: - A Reflection on 30 Years of Information Research with Professor Tom Wilson (Crystal Fulton interviews founder and researcher, Professor Tom Wilson) - Information Research at 30: its role as a diamond open access journal supporting scholarly communication in library and information science by JungWon Yoon, James E. Andrews, EunKyung Chung - An examination of Wilson’s Concept of Information Need: implications by Charles Cole - Expanding Wilson’s information behaviour model using social cognitive theory: A case study by Peymon Montazeri - 30 years of Information Research papers citing Professor Tom D. Wilson: a bibliometric analysis by Tanja Svarre, Birger Larsen - A 24-Year Bibliometric Analysis of the Journal Information Research: Insights from CiteSpace by Lin Wang, Yiyu Chen - Searching for Information Research: A bibliometric analysis celebrating 30 years of a pioneering open access journal (1995-2024) by Gustaf Nelhans, Camilla Lindelöw, Pablo Lillo Cea, Marco Scirone, Rui José António , Björn Hammarfelt - Tom Wilson and Information Research: Pioneers of the diamond open access by Jose-Vicente Rodriguez-Munoz, Francisco Javier Martinez Mendez, Pedro-Manuel Diaz-Ortuno, Gregorio Moya-Martinez, Rosana Lopez-Carreno - Information Research comes to Borås by Karen Nowé Hedvall et al. Go to https://publicera.kb.se/ir/issue/view/3787 Photo by Sheila Webber: young chestnut leaves, April 2025

#infolit

No country has ever increased freedom and liberty by banning books - www.bookbanpetition.us

Even more, that's not how ANYTHING credible is done...

No, that’s not how reporting is done. A random, unsubstantiated claim with no official confirmation is not a news report. It’s more like a rumor. The author here should delete this whole post before more damage is done.

All of my followers should go follow the @librarythinktank.bsky.social account! We share comments and ideas from libraries all around the world!

Disclaimer, the Think Tank is associated with ALA in NAME ONLY because it originated from ideas shared at an ALA conference. That is how it appears on FB.

Librarian Hayden's work has brought not only literacy but INFORMATION LITERACY and access to the expression of COUNTLESS ideas, to the entire nation.

In a video recorded early last week, 14th Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden honored the work performed by the Library's staff, the heart of the institution.
As the caretakers of our nation’s collective history, the staff will continue to serve Congress, the American public & users across the world.

Hello! Could we please have the sources for this claim? At the moment, you are the only one posting this, and one would think there would be more individuals talking about it if it were happening.

That would be this one :) : bsky.app/profile/matt...

I have a Library Worker starter pack for any Newskies who work in or have an interest in libraries!

I'm at the library and I love it. You should go to the library.

In ten minutes, I made a "LOC ordering" game in html with ChatGPT, with six levels ranging from "letters and whole numbers" to "letters, decimals, cutter numbers, years, volume/copy numbers, etc."

Just goes to show that you can do a lot if you are an SME and know the basics of your format/code

@bringthehuman.bsky.social exactly what we were talking about a few days ago!

*whispers* You know who can help you do your own research by finding you verifiable sources and teaching you how to evaluate websites with skills like lateral reading and SIFT? Librarians.

Kids play Venture Society with Jorge Lopez, an early childhood specialist who also runs games in Spanish at the Queens (NY) Public Library’s Corona Library.

"Bringing Tabletop Role-Playing Games to the Library"

#RPGs
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Thanks to everyone who has filled in my training survey - I'll give it a while longer but is clear we as a sector need a new approach to training so keep your eyes peeled for... empowerlibraryskills.com/coming_soon

If you are someone who delivers library training please get in touch in the DMs.

Texas bill could punish bookstores for 'obscene' books A new bill in the Texas Legislature, authored by Rep. Nate Schatzline, would allow businesses to be held liable if a minor reports damages from "obscene" books.

Remember when we said they’ll go after private businesses after they’re done with libraries?

Well, here you go.

www.chron.com/politics/art...

Threats to IMLS Funding Impacts Libraries | Forks Forum Executive Order Threatens the Future of IMLS

"Washington State Librarian Sara Jones said that IMLS funding is 'bar none, one of the most effective and efficient uses of money that I’ve ever seen.'"

We don't need to tell you that, but just to hammer home the point:

www.forksforum.com/news/threats...