Galen Charlton

Schedule

No, not yet. Appropriations process for agencies like IMLS is completely separate from big murder bill that just passed.

For IMLS specifically, we'd learn more during the week of July 21 for the House's proposed LHHSE appropriations (which sets IMLS budget)

appropriations.house.gov/schedule

Libraries have lots of reasons to make their metadata widely and freely available.

As a practical matter, making it available for use means making it available for misuse, but that's nothing new for libraries - but we can certainly expect (and require) better of Google.

Easy enough to chalk up that particular "AI" Overview as being a correctable here - but there's now a question open that didn't use to be a real concern: at what point does it become counterproductive to libraries' interests to permit harvesting their catalogs by Google?

Looks like this is the page that the snippet cited: jeffcolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...

Dig into the page and you will find valid schema.org metadata listing the titles with their descriptions - which Google has transformed into misinformation.

Oh, this is interesting: somebody found that one of the imaginary titles on the "AI"-generated summer reading list had a Google snippet that cited (and obviously mangled) a library catalog.

If libraries share metadata with you at scale, least you can do is get it right, Google.

Tortoiseshell shell curled up asleep on top of a chair.

The earthquake in the southeast U.S. just now rated zero eyed opened on the Hecate Scale #proofofcat

Tortoiseshell car sitting on a black sofa with a wooden frame

Checkup day #caturday #proofofcat

Bought one in March of 2023. Is OK as a Linux daily driver, but its battery lasted only ~18 months before it needed to be replaced. I ended up buying the replacement third-party; their quote was slow to come & expensive. Think I'll look elsewhere next time unless they stop reselling Clevo hardware.

A winner is you!

I have a colleague (not on social media) who likes to say that works don't *fall* into the public domain, they *ascend* into the public domain. I really love that.

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Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

I’ve unfortunately needed to add more material to my post from yesterday. The re-election of Donald Trump is looking like the biggest act of American self-destruction since the Civil War.

Same link, new title and some updates.

Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride

(I miss the days when he could focus more on his Things I Won't Work With series (e.g., www.science.org/content/blog...)

On other hand, trawling through that series might be a good distraction for folks who want one.

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

Derek Lowe: Whats Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

www.science.org/content/blog...

Lifelong learning, and all that...

For the sake of variety, sometimes I transcribe a SEVEN-digit number!

Orange tabby cat and a black cat in front of my front door. Both are facing the camera.

Two of the community cats in my neighborhood appear to be buddies.

No, no elephant: I think this particular fork reflects just a standard disagreement about project direction along with the sorts of governance disputes that are fairly common in forks.

This is mostly notable as inside baseball news for those who follow library open source in general.

Reminds me of the argument that pork barrel politics (within reason) is good, actually.

Three cats (black, grey tabby, and orange tabby) lounging on the floor. The black and orange tabby are looking at the viewer with serious expressions.

Introducing some patch reviewers^W judgers for the Evergreen Conference Hackfest today.

#evgils24

Or rather, five reasons.

There is a reason I no longer buy uninterruptible power supplies whose switches are on top.

Black cat grooming the head of a grey tabby cat who is on his back, facing the camera.

Tuna (the tabby) insisted that Lucifer (the void) provide grooming services.

*stabs finger in the general direction of "you are welcome to my marshmallow, toasted however you please"*

Tortoiseshell cat sitting on a window perch

Hecate (found living alone under a porch as a 200-gram kitten) approves

Grey, tabby, and white cat sitting on top of a sink facing the camera directly.

Caturday judgment

Orange and white tabby cat on a stair, facing the camera.

Caturday stairwarden

Luna the grey tabby cat curled up on my chest.

On Caturday we get kitty-pinned

Grey tabby cat sprawled on a white carpet with his tail forming an Eldritch symbol^W^W curlicue

How to translate this feline sigil? Wrong answers only. #EternalCaturday

Large grey tabby cat sitting in front of a door with a catflap. Behind the door is an orange tabby and another grey tabby.

Caturday border negotiations