Catherine Fonseca

University administration has been so busy convincing people over the years that “shared governance“ equals information sharing. It doesn’t! It means shared decision making.

Bless her heart. She's never checked out a book from a library, has she?

Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American h...

Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the agency’s new grant guidelines could fund projects that encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American history.

I need faculty to get on board with helping residents, post docs, phd students, masters students etc understand that you can only do a systematic review in less than 6 months if (a) there's only a tiny amount of evidence and (b) you're not doing anything else for those 6 months.

I have also had recent experiences of references being called prior to 2nd interview and not being put up after the full interview day despite being an institution with big $. The lack of candidate care was a big factor in declining the offer (privileged to have an existing job).

A Pedagogy of the Inevitable Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...

One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

i am convinced that the phrase “AI is here to stay” is a psyop

+1 Been on several searches at MPOW lately which have been limited/uncompetitive. I've been surprised to see so few LIS grads in said pools, despite the gig being aligned to new librarians. I think many folks discount the ad because MPOW isn't a big destination state, despite its beauty & COL.

Equally grateful to you both, for setting off the spark that culminated in this rebuttal & shepherding it through a long journey. I couldn't have persisted otherwise!

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Thank you @msjennmo.bsky.social & @cathygoweeee.bsky.social for their incredible prowess in the publication of this rebuttal!
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the horrors persist, but so DOI (a doi is a persistent identifier for academic papers, e.g. 10.1000/182)

#academicsky #librarysky #libsky #skybrarians #medlibs do u guys like persistent identifier memes?

"AI can save you time." You miserable fool. You stupid baby. Technology can't save you time. The mechanical clock and the Google Calendar have chopped your life into small pieces to be sold, and you think adding more technology will let you keep some of those pieces for yourself?

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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It was so disillusioning to me to discover that library admins in particular loved buzzwords & popular ideas (back then it was “innovation”) but weren’t actually serious about DOING librarianship the best & most ethical way. Glad I’m not trying to figure out how to teach info lit in the “AI” age.

I want library leaders who can conceive of resistance, who can imagine different futures, not who say "welp, this is the world, guess we have no choice" at every single turn of politics or technology.

Glad Science collected this data (though the results are entirely unsurprising). GenAI cannot accurately summarize scientific papers, sacrificing accuracy for simplicity.

And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.

I encourage my colleagues in higher ed to memorize the law about recording your state (e.g., is it a two-party consent state?) and to have a clear policy about recording written into your syllabus. The right knows this is an avenue of attack and has legalized video bounties in FL and TX.

Fighting against library training on using genAI for citation management is NOT how I want to spend my time

“People are using it, so we should do trainings on it whether we agree or not”

No we don’t, we, as a research library, can adhere to a higher standard and give them good management info

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

[Blogged] 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
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UPDATE: The Indiana legislature announced that, across the state's public universities, it will immediately eliminate 75 programs, suspend/teach-out 101, and force 232 to consolidate or be eliminated. Not surprisingly, these closures disproportionately affect arts, humanities, and social science.

Faster science is sloppier science. Don't we already have more than enough useless studies, retracted papers, and junk journals floating around?

The last thing we need is AI enabling people to produce more.

We need a slow research movement and we need it yesterday.

AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide - ACRLog This week I was on a panel at the Generative AI in Libraries (GAIL) virtual conference. Along with my fellow panelists Andrea Baer and Emily Zerrenner, I joined moderator Sarah Appedu to discuss the c...

New blog post on ACRLog, "AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide." Got a lot of comments during a recent presentation that people hadn't heard of the concept of AI refusal, so here's some places to start. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...

Hollis was there for less than a hot second but ok. Also rude to use an image of the library for this weird feitishization of affluence & nostalgia trip for days of yore when SSU was the whitest public institution in CA.

Against Technofeudal Education Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

Great recs from @mattseybold.bsky.social on resisting technofeudal education: prioritize print, practice ungrading, "Luddify" the classroom; de-mobilize computer infrastructure (root technology in social place!); faculty governance over SaaS subscriptions; instructor choice re: ed-tech

Restoring Gold Standard Science By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

Love to see Dan's coverage of the fight in Davis/Thomas against data centers get national coverage. Supplying energy for voracious genAI computing is just the latest scheme for exploiting West Virginia & Appalachia.

Stacked Against Us On the growing precarity of our library systems

Finally got the chance to write about West Virginia libraries in the collaborative community newsletter I contribute to: bit.ly/3YXs1wz

Tyre Nichols and the End of Police Reform If a savage beating, captured on camera, cannot produce a murder conviction, the chances of fixing the police-brutality problem are very bleak.

'If a savage beating, captured on camera, cannot produce a murder conviction, the chances of fixing the police-brutality problem are very bleak.'
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