Kat/hleen Burlingame

Thanks to Jill Lepore and @newyorker.com for the mention of #SaveOurSigns but we are more than a hashtag.
We are a coalition of librarians & researchers concerned about access to information. In this case, access to our NPS signs. Check out the archive of signs: saveoursigns.org
#A250

Occupations with the smallest share of women workers

Home maintenance hell this week…heat and running water are luxuries not to be take for granted. Now, my obsession is trying to understand why there is so little gender diversity in the trades. Not that it would be a panacea, but if an outlier here showed up at my door, I would be elated...

Statement on FY2026 "Minibus" Funding for the Library of Congress

The bill to reopen the gov will enable the crucial work of the Library of Congress to continue, but we still need to secure funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services as well as the National Archives.

www.everylibrary.org/2026_minibus via @everylibrary.bsky.social

laughing and crying at the same time🫠

Colour photograph of a white USB stick. Printed text on the USB stick reads: '...this is not an archive.'

Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres

A Home That Proves You Can Never Have Too Many Books

ooooh, cozy home library pron😍...suddenly feeling better about all the random stacks of books I have scattered throughout my house #libraries

A wheel-like visualization of bird feathers colored from wikipedia descriptions

It took me about three months to get here but...

Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions.

10,151 species.

#dataviz #birds #data

Mayor-Elect Mamdani Can Build a Tech Agenda for New York and a Model for the Country | TechPolicy.Press By resisting surveillance, extraction, and exploitation, Mamdani can show how technology truly serves the people, writes Rebecca Williams.

great ideas here: "a digital sanctuary city against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), protecting workers, ensuring fair prices and access, and building public technology infrastructure...a model for how a local government can orient technology toward collective care, dignity, and justice"

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost “We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

Libraries matter. Access matters.

After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember.

@arstechnica.com tells the story: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

You may be assuming too much good faith on the part of hiring committees...they often already know who they want to hire even before interviewing candidates and/or they want to leave the job description vague so that they have the option of changing the responsibilities at the last minute

As LLMs manufacture a form of scholarship, presentation doesn’t mean what it used to. D&S's Ranjit Singh looks at how this threatens the open-access research repository arXiv, how its founder is fighting to sustain its credibility, & what researchers can do to help. datasociety.net/points/on-ar...

PETITION: Stop Trump's Attack on the Library of Congress We need to show that Americans will not stand for yet another attack on our institutions. Sign the petition today!

Trump is now attempting to fire the head of the U.S. Copyright Office in retaliation for a report that suggested some copyrighted works used to train generative AI models would likely require licensing.

action.everylibrary.org/locpetition via @everylibrary.bsky.social

What Wikipedia and Grokipedia are saying about each other Elon Musk's new online encyclopedia aims to challenge Wikipedia, which he has accused of left-leaning bias. We used them to search for data about each other.

Lest we forget: "This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist."

And hey, go follow @datarescueproject.org while you're at it!!

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

Woah...not surprising that Wikimedians were able to neutralize the gunman with such efficiency and grace: “I ducked down, but I still kept moving” said Mr. Lih, a digital strategist who works with museums and libraries…”I pried his fingers away from it, removed it from his hands and put it down.”

We are honored to receive an NDSA Digital Preservation Excellence award. In accepting the award, @lyndamk.bsky.social expressed how this work is only possible due to our volunteers who "have spent countless hours working to ensure that public data remains a public good that is publicly accessible."

Abstract illustration of data lifecycle with title: "Uses of AI through the Social Science Data Lifecycle."

U-M Workshop Explores Generative AI in Social Science Research, Calls for Clearer Guidelines: myumi.ch/2rgeJ

#ResearchDataEcosystem #GenerativeAI #SocialScience

YouTube video by The Librarians Film THE LIBRARIANS | Official Trailer

I had the opportunity to see a pre-screening of this a couple months ago and it is excellent, if heartbreaking. It’s showing soon for a couple weeks at Film Forum in NYC and other places across the nation…great way to honor #BannedBooksWeek
@thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

I wonder how much if this is a consequence of paywalling science… pulling papers from z library or whatever means sacrificing metadata.

Harvard's new AI over semantic search tool is now available to use in beta: library.harvard.edu/about/news/2.... I'm curious as to what the advantage here is beyond being able to respond to natural language queries, especially considering it "may make mistakes"

It's time for #ClimateWeekNYC! On Thursday Sept 25 @ 3:30 pm, we’re co-hosting an in-person panel with @nrginstitute.bsky.social exploring how AI technologies may reinforce legacies of unjust natural resource exploitation. Space is limited; reserve your spot! resourcegovernance.org/events/ai-an...

I haven't seen libraries hiring "AI librarians" but rather, "AI engineers" which seems potentially more problematic. Hiring non-librarians for library roles has been a thing for a while unfortunately especially in higher ed

I was also reminded of how AMAZING the glass harmonica is…is this not basically the first turntable?! The good and bad from history can and should exist side by side in our cultural heritage institutions

Things like this could most likely disappear

Doug Burgum and Sean Duffy will be at Independence Park for America 250 prep as Trump admin mulls fate of President’s House Burgum will be stepping foot in the park just days after reports emerged that his department will be making changes to the President’s House Site at Independence National Historical Park.

Spent some time today playing tourist in my hometown to fill in some remaining gaps for #saveoursigns. Independence Park in Philly is receiving particular scrutiny for whitewashing history in preparation for the 250 year USA birthday celebrations next year

As an added bonus, I was reminded of how AMAZING the glass harmonica is…is this not basically the first turntable?! The good and bad from history can and should exist side by side in our cultural heritage institutions...

Things like this will likely disappear soon...

If you're on #LinkedIn, this is the link for declining their use of your data for training their AI models:

www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books It’s a trippy time to have a library card.

"...librarians report being treated like robots over library reference chat, and patrons getting defensive over the veracity of recommendations they’ve received from an AI-powered chatbot. Essentially, like more people trust their preferred LLM over their human librarian."

D.C.'s Data Dilemma: When Portals and Dashboards Aren't Enough A presidential order and police union claims have fueled doubt about D.C.'s crime numbers. This prompts a critical question for governments: What should open data portals share that can't be captured…

Great piece on why effective metadata is crucial for data portals! At DRP, we 💖 metadata. But we beg portal and dashboard creators to consider and simplify data extraction. We've faced challenges ... So. Many. Challenges. #DataRescue

www.govtech.com/biz/data/d-c...