Bryan Schuff

“My organization makes a big effort to hire diverse staff members.” "We have gotten rid of MLS requirements for almost all positions, except Director-level positions. Even our Librarian positions and Manager positions do not require an MLS. This has helped increase and diversify our applicant pool."

"We have gotten rid of MLS requirements for almost all positions, except Director-level positions. Even our Librarian positions and Manager positions do not require an MLS. This has helped increase and diversify our applicant pool." #LIS #GLAM #Libraries

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

Headline from nyt of Cuomo resigning from office.

This day in history, an abuser resigned in disgrace. He will never hold such power again. We won’t let him.

Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information

Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

The VA’s unilateral termination of union contracts for ~360k workers represents a loss of 2.5% OF ALL UNION MEMBERS IN AMERICA.
I’m not sure what it will take for the labor movement to get into crisis mode, but the crisis is here.

William B. Davis in a promotional photo as the Cigarette Smoking Man from the television series The X-Files. This character was also referred to as the "cancer man." He's wearing a suit and scowling with his entire face while holding a lit cigarette in his right hand near his mouth.

The Cancer Man.

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

In a conversation with the personal lawyer of the man with the ability to pardon her, the convicted child rapist and sex trafficker said that man with the power to pardon her did nothing wrong. Well that’s settled.

The most exhausting thing about this time is being condescended to by dipshits.

I have rallied
The plums
That were in the icebox

And which
You were probably
Saving
For breakfast

Forgive me
They were an underrepresented demographic
So diverse
and untapped

A final personal challenge described by participants involved feelings of discomfort around engaging students in potentially politically charged discussions. For some participants, the possibility of pushback from students was enough to deter them from attempting nuanced misinformation conversations. Rhylee is careful to choose examples for class that she deems neutral because “there’s always the chance that I have a student in the class who’s very sold on their opinion and wants to argue with me.” Several others echoed that they consciously choose apolitical examples that do not address controversial topics like vaccines or climate change. Additionally, some participants recounted actual experiences with student pushback, like Simone: In a class, I had a New York Times article, and an older male student started going on and on, very loudly and belligerently, about why would I use the New York Times? It’s fake news, what’s my agenda? And it was very uncomfortable. I was completely unprepared for that. Now I just don’t use the New York Times. I mean, they’ve scared me. My students have scared me into the things I use and the way I teach, to tell you the truth.

I never bought into the idea that "librarians can save the world," but when we can't even address misinformation because it requires us to talk about controversial or political topics... we can't even do our actual jobs.

We have to be able to talk about these things. 📚

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Libraries, youth services, and trusted local spaces are key, but they’re overstretched. You can’t ask them to fix this without proper support and funding. This is part of the hollowing out of democracy I've been talking about. Turns out, there is such a thing as society.

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

Searching on TinEye, the oldest version of the drawing with the pencil added (also the most complete version) appears on this website, which Google translated to "Urbino: A solidarity network for the right to education, from elementary school to university."

For women, the increase of AI use in the workplace may affect their careers: Harvard study Women are using AI significantly less then men and it’s going to have a major impact on their careers, according to extensive research on the topic.

Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."

All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.

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Same. The quoted post sounds like a @thev.bsky.social post.

YouTube video by King of the Hill Chuck Mangione Compilation | King of the Hill

Rest in peace to a local legend who became a hometown hero in Arlen, TX #ChuckMangione #KingOfTheHill #MegaLoMart

That's the whole enchilada and, sometimes, a happy enchilada 😂

Wonderful thread. With citations!

“the party being led by jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly examine your childs genitals” is a true statement

Don't cry because Ozzy died. He specifically said, "No more tears!"

The problem with saying “history will remember” is that we are deciding right now whether there will be people in the future

We are also deciding right now whether to train people to be historians

Also, once it’s history, it’s too late

“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question” - ACRLog Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...

Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t.

And the blocking of content…

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

You've probably seen news recently about the Israeli military deliberately targeting Palestinian civilians seeking food and water at aid sites.

Because it's difficult to truly grasp how often these war crimes are taking place, here is a thread of some distinct incidents since June 1. 🧵

So at this point the “center” means that people get hurt, that we're allowed to kidnap immigrants from their home, that we're allowed to throw trans people under the bus and deny them life-saving care. And that's not the center. That is fascist. That's capitulating. Compromise isn't getting your hand cut off and being grateful that they left you your pinky. Compromise means that each person gets something and maybe each person loses something, but you're actually making a difference.

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Today someone asked how much I would pay in taxes to ensure everyone had housing & healthcare

I don’t know, whatever I could? This isn’t the “gotcha” folks think it is

If we taxed the rich properly, the rest of us wouldn’t need to pay exorbitant taxes to ensure every single person was provided for