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Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

Grammarly is using our identities without permission www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I'm a public library selector who buys all the adult fiction and almost all the non-fiction. Quality NF, especially in sciences and arts, slips easily through the cracks. NF reviews are rare. Post about your new books. A lot. And thank you for your awesome booklist.

100 Library Cards in One Hour: Meeting Families Where They Are (Literally) It was 5:45pm on a warm August evening. Four of us from the Mountain View Public Library were seated behind long folding tables in front of our bookmobile van, a mobile billboard for the library. On t...

100 Library Cards in One Hour: Meeting Families Where They Are (Literally)
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Admiring Our Heroes for International Women’s Day: Five Women In Tech In honor of International Women’s Day, we asked five women at EFF about women in digital rights, freedom of expression, technology, and tech activism who have inspired us. Anna Politkovskaya Jillian

This International Women’s Day, five women at EFF talk about the women who have inspired them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

February issue of our Scholarly Communications Newsletter is out! Lots to read and catch up again incl. #MORPHSS catalogue, #UKrepo report, recent #AI guidelines, PRC model and more. mailchi.mp/f0f2902feb46...

California colleges spend millions on faulty AI chatbots Community colleges are spending millions on AI chatbots that students say often give inaccurate answers. Many might see upgrades soon.

Chatbots are bad service, whether they derive from AI or not.

Patrons don't like them.

Libraries shouldn't use them.

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An underrated advantage of reading paper books is getting your steps in by walking to the library

I am educating my brother about Hoopla and Libby. He wanted me to help him buy him an audiobook on Spotify and I said, "But, WAIT! Do you have a library card? Cause, that audiobook you want to listen to? The library has the whole series! For freeeeeee!!!"

Most of the talk about OpenAI, Anthropic and “mass surveillance” neglected to mention that widespread scraping of the web is in itself mass surveillance.

Out now: The first edition of the #IFLA Journal for 2026!

Volume 52, No. 1 (March 2026) is a special issue dedicated to Indigenous Knowledge, centring Indigenous authority, voice, and agency in #libraries, #archives, and #museums.

Learn more and download your copy: https://tr.ee/clCTB3

The free "DIY Web Archiving" zine by me, @ilya.webrecorder.net @bitarchivist.net @akijas.bsky.social @quinnanya.me covers a friendly (even for kids!) intro to using Webrecord (+other methods) to preserve things you care about on the web: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...

Anticipating Trends for 2026 and Beyond - insights on technology in #libraries from @mbreeding.bsky.social

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

Friends! I have just told the Triplets that it’s #WorldBookDay tomorrow and they are very excited. Big discussions are taking place about Favourite Books and Costumes. Tomorrow will be fun! Who do you think we will all dress up as?! 📖 📚 #Cats

"Reference librarians are trying to find hallucinated articles and books, create new lesson plans with AI literacy, and educate those who are uploading licensed and copyrighted materials into training data. We are navigating AI fallout while learning alongside our faculty and students." 📚

Leonardo DiCaprio quietly funds a tiny library in the middle of LA A branch of the city library was built on the grounds of the actor's childhood home.

Leonardo DiCaprio quietly funds a tiny library in the middle of LA www.sfgate.com/la/article/l...

Good. Meta has a long record of putting their users’ safety and privacy second (or last even) for years now.

Statement From the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR): Navigating the Uneasy Interdependence of #AI and Open Science coar-repositories.org/news-updates... #GenAI #oa #openscience @coar-repositories.bsky.social

Libraries Collaborate on Mass Book Digitization Pilot Project – UC Davis Library https://library.ucdavis.edu/news/libraries-collaborate-on-mass-book-digitization-pilot-project/

Airport Libraries Take Off | American Libraries Magazine Airport libraries, where travelers can pick up books before they board their flights. are becoming regular fixtures in US airports.

Airport Libraries Take Off 📚
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Hearing about Howard University's Black Press Archives in the #c4l26 opening keynote. They have over 2000 African American newspaper titles, and a portion of the archives have now been digitized, with selected titles having issues readable online: https://dh.howard.edu/bpa_archives/

Library of Congress Opens Search for Next Innovator in Residence (via @librarycongress.bsky.social) newsroom.loc.gov/news/library... #libraries #innovation

Listening to library leaders: Surveys capture real-time perspectives shaping decisions across the field
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I am working with so many physical books these days and I honestly cannot get over how much better they are than ebooks. Convenience and searchability are nice features but there’s nothing like a words on paper book

What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

Libraries for Children: Dynamism, Flexibility, and Adaptability in Interiors What is the vision of a 21st century library? How can architects encourage the interest of new and future generations in reading?

“The design of a children's space is not a detail. It's cognitive stimulus, sensory invitation, and learning experience in formation.” #libraries

Tortilla Pie This recipe for an easy, throw-it-all-together weekday supper or bolstering weekend breakfast comes from my long-time kitchen companion, Hettie Potter, and very grateful I am, too. Think of this as a...

#RecipeOfTheDay is Tortilla Pie! Well, I say pie, but what I mean is this: you get two soft tortillas, line a round ovenproof dish with one, cover with cheese and ham, crack in an egg, top with the other tortilla, add a squiggle of hot sauce, bake — then devour! www.nigella.com/recipes/egg-...

The distinctions we draw in library science between data, information, knowledge, and understanding are real. Like, life vs. death real.

OverDrive’s Long Testimony Misses the Point: Libraries Need Fair eBook Contracts, Not a Fear-Based Marketing Pitch New State Bills Aim to Improve Access to eBooks for Libraries

OverDrive’s Long Testimony Misses the Point: Libraries Need Fair eBook Contracts, Not a Fear-Based Marketing Pitch
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Scientists Discover Plant Compound That Forces Aggressive Breast Cancer Cells Into Self-Destruction A newly discovered plant-derived molecule disrupts a critical cancer enzyme in an unconventional way.

Scientists Discover Plant Compound That Forces Aggressive Breast Cancer Cells Into Self-Destruction - SciTechDaily scitechdaily.com/scientists-d...