Promotional image for exhibition with a painted car wearing a bonnet

The Pets & their People exhibition continues @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Weston Library but if you missed our companion book display, the Science of Pets, in March you can still use the online reading list to catch up with any titles before or after your visit

go.glam.ox.ac.uk/BookDisplay

Author in Conversation: Dr Rod Hill on Chasing Solar Eclipses. Friends of the Library host author in Conversation: Dr Rod Hill on 'Chasing Solar Eclipses: A Comprehensive Guide.'

The Friends of the (AU) Library present their first event of 2026 with Dr Roderick Hill in conversation about his books 'Chasing Solar Eclipses: A Comprehensive Guide' and 'Space to Live: The Search for an Alternative Home for Humanity.'
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A book's pages folded into the shape of a heart

The theme of this year’s Love Data Week is “Where's the Data?” We want to encourage thinking about the journey of your data from collection to access to preservation.❣️

We're excited to help the @cmu.edu community understand, use, communicate, and code with data.

guides.library.cmu.edu/lovedataweek

#dhoxss2026 | Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) A range of bursaries are available for online and in-person attendance at #DHOxSS2026 - don't miss your chance to apply! Deadline to apply is noon (GMT), Monday 9 February Apply here: https://lnkd....

Bursary deadline is this coming Monday!
#digihums #digitalhumanities #dhoxss26
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International Open Access Week International Open Access Week is held annually to inspire global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge in order to address important social issues affecting people around the world. Open Acce...

Save the Date: International #OpenAccess Week will be October 19-25, 2026. #OAWeek is an opportunity to join together, take action & raise awareness of the benefits of openly sharing knowledge. www.openaccessweek.org

Oh no! I most remember Paul from OAI and the initial UK work to bring UK Research Council RDM mandates into library research support provision. He was always generous with his time and wise conversation, and will be greatly missed.

In-principle agreement reached with global academic publisher Elsevier - Council of Australasian University Librarians CAUL has reached an in-principle agreement with global academic publisher Elsevier. The agreement is the final renegotiated agreement with the […]

caul.edu.au/in-principle...

I regret to report.... #whamageddon

I think you'll like this one @ashthelibrarian.bsky.social.
#oer #oa

Aaand to round out #RAILS2025 the announcement that the new AU will host #RAILS2026... come and see us next year!

(Most of) the final panel for #RAILS2025... featuring Drs Anita Dewi, Jo Kaeding, Ellie Abdi and @lizzytait.bsky.social

Orphan works and remote learning bill introduced this morning parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sea... #copyright #library

Sigh. *talking, not tasking

Day 2’s keynote at #RAILS2025 was @lisagiven.bsky.social - tasking about and giving published examples of #transdisciplinary goodies which I greedily grabbed photos of and frantically noted. Now this practitioner and part time PhD candidate needs to find the time to read it all…. 😆

We still have some spaces left on our Christmas literary pub crawl!
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I had so much fun today at #RAILS2025 that I neglected to post!
Ahh well, there's always tomorrow.

#RAILS2025 Doctoral Consortium presentation done!
Fabulous to hear about all the in-progess and nascent research underway!

The first issue of JOI is out!
joi-ojs-txstate.tdl.org/joi/index

Call to Action:
Be the conductor, the critic and the conscience
Build the trust layer your community deserves
“This is librarianship's leadership moment. The work we do now will decide whether AI becomes noise or knowledge.”

Every time you accept synthesis you haven’t integrated... that’s "cognitive credit card debt". You’re renting capacity, not building it.

"without developed quality sense, you get averaged mediocrity"
"You must have something worth saying before opening the prompt box"

CoC last week, this week #RAILS2025!
First up @carloiacono.bsky.social of @csu.edu.au on AI in libraries.

a baby is sitting in a crowd with a woman holding him and screaming yes . ALT: a baby is sitting in a crowd with a woman holding him and screaming yes .

I passed my Confirmation of Candidature (with minor corrections) yesterday!

Well, that sounds like great incentive to work on a paper!

Here's your chance to learn about DROID, a powerful digital preservation tool! #digipres #archives #DigitalPreservation

www.dpconline.org/events/event...

There’s still time to join us in Charleston! Advance registration will be closing soon! ⏰

Register by 10/31 and skip the on-site fee. Hope to see you there! arevie.ws/4nYrFjE

🎉Caroline talks about the "Black Box" issue with "AI" that Romana and I also discussed at ALIA Online earlier this year.

In the age of false information, we all need a good BS detector. Here’s how to sort facts from harmful fiction | Tony Haymet Our brains are wired to believe new information, especially if it aligns with our views. But mistruths can have serious consequences

Interesting timing reading this while attending today's Symposium #AIBeyond2025

"In the age of false information, we all need a good BS detector. Here’s how to sort facts from harmful fiction" author
Professor Tony Haymet Australia's Chief Scientist

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#aibeyond2025 - @heroicendeavour.bsky.social speaks to "Reclaiming agency in the new world of AI" and whether we as individuals are a passenger or a pilot in this space.
Discussion of AI Determinism and whether the encouraged adoption of a new tool fits our library requirements.

#aibeyond2025 - @aj-boston.bsky.social discusses the variation of views and opinions between AI evangelists and AI atheists and how, despite *however much we may want to*, we can't simply avoid discussion of "AI".