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'Vicious compliance': Alberta premier decries Edmonton Public Schools' banned book list | CBC News Alberta Premier Danielle Smith slammed the Edmonton Public School Board Friday morning for its banned book list, which features more than 200 titles.

"We must remove graphic, sexually explicit content from schools."

EPSB: "Hoo boy, okay, so Handmaid's Tale, Brave New World, It, Watchmen, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings--"

"--not like that!"

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Sending you hugs and love 💔

Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks.From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the

For those just learning about LibGen because of the reporting on Meta and other companies training LLMs on pirated books, I’d highly recommend the book Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education (open access: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...)

Such inspiring work from amazing colleagues in this issue ❤️

We are delighted to release our latest special issue, Libraries and/as Extraction, co-edited by Maura Seale @mauraseale.bsky.social, Nicole Pagowsky @nope4evr.bsky.social, Rafia Mirza @librarianrafia.bsky.social, and Karen P. Nicholson.
Read the full volume here: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

a venn diagram. the left circle is “people who understand that climate change is an existential threat” and the right circle is “people who use Al, but, like, not for real work! lol! i just needed a silly pic of a dog on a scooter and it's surprisingly hard to find good reference images”

waaaaay too many people in the middle imo

Scoping review search practices in the social sciences: A scoping review A thorough literature search is a key feature of scoping reviews. We investigated the search practices used by social science researchers as reported in their scoping reviews. We collected scoping re....

Just moved over, so thought I'd start by re-sharing results of a wonderful collab with @uoftlibraries.bsky.social colleagues published in Research Synthesis Methods onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...