i love how so much of digital accessibility is just reaffirming what librarians have been trying to tell you for 1000 years:

METADATA IS IMPORTANT, ACTUALLY

In many ways, it’s not even the original use of AI that shocks me - it’s that these ‘authors’ (in the loosest possible sense) don’t even bother to check what the AI has produced, despite how much we know about hallucinations. That’s a whole new level of pathological laziness. 📚

Tip#65: Search String Theory - Applying pairwise combinatorics to PubMed searches #MLAUXCaucus #medlibs #ExpertSearching #SystematicReviews "Bite-size tips for expert searchers." h/t @marijanewhite.bsky.social uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/2026/03/tip6...

Looking at a utterly delusional librarian substack post and thinking whether I want to respond. There's a lot I agree with the piece e.g. in terms of the trust users have with the library and how often we see things other institution units may not notice. But equally there's this delusional view (1)

Exploratory Research on Applying AI Tools in Medical Literature Mining and Navigation Scheduled: Thursday, March 26, 2026, 1:00pm–2:30pm, Central Time This webinar explores whether current scholarly AI tools such as Scite, Openknowledgemaps, Research Rabbit, Elicit…

Curious how AI can transform literature searching? 🔎🤖

Join this webinar on March 26 to explore how today’s scholarly AI tools can support topic mapping, uncover research gaps, and enhance library search workflows.

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#medlibs

Our PubMed Searching in 30 Minutes online class is Wed., Mar. 4th, at 1:00-1:30pm. Learn quick tips to locate articles in PubMed in a 30-minute class. Register: zurl.co/5gu9V #RLML #IUmedschool

#medlibs was the title of APA PsycInfo at one point in time stylized differently to be partially all caps? So many automatic or errant mentions of PsycINFO (and let’s not talk about PsychINFO). Perhaps it’s just a MEDLINE effect we can blame on NLM 🙂

MEASUREMENT - This article describes measurement of OA materials - a challenge as usage and provision changes katinamagazine.org/content/arti... 2020 saw temp removal of paywalls during the COVID-19 lockdown & the introduction of R&P agreements. Article considers these and identifies usage trends

The Sycophancy Fallacy: Why You May be Worried About the Wrong Bias with Search AI search tools aren't "agreeing" with users—they are retrieval systems. Confusing the two is a category error that obscures the real risks.

[Blogged] open.substack.com/pub/aarontay...

[Read]PaperSearchQA: Learning to Search and Reason over Scientific Papers with RLVR arxiv.org/abs/2601.18207. only trains on factoid-QA though. 3 types of behavior - 1. Explicit planning and keywordextraction, 2. Reasoning about the problem before search, 3. Verification of in-parameterknowledge

Author disclosure of AI use is associated with "manuscripts that were rejected (OR, 1.29; 95% CI, 1.05-1.62) or withdrawn prior to review (OR, 8.48; 95% CI, 5.30-13.22) vs accepted or asked to revise." but let's not jump to conclusions too quickly...(1) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

LESSS 2026 - Register Register Now for LESSS 2026 June 15-18, 2026 11:30am - 3:30pm

#medlibs and #evidencesynthesis nerds - the next Library Evidence Synthesis Services Symposium (LESSS) is upon us and open for free registration 😊 sites.google.com/view/lesss/r...

We had a great time talking about our work with this crew of amazing people!

A sad day at NIH...

The NIH Record was a great way for NIH folks to find out what was going on across NIH.

Many important stories published there over the years.

nihrecord.nih.gov/2026/01/30/n...

#medlibs

How we evaluated Elicit Reports - Elicit Elicit Reports provide automated research overviews with higher quality and efficiency than other deep research tools.

I'm a little dubious about the LLM ranking the results, because while they may have agreed with each other, a group of human experts arrived at different results: elicit.com/blog/elicit-...
A follow up to this completed in December (not published afaik) showed they are much improved, but...

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✨We’re excited to announce our closing keynote: Robert R. Newlen, Acting Librarian of Congress, and Sam Helmick, ALA President.

Plus, for 3 days only, new registrations are $15 off! The sale begins tomorrow, Fri., Jan. 30, and ends on Mon., Feb. 2, at 11:59pm CT. https://www.ala.org/virtual-event

Research Training Institute MLA Research Training Institute (RTI) is an immersive online continuing education program for health sciences librarians and LIS graduate students that provides advanced research methods training and…

Apply to the MLA Research Training Institute (RTI), a year-long fellowship for health sciences librarians. Join the drop-in session on February 4 at 1:00 pm CT to learn more and get your questions answered.

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#medlibs

Syntax and Sensibility: Translating Your Systematic Review Search Scheduled: Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 1:00pm–2:30pm, Central Time Are you ready to take your systematic review search skills to the next level? Join us for an interactive webinar designed for health…

Take your systematic review search skills to the next level

This webinar helps you translate search strategies across PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and CINAHL. Learn how to break down search components, apply correct syntax, and compare manual techniques.

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When two years of academic work vanished with a single click After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

"If a single click can irrevocably delete years of work, ChatGPT cannot, in my opinion and on the basis of my experience, be considered completely safe for professional use."

well, duh 🙄 #medlibs

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Social Network Analysis of Liaison Librarian Relationships by
Ellen Hampton Filgo, Joshua Been
crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...

Honestly I have no idea what EBSCO is doing. Are they trying to be worst version of Google

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wish I were going to PLA -Hot takes -
1. Professional librarians will no longer exist
2. The real threat isn’t book banners—it’s libraries' self-censoring
3. Trauma-informed isn’t free—pay library workers for the care they provide
4. Want a strong future? Make books the star of your library again

Just when you thought it was safe to dive into MeSH terms...
I'm popping up a bit late to give a peek at what I've found for new #2026MeSH descriptors. Behold, a #medlibs and adjacent #expertsearching thread!

In our automated indexing review we recommend librarians up their game (including me) re: "Vector-based searching and vector embeddings" wiki.ubc.ca/Vector-based...

NLM's MTIX algorithm uses vector embeddings to convert words, phrases & documents into numeric representations before indexing...🤔

Can Bibliotherapy Heal the Pain of the World? As a librarian, I’ve often felt like a part-time therapist. People confide in librarians the way they do with bartenders; we form bonds with our regular customers, listen to their troubles and serv…

Can Bibliotherapy Heal the Pain of the World?

lithub.com/can-biblioth...

Exposure to Community Violence and Biomarkers of Allostatic Load: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis published in Psychological Bulletin in 2025. Authors: Gresham, Morency, Corcoran, Kunkel, & Riegelman

doi.org/10.1037/bul0000488

Neighborhood conditions and neurodevelopment: A systematic review of brain structure in children and adolescents published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in October 2025. Authors: Lewis, Gresham, Riegelman, Ip

doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...

Personas of librarians and their response to AI - part 2. This is all tongue in cheek. substack.com/@aarontay/no...