Port-a-potty with a sign that says "ready to talk."

Porta-potty with a sign that says "fair deal".

Porta-potty with a sign that says "fair deal".

We hope we won’t need to use them, but if we do we’re ready for March 10 7a.m.!”. #fairdeal #UMFA2025

@umanitoba.bsky.social

A shadow war on libraries Some Canadian politicians and influencers, inspired by an American-born movement, are trying to roll back 2SLGBTQ+ rights in Canada — one book at a time.

The Fifth Estate is reporting on how anti-2SLGBTQ+ sentiment is affecting Canadian libraries and - something I'm so glad they looked into - how it's connected to attacks on libraries in the United States. www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

NIH Cuts ICR - Implications for Research Institutions and Scholarly Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen What are the implications of last Friday's NIH ICR budget cut? @lisalibrarian offers an early analysis.

Interesting article by @lisalibrarian.bsky.social on the effect of the NIH cuts on scholarly publishing:
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/10/n...

A few snaps from yesterday's rally. Thank you to everyone who came out in support! #UMFA2025

Why does College & Research Libraries have ads for "Personal Digital Mind Palaces" (?)? The last few times I've been on their site, I've seen these ads for this pseudoscience (?) library technology (?). So many questions. Their website boggles the mind: www.dlsg.com

Adam Curtis Title Card: We Too Are Trapped In A System. Text over a background of a large office building

THREAD

This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact

An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
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My colleague Caroline Monnin and I just published an article on our researcher profile library workshops. Fun times to answer questions from friends and family about what I spend my time researching 🤓 dc.etsu.edu/jgl/vol2/iss...

Join the ACRLog Blog Team! Interested in writing for ACRLog? We’re looking for a few new bloggers to join our team! We aim to have a group of bloggers who represent diverse perspectives on and career stages in academic libr...

Join the ACRLog Blog Team! Interested in writing for ACRLog? We’re looking for a few new bloggers to join our team!

Bloggers write on any issue or idea that impacts academic librarianship, from current news to upcoming changes in the profession. Learn more at acrlog.org/2024/12/02/j...

‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say

Re: comprehensive / exhaustive / systematic searching

Librarians need better ways to search for papers, given points in Science article #retractions #fraudulent #predatory #papermills, & not doing 'what we've always done'.

Consider also damaging effects of #GenAI! www.science.org/content/arti...

Finally deactivated/deleted twitter and looking forward to Blue Skies ahead!