I received the Shirley Olofson Memorial Award from ALA-NMRT!! Deeply honored and very excited.
I’m now going to ALA Annual 🎉

I’m honestly devastated that I can’t go see Interstellar with a live orchestra at Royal Albert Hall

Wow, that is fascinating. I wonder if other books under that publishing company have a similar note? Or what the decision making was like to put that there?

schools, libraries, and bookstores are not data centers... data centers are data centers! stop making the labor of knowledge workers invisible!

i have SO MANY THOUGHTS about this

Cover of the zine "Disability, Technoethics, and Power: Exploring AI Refusal" by librarians Anna Boutin-Cooper & Andrea Puglisi. The illustration shows a large face and brain looming over a person standing on the edge of an active volcano.

I know many people who'll want to read the new zine "Disability, Technoethics, and Power: Exploring AI Refusal" by librarians Anna Boutin-Cooper & Andrea Puglisi. journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/un... Excellent insights into the use of AI tools as self-accommodations for disabilities. 📚 #CripLib

I am very emotional that I was able to do this

photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar, we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

Seven students checked out eight books they would not have otherwise in our class dedicated to reading yesterday. One of them, a junior, checked out books for the very first time. I am going to be riding that win all week.

I cannot believe how well this library session worked just now. I gathered books about the class's overall topic and we told students to pick one and read for an hour. They checked out books!!! My favorite lesson they learned in reflection: "To be friendly with yourself when reading dense things."

Whew, one thing hyper-local politics is NOT is boring. Why are you referencing Romans 1:25-27 at 7:30 in the morning on an email chain?

I’m so sorry Kay. Sending love.

no one takes your “refusal is a bad stance for the ‘reality’ of AI” take seriously when you don’t do any research on why people have that stance in the first place

Why is every tech ceo the villain from the Lorax

Librarian at the Library of Congress just out here hiding books for decades. 📚

I’ve lost track of how many times students have asked if we’re AI on chat.

Students look downright RELIEVED in class when I say it’s a real person on the other end!

At a glance: The upcoming changes focus on improving navigation in the interface. Primary navigation is moving to the top of the page with more intuitive organization of features, and users will have the option to keep a left-hand filter panel open during the search process. This update not only directly addresses feedback from customers and users regarding smoother access in the new interface, but also allows us more room to introduce new tools without adding disruptive friction or clutter.

feeling like shaming works 😌

acrlog.org/2025/10/03/e... (October, 2025)

Very real. I heard this reflected in my dissertation research interviews, not even asking about AI, but brought up by participants re burnout for instruction librarians

EVERYONE GET more anti ai NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in red text with a white background

Tribute Post for Fobazi Ettarh - ACRLog With immense sadness, the writers of ACRLog acknowledge the passing of Fobazi Ettarh, library worker and influential LIS scholar. If you are able to contribute, there is a GoFundMe established for Fob...

My colleagues at ACRLog wrote short tributes to the life and work of Fobazi Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social. I wrote about her work on disability, which I think deserves more recognition. acrlog.org/2026/03/04/t...

Thanks @ezerrenner.bsky.social for coordinating. #CripLib #VocationalAwe

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just let patrick stump hoot and holler on whatever song he wants. it’ll be better for it.

The audacity of capital f faculty continues to astound me, even in the wake of a student death.

this weekend really caught up with me, depression-wise. just want to say, it’s so silly how the things that would make me feel better (exercise, eating well, cleaning) are exactly what my brain refuses to do.

First real classes of the semester today! Trying an activity my colleague does to draw your research process.

If you need something good in your day: over 70 people have given and mailed me 227 quilt blocks in support of trans pride. That’s nothing short of amazing.

New on ACRLog... I Bought Slop: A Conversation on the Accidental Purchase of AI-Generated Material

"This is a discussion between four librarians about Large Language Model- and/or AI-generated books. It was spurred by the influx of “AI-slop” purchased unknowingly by staff."

bit.ly/4anDWbI

Honoring Fobazi Ettarh — ThriveLib Many of you already know that our colleague and founding board member, Fobazi Ettarh , has passed away. We want to take a moment to acknowledge her loss and honor what she meant to libraries, our co...

Many of you already know that our colleague and founding board member, Fobazi Ettarh, has passed away. We want to take a moment to acknowledge her loss and honor what she meant to libraries, our community, and her friends and loved ones.
www.thrivelib.com/news/honoring-fobazi-ettarh

I Bought Slop: A Conversation on the Accidental Purchase of AI-Generated Material - ACRLog Editor’s note: This guest blog post is by Natasha Finnegan, Cataloging and Metadata Librarian, Nicole Kulp, Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian, Sara Wheatley, Acquisitions Specialist, and Emil...

I wrote a post with three of my colleagues about the proliferation of AI slop in our library purchasing. I am immensely proud of what we wrote, and I hope it spurs on needed conversations, especially with our publishers and vendors.