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dm_cooper retweeted
29 Oct 2024
Laughing so hard at the fact that I asked ChatGPT a question, it gave me some suspicious data I have not seen anywhere else, and when I asked if it could provide a source for the info, it told me it cannot but to check "archives, libraries, or online databases like JSTOR."
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dm_cooper retweeted
10 Oct 2024
Notable to me that every for-profit information hub is injecting AI into every corner of their services while the largest nonprofit information hub is fighting it off like their the Night's Watch
9 Oct 2024
New: some Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.” 404media.co/the-editors-prot…
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dm_cooper retweeted
11 Oct 2024
Librarians and library worker colleagues could easily have been added to this list of jobs that have been targeted--smeared, harassed, maligned--in these cultural assaults. Arguably no other profession has been threatened with laws leading to fines and prison for doing their job!
11 Oct 2024
Exactly.
By Charlie Warzel. "What’s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis." theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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dm_cooper retweeted
3 Oct 2024
A library loan is not a lost sale--and Australia has the data to prove it! Great new report here:
law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/as…
ALT 1 We found no evidence that library lending of Untapped's ebooks 'cannibalised' sales -- and indeed some evidence that it increased sales for certain books
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dm_cooper retweeted
2 Oct 2024
Let's GO!!! 🌠
I had the pleasure of speaking my vision briefly with The Philadelphia Inquirer about my hope for SDP & how I overcame some adversity in TX regarding censorship. Stepping into this leadership role is decades in the making. 🧵 (1/3)
share.inquirer.com/33m1YF
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dm_cooper retweeted
30 Sep 2024
Litel free libraryes are wondirful but hear me out what about an ABSOLUTELYE COLOSSAL FREE LIBRARYE.
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dm_cooper retweeted
19 Sep 2024
I’m Jazmyne Baylor, a Research & Instruction Librarian at Western Carolina University.
I’m researching African American libraries and reading spaces in Appalachia during the segregation era.
For more information, email Jazmyne Baylor at jbaylor@email.wcu.edu
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dm_cooper retweeted
10 Sep 2024
Just learned that Rio Tinto, one of the world's largest mining conglomerates, starts quarterly earnings calls with a land acknowledgement
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dm_cooper retweeted
5 Sep 2024
I asked AI to give me eggplants and I instantly regretted it 🤦♀️
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dm_cooper retweeted
22 Aug 2024
Memes work. Earlier this year, @nypl launched a meme campaign to get library funding restored. It was a success, with people attributing the restoration of over $58M to the social team's strategy. I chatted with NYPL’s social manager about it, here’s what I learned:
ALT Image of Lisa Simpson presenting. On the presentation screen it says "Restore NYC library budgets so NYPL can stop making memes about it."
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dm_cooper retweeted
Marie Curie did not have to fit 9 deliverabkes, 17 milestones and 44 tasks in a 24 months gantt chart as we, who got the grant in her name, have to do
Slow productivity: do fewer things, work at a natural pace and obsess over quality go.nature.com/3LTbdQn
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dm_cooper retweeted
16 Jul 2024
Libraries do much more than provide access to books—they also offer critical resources and services to meet the needs of communities.
Explore our new inventory of #BasicNeeds services offered across public & community college #libraries to learn more: sr.ithaka.org/publications/e…
ALT "Exploring Basic Needs Support Across Libraries." Includes photo of a woman browsing library shelves.
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dm_cooper retweeted
17 Jul 2024
Essential new report by @m_blankstein & colleagues. Key takeaways: 71% of public libraries support physical health and 63% support food security and lots of room for collaboration w/ community colleges. #EngagedLibraries
16 Jul 2024
Libraries do much more than provide access to books—they also offer critical resources and services to meet the needs of communities.
Explore our new inventory of #BasicNeeds services offered across public & community college #libraries to learn more: sr.ithaka.org/publications/e…
ALT "Exploring Basic Needs Support Across Libraries." Includes photo of a woman browsing library shelves.
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13 Jul 2024
Quality information is essential to AI: "yellowing paper maps and typewritten reports gathering cobwebs in Zambia’s mining archives, many a century old or more, which @KoBold_Metals is digitizing" nytimes.com/2024/07/11/clima…
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30 Jun 2024
The cruelty is the point: shame on @GovKathyHochul for claiming @MTA pride on what should be day one of congestion pricing.
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dm_cooper retweeted
26 Jun 2024
Ok here's a concept: Wife Swap but with municipal budgets.
librarians get cop budgets for a year and we see what can be done
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9 Jun 2024
A start but so much more is needed: "FCC) to launch a pilot program for public libraries and schools to purchase advanced cybersecurity tools" h/t @lisalibrarian ala.org/news/2024/06/america…
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dm_cooper retweeted
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