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I agree 'transformative' may be the word...but not in the way that they think. #Libraries #LawLibraries #AcademicLibraries #Proquest #Clarivate #ebooks 📚

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So you don’t have to click the links, here’s what the intake form says happened: “Hoopla (an affiliate of Midwest Tape, LLC) is accused of unlawfully sharing subscribers’ personal information and video viewing habits with Facebook without subscribers’ consent.“ 📚

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter’s crusade to save books from Amazon #books #reading #ebooks #kobo #kindle #bookshop #boox #antitrust #law #lawsky #booksky #skybrarians 📚 #DRM #Amazon

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Alternative Sources for Archived Government Data 📚 libguides.butler.edu/archiveddata...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Absolutely BONKERS announcement from ProQuest/Clarivate this morning. Our entire acquisitions strategy is being upended with this change. Fewer choices for content providers, fewer options for digital ownership, further erosion of the first sale doctrine, and MONOPOLIES ARE BAD FOR LIBRARIES!!!

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

submitted 15 days ago • 403 comments

FYI, Amazon will no longer enable the downloading of ebooks to exterior devices starting February 26th. Here’s a tutorial on how to download your ebooks off of Amazon. You can use Calibre (free software) to reformat the kindle books to be used on other devices. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2DQuRqn/

submitted 16 days ago • 125 comments

Made a new feed for people who like to read court orders #LawLibrarians 📚⚖️

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Lawyer Ex Machina is out! Reactions to the TR v Ross Intelligence ruling, more Cali bills to regulate AI, a regulatory framework for stablecoins, and will GenAI use make us less able to think critically? #lawsky #lawlibrarians #legaltech buttondown.com/LawyerExMach...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Well...alrighty then. Given USB transfer is is the only way I can get my library books over to my ancient ereader. What now fellow #Libby users? Fellow #librarians? #Amazon #Libraries #Kindle #Kobo #ereader #Ebooks 📚 #reading #books

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Tintin, Charlie Chaplain, and Sherlock Holmes push back against Public Domain. #Law #LawSky #BookSky #PublicDomain #CopyRight #Tintin #CharlieChaplain #SherlockHolmes #EnolaHolmes #Netflix #Hergé 📚

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Here's a stable source of economic data (not part of the executive branch) - If you're looking for data and statistics. #Law #Lawsky #digitalpreservation #Libraries #LawLibraries #statistics #data 📚

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Ooooh! A Data.gov archive! The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. #Law #LawSky #Libraries #LawLibrarians #LawLibraries #DigitalPreservation 📚

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library #Libraries #Librarians #Hoopla #CollectionDevelopment #LawLibraries #AcademicLibraries #Hoopla #AI #ebooks #ereader #OverDrive @libraryfutures.bsky.social #LibraryFreedomProject #BookSky #Skybrarians 📚

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

ProTip: It's ok to revise those templates. Especially if this is a document you expect your client to use and follow. Whereas, I Keep Telling Lawyers to Stop Writing Like This. #Law #LawSky #LegalWriting #PlainEnglish #Accessibility

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Well well well - look who is on BlueSky! Hello, @aallnet.bsky.social! #Law #LawLibrarians #LegalResearch #Librarians #Libraries #AALL

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Reminder that the World Health Organization (WHO) has topic-specific newsletters to help keep tabs on noteworthy world health news. #WHO #WorldHealth #Libraries #PublicHealth #CDC 📚 #Health #influenza #Vaccines #Polio

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder that Canada's Public Health Agency has a comprehensive array of health information online: #PublicHealth #Science #CDC #Health 📚 #Libraries #Regs

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

@thatandromeda.bsky.social could I be added to the list of skybrarians contributors? 😀

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

In a very 2020 move, I have a carrd of links 2025resources.carrd.co

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Was talking to a friend about Goodreads alternatives. Am giving Hardcover a try (along with others). So far I like it - and the app works well on my phone. Here's video about the platform (from last summer). #BookSky #Books #ReadingTrackers #Libraries #Librarians #Hardcover #Goodreads

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

This might amusing ...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Performative Justice: Nearly 2 Years After Launching Unit to Free Innocent People in Prison, Attorney General’s Office Hasn’t Reviewed A Single Case. (In fact, the unit hasn’t even started accepting applications.) #LPI #Loyola #LLS #Law #LawSky #PCJU #CIU #CrimLaw

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

TIL...there's a study out there where researchers threatened the LLM to see if it influenced the answer. 😶 Isn't this how things went south in the Terminator movies? #SkyNet AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes #Law #LawSky #Libraries #LegalResearch #AI #ChatGPT #LLM

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Today I learned that there is a Wikimedia Commons category "animations of shoes" with 86 gifs, all but one of which are rotating animations created by a guy named "Karl Martini" who calls his signature rotation style the "Martini Spin." I will never be bored on this website

submitted 41 days ago • 22 comments

AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it: Despite fewer clicks, copyright fights, and sometimes iffy answers, AI could unlock new ways to summon all the world’s knowledge. #SearchEngines #Google #Perplexity #GenAI #ChatGPT #Libraries #LegalTech

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

I had to hunt down the bio information for a speaker to submit the program for MCLE credit ProTip: You don't have to put your GPA on LinkedIn. ...esp if your grades weren't stellar ...esp if it's been a hot minute since you graduated 😳 #CLE #Law #LawSchool #Oversharing #TMI #Lawyers

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Lexis+ AI adventures... #LegalResearch #Law #LawLibraries #AI #LegalTech #Tech #LawSky #LawLibrarians #LawSchool

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

#CollectionDev Tip: confirm the book isn't AI dreck when you get purchase requests from library users. AI outrage: Error-riddled Indigenous language guides do real harm, advocates say #TooGoodToBeTrue #Libraries #LawLibraries #LawLibrarians #LegalResearch #Amazon #AI #IndiePublishing #AILiteracy

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

I feel seen. The optical disc onslaught continues, with LG quitting Blu-ray players: Streaming uncertainty has some people clinging to their discs. #tech #dvd #bluray #PhysicalMedia #OpticalMedia #Streaming

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Long read about #DigiPres Digital Preservation from the Harvard Law Library Innovation Lab. Nothing incredibly new (we knew much of this over a decade ago), but it's a nice summary of all of the challenges to doing digital preservation at ALL, never mind AT SCALE. lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal...

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Thinking about how I’m going to have to change my position on Google being a great place to start legal research on unfamiliar topics. Interested in what the law librarian community has to say about this. #legalresearch #legalwriting

submitted 80 days ago • 5 comments

...if not water, it's inevitably a cornfield. #Law #LawSky #BadPlacesToHide @loweringthebar.bsky.social

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Hot off the press! I know I've only scratched the surface of Zotero - so if anyone has additional tips for this research tool, post below! #LawSky #LegalTech #LegalResearch #LegalWriting #LawLibrarians #LawLibraries #Apps #Productivity, #CitationManagement #Zotero #Research #ResearchOrganization

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

this is kind of a niche issue but: if you are getting weird and hostile responses that feel a little off, there are some folks on here making accounts that automatically reply to large quantities of posts in a vaguely hostile manner. you can ignore them, and also, it's not personal

submitted 92 days ago • 60 comments