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siobhanh.bsky.social
Publishing Technologies Librarian. Open Access, Publishing, Diversity, IT, Libraries & (Digital) Collections. Tech & Hiking | She/Her | Views (unfortunately) my own.
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It's worth accessing the full text here. But a) it's worth looking at who funded this. B) whilst there are systemic social issues *and* misandry, it isn't caused by gender equality programs. C) use of stratified samples for flawed rhetoric across the board. D) no mention of Tate and radicalisation?

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Really shocking from the National Library of Australia. Tim's digital work is so fantastic but it's facilitated by OA to this corpus of newspapers. If other libraries follow suit, work like @ryancordell.org's will be threatened too. Stunningly bad. updates.timsherratt.org/2025/03/02/t...

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Question for library folks: At what point do you cancel subscriptions to periodicals based on their content? One fairly major publication recently published a bullshit hit piece against the university where I work and I'm like "Why are we giving them money?" 📚

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The Online Safety Act in the UK makes it easier for the government to censor work that it deems sexual which can include LGBTQ work or work on women's health.

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Public Library Ebook Service to Cull AI Slop After 404 Media Investigation 🔗 www.404media.co/public-libra...

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💥New: As Proquest exits the print book market, will we see a new era of big deals for ebooks? 🧑‍💻Kevin O'Donovan (@lselibrary.bsky.social) #AcademicSky #ScholComm #Libraries

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For any of my @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social students not already convinced of the wisdom of OCR-ing the columns of their patent separately, I hope that this will do the trick. :-D

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An Opinion piece in response to the latest Clarivate announcement from @siobhanh.bsky.social (normally members only) - dub.sh/f9uF75E

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Just in: CA Bill to regulate AI's impact on children. - Prohibits emotionally manipulative chatbots, emotion detection, social scoring, some facial rec tech - Mandates transparency - Strengthens privacy protections Devil always in details; we'll see how this evolves.👀 a16.asmdc.org/press-releas...

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May I present some ways that we might ask for our users' sex/gender on our forms in order to comply with new EOs: codepen.io/buttermilkbi...

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Also consider reading: www.libraryfutures.net/censorship To quote @librariansreed.bsky.social: "There are very real dangers of disappearing & hidden content, particularly in the current US landscape, when libraries lose ownership of their collections." Something we should *all* be concerned about.

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