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Ulrich Herb🎙️ Kicking off the Open Divide Lecture Series 2025/26:📅 April 23, 5PM CEST🗣️ Rebecca Bryant (OCLC): Libraries Supporting Open Research – International Perspectives✨ Abstract: <a href="https://opendivide.hypotheses.org/369" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://opendivide.hypotheses.org/369</a> 🌍 Join us & register here: <a href="https://unilu.webex.com/weblink/register/r21e4a4713e93f01d98a9e4bc873f14c4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://unilu.webex.com/weblink/register/r21e4a4713e93f01d98a9e4bc873f14c4</a><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenScience</a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/AcademicLibraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicLibraries</a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/OpenDivide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenDivide</a>

kestrelwardNational Emergency – The Dismantling of the Institute of Museum & Library ServicesThe <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/31/trump-institute-museum-library-services-00262784" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services</a> (IMLS), the major federal funding agency for all libraries and museums in the US, has been going on for a week and a half now amid mild public outcry. Yesterday’s news that they finally put all IMLS staff on admin leave (probably because they can’t legally fire them all yet) is just the latest blow to the library world. The independent journalist Marisa Kabas has been following this story on social media and providing timely updates. She reports that the IMLS employees are sounding the alarm about this as they go into their offices and clear them out.<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3llr5yw4tvk2t" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3llr5yw4tvk2t</a>I haven’t written about this so far mainly because I’m in such a state of despair that I have nothing particularly new or interesting to say about this except “Folks, this is real real bad”. Which is not really enough to base a whole blog post on. But today I thought I might provide a little insight into some of the things which are going to go away now that they’ve made an end-run around Congressional funding of the IMLS. These things are specific to Florida, and I’m going to provide an explainer, but Florida is hardly unique in this area, and many of the poorest and most rural regions of the country are going to be hit the hardest by the severe reduction to outright elimination of library services in their areas. So below are just a small sliver of all the services about to be lost in Florida:<ul><li>Tampa Bay Library Consortium – This organization entirely funded by IMLS and administers the statewide sharing of books between libraries, allowing people in public libraries to have access to academic collections and vice-versa as well as allowing academic libraries to share resources between themselves</li><li>Statewide Ask A Librarian – This is a service that allows patrons to chat with a live library worker (NOT an AI Bot!) to ask questions, everything from “what are the library hours” to “I need to find articles on [X] subject” and beyond. </li><li>The <a href="https://flelibrary.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Florida Electronic Library</a> – This is a resource that allows any Floridian to access high quality information across a huge variety of topics electronically. Used extensively in primary and secondary schools</li><li>E-Rate program – this is a federal program that provides affordable broadband to library patrons who may not otherwise have access to the internet in their homes, often rural populations</li><li><a href="https://rightservicefl.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Right Service at the Right Time</a> – A service to help librarians guide patrons to finding available government assistance and social services. It is specific to individual counties in Florida, and contains access to things like the Florida Department of Children & Families, Social Security, Florida KidCare and Housing assistance. </li></ul>The above are just a fraction of the things IMLS funds in this state, and similar programs are in existence in all 50 states through the state library systems. The IMLS does all this while taking up a tiny <a href="https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/what-happens-to-libraries-if-imls-goes-away" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">.003% of the Federal Budget</a>. That hardly seems like government waste to me, serving as it does millions of Americans every single day. Which gives the lie to DOGE’s claim to be cutting government waste and reveals it as the ideological project it is to eliminate social goods which allow Americans freedom and stability. The project is to keep people poor, uneducated, and afraid so we will not rise up and overthrow the oligarchical overlords running our government. They are making great strides in that project, and libraries have long been one of the institutions standing in their way. Libraries are overwhelmingly popular with the public, even after years of smear campaigns by conservative groups like so-called Moms for Liberty calling librarians “groomers and pedophiles”, and our Congresscritters know this. Hence why Congress has never allowed the elimination of the IMLS. But Trump/Musk are attempting to do by fiat what they could not do democratically. This is just the latest in a long line of national emergencies since January 20th, but it is one that has the least amount of chatter around it and will affect huge swathes of the population every bit as much as breaking Social Security or stopping crucial health research. I hope you will pay attention and lift up your voice to decry this illegal elimination of a vital agency of the federal government. Call your Congresscritters, email them, fax them, attend a protest in your area, join an organizing group, attend library board meetings and run for the open seats, attend city council meetings talking about library budgets, and join the ALA’s “<a href="https://www.ala.org/advocacy/show-up-for-our-libraries" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Show Up For Our Libraries</a>” movement in any way you can. People standing together have power, let’s remind the fascists among us that we will not stand for our necessary government being dismantled and sold off to the highest bidder.<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://onequeerlibrarian.com/tag/academic-libraries/" target="_blank">#academicLibraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://onequeerlibrarian.com/tag/archives/" target="_blank">#archives</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://onequeerlibrarian.com/tag/doge/" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://onequeerlibrarian.com/tag/institute-of-museum-and-library-services/" target="_blank">#instituteOfMuseumAndLibraryServices</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://onequeerlibrarian.com/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://onequeerlibrarian.com/tag/library-life/" target="_blank">#libraryLife</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://onequeerlibrarian.com/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://onequeerlibrarian.com/tag/us-government/" target="_blank">#usGovernment</a>

SiobhanAnyone else heading to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ACRL2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ACRL2025</a> shortly? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicLibraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicLibraries</a>

François Renaville 🇺🇦🇪🇺Generative artificial intelligence in the activities of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academiclibraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academiclibraries</a> of public <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#universities</a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Poland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poland</a><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133325000394" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133325000394</a>"43 % of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libraries</a> indicated that they did not think there was a need to use <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GAI</a> tools with the main reasons given including a lack of staff <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/competencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#competencies</a> and the appropriate regulations in the area."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#generativeAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#artificialintelligence</a>

ALLi Blog (unofficial)UK Publishers Push Back on AI Copyright; Academic Libraries Shift to Subscription Model: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway <a href="https://selfpublishingadvice.org/ai-copyright/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://selfpublishingadvice.org/ai-copyright/</a> <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/creativeindustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#creativeindustries</a> <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/academiclibraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academiclibraries</a> <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/subscriptionmodel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#subscriptionmodel</a> <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/e" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#e</a>-bookaccess <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/UKpublishers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UKpublishers</a> <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/AIcopyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIcopyright</a> <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#News</a>

SiobhanI may not be in cybersecurity, but I’ve been on over a dozen hiring/search committees for librarians and paraprofessionals over the past decade. If you’re jobseeking in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LIS</a> field (and not applying for a position I’m currently on a search committee for), I’m happy to review your resume <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LISjobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LISjobs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicLibraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicLibraries</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Librarians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Librarians</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LibraryJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LibraryJobs</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@hacks4pancakes/114065754096356855" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://infosec.exchange/@hacks4pancakes/114065754096356855</a>

SkyI've misplaced my cheat-sheet on setting up ebook collections from the CZ, so that we don't get duplicate records. Anyone have a good writeup I can use?<a href="https://digipres.club/tags/AlmaILS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlmaILS</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/libraryLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libraryLife</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/academicLibraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academicLibraries</a>

Harald KlinkePublication:: Academic libraries face challenges in managing diverse data collections. A new ontology-driven knowledge base improves semantic search, integrating structured and unstructured data. Using SPARQL queries from LLM prompts, it enhances knowledge retrieval. Evaluated for accuracy and scalability, it advances computational archival science. <a href="https://det.social/tags/DigitalHumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalHumanities</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/Ontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ontology</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/SemanticSearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SemanticSearch</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/AcademicLibraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicLibraries</a> <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10825984" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10825984</a>

SiobhanOur university library is hiring! Who wants to come work with me? (We have a Starbucks in the building...) ☕📜📚 <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Libraries" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23LISjobs" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LISjobs</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23AcademicLibraries" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicLibraries</a> <a href="https://metro.org/jobs/head-collections-strategies" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">metro.org/jobs/head-co...</a> <a href="https://metro.org/jobs/head-collections-strategies" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Head for Collections Strategie...</a>

SkyZines. Do y'all count them as books or media? "Three-dimensional artifacts realia" sure sounds like a zine to me.<a href="https://digipres.club/tags/LibraryLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LibraryLife</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/ACRL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ACRL</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/AcademicLibraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicLibraries</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/CountingStuffIsRidiculous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CountingStuffIsRidiculous</a>

François Renaville 🇺🇦🇪🇺Disaster Preparedness and Management Practices in Academic <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> in Context<a href="https://jurnal.usk.ac.id/IJDM/article/view/40580" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jurnal.usk.ac.id/IJDM/article/view/40580</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/emergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#emergency</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/emergencymanagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#emergencymanagement</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pandemic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disasters</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academiclibraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academiclibraries</a>

FediFollows<a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/AcademicLibraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicLibraries</a> picks of the day:➡️ <a href="https://openbiblio.social/@base" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@base</a> - Multi-disciplinary academic web search engine run by Bielefeld Univ➡️ <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/@ORCID_Org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ORCID_Org</a> - Free open identifier system for authors & researchers➡️ <a href="https://social.edu.nl/@Bibliothecaris" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Bibliothecaris</a> - Academic library at Univ of Groningen➡️ <a href="https://hcommons.social/@DigitalScholarshipIUI" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@DigitalScholarshipIUI</a> - Academic library unit at Indiana Univ Indianapolis➡️ <a href="https://mstdn.ca/@borealisdata" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@borealisdata</a> - Multidisciplinary Canadian research data repository➡️ <a href="https://mstdn.ca/@scholarsportal" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@scholarsportal</a> - Service arm of Ontario Council of Univ Libraries🧵 1/4

François Renaville 🇺🇦🇪🇺“I’ll Wait Zero Seconds”: Faculty Perspectives on Serials Access, Sharing, and Immediacy<a href="https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/26622/34533" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/26622/34533</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libraries</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academiclibraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academiclibraries</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/databases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#databases</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/subscriptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#subscriptions</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#journals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#collections</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/interlibraryloan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interlibraryloan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ILL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ILL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/resourcesharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#resourcesharing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/documentdelivery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#documentdelivery</a>

SiobhanThe last of our ebsco databases is finally switching over to the new interface, and everything about it is terrible and should feel terrible 😒 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicLibraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicLibraries</a>

François Renaville 🇺🇦🇪🇺Automating borrowing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#eBooks</a> through interlibrary loan<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15228959.2024.2442712" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15228959.2024.2442712</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InterlibraryLoan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InterlibraryLoan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ResourceSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ResourceSharing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Automation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Automation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ILL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ILL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libraries</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicLibraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicLibraries</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ILLiad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ILLiad</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WorldShare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorldShare</a>

Ronald SnijderOladokun, B., Sambo, A., Bassey, M., & Enakrire, R. (2024). The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> Effect: Transforming Collection Development Using Open <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Repositories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Repositories</a>. International Journal of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Librarianship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Librarianship</a>, 9(4), 36–51. <a href="https://doi.org/10.23974/ijol.2024.vol9.4.395" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.23974/ijol.2024.vol9.4.395</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicLibraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicLibraries</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScholComm</a>

Software Heritage🇫🇷 For French speakers: L’université Sorbonne Paris Nord adopte l’archivage des logiciels pour soutenir la science ouverte. Entretien avec Karim Boualem : <a href="https://www.softwareheritage.org/2024/12/05/luniversite-sorbonne-paris-nord-adopte-larchivage-des-logiciels-pour-soutenir-la-science-ouverte-entretien-avec-karim-boualem/?lang=fr" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.softwareheritage.org/2024/12/05/luniversite-sorbonne-paris-nord-adopte-larchivage-des-logiciels-pour-soutenir-la-science-ouverte-entretien-avec-karim-boualem/?lang=fr</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/academiclibraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academiclibraries</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/librarianship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#librarianship</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/skills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#skills</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/support" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#support</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/collections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#collections</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/institutionalpolicies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#institutionalpolicies</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/openscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#openscience</a>

kestrelwardAI Ethics & ArchivesThis week I have been watching the recording of the UK National Archive’s Annual Digital Lecture, which was titled “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqAl2XhPwPg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Turning over a new leaf: AI ethics in/through the archive</a>” with speakers Dr Eleanor Drage and Dr Kerry McInerney. It’s a really interesting talk and I definitely encourage everyone to watch it. I would characterize the tone as kind of AI neutral, they’re not negative about AI but they are wanting to ask questions and talk about the ways to be ethical with AI use. The most interesting thing I think was Dr Drage’s toolkit she developed for abiding by the <a href="https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/16/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">EU’s high risk AI tools regulation</a>s, which was called HEaT (High Risk EU Ai Toolkit). I couldn’t find it on the web myself, but Dr Drage explained some of the aspects of it, and the very first thing the toolkit asks is “Is AI the right tool for the desired outcome”. And I think that’s really important, especially in higher ed but in lots of other domains too. Higher ed and other sectors have found AI as this shiny new toy and the powers that be have subsequently been throwing it at every problem and non-problem, regardless of whether it’s really the best tool for the job. Things like the <a href="https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2024/11/could-artificial-intelligence-help-catalog-thousands-of-digital-library-books-an-interview-with-abigail-potter-and-caroline-saccucci/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Library of Congress’s experiments with using AI to catalog records</a>, which set the cataloging community in a bit of an uproar, are an example. Nobody seems to be asking “is AI really the best tool for this job” and instead they’re all so caught up in the shiny new thing that they’re throwing it at everything, without any real consideration for the consequences and ethics of the situation. And I really think there needs to be more conversation around what ARE the proper uses of AI? Many of them, we’ve already been using them for ages, such as for analyzing data or for natural language processing in search engines. The advent of generative AI on the scene has excited non-tech folks in a way that previous uses of AI haven’t. But that’s no excuse for not considering whether or not a particular use-case is really the best use of resources. And make no mistake, generative AI uses A LOT of resources, from <a href="https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/ai-has-environmental-problem-heres-what-world-can-do-about" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">massive amounts of water and electricity unsustainable to the environment </a>to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZS50KXjAX0" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">massive amounts of low-paid labor for training the AI</a> (a wrinkle I only just learned about myself). So anyway, how does this relate to archives? I think it’s an important conversation to have as archives, particularly digital archives, are going to start being pressured to use AI in a host of ways, from cataloguing to interpretation. But is AI really better than a human at these things? I would argue strongly that it is not. And really, it’s just putting a middle-man between researcher/archivist and the data. Because there’s still going to be many humans involved in training the AI to even do these jobs, and there’s still going to be a requirement for humans to quality check the output, especially while AI is so notably full of errors. We can’t even get AI to stop giving us false information based on algorithmic predictive text yet. How can we possibly expect it to do complex higher thought processes such as those needed to accurately and ethically categorize disparate objects or interpret those objects. Humans don’t even agree universally on lots of archival interpretations, adding a machine to the mix isn’t really going to make that better. In the talk, they also discussed how AI throws out the unexpected when looking at archives, while a human would look at the unexpected and derive meaning from it. We cannot wholesale replace archivists and researchers with machine learning, and I very much fear that is the next “great innovation” coming down the pipeline. <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://onequeerlibrarian.com/tag/academic-libraries/" target="_blank">#academicLibraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://onequeerlibrarian.com/tag/ai/" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://onequeerlibrarian.com/tag/archival-research/" target="_blank">#archivalResearch</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://onequeerlibrarian.com/tag/archives/" target="_blank">#archives</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://onequeerlibrarian.com/tag/artificial-intelligence/" target="_blank">#artificialIntelligence</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://onequeerlibrarian.com/tag/ethics/" target="_blank">#ethics</a>

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