@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-01-16 21:29:32
"Library Futures: Information Literacy in the Age of GenAi: my slides, notes, and an addendum"
https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/12/22/library-futures-information-literacy-in-the-age-of-genai…
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org2025-12-16 06:13:29
"The very first question to be considered is the applicability of the Copyright Law to the Moon. "
Thinking ahead (in 1952) about interplanetary copyrights :). if aliens have "Two Heads, Two Authors?"
really fun, worth reading.
ht…
@edintone@mastodon.green2025-10-17 06:56:11
Library is Rescuing Historical Treasures Trapped on Old Floppy Disks from the ‘Digital Dark Ages’ https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/library-is-rescuing-historical-treasures-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks-from-the-digital-d…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-15 02:47:08
The American Library Association (ALA) has touted a "massive win"
after previously revoked federal funding for libraries and museums was reinstated nationwide.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
announced on Wednesday it had
"reinstated all federal grants,"
8 months after an executive order from Donald Trump kick-started a firestorm
at the agency that supports the nation’s libraries.
Most of IMLS' staff, and i…
@eyebee@mstdn.social2025-12-16 13:36:14
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2025-11-17 08:16:32
"Can Academic Libraries Lead the Quantum Revolution?" https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/can-libraries-lead-the-quantum-revolution
– Herjeh, um was sollen wir uns denn noch alles kümmern…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-17 02:00:03
software_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
Several networks of software dependencies. Nodes represent libraries and a directed edge denotes a library dependency on another.
This network has 838 nodes and 3088 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/…
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2025-11-15 11:58:48
The Censorship Battle I’ve Been Fighting Against A Suburban Chicago Library https://thedissenter.org/censorship-battle-fighting-suburban-chicago-library/
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-12-16 11:38:08
@borkdude, in your 'scittle with additional libraries' files, you have, for each file in the library, a line
SHADOW_ENV.evalLoad( <filename>, <boolean>, <???>);
where ??? is a string of JS source code with some punctuation replaced by hex codes.
The second last line appears to invoke the file itself (recursively!?!), and the last is always
SHADOW_ENV.evalLoad("shadow.module.<filename>.append.js", false, <???>);
Wha…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-01-16 21:10:09
"The way, the deep – a new poem for the profession" – "a new poem celebrating the information, knowledge management and #library professions"!
https://cilip.org.uk/ne…