Abigail Goben

@hedgielib@glammr.us and @dsalo@digipres.club are pleased to annnounce that IMLS has awarded us a $290,116 3-year Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant to conduct Valid or Void: Critically Evaluating Technology Trends for Academic Library Adoption. @ValidOrVoid@glammr.us

We will investigate academic-library leader decision making to build a tool to support evidence-based technology evaluation and adoption.

This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services RE-259930-OLS.

RE: @dsalo@digipres.club

Hey...look at what I'm starting :D

So, normally I don't like to point to specific survey instruments because the problems are endemic across the discipline.

But this one is problematic to the point that someone needs to reach out to this student and help them understand human subject research ethics.

https://www.reddit.com/r/librarians/comments/1wc9xed/mlis_student_looking_for_library_workers_for/

I am not on reddit but if you are on the state library association they are expecting to speak at next month or at whatever SLIS program they are in and can reach out to help kindly educate, please do.

I use Tusky on my phone to access Mastodon and that has a multi-user option.

I.... set up whatever Tweetdeck-like appearance I have going on in my browser for my primary glammr.us account. I honestly have no memory of doing this.

Does anyone know how I turn this into a multi account because I need to track 3 accounts now.

Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/librarians-are-hosting-viral-avoiding-ai-workshops-for-people-who-are-fed-up-with-big-tech/

Today's "anonymous" survey demographics

MLS y/n
Year Graduated
Number of Libraries worked in since graduation
Years at current job
Year of Birth
Institution FTE
Carnegie Classification
Public/Private
State
Primary Job Area
Tenure y/n
Rank
Year of Last Promotion

Y'all I'm not sure there's an academic librarian in the country I couldn't identify with all of those details.

Megan Sapp Nelson and @hedgielib@glammr.us are thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a $187,554 two-year Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to conduct Missing the Middle: Identifying Structural Issues Facing Mid-Career Librarians.

@missingthemiddle@glammr.us

It took 2 hours in the Extreme Air Conditioning in my library but I'm finally cold.

Chicago is thickly humid and the outside of the building windows are foggy with condensation.

The building inside is still humid--even with the AC. So I'm not sure if I should put on my office jacket or if I should just go outside for 7 seconds.

FYI -- I have emailed the Actual Karen Schneider about the proliferation of fake accounts for her that are popping up. She's looking into it.

If you've been following "Today in survey demographics" -- I'm giving an update on the data/instruments I've gathered so far next week:

https://www.asist.org/meetings-events/webinars/lis-survey-demographics/

The people who care are having the hardest time

https://mailchi.mp/rawsignal/the-people-who-care-are-having-the-hardest-time

We're having conversations at my institution about GenAI Use for scholarship . Here are some questions and thoughts I've had.

What Guidance Do We Give Junior Colleagues & Peers on use of AI?

http://hedgehoglibrarian.com/2026/05/04/what-guidance-do-we-give-junior-colleagues-peers-on-use-of-ai/

Good morning especially to the DataDoubles team because our end of project White Paper is helping me quickly get a new administrator up to speed on why I have about 3000 exclamation points in any conversation related to student data.

Governing Intelligence: Universities, Algorithmic Power, and the Ethics of Inequality

https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/132651924/Governing_Intelligence-libre.pdf

Cites #DataDoubles

"All responses will be confidential and no personal identifying information or IP addresses will be collected"

Let's see if we agree. The recruitment email tells us that there will be 10 demographic questions, so I already have an eyebrow raised in advance.

How many years as librarian (range)
How many years at current job (range)
Tenure Track / Rank

Then at the end of the survey additionally:
Gender
Race
Hispanic y/n
Carnegie Classification

(Also not Dean and yes academic lib)

Today's survey demographics

*Exact Job Title
* Other people with these job duties y/n (points at institution size)
* Degrees You Hold
* Years since most recent degree

Oh and it had flipped Likerts -- some with positive on right; other questions with positive on the left

New Earthworks and LIDAR

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10835-7

Do AI Scribes Actually Save Doctors Time? | MedPage Today

https://www.medpagetoday.com/hospitalbasedmedicine/workforce/120606

Not really-- the study finds it means they can squeeze in more appointments about 1 every two weeks.

It's just increasing their workload.

How to Spot an AI-generated Fake Pattern https://www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/how-to-spot-ai-fake-pattern/

Scientists' biographies may demotivate, not inspire, children to study science https://phys.org/news/2026-07-scientists-biographies-demotivate-children-science.html

For my colldev people.

More evidence Mars once had water emerges from old Spirit rover data https://phys.org/news/2026-07-evidence-mars-emerges-spirit-rover.html

Medical artificial intelligence (AI) models hold the promise to improve global access to high-quality diagnostics1. However, the training data underlying these models often contain sensitive patient i

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10688-0

New editorial from Rebecca and me!

We looked at whether libraries were giving their faculty credit in P&T norms for evidence synthesis. Most are silent on the topic.

This is labor intensive interdisciplinary scholarship that needs to be recognized, documented, and rewarded -- while also recognizing that librarians need space to do / lead their own scholarship.

https://jmla.pitt.edu/ojs/jmla/article/view/2202

Pour one out for your data librarians today, who just watched years of work get entirely upended.

Had the pleasure of writing with @IandPangurBan@glammr.us PangurBan again! Here we lay out relationship building in data management librarianship.

Thank you to ResearchDataQ for the platform!

It Looks Like I’m Just Drinking Coffee: Relationship Building in Data Management

https://researchdataq.org/editorials/it-looks-like-im-just-drinking-coffee-relationship-building-in-data-management/

Medical Board Wants AI Doctor Program 'Immediately Suspended' | MedPage Today

https://www.medpagetoday.com/practicemanagement/informationtechnology/120995

"Among the 309 articles, more than half (183 articles, 59%) contain either at least five tortured phrases or a single blatantly tortured one (e.g., ‘artificial brainpower’ instead of ‘artificial intelligence’). If we broaden the scope to include all articles with at least one tortured phrase, the proportion rises to 79% (245 out of 309 articles)."

How a Tortured Conference Becomes a Series: An Analysis of Conference Manipulations
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11363742

Search Data Privacy in Academic Libraries: Qualitative Perspectives of Members of Marginalized Groups | Gariepy | College & Research Libraries

https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/27129/34978

Yale Uni having a 50% off sale.....

They surveyed about Librarian participation in IRB and only ask about literature review?

I serve on my biomedical IRB and it has little to do with the lit review -- it's about my expertise related to data management and where data is being shared, repository usage, etc. More recently I'm the data/AI re-identification Cassandra.

This is an extremely narrow and disappointing view by the author of how librarians actually contribute to IRBs

https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/27305/35103

I have stopped reading past the headlines of emails from NFCDD so many times they are offering to take me off of their mailing list

RE: @hedgielib@glammr.us

Today it has updated to about every 3rd time I open Outlook on my phone.

American Red Cross declares national emergency as blood supply runs low https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/american-red-cross-blood-shortage-national-emergency-donations-b3023303.html

TINYCAT SWAG

TinyCat 10th Birthday Hunt | LibraryThing

https://www.librarything.com/hunt/43

College professors face an emerging challenge: We know students are no longer reading entire books https://phys.org/news/2026-07-college-professors-emerging-students-longer.html

Okay so annual conference locations/nose counts are here

https://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/past-and-future/pastannualconferences

But does anyone know where the archived list of conference presentations is?

MIT to Become Hotbed of AI Video Surveillance

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/mit-to-become-hotbed-of-ai-video-surveillance.html

H/t @hypervisible@mastodon.social

The Secret Sacred: Mystery Cults in Ancient Greece and Rome, Stone

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo258381763.html