Hello, GHC leadership, I m very sorry I had to leave the Annual Meeting early; I know doing so is disruptive and rather rude. I had an important matter to look after at home. I did want to share my thoughts... Read more Open letter to Group Health Cooperative
So yesterday I gave the second iteration of my talk about privacy and surveillance in and around libraries. I ve been so pleased and so humbled by the question-and-answer sessions afterward, and I really owe Sarah Lamdan a drink or ten... Read more How do you solve a problem like library privacy?
I m teaching a new-to-me course this fall under a topics number, What Is Information Science? Today I stopped my mental hamster running around in circles screaming this is an impossible remit, there is no answer to this question and there... Read more A generative-AI class policy(ish)
Copied from my intro course. Feel free not to agree with me but when you see a good cover letter from a just-graduated student, do think of me with kindness. Here s what I d add [to our school s career toolkit], based... Read more Snarky and opinionated advice on cover letters in the information professions
I have been having a time of it in the Opposing the Bullshit Machines space lately. I ve signed off peer reviewing for a journal whose editor-in-chief wanted me to ethicswash generative AI use in research and teaching, which I simply... Read more I do not use it, Leo Lo!
I am frustrated by credulous librarian discourse about AI, and I just made my frustration IFLA s problem. If you would also like to express your frustration to IFLA, read on. IFLA recently published a draft for comment of a Toolkit... Read more Resolved: Libraries should oppose the bullshit machines
Early fall 2023, I got an email from a campus official informing me that one of my students had been enrolled in a pilot learning-analytics project called LAVA. Neither student nor I had been vouchsafed any choice in this matter.... Read more When we fight, sometimes we win
After three rounds of peer review, one rejection, and many hours of revisions and fixes (pro tip: if you have an appendix full of citations, keep it in a separate document from your main paper so Zotero doesn t leave stuff... Read more Data Ethics in Library Learning Analytics is out
Libraries across the Universities of Wisconsin rolled out a new remember-what-you-checked-out service today. You know what? They re doing it pretty much the way I d want them to. Given that I am a privacy hawk s privacy hawk who s been pretty mad... Read more Well done, UW Libraries!
I was digging through past eras of my digital life for files old enough to be interesting to run through the file-format-identification tool DROID, in service of an assignment I m building for Digital Curation and Collections. (Ah, the glamorous life... Read more A paper from the librarian as a library-school student