Hedgehog Librarian

About a year ago I was invited to give a lecture designed to spark critical thinking in graduate students when considering using generative AI and other tools that had started applying the “artificial intelligence” label in order to seem shiny and new.

It is a perennial annoyance that librarians get to wake up to yet another overly confident editorial — or heavily biased survey paper — asserting that we should just get rid of the MLS and that would solve all hiring problems in librarianship or us being…

In my sphere there have started being a number of new conversations about use of GenAI in the use of scholarship and how that will impact assessment for promotion and tenure.

The ALA spring elections have just opened and I’d like to offer my recommendation in one particular race: please vote for Yasmeen Shorish for ACRL President.

To listen to the generative AI enthusiasts and vendors with exclamation riddled decks, you would think that every boring and mundane task was now easily handled, freeing me up to lead that mythical life of a librarian — you know, the one who gets to read…

“It is exhausting being of the Old Faith — where you wanted to know the source of the material you were reading and perhaps how to critically evaluate it.” — Letter from Me to DD* When we study history — at least as a child studying history– I often wonde…

This is an incomplete thought that I bounced off of Andromeda and Kristin recently.

Like many academic institutions, my university has announced that we now have a contract with Microsoft Co-Pilot.

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a mid career faculty member who passed her full professor review and survived the NIH DMP rollout might look around and go, okay well, now what?

I’ve been asked to write up what my concerns are with the Medical Library Association (MLA) speaker agreements.

This post is a write up and expansion of a short presentation I recently gave at the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship Online Conference.