Libraries as Epistemic Institutions

Most of my working days are spent on questions about systems: how the library supports student success, what faculty need for their research, and what our community will need from our library as AI reshapes the way people find information, process it, rea…

My first library staff role allowed me to focus on technology.

With August just around the corner, it feels like summer is already wrapping up and the excitement of a new academic year is just ahead.

For most of libraries’ history, the value of a library was easy to see.

This summer has been off to a good start!

I’ve been thinking about the individual experience of students who become scholars through repeated acts of recognition, and the necessity of scale.

We’ve been there before, or we’ve known students who have been there: the student that arrives on campus, looks at the library, and isn’t sure where to begin or whether they belong.

One of the biggest challenges for libraries telling their story is that the library means something different depending on who’s in the room.

When I started blogging, I was in library school.

AI doesn’t create the knowledge gap, but it has made it harder to ignore.

There’s something genuinely strange about this moment for libraries.

There are two camps in most AI conversations, and by now you probably know which one is yours.