If I were still working in institutional repositories, I think a business I'd want to get into is "research project websites." Like Project InfoLit. Because we KNOW those have expiration dates. Wouldn't it be hugely cleaner if the outputs were already in the IR and we could just decommission the accompanying website chrome?

IR librarians, web archivists: tell me somebody's grabbing a copy of this for long-term preservation, please. https://projectinfolit.org/

Fuck AI bros. https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/

Shot, chaser. (The slide is about eight months old. Our Workday implementation is ten days live.)

Library batsignal: Throw me examples of US public or school libraries reporting on individual minor patrons' information use (books or Internet) to their parents/guardians, either willingly or under (legal or other) duress? Asking for something I'm writing. A reasonably recent systematic survey of this phenomenon would be wizard if it exists.

Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy [LWN.net]

LWN.net

Libxml2

Libxml2, an XML parser and toolkit, is an almost perfect example of the successes and failures [...]

Hello yellow! My back yard this morning. #Florespondence

On the topic of "C&RL sure has been publishing some puzzlingly bad stuff lately," here is a KABOOM of a response well worth reading:

ACRLog - Blogging by and for academic and research librarians

Open Letter to CRL from the academic wing of #CripLib - ACRLog

Editor's note: We welcome a guest blog post from the academic librarians of #CripLib, which focuses on the intersection of disability and libr...

My thanks to the authors for this. It takes courage to do it at all, and significant skill and knowledge to do it as well as this.

Dear @npub18jrp...z02s: Brewster Kahle is not a librarian and does not speak for librarians. Stop pretending he does. Talk to ACTUAL LIBRARIANS, please.

Hey, so I finished The AI Con today. And, like, for people who have been paying a lot of attention, there isn't a lot in it that will be new. But there is a LOT that is extremely well-expressed in ways I am absolutely gonna reuse-with-credit. And I just wanna thank @Alex Hanna and @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) for the final-chapter shout-out to librarians. Yeah. Appreciated the respectful clueful non-stereotyped shout-out. A LOT.