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'If shared facts depend on institutional stability, then protecting public data is not a technical concern. It is a civic obligation.

When the reference shelf goes dark, the response cannot be resignation. It must be stewardship.'

https://www.slj.com/story/Librarians-Must-step-Up-Data-Disappears

Pascal Quach 1d ago

Ever since my PhD contract has ended last month, I have been going through my personal project backlog, including this very Mastodon account and actually making progress on my personal website.

Yesterday, I was thinking what to do about my Goodreads account when I discovered @bookwyrm and by proxy @OpenLibrary and @inventaire ! Obviously, I am now on bookwyrm.social.

Because my Goodreads shelves are a mess, many of my books can't be imported automatically, including some japanese light novels and web serials. The latter, I've never really bothered to track outside of dedicated websites (novelupdates, ao3, fanfiction.net) because of how difficult it is.

Big question for people in the know and #librarians, is there a database of web serials or am I doomed to add my books manually (or programmatically)?

#bookwyrm #openlibrary #inventaireio

Vickie Hinkley 2d ago

#LuanneJAMES #LIBRARIANS #KEEPERSoftheFLAME #RUTHERFORDCountyTN #BoardMembers <<< #WRONG

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3mievdgrdx22d

beSpacific 2d ago

LLRX March 2026 Issue - https://www.llrx.com.
Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law; AI in Discovery: Some Tools Are Ready. Others Are Not; How to Spot AI Hallucinations; Prompt Catalog for Artificial Intelligence; When Your Biggest Client Starts Eating Your Firm; Weekly highlights on cyber security issues; AI in Finance and Banking https://www.llrx.com#law #legalresearch #AI #lawyers #librarians #research #publichealth #ruleoflaw #lawlibrarians

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BobDevney 3d ago

@mia
@ScottEdelman

Hahaha! Great share!

Though as an especial fan of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, I note that many of the authors so commemorated have committed SF/F/ H.

But in those genres, the list may not go far enough.

After all, Orson Scott Cart, Isaac Asimove, Scoot Edelman, Lois McCaster Bujold, Chad Trolliver, Elizabeth Handcart, and J. K. Rolling were RIGHT THERE ...

#Librarians #Writers #Humor #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror

Boldly.Blue 4d ago

https://boldly.blue/onegrain
Literary Titan Award winner. Dystopian SF that burns slow and lands hard. Order today.

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#sciencefiction #literature #books #booklovers #librarians #bookstore

One Grain of Sand - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author

Buy One Grain of Sand today with links to all major global retailers, in all formats! You deserve a book that rocks your world!

David Somerfleck

Boldly.Blue 4d ago

Dystopian Fantasy: When the Dark Kingdom Is the System
https://boldly.blue/dystopian-fantasy-when-the-dark-kingdom-is-the-system/
When fantasy's dark kingdom is not a castle on a hill but a bureaucracy, a corporation, or an ideology that has eaten the world, something genuinely new is being written. This post examines the emerging genre fusion of dystopia and fantasy.
#DystopianFiction #Fantasy #GenreFusion #SpeculativeFiction #WorldBuilding
#fantasybooks #librarians

Dystopian Fantasy: When the Dark Kingdom Is the System - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author

Tolkien's Mordor is a fully realized industrial dystopia — smokestacks, slave labor, ecological devastation, a surveillance tower that sees everything. China Miéville, N.K. Jemisin, and Ursula Le Guin have all built dystopian systems inside fantastical worlds. This post examines what fantasy's relationship to myth and archetype adds to dystopian dread that science fiction cannot.

David Somerfleck