This is the handout for the Greater Victoria Public Library... All pointing readers to private oligarch social media data extraction companies and no mention of the Fediverse or Mastodon.

Shall we all change that? Board member Gord Newton [email protected]
and CAO Maureen Sawa: [email protected]

Let's get our public libraries onto public social media spaces... and off extractive corporate platforms. @FrostyNoon @dbwillows @Rollingpurplezen @SarahFrumento @mlabotterell

New to me, great article. #scholarlycommunication

Now I need to figure out why getting scholars on the Fediverse is such a slog. I’m doing a lightning talk next week to academic librarians in #Alberta

Mastodon over Mammon: towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge | Royal Society Open Science | The Royal Society https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/10/7/230207/91987/Mastodon-over-Mammon-towards-publicly-owned

Librarian job opening at York University (Toronto), in Research and Scholarly Communications. Deadline 15 May.

Work will include research visibility, research data management, OA publishing, research impact, plus some subject teaching and consultations.

Salary range: $110–$130,000 CAD. Unionized. Any questions about York University Libraries, I'm glad to try to answer.

https://www.yorku.ca/vpepc/faculty-affairs/wp-content/uploads/sites/698/2026/04/LIB_RSCL.pdf

#YorkU #LibraryJobs

Appropriation, Indigenous knowledge, and generative AI

https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70081

We have some of the strongest UV-A/B in the world here, thanks to an unfortunately aligned hole in the Ozone, so we have to have regular checkups

I went in for my yearly and they proudly announced a new "revolutionary AI" mole-mapping checkup which scans the full body and stores it in "the cloud", using "reasonable means" to secure data.

"You're going to love it"

"Unfortunately I already don't. I just want an experienced skin doc with a magnifying glass"

"Sorry, we don't do that anymore"