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A Celebration of Ray Bradbury — recording of an event from the Library of America with Connie Willis, Kelly Link, Jonathan R. Eller, and Gary K. Wolfe:
https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/2164-a-celebration-of-ray-bradbury

#RayBradbury #writers #SF #Bookstodon @bookstodon

A Celebration of Ray Bradbury | Library of America

@nick @patrascan @AnnieTheBook @bookstodon @libraries @librarians

Do you remember any vague geographical clues? (Russian sounding names, or the setting being distinctly european, for example)

Can you elaborate how the book was like, physically speaking?

Bit of a shot in the dark but Raymond Carver's short story "A Small, Good Thing" from Cathedral sorta maybe fills the criteria given (and is a solid recommendation regardless)

Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement

Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, and Richard Kadrey are suing OpenAI and Meta over violation of their copyrighted books. The trio says their works were pulled from illegal “shadow libraries” without their consent.

The Verge
Quite naturally, holders of power wish to suppress wild research. Unrestricted questing after knowledge has a long history of producing unwanted competition.

I love that the library tells me how much I am saving by using them. This week I am at $113.77 saved. My local library at home should do that on their receipts.

#library #read #books #bookstodon

@bookstodon

After several "I miss #networking, that's why I want to go to #conferences in person" plaints, I realized that the sort of semi-random networking that I do at conferences is what I get on my professional social media. What are people working on, what have they found interesting, who have they been reading, etc. But, at least for me, better, because it's not just whoever makes to that conference or who I happen to run into. (Also, introvert, so the social appeal is lower.) @academicchatter

@EdwardTheDuck @bookstodon Oh ya! Literally thousand and thousands of books in The Video Game Library.

Browse around! Hope you discover something cool:

https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/

@armp71 @arinbasu1 @academicchatter @dhruvasambrani

Not useful for our OP, alas, but regarding research posters in general: Have you come across the Better Research Poster?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RwJbhkCA58
(Skip to about 11.40 or so if you're in a rush and you'll get just about everything.)

I personally find it really good. Have a few dozen of these in a poster session and it would massively improve things, particularly if you use the QR-code-to-preprint idea.

How to create a better research poster in less time (#betterposter Generation 1)

YouTube

What's interesting about the research is not just the financial value it shows for what we know libraries do well, but how it reinforces the fact that the impact of these different areas - digital inclusion, health and well being, children's literacy - are all connected in many ways.

Only Public Libraries can provide this integrated approach:
"Services & resources for living, and for living better" as one of the library users said

#libraries
@libraries @ukpubliclibraries