Yesterday's webinar for public library workers is now viewable on YouTube! https://youtu.be/q-uuGdGarn0?si=IZkaaJJcdz9Li0bw

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Timeline cleanse: celebrate 150 years of the American Library Association! https://youtu.be/v5L_7MB8G3c?si=Hd4Ww5K4BjUAel7g

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Thrilled to announce an online lecture by Indiana U. Prof. & CBI Research Fellow Rachel Plotnick "Computers are a Mess: What Hygiene Can Bring to the History of Computing." Wed., Feb. 11, '26, 1 pm Central.

#technology #science #history #STS #mediastudies #communication #informationscience

Via Zoom

Register:
https://umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/JJKMQZsBRu600TVICxQHBg#/registration

There's nothing quite like a deadline for getting me to actually make a mass of data into something more readable...

Aka somehow I need to make the family tree info easier to convey to the rest of the family... Activate the library degree!!

#Geneology #FamilyTree #InformationScience

@steltenpower @OpenSciTwente it is also great because you can snapshot the software used in the experiments to recreate them, to test with other versions, etc.

This is true to proper #informationscience , #infosec and there fore #science, IMHO.

As 2026 peeks over the horizon, we'd like to take a moment to reflect back on the past year, including the 20+ books we published: http://tinyurl.com/49d8vf8d

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JOB: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Information, Culture & Society at the School of Information Sciences.
The call is for scholars at the intersection of information, culture, politics, and knowledge practices — including history, art history, history of science/technology, philosophy, visual & material culture, and digital humanities.
Application deadline: December 15, 2025
https://illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/15536?c=illinois&sq=1033554
#InformationScience #DigitalHumanities #CultureAndTechnology @nca

”The revolution is no longer theoretical. I believe libraries should be at its center.” | Seth M. Porter via Katina Magazine https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/can-libraries-lead-the-quantum-revolution #QuantumComputing #informationscience #MLIS #libraries

Even before the introduction of ChatGPT, big tech developed a technology to automatically transcribe speech, detect characters in photos, and detect copyrighted music. Now with generative AI, real-time censorship is possible on a grand scale.

https://www.404media.co/ai-is-supercharging-the-war-on-libraries-education-and-human-knowledge/

#censorship #generativeAI #libraries #informationscience

Here is a first glance at the CNI Fall Meeting program:

Kate Zwaard, CNI Executive Director, will start with an overview of how the community will shape the future CNI. She'll be followed by Ben Lee, assistant professor at the University of Washington and founder of the Lab for Computing #CulturalHeritage, who will overview #AI and #ML in the #libraries and #InformationScience context.

This will be followed by a collection of project briefings: https://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2025/project-briefings-f25

More details to come!

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This is a further excerpt from my response to the LIS Forward paper. It considers some of the history and contours of the informational disciplines – information science, LIS, library studies. It notes the ongoing blurriness of identity, nomenclature and boundaries.

Lorcan Dempsey, Oct 22, 2025, 20 min read

This is an excerpt from a longer contribution I made to Responses to the LIS Forward Position Paper: Ensuring a Vibrant Future for LIS in iSchools. [pdf].

It is a sketch only, and somewhat informal, but I thought I would put it here in case of interest. It occasionally references the position paper, and the longer piece of which it is a part. It is also influenced by the context in which it was prepared which was a discussion of the informational disciplines and the iSchool in R1 institutions.

This section could of course be much expanded in a fuller treatment. It is striking to me how much LIS and Information Science can still reference different intellectual, disciplinary or institional boundaries depending on context.

If you wish to reference it, I would be grateful if you cite the full original:
Dempsey, L. (2025). Library Studies, the Informational Disciplines, and the iSchool: Some Remarks Prompted by LIS Forward. In LIS Forward (2025) Responses to the LIS Forward Position Paper: Ensuring a Vibrant Future for LIS in iSchools, The Friday Harbor Papers, Volume 2 pdf

This informational diffusion has given the iSchool great latitude and it can accommodate a great diversity of disciplinary lenses – from the very technical, to the social sciences and humanities, to design, to marketing and communication, to public policy, to critical theory, and so on. The Deans’ interviews suggest that this is at once a great strength and a potential weakness, as the iSchool does not have exclusive ownership of a foundational discipline, but rather a multidisciplinary focus on a hard to define phenomenon. Furthermore, this phenomenon has become an object of study in many other disciplines also. 

In this section I discuss the informational disciplines (sic), LIS and Information Science, and conclude with some comments about Library Studies, LIS and the iSchool.

Informational disciplines

Library studies

First, here is a brief note on LS. Buckland (2005) traces the emergence of ‘library science’ to Martin Schrettinger in the early 19th century. The first American library school was opened by Melvil Dewey at Columbia in 1887. Unsurprisingly, a central focus of each of these figures is organization of the collection.

In general, the ‘library school’ has not been a story of optimism and growth. Some closed. Many changed their name to lose ‘library.’ Some were merged into other schools or departments, with various disciplinary emphases.

There is now some variety of provision across types of university and disciplinary configuration. It is common within iSchools who have a library focus to use the term LIS.

Information science(s)

What is Information Science or the Information Sciences? It seems to me that one can identify two very provisional emphases here to help scaffold a discussion. The first is in terms of the emergence of Information Science in the mid twentieth century, with a set of shared concerns, intellectual and personal influences, and professional venues. I label this Information Science Classic in this section, and this is what I usually mean when talking about Information Science (IS). The second is more generic, as Information Science or Information Sciences (or Informatics) is used as a designation of convenience for an academic interest in a range of information-related topics, with or without any specific reference to or acknowledgement of Information Science Classic. We see this emphasis in various places, including in some of the iSchools with non-Library Studies backgrounds (see Cornell or Penn State for example). This may sometimes be used to designate an applied technology focus with more of a social or business dimension than you might typically find in Computer Science.

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I'm going to give a small community talk about #knowledge : what it is. I'm speaking from an anthropological perspective. Curious to hear from the fedi community ... What big ideas would you want to include in such a talk? What core theories or intellectuals? How would you answer the question from your discipline? #anthropology #academicChatter #humanitiesandsocialsciences #socialScience #actuallyAutistic #histodons #information #informationScience

Das neue Programm für das #BBK im Wintersemester 2025/26 steht! 🙌
Wir freuen uns auf tolle Vorträge, spannende Diskussionen und viiiiiele Teilnehmende. Bis auf die Podiumsdiskussion am letzten Termin finden alle Vorträge online via Zoom statt.

Alle Infos zu den Terminen sind wie immer hier zu finden: https://hu.berlin/bbk

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Our new books address such urgent professional issues as AI management, student volunteer empowerment, and trauma-informed service. You’ll also find resources to strengthen digital literacy, improve workplace well-being, and explore critical approaches to information literacy. https://alastore.ala.org/FW26catalog

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Creating a library leadership program is within reach! Complete with a plethora of customizable forms, templates, and tools that you can modify to suit your own needs, this book offers a roadmap: https://alastore.ala.org/fromLtoL

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In a new podcast, Dr. Nicole A. Cooke talks about the important legacy of black women in #librarianship and how the profession can become ever more diverse and community centered: https://circulatingideas.com/2025/09/02/296-the-legacy-of-black-women-in-librarianship-when-they-dared-to-be-powerful-by-nicole-a-cooke/

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Sehr interessante Keynote von Clarisse Bardiot beim #DraCorSummit u.a. zu Ontologies für Performing Arts. Hab da gerade einiges neues gelernt und werd mir das ein oder andere mal genauer anschauen.

Z.B. https://linked.art
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Circulating Ideas chats with Michael Hanegan and Chris Rosser about why librarians should play a central role in shaping an ethical future of AI. https://circulatingideas.com/2025/08/20/295-generative-ai-and-libraries-by-michael-hanegan-and-chris-rosser/

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Now shipping! A must-have resource for every school librarian’s shelf, this guidebook offers practical advice in a friendly, conversational tone on an incredible breadth of topics rooted in AASL best practices. Both new and experienced school librarians will feel like they’re getting guidance from a trusted friend or mentor. https://alastore.ala.org/slgtae

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