Today book sales data from NPD BookScan heavily influences who and what gets published. Yet the data is flawed & basically inaccessible to anyone beyond the publishing industry For Public Books, I wrote about why that's a big problem publicbooks.org/where-is-all-t…

⏪ 2022 rewind: Photographs, to-do lists, airplane tickets and quirky drawings by children are some of the lost and forgotten items in library books carefully collected for years by a librarian in California

‘It’s easy to look at public library services and see how a lack of data, and specifically open data, is holding back the sector’. More really interesting food for thought from ⁦@librarieshacked⁩, thanks for sharing. #libraries #opendata blog.librarydata.uk/advocating-for…

Little collection of works published by members of the Milieux Institute.

Mini little library photo-dump in preparation for hosting a workshop on Saturday on 'Curating Nostalgia'. So excited! The Nostagain Network TAG Research Lab

My personal library, guarded by Lester the Lobster and Kura the Kiwibird

A lawsuit against Internet Archive is threatening the future of 4 million digital books—as well as libraries' digital rights nationwide. Take action now: battleforlibraries.com/?source=twitte… #DigitalRightsForLibraries

More little libraries! A collection of books collected & found, housed on these little shelves.

When talking about commons and commonly shared spaces, the internet is an obvious one, but for how much longer? Graduate student ElenaRowan will guide us through a discussion on archiving the internet and activists fighting privatization on Sept 28: milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-arc…

For grad student Elena Rowan, the Internet Archive offers more than just a trip down memory lane. “For scholarly work and nostalgia researchers, it's a treasure trove of goodies.” Learn more about Rowan’s research in our latest post: blog.archive.org/2023/10/23/gra…

Hey! It's Open Access Week! We believe in equitable access to information every day, but this is the week when we get to celebrate how open culture benefits us all. openaccessweek.org

❓Ever wonder why it's so hard to leave social media platforms? Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK unveils the strategy behind the impossible disconnection in his latest book, "The Internet Con." Join us for an eye-opening discussion on #Interoperability at next week's book talk: eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-th…

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So excited to be heading to New York to attend the Library Futures @NYUengelberg event Exploring the Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy! Can't wait to learn more about this important issue affecting libraries everywhere. can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…