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Dean Giustini

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UBC biomed librarian, searching, indexing, opera in Vancouver BC KS & AI Wiki wiki.ubc.ca/Knowledge_Synthesis_(KS… #medlibs

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Jay et al. Moving towards acceleration with accountability: a conceptual framework for AI-assisted systematic reviews. Global Epidemiology. 2026 Aug 19:100282. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... My summary: AI "efficiencies" do not confer scientific credibility
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Moving towards acceleration with accountability: a conceptual framework for AI-assisted systematic reviews
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being rapidly integrated into systematic review workflows, yet its impact on methodological rigor, transparency, and r…
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Happy first day of school, Calgary! Remember:
Cartoon of Prometheus and the eagle with the caption "Every day is a fresh start"
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42574208/ re: Literature Searching and AI pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42574208/ Not sure I agree with the esteemed authors in @jama.com
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Alexandra #Eala records her SIXTH top 10 win of the season, beating Elina Svitolina, and sets the tennis court alight with her incredible talent .....and her heart of gold 💛 #WTA #AlexEala #MubadalaDCOpen
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Automated indexing in MEDLINE (scoping review). Happy to chat about any of the topics. Skip to the good part(s)! #medlibs jmla.mlanet.org/ojs/jmla/art...
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
BC Nurses - Job Action, July 8th Re: the UBC Biomedical Branch Library at VGH and the Diamond Centre is closed until further notice. Feel free to slip into dms or via email dean.giustini@ubc.ca Hours updates for the library can be viewed here: hours.library.ubc.ca#view-biomedi...
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Remembering Keith Bunnell (KB) (1951-2026): UBC reference and collections librarian. He was a dear friend, colleague, one of the first librarians I came to know from the time I arrived in Vancouver as an 18 year old. His memory is a blessing. padlet.com/dean_giustin...
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Remembering Keith Bunnell (KB) (1951-2026):
dear friend, colleague, UBC reference and collections librarian (please leave a photo, a memory or story below)
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
♥️
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Incredible goal by Canada's Stephen Eustáquio🇨🇦, from Leamington, Ontario. If you want to do something legendary, score for your country in the last minutes of the elimination round of #FIFAWorldCup 2026. Thrilling!
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Interesting paper. Information retrieval will always collapse with the gradual distortion towards AI slop, even with iterative "deep" data fixes. Many of the insights in this 2026 arXiv paper are worth considering in the context of RAG-powered AI arxiv.org/abs/2602.16136 github.com/dongchankim-...
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Retrieval Collapses When AI Pollutes the Web
The rapid proliferation of AI-generated content on the Web presents a structural risk to information retrieval, as search engines and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems increasingly consume ...
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Automated indexing - 61,717 Artificial intelligence glossary 57,383 Elicit.com 44,737 Search Tools Used in Literature Reviews and Comprehensive Searching 44,717 AI Copyright Lawsuits 39,498 Perplexity 37,787 Open Evidence 37,026 Artificial intelligence (AI) 35,971 1/2 wiki.ubc.ca/User:DeanGiu...
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User:DeanGiustini - UBC Wiki
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Consider contributing a small amount in memory of our wonderful friend, mentor, teacher, Ronald Hagler. A Ronald Hagler Prize will be given to a librarian or archivist pursuing a career in cataloguing, metadata creation or book history. Read more here / quote from me: ischool.ubc.ca/news/in-hono...
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In Honour of Dr. Ronald Albert Hagler: Supporting the Next Generation of Scholars - School of Information
Professor Emeritus Dr. Ronald Albert Hagler taught at UBC School of Information from 1961 to 1999. Dr. Hagler was a deeply respected scholar, educator and mentor who inspired many cohorts of students ...
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
1,000,000 views. Yup, one (1) million. wiki.ubc.ca/Knowledge_Sy... Don't let anyone tell you "No, it can't be done that way"
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This platform .... hasn't really panned out that well, or the way I had hoped. I remember the halcyon days of promoting microblogging, lol Ah well. There's always linkedin.com
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
How are researchers using AI to perform / supplement traditional GL searching? "...Such approaches are generally intended to complement traditional grey literature search methods rather than replace them. AI tools may be particularly useful where..." wiki.ubc.ca/Artificial_i...
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Moltbook is a new Artificial intelligence (AI)-only social network... URL: www.moltbook.com Purpose: A platform where software agents post, comment, and vote creating discussions that resemble human activity. I consider the implications of this new social network here: wiki.ubc.ca/Moltbook
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moltbook - the front page of the agent internet
A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
In our automated indexing review we recommend librarians up their game (including me) re: "Vector-based searching and vector embeddings" wiki.ubc.ca/Vector-based... NLM's MTIX algorithm uses vector embeddings to convert words, phrases & documents into numeric representations before indexing...🤔
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Vector-based searching and embeddings - UBC Wiki
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Our scoping review on MEDLINE indexing manuscript was submitted yesterday but I was able to generate a handy infographic via #Copilot @Copilot based on abstract. 🗂️ Note sections on searching: implications for librarians and #algorithmic effects in #MEDLINE #medlibs
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I'll ADD "Less AI, More Human-In-The-Loop Models". 👨‍👨‍👧 OK, more health sciences librarians (and other librarians) in the loop, also. I may try to put into practice more "LOUD SINGING" 🤣
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Reporting guidelines in medicine in the AI era! Here's CHART 2025 and summarized on my wiki: wiki.ubc.ca/Chatbot_Asse... CHART is "...designed for studies that evaluate generative-AI chatbots when used to summarize clinical evidence or to provide health advice"🍁 #librarians #medlibs
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Thanks to the convenors of the @medlibassn.bsky.social "Systematic Review Caucus" for hosting me. I think we had about 70 participants but here is the data from the two polls I adminstered during my presentation📚
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
"Which of the following (including experts) sources do you use primarily to stay current with AI developments in evidence synthesis?” ✒️MLA “Systematic Review” caucus 🗽Library Association webinars e.g., CHLA/ABSC, MLA 📕Aaron Tay aarontay.substack.com 🛟Key journals 🤣Other? Please comment, thanks!
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Three (3) years with emerg docs. But "mission accomplished"; hope it makes an impact 🥳 Cunningham, Bobrovitz, Shanmugaraj, Giustini D, Collins. Defining emergency physicians' consultative roles in emergency care: a scoping review. CJEM. 2025 Nov 3. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41182684/
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Defining emergency physicians' consultative roles in emergency care: a scoping review - PubMed
Emergency physicians assume multiple consultative roles within health systems. We define "consultative emergency medicine" as a core competency of emergency physicians focused on the provision of advice to other care providers on individual patient care or health services for conditions that require …
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Top twelve (12) Entries by "Most to Least Views: wiki.ubc.ca/User:DeanGiu... Knowledge Synthesis (KS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Related Topics... #artificial_intelligence #knowledge_synthesis
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
50+ entries on #knowledge_synthesis topics, #artificial_intelligence issues in libraries, and AI powered search tools such as #Elicit, #Undermind & @openevidence.bsky.social Amazing - 250,000 views in a short period. Browse for info: wiki.ubc.ca/User:DeanGiu...
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
"Why physicians need the counsel of a skilled medical librarian in the era of artificial intelligence (AI)". Oct2025. British Columbia Medical Journal By implementing interim measures, the CPSBC can mitigate Library’s closure & make a commitment to evidence-based care. bcmj.org/letters/why-...
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Why physicians need the counsel of a skilled medical librarian in the era of artificial intelligence
As a biomedical librarian with over 30 years of experience supporting British Columbian physicians, I want to highlight the critical role of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC Library and ad...
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Consensus.app is an AI-powered search tool using #Copilot based on LLM; ask a question, click on search, get an answer with bullet points / references to published papers. No fake citations—but summaries have errors. wiki.ubc.ca/Consensus Talk to your librarian folks about using other sources, too.
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
This open textbook (or wiki channel) is intended to help librarians and other information professionals learn about #AI. It is not, in itself, meant to be seen as promotion of #AI. 50 entries in 6 weeks; 125,000 views. Seems a hit.🎯 wiki.ubc.ca/Knowledge_Sy...
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Knowledge Synthesis (KS) & Artificial Intelligence (AI) Search Wiki 2025 - UBC Wiki
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Here comes ASTA — scholarly research assistant w/ coverage via corpus of 108M+ scholarly abstracts & 12M+ full text in Semantic Scholar. Initiative of Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) "to accelerate scientific discovery through trustworthy open-source agentic AI." Untested. wiki.ubc.ca/Asta_(agenti...
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Automated indexing wiki.ubc.ca/Automated_in... 🖊️NLM uses neural network technology to index MEDLINE 💹Since 2024, NLM has indexed millions of papers using AI ⤴️Tools such as Undermind.ai and Elicit.com will destabilize subject indexing, so I'm doing research proving that the latter is still needed.
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Automated indexing - UBC Wiki
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
"OCUL Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Survey August 2025" Kari Weaver, AI & Machine Learning, Program Manager - how to advance objectives & values of academic librarianship in AI era "to understand training needs of library workers in Ontario universities ..." ocul.on.ca/sites/defaul...
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Will Google Scholar survive the AI-powered bots? and AI-powered search tools? Time will tell. wiki.ubc.ca/Google_Scholar
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
#Automated_indexing may be performed using a range of computer-based methods, #algorithms (hence, the phrase algorithmic indexing), #natural_language_processing and even #artificial_intelligence (AI). Most library databases and indexes use some form of AI. wiki.ubc.ca/Automated_in...
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Automated indexing - UBC Wiki
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
OpenAI openai.com leads the AI space, but big Silicon Valley companies are developing new tools & experimenting with AI-powered academic search. Perhaps faculty or students are asking you to present these tools to classes? How can you keep your job while pushing back? wiki.ubc.ca/Artificial_i...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) literacy for librarians - UBC Wiki
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Is prompt engineering key in performing AI-based knowledge synthesis tasks? The value of a prompt may be worth exploring in AI-powered searching, where search tools employ retrieval augmented generation. AI search tools such as Undermind and Elicit assist searchers wiki.ubc.ca/Prompt_engin...
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Prompt engineering - UBC Wiki
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
The #MTIX (Medical Text Indexer neXt gen) is NLM's automated indexing / AI powered indexing system that uses #NeuralNetworks 🐧To know #MEDLINE in 2025, we must know more about AI & neural networks. 😇Here's the Knowledge Synthesis and AI wiki entry: wiki.ubc.ca/Neural_netwo...
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Giustini DM. (2025). Undermind.ai (product review). JCHLA/JABSC 46(2), 42–46. journals.library.ualberta.ca/jchla/index.... Undermind.ai is a useful tool for researchers delivering weighted relevant content when scoping topics for literature (& other) reviews. Performance is improving all the time.
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Undermind - Radically better research and discovery
Our AI assistant carefully reads hundreds of academic papers for you, finding exactly what you need, no matter how complex.
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Ethical concerns of AI for librarians: 📝Librarian values in major conflict w/ AI 📁Systemic bias, lack of fairness; 🔓 Privacy & data security issues; 🚫Intellectual property; copyright infringement 🚋Lack of transparency; transparency; accountability Ah well, it's a start. wiki.ubc.ca/Ethical_conc...
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Ethical concerns of AI-searching - UBC Wiki
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Open Evidence - UBC Wiki wiki.ubc.ca/Otto-SR Otto-SR ottosr.com is an AI-powered platform designed to automate process of conducting systematic reviews (SRs). Recently, I spoke to developers & read their paper: medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #medlibs I'll evaluate these tools on my new wiki 🕸️
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Otto-SR - UBC Wiki
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) Search Tools Used in Literature Reviews and Comprehensive Searching / Giustini, 2025 🖊️n=29 papers on AI searching in lit / systematic reviews It's a start. More wiki entries later. #medlibs wiki.ubc.ca/Artificial_i...
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Re: @openevidence.bsky.social #PubMedAI 📭OpenEvidence outperforms pubmed.ai by delivering concise, clinically focused summaries ✏️Clinicians should use these tools as adjuncts to, not replacements for, clinical expertise and comprehensive resources like UpToDate. /1of2 #medlibs
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
#GoogleScholar as a Resource for Systematic Reviews in Clinical Medicine" by Matthew Falagas et al. ✍️Interesting! GS research has changed tons since 2004 🤳GS will probably go AI in the next year or two 💅#PubMed & other searches will be subsumed by AI pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40652554/ #medlibs
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Google Scholar as a Resource for Systematic Reviews in Clinical Medicine - PubMed
Google Scholar, as the most inclusive resource, should be used along with other established resources for systematic reviews. Advances in artificial intelligence may facilitate its use for this scient...
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
One in 7 biomedical papers were likely written with AI help in 2022-24. Researchers searched for 'style words' after November 2022 as ChatGPT hit. 1.5 million papers indexed in PubMed had 200,000+ using these words unrelated to the content of the research🤨 I mean... www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Signs of AI-generated text found in 14% of biomedical abstracts last year
Abstracts included telltale words, such as ‘unparalleled’ and ‘invaluable’, that are common in text generated by large language models.
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Dictionary of '#Canadianisms' gets major #CanadaDay🇨🇦3rd edition (2025) update. Librarians will continue to purchase & use reference sources in their work. "Authority" is important in an era of AI hallucination. #misinformation Long live authoritative reference works! news.ubc.ca/2025/06/cana...
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Talk Canadian to me: Dictionary of Canadianisms goes mobile in time for July 1 - UBC News
Explore over 14,500 Canadianisms —celebrating how we speak, coast to coast.
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
BREAKING @Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train #Claude is “fair use” but faces trial for using 7 million pirated books in a “central library” to train its #AI model. #Anthropic infringed copyrights by using these pirated texts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... #librarians #medlibs
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Academic #librarians need Ethical AI e.g., frameworks, checklists, FAQs to guide us. Want to see "retrieval augmented generation" models where LLMs use reliable authoritative sources for training data. But we have to deal with a lot of noise and wasted energy in the meantime. #AI
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
With America's turn to #broligarchy & X's demise, #medlibs moved here in droves after November US election. Seems #bluesky has lost some momentum lately as a social medium & sharing platform. What is the cause of this, do you think? I've been comparing usage from #X vs #Bluesky in the last month...
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
#Useful At-A-Glance Database, Search Engine and AI-powered search tools "size" and #openaccess content. #GoogleScholar Still King in Size👑 Don't mess with #GoogleScholar by adding #artificialintelligence or #Gemini. It's useful as a searchable 399 million papers. Thank you🙏
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Pope Leo's mother Mildred Martínez was a #librarian. He will carry his beloved mother's love of books in his heart (and mind). 📚 Mildred Martinez Prevost was of Spanish decent, and graduated from DePaul University with a bachelor’s degree in library science in 1947. Mildred passed away in 1990.
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