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amy buckland

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librarianator. Montréalaise. any X acct is not me.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The best merch 😂
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Patricia Hswe @pmhswe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Friends, please check out this new report on community-based archives, "Powerful But Precarious," linked from the Mellon website. A participatory action research study, it provides a rich portrait of these organizations—their aspirations, wants, and resilience. Enjoy! www.mellon.org/features/com...
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Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Librarianship.ca @librarianshipca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Library and Archives Canada adds “Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)” to Canadian Subject Headings librarianship.ca/news/lac-lak... LAC last week announced the addition of a new Canadian Subject Heading (CSH) for Lake Ontario to replace the Library of Congress’ updated subject heading for the lake.
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Library and Archives Canada adds “Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)” to Canadian Subject Headings - news
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Invest in Open Infrastructure @investinopen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
IOI is hiring a Director of Business Development to help grow investment in and adoption of open infrastructure, while leading fundraising, partnerships, business development, and communications. Apply by Oct 5: drive.google.com/file/d/16t3B...
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Une journée de septembre, marché Jean-Talon John Little 2007
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Hiring a “litigation consultant” to conduct a market study certainly suggests... that rather than collaborate with libraries ... the publishers’ primary trade organization instead appears to be gearing up for a court battle" Read this, and demand better. Excellent work, Guy.
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Scott Sandage @scottsandage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#ThatFeelingWhen you’ve got 26 original printings of The Columbian Orator, enough to put one into the hands of each student as you begin teaching how #FrederickDouglass taught himself #HowToRead and #SpeakTruthToPower
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Kyle K Courtney @kylekcourtney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
​The publishing lobby is at it again, using broken data to blame libraries for declining sales. At #eBook Study Group we're fighting their "rental feudalism." Read our joint statement dismantling this deceptive report 👇 ebookstudygroup.substack.com/p/new-joint-... #Libraries #LibraryAdvocacy
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New Joint Statement: Dismantling the AAP/AG’s Flawed E-Lending Report
Decisions about the library mission do not belong in the hands of multinational publishers manipulating licenses to extract maximum profit from public coffers.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 17/09/2026
A primary goal of war-waging has always been to destroy knowledge and culture.
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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 17/09/2026
Want to learn more about the problem and the recommendations? Can you give us a few mins of feedback? Webinar coming up: blog.openalex.org/is-it-time-t...
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Is it time to retire the OA colours? Tell us what you think - OpenAlex blog
Since 2018, Unpaywall and then OpenAlex have described the open access status of a work with a colour: gold, green, hybrid, bronze, or closed. The labels were a pragmatic answer to a practical questio...
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 17/09/2026
"The union said that its members had rejected Elsevier’s pay offer, which “failed to offer a significant real-terms pay increase to staff” despite the company making an adjusted operating profit of more than £1 billion in 2025."
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Workers at The Lancet to stage first strike in title’s history - Research Professional News
Union members at 200-year-old medical journal vote overwhelmingly to walk out over stagnating pay
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list.”
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Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler
Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
JOB. York University Humanities Department Asst. Professor, Indigenous Women and Cultures of Resistance, Dept. of Humanities www.academicwork.ca/jobs/asst-pr...
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Asst. Professor, Indigenous Women and Cultures of Resistance, Dept. of Humanities
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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"The amended Regulation issued after Bill 28 seeks to place provincially dictated barriers between Albertans and what they read in libraries." #abpoli #cdnpoli 📚
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Standing Up for What You Are: A Guide for a Positive Response to Provincial Demands | Centre for Free Expression
Alberta library staff and boards face a serious dilemma. How should their libraries respond to the provincial government's unprecedented steps to override a long and unblemished tradition of local gov...
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I've seen everyone sharing that US Dialect Quiz so I decided to make my own, much crappier, CANADIAN DIALECT QUIZ to guess where in Canada you're from
A flow chart I have created with multiple questions and the answers determine where you're from.

Question 1 is do you call it a hydro bill (which then branches down to ON, QC, BC, MB) or an electric bill (which then branches down to SK, AB, NS, NB, PEI, NL)

Question 2 is do you call it a cabin (BC, MB, AB, SK) cottage (ON and atlantic) camp (northern Ontario) chalet (QC) or bungalow (Cape Breton)

To delineate BC from MB: do you call it dinner or supper

To delineate southern Ontario rural or big city: have you heard of a stag & doe

To delineate SK from AB: do you call a hoodie a bunnyhug

And finally to delineate NL from the other atlantic provinces: whaddayat? (Correct answer: dis is it b'y)
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ThrowbackThursday
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wendell Berry is gone after a long life. I dare you to read or listen to this and not be overwhelmed by something
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The Peace of Wild Things
A poem by Wendell Berry.
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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Developing critical thinking and domain knowledge is part of education, and learning how to search for information is a part of the process. Saying students can use LLMs for research is really silly. They're bad tools and students need to learn! embrace-the-friction.ghost.io/friction-and...
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Friction and Finding - The Human Condition
The semester has started and students are back on campus. Mentally I'm like this turtle on a rock in Shinzen Garden in Fresno, California. The new school year has revived the discourse on generative ...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If you haven’t heard, @trufelman.bsky.social and I started a new podcast about fashion and philosophy. Each month, we read canonical text — Voltaire, Rousseau, Hegel — and talk about how the author's ideas help us understand why we dress the way we do.
An illustration of Lord Chesterfield.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My girl, Margo. she has been out here trying to get y'all to hear her modern protest music but y'all keep platforming that floppy haired poseur.
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amy buckland @jambina.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hawkins or GTFO
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parker higgins @xor.blue · 27/08/2026
oh my god we have to update the HOMES mnemonic... to SHAME
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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
LLMs are ok for search if you recognize the limitations, which most people don't. But also constructing your search strategy is part of the process and your thinking on a topic whether you recognize that or not.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Long Shadows Nicole Sutherland n.d.
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hey everyone! You know how I frequently organize book tours and book events? Well people kept asking me to share my tips... so I have-- by writing this zine! Thanks for publishing @microcosm.bsky.social ! Learn more / order at: microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zine... @mcgillarts.bsky.social
cover image and author photo with text New Guide Alert, available at microcosm publishing .com
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
International student visa applications and approvals, Canada 2022-2025. We're down 90% on where we were three years ago. Given that intl student fees brought in about $14B at their peak, we're looking at the potential loss by 2028 of $12B of PSE income (or about 16% of the total).
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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DOAJ @doaj.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
📢 OpenAlex is hiring Four positions advertised (2 software engineers, a community lead, and an operations associate) #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #ScholarlyResearch 🔗 openalex.org/jobs
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OpenAlex
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 23/08/2026
#DHmakes
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Big things converging over here...
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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
USEFUL: arxiv.org/pdf/2608.14116 Dataset of APCs from 14 scholarly publishers, 2019-2025 - "The dataset was generated to allow for more precise analysis of APCs and can support library collection development and scientometric analysis estimating APCs paid in gold and hybrid OA journals"
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amulya.bsky.social @amulya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this.
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 17/08/2026
Helpful reminder from Elsevier that they have the "legal power" to do what they want with your journals. You have the collective power to take your editorial work elsewhere.
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amy buckland @jambina.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The Granny Mobile episode of Bluey never fails in this house. Pavlova is a close second.
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Érudit @erudit.org · 15/08/2026
Nouveau sur Érudit! ✨ Pawaatamihk (@uwinnipeg.bsky.social), une revue consacrée à la pensée métisse et aux savoirs issus des milieux universitaires et communautaires, publie son premier numéro sur erudit.org. 🔗 shorturl.at/o6ElR #RevuesSavantes #LibreAccès
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Érudit @erudit.org · 15/08/2026
New on Érudit! ✨ Pawaatamihk (@uwinnipeg.bsky.social), a journal dedicated to Métis thought and knowledge emerging from both academic and community contexts, has published its first issue on erudit.org. 🔗 shorturl.at/mMbLf #ScholarlyJournals #OpenAccess #OA
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amy buckland @jambina.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
BEST. CONFERENCE. EVER.
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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
With support from the #CollectiveDevelopmentFund, Chinhoyi University of Technology's new open access press (the first in Zimbabwe) just announced publication of its first titles, free to read and reuse! A fantastic example of what happens when libraries invest in global publishing infrastructure.
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Catalog | CUT Library Press
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Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca · 12/08/2026
📢 Join our passionate software development team in coding the future of PKP software and work on truly distributed, open source software for #ScholarlyPublishing! Check out the full description and apply at pkp.sfu.ca/2026/07/31/p... #OpenJournalSystems #OpenMonographPress #OpenPreprintSystems
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Join our team! PKP is hiring a contract software developer - Public Knowledge Project
Join our team! PKP is hiring a software developer to help advance PKP's FOSS for scholarly publishing.
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blair @blairaf.com · 10/08/2026
If you're interested in working on trans AI policy, I'm still looking for PhD students! Deadline to apply for federal scholarships is coming up in October, email me if you'd like to apply
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I want to tell yall a secret. If you are struggling to get attention in a fractured, captured attention economy? Someone smart will eventually tell you to write about colleges. All the better if you claim that some new gadget is going to “end college as we know it”.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This new part time Head of Operations role at the OBC is a really important one for us. An opportunity to join a committed small team working collaboratively with others to help reshape the scholarly publishing landscape.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Another reminder that, amidst the myriad challenges facing academia, researchers also have to re-imagine the political economy of publishing. The biggest academic publishers (Wiley, Springer, Elsevier, etc) are also among the most restrictive and rapacious.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."
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Consumers Are Worried About the Loss of Physical Media Ownership. Libraries Are Leading the Conversation. — Association of Research Libraries
Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...
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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We’re hiring! Come and work with us to make the open access book landscape successful, sustainable and scalable. The role is part-time and fully remote.
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Open Position: Head of Operations
The Open Book Collective is seeking a highly organised, proactive Head of Operations to help lead the day-to-day running of our growing organisation.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit.
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