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Lauren Pressley

@laurenpressley.bsky.social
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Lauren Pressley @laurenpressley.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A great group of @zsrlibrary.bsky.social colleagues worked together to produce documents to help us think about and work with AI: zsr.wfu.edu/2026/startin...
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Starting with Values: Introducing Our AI Engagement Framework
Over the past several months, the ZSR AI Engagement Task Force has been working through a question that almost every academic library is sitting with right now: how do we want to engage with artificia...
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Wake Forest University @wakeforest.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Wake Forest is at @sxswedu.com this week! We’re in Austin to share more about the work Wake Forest is doing around leadership, character and innovative research, and to connect with people from across higher education. If you’re at SXSW EDU, come say hello! schedule.sxswedu.com/events/OE46723
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Lauren Pressley @laurenpressley.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We have differentiated vocabulary for literacy: reading critically, reading for pleasure, reading for research. We don't have that yet for AI. That absence isn't neutral: laurenpressley.com/library/2026...
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The Categorical Collapse of AI – What Libraries Are For
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Lauren Pressley @laurenpressley.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I’ve got a lot on my mind and am thinking about blogging again…
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Lauren Pressley @laurenpressley.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
In grad school ~2005, a professor handed me Walter Ong because of my interest in social media. I just highlighted almost every line of this piece: www.derekthompson.org/p/why-the-de.... 20 years later, Ong and McLuhan are helping me think about AI in ways I didn't expect. h/t @dkthomp.bsky.social
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The Obscure Media Theory That Explains '99% of Everything'
Or: How did America's mid-century communications theorists get it all so right?
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Lauren Pressley @laurenpressley.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Every so often, a technology reminds me of its potential for magic. Readwise now pulls in podcasts ... and the horizon feels wider again. docs.readwise.io/reader/docs/...
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Adding Content to Reader - Readwise Docs
One stop shop for all your Readwise related questions.
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ZSR Library @zsrlibrary.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Undergrads: we're looking for the next cohort of ZSR Library Ambassadors! Learn more and apply below! The deadline is Friday, October 17! #MyZSR #MoreThanALibrary
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ZSR Ambassadors
ZSR Ambassadors is a one-year student leadership opportunity that allows a group of students to make a lasting impact on campus. What do ZSR Ambassadors do? 2025-2026 Ambassadors We asked our Ambassad...
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Lauren Pressley @laurenpressley.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Here we go!
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Lauren Pressley @laurenpressley.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I appreciate my library friends posting about ALA, Philadelphia, and reunions at #ALAAC25! Thanks for helping those of us at home follow along!!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/05/2025
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the Trump administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades: propub.li/3RZzqHP 📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
For the nonlibrarians who follow me, I wish you could have felt *how excited* my library colleagues were when Carla Hayden was nominated. So respected for her work as a big-city library director & ALA president, back when ALA stood up against the Patriot Act. Impeccable library & leadership cred. 1/
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Lauren Pressley @laurenpressley.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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Ms. Magazine Online
Official Ms. Magazine site. Articles from the magazine, book reviews, online community, feminist 'take action' center, Ms. mall. Get Ms. delivered!
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Carla Hayden is an inspiration to so many in the library profession. People outside of that profession probably don't even realize how much. She certainly became an inspiration to me. She will be missed as our chief librarian.
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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Picard management tip: In a strange new environment, be wary of making changes until you understand more about what's going on.
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Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) @ala-acrl.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The 2025 ACRL Environmental Scan, developed by our Research Planning and Review Committee, is now available. The scan provides a broad review of the current higher ed landscape, with special focus on the state of academic and research libraries. #ACRL2025
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2025 ACRL Environmental Scan
Every two years, the ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee releases an environmental scan of higher education, including developments with the potential for continuing impact on academic librari...
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NPR @npr.org · 31/03/2025
JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
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Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave
The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
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Center for an Informed Public @cip.uw.edu · 24/02/2025
Coming up from 5:30-6:30 p.m. PST: @cip.uw.edu co-founder @katestarbird.bsky.social will present the 2025 UW Faculty Lecture, "A Spotlight on Rumors: Illuminating How Influence and Improvisation Shape Online Conversations." Event is in person and livestreamed. www.washington.edu/facultystaff...
Kate Starbird is seated in a chair holding a smartphone and there's text above reading "A Spotlight on Rumors"
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Lauren Pressley @laurenpressley.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
As always, I am so impressed with the work of our colleagues in @uofwa.bsky.social's Tateuchi East Asia Library: sites.uw.edu/libstrat/202...
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Digital Scholarship Series Highlights Innovation in East Asian Studies | UW Libraries Blog
News, views and impact stories from the UW Libraries
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
"If you want to control people, you interfere with their access to information. That's why we're telling people to come together and #UniteAgainstBookBans." Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom @oif.bsky.social www.axios.com/2025/02/08/e...
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Book bans could escalate after Department of Education dismisses censorship complaints
Education Department pulls back on book bans, raising censorship fears
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.
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Lauren Pressley @laurenpressley.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Lauren Pressley @laurenpressley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Big news, friends! This summer I will be returning to @wakeforest.bsky.social as Dean of the @zsrlibrary.bsky.social! I am very excited to return to this community that has meant so much to me over the course of my career! For those of you at Wake and ZSR, I look forward to reconnecting soon!
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Lauren Pressley @laurenpressley.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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UW Libraries High School Internship Program inspires digital storytelling and connections for first-generation students
UW Magazine | University of Washington
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
As with improv, social medial works a lot better when you have a “yes, and…” mentality. Twitter trained a lot of people into “no, but…” and that is just going to catch you a lot of blocks here. 💁🏻‍♀️
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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
University presses putting together starter packs of all their authors on Bluesky is such a good move.
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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"But all of the games and books I’ve created were made possible by what came before—including other games, books, movies, and history I could access when I needed it, thanks to archivists and librarians."
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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
University of Washington Press @uwapress.bsky.social has announced a holiday sale. Code WINTER24 will get you a massive 40% off and free US shipping. Get this book that is full of amazing scholars telling insightful stories about the Pacific Northwest aka Cascadia. uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
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Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice
How histories of environmental inequalities and settler colonialism undercut a famously “green” regionIn Portland’s harbor, environmental justice group...
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Lauren Pressley @laurenpressley.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I am hoping that I’ll get to see some of my online friends and colleagues at ACRL in Minneapolis! Registration is now open! acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/...
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ACRL 2025 Conference Registration Now Open!
ACRL announces the opening of registration for the ACRL 2025 Conference, to be held April 2-5, 2025, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and online. We are living in a time of extraordinary change and the w...
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