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@stonca01.bsky.social
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Educator, facilitator, collaborator, outreach ambassador, caring helper, dog lover, musician, grateful (is an action): Librarian (she/her/hers) about.me/carabstone Views here do not represent my employer or any organizations I'm part of.

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Cara @stonca01.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Happy Septembertime day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Annisija Hunter, subject librarian at Hilton M. Briggs Library at [SDSU], has received the prestigious 2026 Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries Innovation Grant for her project, “Humanizing Health Sciences Education with Graphic Medicine.”" #libcomix #GraphicMedicine
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SDSU librarian receives national graphic medicine grant
Annisija Hunter, subject librarian at Hilton M. Briggs Library at South Dakota State University, has received the prestigious 2026 Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries Innovation Grant for h...
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Atlassian Enables Default Data Collection to Train AI letsdatascience.com/news/atlassi... Trello and Jira users "metadata collection is mandatory for Free, Standard, and Premium tiers and cannot be opted out on those plans."
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Atlassian Enables Default Data Collection to Train AI
Atlassian will begin collecting customer metadata and in-app content from **Jira**, **Confluence**, and other cloud products by default on **August 17, 2026**, to train its AI offerings including `Rov...
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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 17/07/2026
As part of #IowaCity Sidewalk Sales, we put out deeply discounted books - children's, mystery and thriller, ancient history, all kinds - and give all proceeds to the Iowa City Free Medical Clinic. The sale is on 11-6 Friday and Saturday. Come find some treasures and help your neighbors!
A very bright day on a two-way street with lampposts and young trees. A dark-colored tent is shading the foreground, where boxes of books sit on folding tables. The sign says "Benefit Sale! All proceeds go to the Iowa City Free Medical Clinic. Hardcovers $1 Paperbacks 50 cents. We accept cash (credit card minimum $5) or Venmo," and there's a qr code for the Venmo.A 5yo child with a t-shirt featuring garbage trucks stands between several folding tables with boxes of deeply discounted books (and also some jigsaw puzzles marked 50% off). This child helped to put the sale books out today. He is VERY helpful.Some boxes of books next to the Benefit Sale sign. Mostly mystery novels and some books in Greek and Latin or about ancient history on this table, but there's a broad selection, including about 100 children's books.
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 13/07/2026
At the University of Mount Saint Vincent in the Bronx, eight women pay $250 a month for a room of their own — and the stability to pursue a college degree.
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College students were facing homelessness. These New York nuns had room in their convent.
At the University of Mount Saint Vincent in the Bronx, eight women pay $250 a month for a room of their own — and the stability to pursue a college degree.
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Cara @stonca01.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
ISU (Ames, IA) is hiring 2 FT Library Assistant IIIs. The Evening position works Tues-Fri afternoon/late night hours & the Weekend/Evening position works Sat-Tues daytime/evening hours. More details isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaSt... Please share so we can to welcome some fantastic folks! 📚
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Library Assistant III
Position Title: Library Assistant III Job Group: Merit Required Minimum Qualifications: • Three years of library work experience, or A combination of related work experience, undergraduate education, ...
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
and another, thanks @maria0065.bsky.social
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Find Free Food Near You | Food Pantries, Soup Kitchens & SNAP
Lemontree is a free food access platform helping people find nearby food pantries, soup kitchens, and SNAP benefits. 900,000+ families have found free food with personalized support.
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Cara @stonca01.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Mucosal vaccination in mice provides protection from diverse respiratory threats
Traditional vaccines target specific pathogens, limiting their scope against diverse respiratory threats. We describe an intranasal liposomal formulation combining toll-like receptor 4 and 7/8 ligands...
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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Hadn't seen this before. Nicely done. isaiprofitable.com
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Is AI Profitable Yet?
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Cara @stonca01.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is my new favorite thing.
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Cara @stonca01.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The International Journal of Information, Diversity & Inclusion (IJIDI) is pleased to announce the publication of our 10th Anniversary Special Issue. Read the full announcement here: jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ij... I am proud to have served as a managing editor for this journal since 2018.
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Celebrating a Decade of Scholarship: The IJIDI 10th Anniversary Special Issue | The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI)
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Forged of Imagination and Music @ms-inkandpaper.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I just saw this at the website of SRF (Swiss radio and TV). They say that old books go by the pallet-load from Europe to a Canadian AI company, via a temporary storage at the Czech-German boarder with an alleged volume of 700K titles just from Germany and three Mio. worldwide, to later destroy them.
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Jagd auf alte Bücher - KI-Firmen kaufen Antiquariate leer – und vernichten die Bücher
Palettenweise wandern alte Bücher aus Europa in die USA. Dahinter stecken mutmasslich KI-Unternehmen – mit System.
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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This piece gets at one of the many things that concerns me about AI in education: the obsession with everything being more efficient and the loss of desirable difficulties. As humans, we learn when we fail and when we experience something unanticipated. theconversation.com/ai-schools-l...
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AI schools like Alpha promise efficiency, but can’t replicate the messy process that helps kids learn
AI schools try to tailor learning to match students’ abilities. But they can’t help young people learn who they are.
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Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
My @uoppald.bsky.social student @chloeapter.bsky.social is seeking more participants for her study on autistic people's experiences of being assigned a label like "challenging behaviour"/"problem behaviour" etc (like her). W/ enough participants, all going well, we hope to publish. Could you repost?
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 11/06/2026
Happy graduation season! To celebrate, we put together a compilation of service dogs graduating. 14/10 for all ❤️ please enjoy
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abby emerson @abbyemerson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A young Brooklynite testifying at city hall this morning asking the finance committee to devote 0.5% to NYC’s libraries. Now back to school! @nycplan.org
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Iowa OER @iowaoer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
New report! The College in High School Alliance, along with @iskme.org and @goopen.bsky.social have put out a report with policy recommendations to support for dual enrollment (concurrent enrollment in Iowa) with the use of #OER! See the report here: collegeinhighschool.org/resources/du...
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State Policy Guidance on Expanding Open Educational Resources in Dual Enrollment
New guidance for state policymakers on expanding the use of open educational resources (OER) in dual enrollment to close the affordability gap.
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Abbey K. Elder @openaccesselder.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
New videos are up! This year, our local #OER committee identified a major interest in videos that answer common questions faculty bring to us. Many are institution-specific, but some might find this one useful: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4k6...
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Choosing the Right Creative Commons License for You
YouTube video by Iowa State University Library
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Cara @stonca01.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Having AI read graduate names in a commencement ceremony deeply depersonalizes something that is profoundly personal & human for these graduates. Why remove personal recognition & connection at a time when the personal can & should be celebrated? This isn't a technical glitch. This is a poor choice
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Meghan Lafferty @lafferty.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
For the science librarians 📚
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Cara @stonca01.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Crafty fiber arts folks -- What a great concept for a book!
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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 29/04/2026
thank you to a student for sharing this bookmark from the campus library, which attributes a point made by Herbert Simon in the 1970s to Mr. Beast
"We don't live in the information age — we live in the age of attention, drowning in information".
Mr Beast
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Cara @stonca01.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We just wrapped interviews for the University Librarian position here at Iowa State. I wanted to take a moment to recognize all the work that goes into these types of searches. There are layers of work that need to happen. Read more on my blog: libingthegoodlife.blogspot.com/2026/04/univ...
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University Librarian Interview Process Reflections
We just wrapped up interviews for the University Librarian position here at Iowa State. I wanted to take a moment to recognize all the work ...
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The deadline was pushed back by a year. 📚 www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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DOJ Extends Web Accessibility Deadline
Public colleges now have until next year to ensure their web pages and mobile apps are accessible to people with disabilities in accordance with recent updates to the ADA. Disability advocates decried...
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ilovelibraries.bsky.social @ilovelibraries.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Show us what brings you #LibraryJoy with your original creative work: a drawing, painting, poem, essay, photo, video, song, comic panel—you get the idea. Submit your original piece by the end of #NationalLibraryWeek (4/25) for a chance to win a $150 VISA gift card! Submit at ilovelibraries.org/joy
Show us your LIBRARY JOY for your chance to win $150! ilovelibraries.org/joy. National Library Week, April 19-25, 2026. ALA150 American Library Association
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Cara @stonca01.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Interesting contrast between these two articles: Iowa as a whole state: www.iowapublicradio.org/state-govern... Chicago: blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...
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Iowa lawmakers move to ban partnerships between public schools and local libraries
Some agreements between public schools in Iowa and local libraries would be blocked under a bill advanced Wednesday by the House Education Committee. The bill would bar schools from letting students u...
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Abbey K. Elder @openaccesselder.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
TL;DR: support interactive assignments so educators can help students engage in deeper learning. Let students take electives and support them in branching out. And pay teachers a living wage! Thanks for sitting through my reflective mid-day social media posting. 😅
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Abbey K. Elder @openaccesselder.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
And it's notable that these courses were Not in my major. They were extras, filling time or credit hours I needed to graduate. Today, some might say they were a waste of time. But without them, I would be a less well-rounded person and I'd likely have less empathy for the work of my peers.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 17/03/2026
This is Stinky and Binky. Their human jokingly started offering ad space on their backs, but then people actually started buying spots. Good thing Binky is running a special. 14/10 for both (TT: toocutelabs)
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
So this new version of Primo... when you open a record, you now get this huge additional side-panel with "Related Persons." Who asked for this and why? Because this is just making load times worse for no real reason.
a screenshot of a record in HOLLIS (our instance of Primo) showing the mentioned related persons addition to the book record
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Cara @stonca01.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Spring ILA ACRL conference scholarship opportunity for academic library workers and aspiring academic library workers in Iowa! More info found on the application link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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2026 Mary Iber Spring Conference Scholarship Application
Scholarship Information and Application
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Jason Dinh @byjasonpdinh.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
NEW: for @nytimes.com, I wrote about a new study showing that queen bumblebees can breathe underwater, surviving submerged for a week the “remarkable” study stems from a lab snafu, when a co-author thought she accidentally drowned several bees—but later found that they were alive 🧪 gift link 🎁
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Bumblebee Queens Can Breathe Underwater
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N Sims @copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
That's it, all right there:
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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
“The film documents a shift that many library professionals describe as unprecedented in scale. It also examines how libraries, once considered neutral and largely uncontroversial, have become contested ground in broader conversations about race, identity, and the role of public education.”
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How a Quiet Profession Became a Public Battleground - Houston Press
The Librarians, a PBS documentary looks at members of that profession across the county including three from Texas.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 18/02/2026
Microsoft said the bug meant that its Copilot AI chatbot was reading and summarizing paying customers' confidential emails, bypassing data protection policies.
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Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers' confidential emails to Copilot AI | TechCrunch
Microsoft said the bug meant that its Copilot AI chatbot was reading and summarizing paying customers' confidential emails, bypassing data protection policies.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Do I know anyone working in the intellectual freedom space looking for a virtual intern or open to taking on a stellar student for a fieldwork project (this person is a library school student and one I can highly recommend)? Feel free to DM me!
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Des Moines (IA) is talking about cutting the library budget for FY 2027 by a quarter of a million dollars: archive.ph/qu4nS
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Cara @stonca01.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I have a new favorite olympian.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
This is Ladybird. She's politely requesting butt pats. Will accept them for as long as you're willing to provide them. Could be days. Weeks even. 13/10 (TT: christina.stamper5)
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 30/01/2026
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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deedotkurses @deedotk.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
TIL: Before Hans Asperger or Leo Kanner, a Jewish-Ukrainian psychiatrist named Grunya Sukhareva defined autism in 1925. Both men did not cite her work. She also had documented how it affected women and girls, where the men did not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunya_...
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Grunya Sukhareva - Wikipedia
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 29/01/2026
This is Frankie. He ran outside like he always does, only to find out his yard had been replaced with a white void. 12/10 (IG: frankiethenorfie)
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NPR @npr.org · 27/01/2026
The best books for children and young adults were awarded the country's top honors by the American Library Association on Monday. n.pr/3O9AUjO
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'Fireworks' wins Caldecott, Newbery is awarded to 'All the Blues in the Sky'
The best books for children and young adults were awarded the country's top honors by the American Library Association on Monday.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 02/01/2026
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 31/12/2025
The Dogs of 2025 youtu.be/K_1tNbud-8g?...
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The Dogs of 2025
YouTube video by WeRateDogs
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Librarian by Day 🏳️‍🌈 @librarianbyday.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
As you look back on 2025, remember you are not your productivity! You're a person. Being a good friend, creating, existing, persisting, finding joy, being loyal, being kind, and much more are all worthy of celebrating.
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Dr. Natalie Mendoza @drmendozan.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
🗃️ My History Department is hiring for a tenure track position in Native American history. See link for details! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
jobs.colorado.edu
​Assistant or Associate Professor of History
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