Anita Coleman
@infophilia.bsky.social
Lover of libraries and information sciences prof. How does infophilia — our love of information and connections — shape us, our technologies, knowledge culture, our society, and the world? Forthcoming Book: Infophilia Unbound infophilia.substack.com
We need innovation but not in the usual way - excesses - we’ve come to think of it over the last two decade. Good read. MIT press open access. Matthew Wisnioski. Every American an Innovator. 2025. We must start asking innovation for whom, by whom, to what ends. Innovate our hearts and minds! 😊
August 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
We need innovation but not in the usual way - excesses - we’ve come to think of it over the last two decade. Good read. MIT press open access. Matthew Wisnioski. Every American an Innovator. 2025. We must start asking innovation for whom, by whom, to what ends. Innovate our hearts and minds! 😊
I’m writing an article on ALA, ARL joining Authors Alliance on amicus curiae brief for Anthropic’s appeal of Judge Alsup’s certification of copyright class in Bartz v. Anthropic. Librarians have diverse views and I welcome all perspectives. Attribution, or not, depending on your preference.
Seeking thoughts on ALA and ARL joining Authors Alliance et al on this brief: Is this a shift in ALS’s advocacy, or consistent with our strategic priorities? How might librarians and uni educators skeptical of AI fit here? I’m thinking of this as the new Battle of the Books (Swift’s satire) #1of2
“Also backing Anthropic's appeal… American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, and Public Knowledge — pointed out that the Google Books case showed that proving ownership is anything but straightforward.” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
August 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I’m writing an article on ALA, ARL joining Authors Alliance on amicus curiae brief for Anthropic’s appeal of Judge Alsup’s certification of copyright class in Bartz v. Anthropic. Librarians have diverse views and I welcome all perspectives. Attribution, or not, depending on your preference.
Seeking thoughts on ALA and ARL joining Authors Alliance et al on this brief: Is this a shift in ALS’s advocacy, or consistent with our strategic priorities? How might librarians and uni educators skeptical of AI fit here? I’m thinking of this as the new Battle of the Books (Swift’s satire) #1of2
“Also backing Anthropic's appeal… American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, and Public Knowledge — pointed out that the Google Books case showed that proving ownership is anything but straightforward.” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
August 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Seeking thoughts on ALA and ARL joining Authors Alliance et al on this brief: Is this a shift in ALS’s advocacy, or consistent with our strategic priorities? How might librarians and uni educators skeptical of AI fit here? I’m thinking of this as the new Battle of the Books (Swift’s satire) #1of2
“Also backing Anthropic's appeal… American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, and Public Knowledge — pointed out that the Google Books case showed that proving ownership is anything but straightforward.” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
August 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
“Also backing Anthropic's appeal… American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, and Public Knowledge — pointed out that the Google Books case showed that proving ownership is anything but straightforward.” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
As fall semester gets underway, I’m taking the time to reminisce and reflect — university teachers can be unkind. My unforgettable doctoral teacher Dr. Brett Sutton — formidable intellect — tho left a legacy of kind knowledge and human centered information science. lhrt.news/wp-content/u...
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August 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
As fall semester gets underway, I’m taking the time to reminisce and reflect — university teachers can be unkind. My unforgettable doctoral teacher Dr. Brett Sutton — formidable intellect — tho left a legacy of kind knowledge and human centered information science. lhrt.news/wp-content/u...
Yesterday, the People’s AI Action Plan was released putting people’s well-being first by recognizing that “freedom of intelligence” must be yoked to robust regulation and universal human ethics. Planetary human flourishing is non negotiable. infophilia.substack.com/p/ais-dual-f...
AI's Dual Frontier
Freedom of Intelligence vs. People’s Well-Being
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July 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Yesterday, the People’s AI Action Plan was released putting people’s well-being first by recognizing that “freedom of intelligence” must be yoked to robust regulation and universal human ethics. Planetary human flourishing is non negotiable. infophilia.substack.com/p/ais-dual-f...
There's a lot of space between what we say we want and what we actually choose. This is a story about that space, about the way it has been quietly colonized by artificial intelligence (AI)…
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infophilia.substack.com/p/the-hollow...
The Hollowing
Looking for Human Spaces in AI Safety, Artificial General Intelligence, and AI Resistance
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July 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
There's a lot of space between what we say we want and what we actually choose. This is a story about that space, about the way it has been quietly colonized by artificial intelligence (AI)…
infophilia.substack.com/p/the-hollow...
infophilia.substack.com/p/the-hollow...
Fits beautifully with The Hollowing!
"those who want to take a slower... cautious approach to GenAI are frequently criticized as holding the profession back, resisting the inevitability of technological change, inhibiting progress, neglecting to prepare students for the future, denying reality. Such criticisms have a silencing effect"
Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures by Andrea Baer
"rather than rushing to adopt and promote new technologies whose ethical implications raise major questions, we might slow down and claim more time & space for considering .... implications of GenAI"
"rather than rushing to adopt and promote new technologies whose ethical implications raise major questions, we might slow down and claim more time & space for considering .... implications of GenAI"
July 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Fits beautifully with The Hollowing!
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Your AI search summary costs 20-30 times of old-fashioned search results. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00616-z
How much energy will AI really consume? The good, the bad and the unknown
Researchers want firms to be more transparent about the electricity demands of artificial intelligence.
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June 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Your AI search summary costs 20-30 times of old-fashioned search results. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00616-z
University of Illinois press is hiring a publicist! Hybrid / remote Perfect for book lovers! Develops publicity campaigns and implements media efforts for the Press's entire book list (trade, scholarly, regional), focusing primarily on newly published books, currently about 80 new books per year.
Publicist-University Press (Hybrid/Remote)
Duties & ResponsibilitiesPublicity and communication
1. Create comprehensive and successful publicity plans for 80 or more titles each year.
2. O...
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June 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
University of Illinois press is hiring a publicist! Hybrid / remote Perfect for book lovers! Develops publicity campaigns and implements media efforts for the Press's entire book list (trade, scholarly, regional), focusing primarily on newly published books, currently about 80 new books per year.
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I used to do #FridayFollow or some hashtag like that and suggest a bunch of good people to follow but now I’m just going to give #FridayFlowers! Enjoy the gorgeous cymbidiums!
February 16, 2024 at 5:48 PM
I used to do #FridayFollow or some hashtag like that and suggest a bunch of good people to follow but now I’m just going to give #FridayFlowers! Enjoy the gorgeous cymbidiums!
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Rejecting self censorship is also intellectual freedom Brave discourse rejects self censorship. Academic Quit Lit op eds, blog, social media posts, research + Alcohol quit lit with stories memoirs conversations of the sober curious and sobriety choosers infophilia.substack.com/p/quit-lit
Quit Lit
Rejecting Self-Censorship is also Intellectual Freedom
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February 17, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Rejecting self censorship is also intellectual freedom Brave discourse rejects self censorship. Academic Quit Lit op eds, blog, social media posts, research + Alcohol quit lit with stories memoirs conversations of the sober curious and sobriety choosers infophilia.substack.com/p/quit-lit
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Libraries are incubators of healthy infophilia. Librarians are not only the curators of information and knowledge cultures, but they also nurture curiosity culture.
December 17, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Libraries are incubators of healthy infophilia. Librarians are not only the curators of information and knowledge cultures, but they also nurture curiosity culture.
Somebody tell me this isn’t true. Did our libraries not learn any lessons from the Google book digitization project in the early 2000s? abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...
AI chatbots need more books to learn from. These libraries are opening their stacks
Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity
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June 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Somebody tell me this isn’t true. Did our libraries not learn any lessons from the Google book digitization project in the early 2000s? abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...
Innovation culture's promise of neutral technological progress can no longer mask what Matthew Wisnioski (2025) calls a society "altered by its pursuit of innovation as an organizing theme." infophilia.substack.com/p/from-bibli...
Reimagining Innovation Culture
From Bibliography to Civic Infophilia
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June 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Innovation culture's promise of neutral technological progress can no longer mask what Matthew Wisnioski (2025) calls a society "altered by its pursuit of innovation as an organizing theme." infophilia.substack.com/p/from-bibli...
Most people taking the infophilic information styles poll these days are info pragmatists! They’re avoiding news. I need to update the context! It’s sadly outdated given we’re way past the Nov 2024 elections! form.jotform.com/243125216695...
What's Your Information Style?
Please click the link to complete this form.
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June 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Most people taking the infophilic information styles poll these days are info pragmatists! They’re avoiding news. I need to update the context! It’s sadly outdated given we’re way past the Nov 2024 elections! form.jotform.com/243125216695...
Resonates 100%
Feel like I'm at the 2008 Tw*tter stage here, but really need to connect with the online library world again. Been out of libraries for a few years, it certainly feels great to be back. Please pardon any faux pas I may make here, a little rusty.
June 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Resonates 100%
Gleason understood the political landscape — ALA had provided financial support for her education …still focused on book banning … had not yet found its footing on civil rights even though the first Library Bill of Rights had been adopted in June 1939. infophilia.substack.com/p/eliza-atki...
A Civic Infophile Ahead Of Her Time
Eliza Atkins Gleason (1909-2009)
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June 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Gleason understood the political landscape — ALA had provided financial support for her education …still focused on book banning … had not yet found its footing on civil rights even though the first Library Bill of Rights had been adopted in June 1939. infophilia.substack.com/p/eliza-atki...
What does Every American an Inventor, a new MIT press book critiquing innovation culture have to do with Krummel’s Fiat Lux, Fiat Latebra, a celebration of historical library functions? They both helped me reimagine innovation culture for libraries and beyond. infophilia.substack.com/p/from-bibli...
Reimagining Innovation Culture
From Bibliography to Civic Infophilia
infophilia.substack.com
June 16, 2025 at 5:48 AM
What does Every American an Inventor, a new MIT press book critiquing innovation culture have to do with Krummel’s Fiat Lux, Fiat Latebra, a celebration of historical library functions? They both helped me reimagine innovation culture for libraries and beyond. infophilia.substack.com/p/from-bibli...
On this day May 22, 1775: The Second Continental Congress, facing the existential crisis of the American colonies, reorganized as a Committee of the Whole, allowing for freer, more candid debate about the future of the colonies. This ultimately led to the Declaration of Independence.
May 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
On this day May 22, 1775: The Second Continental Congress, facing the existential crisis of the American colonies, reorganized as a Committee of the Whole, allowing for freer, more candid debate about the future of the colonies. This ultimately led to the Declaration of Independence.
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Some beautiful old books. They should bring back this kind of binding. With everything accessible online, a big reason to buy a physical copy is the aesthetics.
May 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Some beautiful old books. They should bring back this kind of binding. With everything accessible online, a big reason to buy a physical copy is the aesthetics.
A Bill. 1,116 pages long. Just what you want to read after a long hard day before you fall asleep, the budget Congress is looking at. The committee has published a PDF version of the full bill text, which is useful for offline reading or detailed review. budget.house.gov/imo/media/do...
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May 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
A Bill. 1,116 pages long. Just what you want to read after a long hard day before you fall asleep, the budget Congress is looking at. The committee has published a PDF version of the full bill text, which is useful for offline reading or detailed review. budget.house.gov/imo/media/do...
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I’m enormously excited to share the cover of my new book, out in August and now available for preorder!
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Tales of Militant Chemistry by Alice Lovejoy - Hardcover
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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April 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Advocate!
1. Add your name to the Authors Guild Petition to Reinstate Shira Perlmutter as Register of Copyrights
2. Add your name to the Petition to Reinstate Dr. Carla Hayden as the Librarian of Congress
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1. Add your name to the Authors Guild Petition to Reinstate Shira Perlmutter as Register of Copyrights
2. Add your name to the Petition to Reinstate Dr. Carla Hayden as the Librarian of Congress
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🧰Cultivating Civic Infophilia
Protecting Public Knowledge by Practicing Freedom of Expression
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May 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Thank you @donmacleay.bsky.social