John M. Jackson
@johnxlibris.bsky.social
Gardener. Father. Academic librarian. (bibliothecarius communicendi). I drink and I know things. https://johnxlibris.com #librarians #libraries #skybrarians
“Help University Libraries, Get Free Books!” Ohio University makes its deaccession list publicly searchable 📚 youtu.be/nJTBPQBwRq4?...
How to Find Books in the Deaccession List Spreadsheet
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January 8, 2026 at 4:41 PM
“Help University Libraries, Get Free Books!” Ohio University makes its deaccession list publicly searchable 📚 youtu.be/nJTBPQBwRq4?...
"As I have been working on an inventory of our medical instruments..." Archivists really do have the coolest jobs in libraries. From University of Louisville Libraries 📚 uofllibraries.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/f...
From the archives: When poison was medicine
By Cassidy Polack As I have been working on an inventory of our medical instruments in the Kornhauser Health Sciences Library’s historical collection, I have come across a wide variety of items. Su…
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January 8, 2026 at 4:13 AM
"As I have been working on an inventory of our medical instruments..." Archivists really do have the coolest jobs in libraries. From University of Louisville Libraries 📚 uofllibraries.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/f...
Duke University Libraries asks: why are LLMs still hallucinating? 📚 blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2026/01...
It's 2026. Why Are LLMs Still Hallucinating? - Duke University Libraries Blogs
Way back in spring 2023, we wrote about the emergence of ChatGPT on Duke’s campus. The magical tool that could help, “Write papers! Debug Code! Create websites from thin air! Do your laundry!” By 2026...
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January 6, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Duke University Libraries asks: why are LLMs still hallucinating? 📚 blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2026/01...
For National Science Fiction Day, the Marriott Library at U of Utah dives into the importance of readings sci-fi. 📚 blog.lib.utah.edu/national-sci...
J. Willard Marriott Library Blog | National Science Fiction Day
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January 2, 2026 at 4:46 PM
For National Science Fiction Day, the Marriott Library at U of Utah dives into the importance of readings sci-fi. 📚 blog.lib.utah.edu/national-sci...
With fall semester coming to a close, what are academic libraries up to? Well, since November here's what we've seen:
✈️ airport exhibits
🛠️ maker spaces
🥽 VR drop-ins
👗 creative databases promos
💰 $10 million saved in textbook costs
Read about this and more: www.johnxlibris.com/2025/12/rece... 📚
✈️ airport exhibits
🛠️ maker spaces
🥽 VR drop-ins
👗 creative databases promos
💰 $10 million saved in textbook costs
Read about this and more: www.johnxlibris.com/2025/12/rece... 📚
Recently in Academic Libraries: Nov/Dec 2025 - john, from the library
This month in academic libraries, we saw makerspaces, good vibes, millions of $$ saved for students, folk music, and more!
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December 18, 2025 at 6:14 AM
With fall semester coming to a close, what are academic libraries up to? Well, since November here's what we've seen:
✈️ airport exhibits
🛠️ maker spaces
🥽 VR drop-ins
👗 creative databases promos
💰 $10 million saved in textbook costs
Read about this and more: www.johnxlibris.com/2025/12/rece... 📚
✈️ airport exhibits
🛠️ maker spaces
🥽 VR drop-ins
👗 creative databases promos
💰 $10 million saved in textbook costs
Read about this and more: www.johnxlibris.com/2025/12/rece... 📚
Stony Brook University launched a Library AI Steering Committee 📚 library.stonybrook.edu/2025/11/18/s...
Stony Brook University Libraries Launches New AI Steering Committee | Stony Brook University Libraries
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November 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Stony Brook University launched a Library AI Steering Committee 📚 library.stonybrook.edu/2025/11/18/s...
SMU Libraries hides stress balls in the stacks. Find one and students score a Stress Reduction Kit libcal.smu.edu/event/15792415 📚
Say Neigh to Stress: SMU Libraries Scavenger Hunt
Say Neigh to Stress with a scavenger hunt happening December 1 – December 5 across SMU Libraries! Search Fondren, Duda, and Hamon Libraries for a hidden Peruna stress ball—once you...
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November 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
SMU Libraries hides stress balls in the stacks. Find one and students score a Stress Reduction Kit libcal.smu.edu/event/15792415 📚
Stony Brook University Libraries hosts violin concerts in their library atrium library.stonybrook.edu/2025/11/17/b... 📚
Brilliant Performances at Art of the Violin | Stony Brook University Libraries
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November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Stony Brook University Libraries hosts violin concerts in their library atrium library.stonybrook.edu/2025/11/17/b... 📚
The University of Idaho Libraries hosted a lecture by a Native American cookbook author and paired that with a cooking class on indigenous inspired recipes: www.instagram.com/p/DQxlXFMj7R...
Native Vandal on Instagram: "Thank you @indigikitchen 🫶🏽
We were honored to welcome Mariah Gladstone to the University of Idaho as part of our Native American Heritage Month celebrations! Mariah capt...
294 likes, 9 comments - uinativecenter on November 7, 2025: "Thank you @indigikitchen 🫶🏽
We were honored to welcome Mariah Gladstone to the University of Idaho as part of our Native American Heritage...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The University of Idaho Libraries hosted a lecture by a Native American cookbook author and paired that with a cooking class on indigenous inspired recipes: www.instagram.com/p/DQxlXFMj7R...
It would be so cool to have so many libraries on campus you could run a 5K around them. From UF Libraries: 😆📚https://communications.uflib.ufl.edu/2025/10/30/intrepid-5k-runners-visit-all-six-campus-libraries/
Intrepid 5K Runners Visit All Six Campus Libraries » Communications » UF Libraries » University of Florida
The first official Smathers Centennial 5K race was held on Sunday, October 26 at 8am outside of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. More than 255 runners and walkers made their way through campus to visit all s...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
It would be so cool to have so many libraries on campus you could run a 5K around them. From UF Libraries: 😆📚https://communications.uflib.ufl.edu/2025/10/30/intrepid-5k-runners-visit-all-six-campus-libraries/
Heard Libraries at Vanderbilt has created a new position for a librarian for creative and instructional technologies newsonline.library.vanderbilt.edu/2025/10/hear... 📚
Heard Libraries bolster digital technology resources with new librarian, expanded lending library, more
Have you ever wanted to create a website, record a podcast, or produce a video but didn’t know where to start? Are you in need of technology or training to bring your digital projects to fruition? The...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Heard Libraries at Vanderbilt has created a new position for a librarian for creative and instructional technologies newsonline.library.vanderbilt.edu/2025/10/hear... 📚
CalTech Library’s TechHub invites students to sew plushies for Mole Day 😆 📚 library.caltech.edu/blog/TechHub...
Caltech Library News - Library at California Institute of Technology
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November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
CalTech Library’s TechHub invites students to sew plushies for Mole Day 😆 📚 library.caltech.edu/blog/TechHub...
Now THIS is how you promote databases (from Tulane Libraries) 📚🔥 www.instagram.com/reel/DQuIikI...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Now THIS is how you promote databases (from Tulane Libraries) 📚🔥 www.instagram.com/reel/DQuIikI...
Y'all.... Y'ALL! The Univ of Wyoming marketing team has an official webpage dedicated to their pets! www.uwyo.edu/publicrelati...
Meet our Furriest Team Members
If you've ever wondered why Institutaional Marketing produces extraordinary work, it's not just because of our talent, wisdom and work ethic. Behind every meeting or project request are the real heros...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Y'all.... Y'ALL! The Univ of Wyoming marketing team has an official webpage dedicated to their pets! www.uwyo.edu/publicrelati...
The J. Willard Marriott Library at U of Utah is hosting what looks like an amazing panel with booksellers. 📚 blog.lib.utah.edu/booksellersp...
J. Willard Marriott Library Blog | Commerce and Culture: A Booksellers’ Panel
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November 5, 2025 at 5:17 AM
The J. Willard Marriott Library at U of Utah is hosting what looks like an amazing panel with booksellers. 📚 blog.lib.utah.edu/booksellersp...
It's spooky season in academic libraries across the U.S. This month we saw:
💀 explorations of memento mori
🌎 celebrations of open data sets
✍️ postcards as creative writing prompts
🔨 new makerspaces
☠️ lots of skeletons
www.johnxlibris.com/2025/10/rece...
💀 explorations of memento mori
🌎 celebrations of open data sets
✍️ postcards as creative writing prompts
🔨 new makerspaces
☠️ lots of skeletons
www.johnxlibris.com/2025/10/rece...
Recently in Academic Libraries: October 2025 - john, from the library
This October, academic libraries are celebrating open data sets, exploring memento mori, creating makerspaces... oh, and more skeletons.
www.johnxlibris.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It's spooky season in academic libraries across the U.S. This month we saw:
💀 explorations of memento mori
🌎 celebrations of open data sets
✍️ postcards as creative writing prompts
🔨 new makerspaces
☠️ lots of skeletons
www.johnxlibris.com/2025/10/rece...
💀 explorations of memento mori
🌎 celebrations of open data sets
✍️ postcards as creative writing prompts
🔨 new makerspaces
☠️ lots of skeletons
www.johnxlibris.com/2025/10/rece...
Students at Stony Brook University Libraries used postcards as creative writing prompts 📚 library.stonybrook.edu/2025/10/23/g...
Greetings from Long Island: Using Postcards as Creative Writing Prompts | Stony Brook University Libraries
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October 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Students at Stony Brook University Libraries used postcards as creative writing prompts 📚 library.stonybrook.edu/2025/10/23/g...
This past month in academic libraries, we saw everything from a plushie conservation project to a major grant to preserve HBCUs archives www.johnxlibris.com/2025/10/rece... 📚
Recently in Academic Libraries: September 2025 - john, from the library
This September, academic libraries built AI scraping policies, launched new data platforms, preserved plushies, and more!
www.johnxlibris.com
October 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This past month in academic libraries, we saw everything from a plushie conservation project to a major grant to preserve HBCUs archives www.johnxlibris.com/2025/10/rece... 📚
Vanderbilt’s Heard Libraries plans to allow Google to digitize 260K of its volumes, including a notable Baudelaire collection and playing card company gaming collection 📚 newsonline.library.vanderbilt.edu/2025/09/2600...
260,000 volumes from Vanderbilt’s Heard Libraries to be digitized by Google Books
A new collaboration between the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries and the Google Books initiative will make it possible for users worldwide to access works that are rare, out of print, or generally u...
newsonline.library.vanderbilt.edu
October 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Vanderbilt’s Heard Libraries plans to allow Google to digitize 260K of its volumes, including a notable Baudelaire collection and playing card company gaming collection 📚 newsonline.library.vanderbilt.edu/2025/09/2600...
The Emory Open Education Initiative is a new program that provides mini-grants to faculty members who want to transition from commercial course materials to open educational resources (OER). 📚 scholarblogs.emory.edu/woodruff/new...
Oxford College faculty first recipients of Emory Open Education Initiative mini-grants
The Emory Open Education Initiative is a new program that provides mini-grants to faculty members who want to transition from commercial course materials to open educational resources (OER). This s…
scholarblogs.emory.edu
October 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The Emory Open Education Initiative is a new program that provides mini-grants to faculty members who want to transition from commercial course materials to open educational resources (OER). 📚 scholarblogs.emory.edu/woodruff/new...
The Falvey Library at Villanova organized a "free cycle" event at their library to help keep items out of landfills blog.library.villanova.edu/2025/09/26/f... 📚
Falvey Library :: Falvey Library Free-Cycle
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October 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The Falvey Library at Villanova organized a "free cycle" event at their library to help keep items out of landfills blog.library.villanova.edu/2025/09/26/f... 📚
This is so Berkeley and I love it: "Documenting the Legacy of California Cannabis" 📚 update.lib.berkeley.edu/2025/09/26/d...
Documenting the Legacy of California Cannabis - UC Berkeley Library Update
For over 150 years, residents and visitors alike have not run short of reasons to support the claim, “There’s no place like California.” And since the 1960s, that claim has been echoed—albeit in whisp...
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October 1, 2025 at 5:38 AM
This is so Berkeley and I love it: "Documenting the Legacy of California Cannabis" 📚 update.lib.berkeley.edu/2025/09/26/d...
At LMU Library, we're back to having a full line-up of Banned Books Week events, including an author talk, movie showing, merch, and a themed drink at the student cafe ("Fahrenheit 451 Freeze" = toasted marshmallow and cinnamon) librarynews.lmu.edu/2025/09/bann... 📚
Banned Books Week 2025 - LMU Library News
At the William H. Hannon Library, we are celebrating our right to read by hosting three events during 2025 Banned Book Week.
librarynews.lmu.edu
September 30, 2025 at 3:59 AM
At LMU Library, we're back to having a full line-up of Banned Books Week events, including an author talk, movie showing, merch, and a themed drink at the student cafe ("Fahrenheit 451 Freeze" = toasted marshmallow and cinnamon) librarynews.lmu.edu/2025/09/bann... 📚
Falvey Library at Villanova has a great lineup of virtual library workshops this semester (and I love that it's all scheduled and set out in advance so students have plenty of time to discover it) 📚 blog.library.villanova.edu/2025/09/02/f...
Falvey Library :: FALL 2025 FALVEY FORUM VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS
blog.library.villanova.edu
September 3, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Falvey Library at Villanova has a great lineup of virtual library workshops this semester (and I love that it's all scheduled and set out in advance so students have plenty of time to discover it) 📚 blog.library.villanova.edu/2025/09/02/f...