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Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha Prešern
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Linguist. Celticist. Senior Library assistant @ Wolfson College Oxford & Foreign Language Cataloguer @ Bodleian Libraries. Passionate about metadata management, digital humanities, AI ethics...
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indexers.bsky.social
Indexing is an international profession. We have sister societies in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa and the USA. We contribute to fellow members' conferences and we all contribute to @indexer.bsky.social buff.ly/pgJ8Dfw #IndexDay
March 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
liblabpad.bsky.social
Attended the Oxford-Cambridge College Librarians' Conference at Sommerville College today. Lots of fruitful discussions of AI and the future of Librarianship over delicious tea and cake!
March 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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datasociety.bsky.social
In a new brief, Policy Director Brian J. Chen lays out empirical evidence to counter the myths that are fueling DOGE’s “AI-first” strategy. datasociety.net/library/disp...
Text on a blue background with the title of the policy brief Dispelling Myths of AI and Efficiency by Brian J. Chen. It shows a quote from the brief: "The unchecked use of AI will accelerate large-scale harms to the public, gutting critical services while offering no avenues for accountability and recourse."
March 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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cilipmdg.bsky.social
Hello Bluesky!
We are a @cilip.bsky.social special interest group dedicated to supporting those who create, disseminate, enrich and maintain #metadata to facilitate #discovery and #access to knowledge, information or data in #libraries #archives #repositories and more.
www.cilip.org.uk/mdg
Mission Statement To be the keystone organisation in the UK for those who create, disseminate, enrich and maintain metadata to facilitate discovery and access to knowledge, information or data; or anyone who aspires to do so. We will put our community of practice at the heart of the Information Profession.
March 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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notalegalrecord.net
new Library of Congress subject heading changes. goodbye “Mexico, Gulf of.”

could we be living in a stupider timeline? don’t answer that. this one is bad enough. 📚
151 Mexico, Gulf of CHANGE HEADING 151 America, Gulf of [sp 85084621] 072 H 1145.5 451 UF Golfo de Méjico 451 UF Golfo de Mexico 451 UF Gulf of America 451 UF Gulf of Mexico 451 UF Mexico, Gulf of [Former heading] 550 BT Bays--Mexico 550 BT Bays--United States 688 Heading changed from Mexico, Gulf of to America, Gulf of in March 2025. 781 America, Gulf of
March 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM