Michelle Reed
@librariansreed.bsky.social
Works in libraries and digital rights. 📚
Digs plants and birds. 🌱🪶
Would rather be playing in dirt.
Digs plants and birds. 🌱🪶
Would rather be playing in dirt.
Extremely excited to kick-off a new webinar series on “AI” with guests Chris Gilliard & Christa Albrecht-Crane. This session won’t be recorded so sign up now & join us for a deep dive into what we’re really talking about. Happening Thursday!!!
#edusky #academicsky #skybrarians 📚
#edusky #academicsky #skybrarians 📚
Maybe you can't read Ray Carver at work, but you CAN talk about AI, and we've got the webinar series you've been waiting for. Join @hypervisible.blacksky.app, Christa Albrecht-Crane, and Library Futures this Thursday 9/25 for the first installment!
nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Extremely excited to kick-off a new webinar series on “AI” with guests Chris Gilliard & Christa Albrecht-Crane. This session won’t be recorded so sign up now & join us for a deep dive into what we’re really talking about. Happening Thursday!!!
#edusky #academicsky #skybrarians 📚
#edusky #academicsky #skybrarians 📚
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"Key issues research libraries face in next 5 yrs?" Recently retired, longtime UVA Library Dean @junsworth.bsky.social: "In a nutshell, the challenge we face in libraries and in higher education and beyond in the US is government-sponsored fascism"
"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them."
ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025
www.arl.org/blog/john-un...
ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025
www.arl.org/blog/john-un...
September 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
"Key issues research libraries face in next 5 yrs?" Recently retired, longtime UVA Library Dean @junsworth.bsky.social: "In a nutshell, the challenge we face in libraries and in higher education and beyond in the US is government-sponsored fascism"
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September 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone
www.nytimes.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Artificial systems have "catapulted... into our inboxes, file storage, discovery systems, and nearly every element of our daily lives without our consent." How to resist? Library Futures and friends have tips!
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/tips-fr...
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/tips-fr...
Resistance, Rebellion, Refusal: 7 Tips from Librarians for Navigating “AI” — Civics of Technology
This is a special conference-themed blog contribution from Michelle Reed , Hayley Park , Justin White , and Mike Nason Communal resistance to artificial systems Join the Resistance Today a...
www.civicsoftechnology.org
July 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Artificial systems have "catapulted... into our inboxes, file storage, discovery systems, and nearly every element of our daily lives without our consent." How to resist? Library Futures and friends have tips!
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/tips-fr...
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/tips-fr...
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Exciting job
Doing impactful work
With a fantastic team
What more could you want?
Doing impactful work
With a fantastic team
What more could you want?
Do you care about institutional contracts and norm setting? Have you negotiated contracts on behalf of clients? Do you want to join a library organization that's taking a new approach to digital rights advocacy? (And having a lot of fun doing it?!)
Apply!
www.libraryfutures.net/apply-to-be-...
Apply!
www.libraryfutures.net/apply-to-be-...
Apply to Be the Library Futures Staff Attorney
Research and advocacy for the future of libraries.
www.libraryfutures.net
July 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Exciting job
Doing impactful work
With a fantastic team
What more could you want?
Doing impactful work
With a fantastic team
What more could you want?
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Carla Hayden, the ex-Librarian of Congress who was fired by Trump, has a new role as senior fellow with the Mellon Foundation
Former Librarian of Congress, fired by Trump, vows to improve public information in new Mellon role
Carla Hayden, the former Librarian of Congress fired by President Donald Trump, has joined the the country's foremost philanthropic supporter of the arts.
apnews.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Carla Hayden, the ex-Librarian of Congress who was fired by Trump, has a new role as senior fellow with the Mellon Foundation
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Mellon Foundation announces appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as Mellon Senior Fellow 📚📜
librarytechnology.org/pr/31511
librarytechnology.org/pr/31511
Mellon Foundation announces appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as Mellon Senior Fellow
Press Release: Mellon Foundation announces appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as Mellon Senior Fellow. The Mellon Foundation announced the appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as a senior fellow. As part of ...
librarytechnology.org
July 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Mellon Foundation announces appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as Mellon Senior Fellow 📚📜
librarytechnology.org/pr/31511
librarytechnology.org/pr/31511
I like big beets and I cannot lie. 🌱
June 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I like big beets and I cannot lie. 🌱
“When I heard [comments about inappropriate books for children], I was concerned that there might not have been as much of an awareness of what the Library of Congress does." The library's primary function is to fulfil research requests from members of Congress…
Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden speaks out on her firing by Trump
https://cbsn.ws/3ZiiFf6
https://cbsn.ws/3ZiiFf6
Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden speaks out on her firing by Trump
Last month, Carla Hayden, the first woman and first African American to serve as Librarian of Congress, received an email announcing her dismissal. She talks about libraries as bastions of democracy, for which the "freedom to read," she says, is essential.
cbsn.ws
June 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
“When I heard [comments about inappropriate books for children], I was concerned that there might not have been as much of an awareness of what the Library of Congress does." The library's primary function is to fulfil research requests from members of Congress…
It’s clematis season! 💜🌱
May 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
It’s clematis season! 💜🌱
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I went into my library's database of Chicago area newspapers to confirm this isn't fake, and it's not.
@chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?
@chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?
May 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I went into my library's database of Chicago area newspapers to confirm this isn't fake, and it's not.
@chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?
@chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?
Join us online next week! Bring ice cream! 🍦
Got misinformation? We've got the antidote. Join Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, @melissa1776.bsky.social, and @ajenningsroche.bsky.social on 5/28 (1 pm ET/10 am PT) for a book talk and all the information you won't want to miss!
nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Join us online next week! Bring ice cream! 🍦
We were all out appreciating the spiderwort today. 🌱
May 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM
We were all out appreciating the spiderwort today. 🌱
Put this tickseed in the ground yesterday and woke up today to a beheading. 🤬🌱
May 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Put this tickseed in the ground yesterday and woke up today to a beheading. 🤬🌱
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Good morning, y'all! I am thrilled to share the 4th @civicsoftech.bsky.social online conference and our keynote speakers @audreywatters.bsky.social and @hypervisible.bsky.social. This year's theme is especially urgent: communal resistance to artificial systems. Read more about the free event at:
Join Us for the 4th Civics of Technology Online Conference — Civics of Technology
Next Tech Talk on June 3rd: Join us for our monthly tech talk on Tuesday, June 3 from 8:00-9:00 PM EST (GMT-5). Join an informal conversation about events, issues, articles, problems, and whatever el...
www.civicsoftechnology.org
May 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Good morning, y'all! I am thrilled to share the 4th @civicsoftech.bsky.social online conference and our keynote speakers @audreywatters.bsky.social and @hypervisible.bsky.social. This year's theme is especially urgent: communal resistance to artificial systems. Read more about the free event at:
Happy to report that my strategy for growing lettuce—cutting the tops off of last year’s crop, telling myself I would eventually locate seeds but never doing it, & then burying clumps of dried lettuce parts—has worked just fine. #ChaosGarden 🌱
May 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Happy to report that my strategy for growing lettuce—cutting the tops off of last year’s crop, telling myself I would eventually locate seeds but never doing it, & then burying clumps of dried lettuce parts—has worked just fine. #ChaosGarden 🌱