Alison Babeu
alicatlibrarian.bsky.social
Alison Babeu
@alicatlibrarian.bsky.social
Digital librarian for the Perseus Digital Library for oh so many years. Dogs rock, cats rock, rocks rock (raising a budding geologist after all), being a Mom rocks, and so many other things rock (but in no particular order!)
I have wanted to do this for a long time having been inspired many years ago by research by Melissa Terras in 2012. Granted, I have no plans to systematically track if this increases citations to or downloads of these articles, largely because graphs and statistics don't meet my definition of fun.
November 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I am going to focus on those I can provide open access to (which I know will be limiting but nothing drives my librarian self crazier than seeing a link posted to an interesting paper and not being able to share it)!
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Perseus has been having challenges with this very issue for the last year or more. 404 media has also been reporting on it: www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
www.404media.co
June 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Also enjoying reflecting on just how long the Perseus Digital Library has been kicking around in all its formats and inspired by all the work so many amazing Perseids have done over the years. I'd tag all of them by name but that would not be quick and easy
May 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I know this is like state of the art circa 1995, but I'm feeling strangely nostalgic these days for things that are easy and quick to create.
May 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM