Alexandra Chassanoff
@amchass.bsky.social
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Communities of Practice in Born-Digital Stewardship
digistew.unc.edu
In Sept 2024, I received an IMLS Early Career Research Grant to study field-wide challenges and potential opportunities for born-digital stewardship through the lens of practitioner experiences. You can follow project updates and news here: digistew.unc.edu
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I found this really helpful on that topic! ketanjoshi.co/2025/08/23/b...
Big tech’s selective disclosure masks AI’s real climate impact
Google claims to have disclosed new information proving its own efficiency. But it has hidden the bigger picture. Guess what: I’ve got the bigger picture for you right here in this big old po…
ketanjoshi.co
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I found this really helpful on that topic! ketanjoshi.co/2025/08/23/b...
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For true sporting excellence, BREAD is the (1935) diet of champions. For a varied athletic diet, include cheese biscuits and tea.
(from mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/... )
(from mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/... )
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
For true sporting excellence, BREAD is the (1935) diet of champions. For a varied athletic diet, include cheese biscuits and tea.
(from mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/... )
(from mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/... )
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina
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me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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#iPRES2025
How many formats are there?
@anjacks0n.bsky.social presents a paper on seeing if we can answer the question.
Some detective work gets him to the number 12k (I think)
How many formats are there?
@anjacks0n.bsky.social presents a paper on seeing if we can answer the question.
Some detective work gets him to the number 12k (I think)
November 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
#iPRES2025
How many formats are there?
@anjacks0n.bsky.social presents a paper on seeing if we can answer the question.
Some detective work gets him to the number 12k (I think)
How many formats are there?
@anjacks0n.bsky.social presents a paper on seeing if we can answer the question.
Some detective work gets him to the number 12k (I think)
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"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise
Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trick or treat 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Trick or treat 🎃
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"these arrangements are not 'partnerships' or 'collaborations' but contracts that bring profit and publicity to AI firms, while making universities complicit in the continued empowerment of tech oligarchy and expansion of their 'AI Empire' (Tacheva and Ramasubramanian, 2023; Adams, 2024; Hao, 2025)"
New preprint alert! 🚨
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 AM
"these arrangements are not 'partnerships' or 'collaborations' but contracts that bring profit and publicity to AI firms, while making universities complicit in the continued empowerment of tech oligarchy and expansion of their 'AI Empire' (Tacheva and Ramasubramanian, 2023; Adams, 2024; Hao, 2025)"
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🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Alexandra Chassanoff, Dr. Elliott Kuecker, & Dr. Eliscia Kinder on their recent publication in The American Archivist:
📰 “The Stories We Can Tell: Using Digital Primary Sources in the Archival Studies Classroom.” 🔗 american-archivist.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...
📰 “The Stories We Can Tell: Using Digital Primary Sources in the Archival Studies Classroom.” 🔗 american-archivist.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...
October 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Alexandra Chassanoff, Dr. Elliott Kuecker, & Dr. Eliscia Kinder on their recent publication in The American Archivist:
📰 “The Stories We Can Tell: Using Digital Primary Sources in the Archival Studies Classroom.” 🔗 american-archivist.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...
📰 “The Stories We Can Tell: Using Digital Primary Sources in the Archival Studies Classroom.” 🔗 american-archivist.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...
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✨ Welcome to the 2025–2026 Carolina Academic Library Associates (CALAs)! Now in its 25th year, CALA gives SILS graduate students the chance to enhance their education with experience working in an academic library. The program is a collaboration between UNC Libraries & SILS. go.unc.edu/CALA2025-2026
Introducing the 2025-2026 Carolina Academic Library Associates - School of Information and Library Science
The School of Information and Library Science graduate students will get real-world experience by working hands-on with the Libraries.
go.unc.edu
October 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
✨ Welcome to the 2025–2026 Carolina Academic Library Associates (CALAs)! Now in its 25th year, CALA gives SILS graduate students the chance to enhance their education with experience working in an academic library. The program is a collaboration between UNC Libraries & SILS. go.unc.edu/CALA2025-2026
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📣 Join the SILS faculty at UNC!
We’re seeking a tenure-track Associate or Full Professor in Archives & Records Management to join our internationally recognized faculty.
Apply by November 24: go.unc.edu/archivesfaculty
#Hiring #UNC #SILS #LibraryScience
We’re seeking a tenure-track Associate or Full Professor in Archives & Records Management to join our internationally recognized faculty.
Apply by November 24: go.unc.edu/archivesfaculty
#Hiring #UNC #SILS #LibraryScience
October 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
📣 Join the SILS faculty at UNC!
We’re seeking a tenure-track Associate or Full Professor in Archives & Records Management to join our internationally recognized faculty.
Apply by November 24: go.unc.edu/archivesfaculty
#Hiring #UNC #SILS #LibraryScience
We’re seeking a tenure-track Associate or Full Professor in Archives & Records Management to join our internationally recognized faculty.
Apply by November 24: go.unc.edu/archivesfaculty
#Hiring #UNC #SILS #LibraryScience
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I got my degree at SILS. It’s one of the top library and information science programs in the US. With no faculty consideration there’s no planning in the best interests of the program or students. 😶
Breaking: We’ve talked to multiple individuals who have confirmed that UNC-CH is merging SILS (library and information science) and SDSS (data science and society). Announcement will be tomorrow morning. Faculty were not consulted.
October 9, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I got my degree at SILS. It’s one of the top library and information science programs in the US. With no faculty consideration there’s no planning in the best interests of the program or students. 😶
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I note that SILS has a very well respected archival science track. It would be disastrous for this to be discontinued or degraded. Archival science education is poorly represented in the United States, with UNC being one of the major exceptions.
October 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I note that SILS has a very well respected archival science track. It would be disastrous for this to be discontinued or degraded. Archival science education is poorly represented in the United States, with UNC being one of the major exceptions.
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New post! It's the second installment in our series on the significance of federal data. This one on teaching students where data comes from! 🐣
#FederalData
#FederalData
Guest Post: Eggs Don’t Grow on Trees and Neither Does Data: How to Teach K-12 Students Where Data Comes From
Second in a series of posts about federal data and the Federal Statistical System.
www.datarescueproject.org
October 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
New post! It's the second installment in our series on the significance of federal data. This one on teaching students where data comes from! 🐣
#FederalData
#FederalData
"For years, I wondered why some of our family lived in Indonesia while we — my parents, grandparents and an aunt — were in the Netherlands, and why my surname didn’t match the rest of the family. The answer was not uncommon for children of refugees. It’s complicated." newlinesmag.com/first-person...
Caught Between States as an Empire Dissolved
A Dutch-Indonesian family’s documents from the mid-20th century reveal a painful story of separation and an administrative nightmare that prefigures today’s xenophobic politics
newlinesmag.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"For years, I wondered why some of our family lived in Indonesia while we — my parents, grandparents and an aunt — were in the Netherlands, and why my surname didn’t match the rest of the family. The answer was not uncommon for children of refugees. It’s complicated." newlinesmag.com/first-person...
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I'm always up for screaming into the void that 'NO: NO WHITE GLOVES!' lesleyahall.blogspot.com/2022/11/whit... but I'd also like to point out that only a tiny % of all archives have yet been digitised, that digitisation is not a preservation medium, that archives are woefully under-resourced....
White gloves are not a sign of good archival/library handling practice
Yesterday I engaged on a certain social media site which shall be nameless with somebody expressing horror at another person posting photos ...
lesleyahall.blogspot.com
September 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I'm always up for screaming into the void that 'NO: NO WHITE GLOVES!' lesleyahall.blogspot.com/2022/11/whit... but I'd also like to point out that only a tiny % of all archives have yet been digitised, that digitisation is not a preservation medium, that archives are woefully under-resourced....
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if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives
February 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives
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Echoing (!) @ktmac.bsky.social — very glad to be bringing together three panels tomorrow at #4S2025 on #dataloss. We will be tracing how erasure, disappearance, and dispossession work as privative and constitutive forces and modes of resistance in digital systems. Please join us online or in-room!
September 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Do you know an intellectual freedom fighter in New York state? Nominate them for this year's Intellectual Freedom Award from the New York Library Association! I can't wait to read your stories! Due October 3!
www.nyla.org/intellectual...
www.nyla.org/intellectual...
Intellectual Freedom Award
www.nyla.org
September 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Do you know an intellectual freedom fighter in New York state? Nominate them for this year's Intellectual Freedom Award from the New York Library Association! I can't wait to read your stories! Due October 3!
www.nyla.org/intellectual...
www.nyla.org/intellectual...
Shout out to who(m)ever wrote the Wikipedia entry for the Records Continuum Model. Truly a work of art! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records...
Records continuum model - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
September 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Shout out to who(m)ever wrote the Wikipedia entry for the Records Continuum Model. Truly a work of art! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records...
New article out in The American Archivist: "The Stories We Can Tell: Using Digital Primary Sources in the Archival Studies Classroom" american-archivist.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...
american-archivist.kglmeridian.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
New article out in The American Archivist: "The Stories We Can Tell: Using Digital Primary Sources in the Archival Studies Classroom" american-archivist.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...
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NEW!
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
The Jameson Tapes, Side A
with Isabel Bartholomew, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Robert Tally, & Fredric Jameson
theamericanvandal.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
NEW!
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
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Early Closure of House Leaves IMLS Future Hanging; What This Means & What You Can Do (7-29-2025) 📚
bookriot.com/imls-funding...
bookriot.com/imls-funding...
Early Closure of House Leaves IMLS Future Hanging; What This Means & What You Can Do
The abrupt early recess in the House of Representatives means the future of IMLS funding remains a question mark. Use this time to act.
bookriot.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Early Closure of House Leaves IMLS Future Hanging; What This Means & What You Can Do (7-29-2025) 📚
bookriot.com/imls-funding...
bookriot.com/imls-funding...