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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger
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Scholar, chai drinker, human. Curator of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. PhD, MLIS; reviewer @ The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books. She/her.

All opinions expressed are my own and not those of my employer.
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There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I’m so pleased to be heading to Boston for the Summer Children’s Literature Institute in a couple of weeks. Now where did I put my ancient CharlieCard and does it still work?
July 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Read what your ancestors might have read as children! Enter an Archive of 10,000+ Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online www.openculture.com/2025/06/ente... #Genealogy
Enter an Archive of 10,000+ Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online
We can learn much about how a historical period viewed the abilities of its children by studying its children's literature.
www.openculture.com
June 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
ChLA 2025 let’s go!
June 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Still not really sure how I’ll end up using this account, so for now I may just tersely proffer things that delight me, e.g., my current audiobook, which is Space Oddity by @catvalente.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Highlight of the day: explaining the plot of “Goblin Market” to a colleague
October 30, 2024 at 8:22 PM
This is fantastic!
Please share this CFP!

We’re hosting a symposium 20-21 May 2025 @skeuomorph.bsky.social on "Building Book Labs: Hands-On Research & Teaching in Book History"—we’re looking for talks, discussion topics, & hands-on activities—& we especially welcome novel formats or session ideas. More at the link!
CFP: Building Book Labs Symposium – Skeuomorph Press
skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu
October 25, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Absolutely thrilled: I’m the new Curator of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida!

hr.uflib.ufl.edu/current-empl...
Employee Highlights: New Faces and Faces in New Places at the George A Smathers Libraries » Employee Highlights » Human Resources » UF Libraries » University of Florida
George A. Smathers Libraries
hr.uflib.ufl.edu
September 23, 2024 at 12:24 PM
so. many. logistics.
August 28, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Logistics!
August 27, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Happy first day of classes to all my colleagues, and happy first day to me of remembering to take stretching breaks while packing everything I own. (Books. It’s at least 75% books.)
August 26, 2024 at 8:05 PM
I do love a funky coffee shop.
May 30, 2024 at 5:27 PM
it’s time to get going on NIMONA & A WARNING ABOUT SWANS redux: medievalisms & animal transformations!
May 24, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Excited to talk about queer & trans medievalisms in NIMONA and A WARNING ABOUT SWANS!
May 9, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Hanging out with the medievalists at Kalamazoo!
May 9, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Living that beleaguered reviewer life
April 23, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Got to play with typewriters today! A tactile and auditory delight.
February 13, 2024 at 2:37 AM
My brain is convinced we’ve never written so much as a single line of analysis, ever, and we shouldn’t start now.
February 9, 2024 at 6:24 PM
I got to look at some romance novels from the ‘80s in class today! Here’s a blog post I wrote for the LitLangLibrary on newer romance fiction: publish.illinois.edu/litlanglibra...
Roses & Thorns: New Romance | Literatures and Languages Library - University of Illinois at Urbana-C...
publish.illinois.edu
January 23, 2024 at 1:26 AM
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The Bulletin’s best children’s books of 2023: The Blue Ribbons!
2023 Blue Ribbons | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
bccb.ischool.illinois.edu
January 3, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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* Folklore, Place, and Song, a digital mapping project on corridos, created by Fiona Hartley-Kroeger, Matthew Kollmer, Loida Pan, and Isabella Viega and reviewed by Ysabel Munoz Martinez #ReviewsInDH reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/folklore...
Folklore, Place, and Song · Vol. 4, No. 11
A review of Folklore, Place, and Song, a digital mapping project on corridos, created by Fiona Hartley-Kroeger, Matthew Kollmer, Loida Pan, and Isabella Viega
reviewsindh.pubpub.org
November 27, 2023 at 3:26 PM
I’m here, apparently.
November 28, 2023 at 4:37 AM