Jenaya Webb
@jenayawebb.bsky.social
Director, OISE Library, University of Toronto Libraries
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"We must remove graphic, sexually explicit content from schools."
EPSB: "Hoo boy, okay, so Handmaid's Tale, Brave New World, It, Watchmen, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings--"
"--not like that!"
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
EPSB: "Hoo boy, okay, so Handmaid's Tale, Brave New World, It, Watchmen, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings--"
"--not like that!"
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'Vicious compliance': Alberta premier decries Edmonton Public Schools' banned book list | CBC News
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith slammed the Edmonton Public School Board Friday morning for its banned book list, which features more than 200 titles.
www.cbc.ca
August 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"We must remove graphic, sexually explicit content from schools."
EPSB: "Hoo boy, okay, so Handmaid's Tale, Brave New World, It, Watchmen, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings--"
"--not like that!"
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
EPSB: "Hoo boy, okay, so Handmaid's Tale, Brave New World, It, Watchmen, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings--"
"--not like that!"
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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For those just learning about LibGen because of the reporting on Meta and other companies training LLMs on pirated books, I’d highly recommend the book Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education (open access: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...)
Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education
How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks.From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the
direct.mit.edu
March 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
For those just learning about LibGen because of the reporting on Meta and other companies training LLMs on pirated books, I’d highly recommend the book Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education (open access: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...)
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We are delighted to release our latest special issue, Libraries and/as Extraction, co-edited by Maura Seale @mauraseale.bsky.social, Nicole Pagowsky @nope4evr.bsky.social, Rafia Mirza @librarianrafia.bsky.social, and Karen P. Nicholson.
Read the full volume here: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...
Read the full volume here: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...
Vol. 10 (2024): including Special Focus on Libraries and/as Extraction
| Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship
cjal.ca
December 17, 2024 at 9:38 PM
We are delighted to release our latest special issue, Libraries and/as Extraction, co-edited by Maura Seale @mauraseale.bsky.social, Nicole Pagowsky @nope4evr.bsky.social, Rafia Mirza @librarianrafia.bsky.social, and Karen P. Nicholson.
Read the full volume here: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...
Read the full volume here: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...
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waaaaay too many people in the middle imo
January 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
waaaaay too many people in the middle imo
Just moved over, so thought I'd start by re-sharing results of a wonderful collab with @uoftlibraries.bsky.social colleagues published in Research Synthesis Methods onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Scoping review search practices in the social sciences: A scoping review
A thorough literature search is a key feature of scoping reviews. We investigated the search practices used by social science researchers as reported in their scoping reviews. We collected scoping re....
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January 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Just moved over, so thought I'd start by re-sharing results of a wonderful collab with @uoftlibraries.bsky.social colleagues published in Research Synthesis Methods onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...