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Connecting You to Excellence in Library Instruction and Information Literacy.

Based in Ypsilanti, MI.

The director of LOEX, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is Brad Sietz, who writes these posts.
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"Defining Engagement for Academic Librarians" by Ellis, Indiana University Bloomington and Becker, University of Kansas (C&RL)

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Defining Engagement for Academic Librarians | Ellis | College & Research Libraries
Defining Engagement for Academic Librarians
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November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Reminder -- these are due next Monday!
loex.bsky.social LOEX @loex.bsky.social · Oct 1
The call for LOEX 2026 (Norfolk, VA, May 7-9) Breakout Session Proposals is posted! "Oceans of Knowledge:
Diving into Information Literacy" loexconference.org/proposals/br... Due December 1, 2025 #loex2026
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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As basically anyone who’s talked to me since the summer knows, I’ve been working on this for months. Thanks to everyone who shared their insights. (I’ve got a lot more to say in the future, too.)

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Can You Believe the Documentary You’re Watching?
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November 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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"Information in the Age of Infocracy: Recalibrating the Definition of Information for Library Instruction" by Richard M. Cho, UC Irvine (C&RL News) rebrand.ly/xz3b51e
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November 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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It's that time of year -- time for Glenn Danzig and his Readers' Advisory Service.

#halloween #bookcollection #alldocumented #alltrue

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Glenn Danzig Interview on the topic of books
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October 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Reminder that this is due next Friday, Oct 31!
loex.bsky.social LOEX @loex.bsky.social · Oct 8
The ACRL University Libraries Section Professional Development Committee has issued a Call for Proposals for online programs that further ACRL members' professional development, knowledge, and practice.
Due Oct 31, 2025.

More details about this webinar series at forms.gle/BJk9Swh9wWBa...
ACRL University Library Section (ULS) Professional Development Committee, Call for Proposals
The ULS Professional Development Committee (PDC) hosts several online programs throughout the year (prior programs available at https://acrl.libguides.com/uls/committees/professional-development). Th...
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October 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Registration is now open for LOEX Fall Focus 2025! This is an online, information literacy & library instruction conference focused on:
- Focus 1: Artificial Intelligence
- Focus 2: Archives & Special Collections
- Focus 3: Sense of Belonging

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November 17-19, #loexff2025
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LOEX Fall Focus 2025 Conference: An online, information literacy & library instruction conference
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October 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
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October 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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"Inclusion and Empathy Are Not Enough: Cultivating Student Belonging in the Academic Library Through Compassion" by Emily Reed, Penn State Harrisburg (portal: Libraries and the Academy)
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Project MUSE - Inclusion and Empathy Are Not Enough: Cultivating Student Belonging in the Academic Library Through Compassion
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October 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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“We’ve decided to make it so society can’t trust anything they’ve shown so you’re just going to have to “evolve” with that.”
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Oct 8
Cyberlibertarianism.
He positioned the launch’s speed bumps as learning opportunities. “Not for much longer will we have the only good video model out there, and there’s going to be a ton of videos with none of our safeguards, and that’s fine, that’s the way the world works,” Altman said, adding, “We can use this window to get society to really understand, ‘Hey, the playing field changed, we can generate almost indistinguishable video in some cases now, and you’ve got to be ready for that.’” Altman said he feels that people don’t pay attention to OpenAI’s technology when people at the company talk about it, only when they release it. “We’ve got to have … this sort of technological and societal co-evolution,” Altman said. “I believe that works, and I actually don’t know anything else that works. There are clearly going to be challenges for society contending with this quality, and what will get much better, with the video generation. But the only way that we know of to help mitigate it is to get the world to experience it and figure out how that’s going to go.”
October 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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The ACRL University Libraries Section Professional Development Committee has issued a Call for Proposals for online programs that further ACRL members' professional development, knowledge, and practice.
Due Oct 31, 2025.

More details about this webinar series at forms.gle/BJk9Swh9wWBa...
ACRL University Library Section (ULS) Professional Development Committee, Call for Proposals
The ULS Professional Development Committee (PDC) hosts several online programs throughout the year (prior programs available at https://acrl.libguides.com/uls/committees/professional-development). Th...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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This is next week!
October 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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"Reading Between the Lines: Celebrating Banned Books Week Through the Lens of the Information Literacy Framework" by Chakraborty and Ford (C&RL News)

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October 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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The proposal topic for the California Conference on Library Instruction #ccli2026 is ready! Propose by October 29, 2025 for our in-person conference May 29, 2026 at Cal State Monterey Bay. More information on our site: www.cclibinstruction.org
September 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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The call for LOEX 2026 (Norfolk, VA, May 7-9) Breakout Session Proposals is posted! "Oceans of Knowledge:
Diving into Information Literacy" loexconference.org/proposals/br... Due December 1, 2025 #loex2026
October 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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"Librarians as Faculty Developers: Shaping Disciplinary Classroom Experiences through Information Literacy" by Rachel Fundator et al. (C&RL)

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Librarians as Faculty Developers: Shaping Disciplinary Classroom Experiences through Information Literacy | Fundator | College & Research Libraries
Librarians as Faculty Developers: Shaping Disciplinary Classroom Experiences through Information Literacy
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September 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Free Online Presentation: "Citational Privilege: Disrupting the Patriarchy and Empowering Students Through Feminist Citation Practices" by Laura Sheets et al (BGSU) - October 8, 2025, 2-3pm ET

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ACRL ULS PDC: Citational Privilege: Disrupting the Patriarchy and Empowering Students Through Feminist Citation Practices. After registering, you will recei...
Coined by Sara Ahmed in Living a Feminist Life, citational privilege is alive and well in academia. Citation practices have the power to create canons and shift scholarly discourse. They can offer a w...
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September 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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“Chrome’s cheating tool exemplifies Big Tech’s continuing gold rush approach to AI: launch first, consider consequences later and let society clean up the mess.”
Column | Teachers got mad about a cheat button in Chrome. Now Google’s pausing it.
Google quietly added a “homework help” button to the world’s most-used web browser. Educators say it makes cheating too easy.
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September 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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"For-Credit Library Instruction: Exploring the Experiences of Academic Librarians Serving as Instructors of Record" by Elizabeth Nelson and Angela Davis (C&RL)

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For-Credit Library Instruction: Exploring the Experiences of Academic Librarians Serving as Instructors of Record
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September 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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"Effectiveness of Academic Library Research Guides for Building College Students’ Information Literacy Skills: A Scoping Review" by Erica Lynn DeFrain, Leslie Sult, Nicole Pagowsky (C&RL) rebrand.ly/eawa2ne
Effectiveness of Academic Library Research Guides for Building College Students’ Information Literacy Skills: A Scoping Review | DeFrain | College & Research Libraries
Effectiveness of Academic Library Research Guides for Building College Students’ Information Literacy Skills: A Scoping Review
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September 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Free Online Presentation: "A Discussion of Faculty and Predatory Journals: The Potential Role of Librarians" by Stephanie Wiegand et al (OSU) - September 17, 2025, 2-3 pm ET

Sponsored by the ACRL ULS Professional Development Committee. Register ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ACRL ULS PDC: A Discussion of Faculty and Predatory Journals: The Potential Role of Librarians. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email abo...
As a webinar registrant, you will receive follow-up correspondence from ACRL specifically related to this webinar (including, but not limited to, instructions for accessing both the live webinar and i...
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September 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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This is a good post on how to get better at using AI. It's the product of pretty intensive research on what consistently works although I don't surface that research directly in it.

Bluesky and AI, so obviously comments on this are off. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/is-the-llm...
Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it?
Many "errors" in search-assisted LLMs are not errors at all, but the result of an investigation aborted too soon. Here's how to up your LLM-based verification game by going to round two.
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September 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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These are due tomorrow!
loex.bsky.social LOEX @loex.bsky.social · Jul 17
Call for Proposals for LOEX Fall Focus 2025 (Online) has been posted. Due September 5. #loexff2025

Conference will be held over November 17-19 loexfallfocus.org/proposals/
Proposals
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September 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
AI "boring history" slop has taken over YouTube and is particularly insidious because it flattens history and drowns out the tireless work of creators who have been integral to legitimizing YouTube as a place for high-quality history videos

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AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History
"These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past."
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September 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM