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David Hughes
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Librarian. Open scholarship enthusiast. Shill for Big Library. Power-hungry gatekeeper. King of infinite space. He/him/his. Personal account.
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Oh, just eff off with this will you, Clarivate.
Coming Soon: AI-Generated Metadata in Express MARC Records October 2025 In late October, Express MARCs will include AI-generated metadata, including Library of Congress Subject Headings, when publisher metadata fields are not available to help improve discoverability. This feature will be auto-enabled for all customers, but there is an opt-out option available now in LibCentral under System Settings. Learn more.
October 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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A man standing in a room facing the wall. A still from the film The Blair Witch Project
September 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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The author works for Microsoft research.

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Metadata for article [extended abstract] entitled "AI Could Have Written This: Birth of a Classist Slur in Knowledge Work"
July 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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I've been using Netvibes to manage RSS feeds ever since iGoogle was shuttered. Now, Netvibes parent, Dassault Systèmes, have drank the AI kool aid and are closing it down. I am disgusted.
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April 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Strangely, I find myself in Belfast talking to theology librarians about open scholarship
April 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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when the rhetoric surrounding librarianship borders on vocational and sacred language rather than acknowledging that librarianship is a profession or a discipline, and as an institution, historically and contemporarily flawed, we do ourselves a disservice...Because the sacred duties of freedom, information, and service are so momentous, the library worker is easily paralyzed. In the face of grand missions of literacy and freedom, advocating for your full lunch break feels petty.
March 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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The man, the legend @martinoconnor.bsky.social #ASL2025
March 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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And now I'm here
St Peter's Basilica, Rome at night
March 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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I was here ...
Big Ben in London at night
March 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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He's gone over 40 years, but I still miss Philip K. Dick.
In 1969's Ubik, he predicts the Internet of [stupid] Things
The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.” “I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.” In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip. “You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug. From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door. “I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”
January 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Hahahahahahaha!
Text: standard article publishing charge EUR 3170
January 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Me, looking at the new EBSCO user interface
January 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Headline: man returns to work after vacation with fresh, renergised hatred for job Picture: man sitting at desk typing on laptop, staring into distance
January 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin- image the film "Avatar" was actually a book with some depth to it.
The cover of the novel The Word for World is Forest. In a forest with three moons in the sky, a group of small hairy green men face a human pointing a gun at them.
January 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen - life on a Norwegian island in the early years of the twentieth century. Stunning (IMHO).
The cover of the novel The Unseen. A picture of a rowing boat with a child and rowing adult on a grey/blue stormy sea. A black mountain sits in the background. The grey/blue/white sky is stormy
January 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell - hillbilly noir, for want of a better description. Find me a better first sentence in a novel if you can (spoiler: you can't).
The cover of the novel Tomato Red. Top half: a man's face in profile on a pink background. Bottom half: a woman and a man stand by a car we see their head and chest - red background
January 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick - a mashup of the Tempest and Heart of Darkness set in outer space (really much better than it sounds)
The cover of the novel Stations of the Tide a man, standing at the peak of a mountain, looks at a sunken cityscape
January 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Road Seven by Keith Rosson - magical realism and a dash of cosmic horror
The cover of the novel Road Seven - a drawing, in purple of the face of a unicorn, with eyes blacked out, on a yellow/orange background
January 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler - we're slowly getting there
The cover of the novel The Parable of the Sower - the pages of a book being turned by someone's hand.
January 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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The Paperboy by Pete Dexter - good and (mostly) evil in 1960s Florida
The cover of the novel The Paperboy - a man, in a suit, standing knee deep in water and seen from behind
January 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Exordia by Seth Dickinson - aliens and maths and the end of the world.
The cover of the novel Exordia - snakes surrounding a human eye, yellow background
January 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Amatka by Karin Tidbeck - language makes and shpes the world
The cover of the novel Amatka - the title, repeated, in orange text on a black background with a photo of an urban science - skyscrapers & smokestacks in the middle of the page
January 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Affliction by Russell Banks - a (psychological) slow motion car crash
The cover of the novel Affliction by Russell Banks - a snowy forest
January 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Also
Still from Monty Python's Life of Brian stands at an open window. Text: Let us not forget the true meaning of Christmas. The birth of Brian
December 25, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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I have the panda's thousand yard stare
A close-up of a panda's face (it's a man in a panda costume)
December 11, 2024 at 4:17 PM