5 Best JavaScript Web Scraping Libraries in 2025, by @apify.bsky.social:
https://blog.apify.com/best-javascript-web-scraping-libraries/
The lions of the New York Public Library were famously named Patience and Fortitude by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, for the virtues he thought New Yorkers needed during the Depression. They’re still qualities we could use in these dark times. Here’s a photo of Patience I took today, to complement the photo of Fortitude posted by @Star12Mt a few days ago. Happy #Pride Month, and support your local #libraries!
“Hoopla has emailed #librarians saying it’s removing AI-generated #books from the platform people use to borrow #ebooks from public #libraries”
The book return and sorting machine at the #Hamburg Zentralbibliothek is pretty cool, even if you can't see as much of it as you used to.
Huntington Beach, California overwhelmingly passed two ballot measures to Protect Our FREEDOM to READ and block privatization of their public libraries. #California #freedom #library #books #libraries #news
I don't know why, but I really like epigraphs in scientific articles. 
For example, I think these are wonderful words for a work on student success:
“You keep asking why your work isn't enough, and I don't know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and just marvel at it. You don't need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
-A Psalm for the Wild Built (Chambers, 2021).
An interesting read!
“AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, and are in some cases knocking their collections offline, according to a new survey published today. While the impact of AI bots on open collections has been reported anecdotally, the survey is the first attempt at measuring the problem, which in the worst cases can make valuable, public resources unavailable to humans because the servers they’re hosted on are being swamped by bots scraping the internet for AI training data.”
#ai #bots #open #libraries #archives #data #information #tech
https://www.404media.co/ai-scraping-bots-are-breaking-open-libraries-archives-and-museums/
ALIA in partnership with the Office of Community Cohesion is looking to work with public libraries across the country on an exciting new community engagement initiative. Participating libraries will receive a payment of $9,900 incl GST in order to host a range of programs that strengthen, grow, and protect community cohesion in diverse ways.
Information session on Wednesday 25 June, 12:30pm AEST. This is your opportunity to find out more and ask questions before putting in your expression of interest ahead of Friday 4 July.
https://www.alia.org.au/Web/Web/Partnerships/Community-Cohesion.aspx
"| love public libraries because they
are built on the principle that books
are so important and so necessary
to human flourishing that access to
them cannot depend on your
income."
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All I got to say is this WAS written by a publisher.
> Guest Post — Gatekeepers of Trust: Reaffirming the Publisher’s Role in Service of the Reader
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/05/12/guest-post-gatekeepers-of-trust-reaffirming-the-publishers-role-in-service-of-the-reader/
NEW Report: Are #AI #Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline? https://www.infodocket.com/2025/06/17/report-are-ai-bots-knocking-cultural-heritage-offline/ #culturalheritage #libraries #GLAM @NYUEngelberg
"The problem is in #institutional failure. What happens to #libraries is, they burn. They get burned by #governments."
- Brewster Kahle (Founder of @internetarchive )
full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXwo3I-hItY
At @oapenbooks.bsky.social, we have updated our #Metadata feeds, to better integrate our #OpenAccess #books into #libraries.
All details are described here:
https://oapen.hypotheses.org/1484
So Leute, es wird langsam Zeit für die letzten Planungen. #Vorfreude #BID2025 #Bibliotheken #Bibliothek #libraries
#AI developers are turning to #libraries for #training data, accessing nearly a million books from #Harvard and other institutions. https://apnews.com/article/ai-chatbot-training-data-libraries-idi-e096a81a4fceb2951f232a33ac767f53?eicker.news #tech #media #news
I don't like or promote reddit, but this thread is beautiful:
Great news -- my latest book, The Gates of Polished Horn, is now available in libraries and ready for you to check out!
http://library.biblioboard.com/content/f81d1e71-98e6-48d1-8bc5-4aae6c86bd6d
Salt Lake City Public Library, public library in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
#booksky #nonfiction #libbyapp #libraries
I got out of a cult by reading - #selfcare. Nonfiction is my safe space.
This is a great telling of Captain James Cook’s 3rd/last voyage. I’m on the waitlist for more of this author’s books!
share.libbyapp.com/title/10029292
The Wide Wide Sea
You might be like "but Mark, why are you starting a journal called Humanities Methods in Librarianship when your publications are mostly from social science perspectives?"
That, my friend, is the point. There are few options for humanities papers in librarianship, so many librarians with humanities backgrounds find uncomfortable homes for their ideas in social science-focused journals. It doesn't have to be that way; we're starting an alternative: https://www.humanitiesmethods.org
