“The problem is not the young generation. The problem is the older generation destroying critical infrastructure out of fear of missing out on the new shiny thing from big corp’s marketing department.”

The UC Berkeley Library is looking for a part-time research data curator to join their pilot project providing research data storage to faculty. 50% time and a 20-month term appointment, but it's a union-represented Associate Librarian position and fully remote eligible. And the team on this project are great people.

https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05179

(Oh, and as you'll see from the job listing, they're not afraid to use words like "diverse" and "equitable".)

Does anyone know of any recent research on how / how much patrons interact with digital collections, how patrons feel about different digital collections platforms / implementations, anything like that? All I can find is Schwartz (2004), and I imagine things have changed a bit since then https://doi.org/10.7771/2380-176X.4436

“The first rule of AI Fight Club is not that that you don’t talk about it, but that anything that you do say will be sucked into AI Fight Club.”

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-fight-club-and-what-it-hides