A celebration of chocolate from 1662 #WorldChocolateDay

Thanks for the share :-) AI-assisted document query and summarization services are becoming more common as a feature of general services like ChatGPT or in more specialised apps. This post compares the 'ask a PDF' outputs of several services.

I just wrote this based on the experience of using several AI-based 'document chat' services - I was interested to see how they compare.

Hot take. A lot of what passes for Ai literacy in LIS IL currently is basically being a "scold" or "Nag" with very little actual usable knowledge except don't use. It will get better as librarians and the world understand the tech more

Not too surprising? > AI poetry rated better than poems written by humans, study shows. Findings suggest non-expert poetry readers who participated preferred AI works because they find them more straightforward and accessible

Marina Hyde > Meanwhile, it is easier to leave Twitter than America, as I think Marcus Aurelius once remarked. In the week the Guardian exited X .. you couldn’t move for people informing you they were herding with almost impossible dignity over to Bluesky.

Quite noticeable > Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week

Don't really participate in Threads, so not sure how they compare > Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark

'British newspaper group the Guardian has announced it will no longer post on X, formerly Twitter, saying it has become a "a toxic media platform".'

Rereading this .. I probably should have broken it up into smaller pieces 😀 >>Font choices, value and ecosystem. National Library examples

Sign of the times >> Cybersecurity Analyst > job posting at Seattle Public Library

Important for shared print etc. 'Through analysis of interlibrary loan (ILL) survey data, the authors found an overall low rate of bibliographic inaccuracy, and that inaccuracies rarely prevented library staff from verifying the ownership of the item.'

'Indeed, the biggest beneficiaries of Plan S appear to be BCG Partners (the private equity firm that owned 48% of Springer Nature prior to the IPO) and the shareholders of Elsevier.'

New OpenAI search pretty interesting. Example > Ireland Post Brexit Overview

'Roughly two dozen faculty members will temporarily lose access to Harvard’s main library following a silent protest in support of students punished for the same reason.'

#BramStoker enthusiast #BrianCleary found an undiscovered short story, #GibbetHill, while researching at NLI. A book on the story of its discovery supported by @RotundaCharity is out on 26 October @bramstokerdub.

"We learn that Foucault and Derrida couldn’t stand each other, rather as one imagines Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver don’t get on too well."

I have been interested to hear from people sharing similar experiences/feelings about starting to teach in US HE. Less comment about my observations about library systems, canvas, and other systems. The bread analogy seems to resonate :-) https://t.co/dWbl8FDI3Z

‘I love the whole atmosphere and can spend hours browsing’: how did bookshops suddenly become cool?

I submitted the suggestion Robinson-Boland Library, bringing together friends and important figures, but this is a good outcome > Trinity renames its main Library after poet Eavan Boland