This summer has been off to a good start! I’ve been busy with different kinds of things, including sharing the set of ideas about libraries as epistemic infrastructure I’ve been exploring here in other spaces.
To make sure all the ideas have a home together, I’m linking to them now.
- I shared a bit about the AI work we’ve been doing at the ZSR Library in a lightning talk at the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries Spring Directors Meeting.
- I was invited to share a keynote at the Triad Academic Library Association, and spoke on What Libraries Make Possible: Conditions for Belonging, Learning, and Care. I had missed the NC Library community, and it was a nice reunion of sorts, and the audience was kind to engage with the discussion.
- And I also was invited to share at the Library Journal‘s “Sustaining the Future of Academic Libraries Online Conference,” on “Sustaining What Matters: Academic Libraries as Epistemic Infrastructure in the Age of AI.” It was a great online conference with a thematically linked sessions that support navigating the times that we’re currently in.
They’re different cuts at the same underlying argument, and putting them side by side actually clarifies for me what the blog is for: the place where these threads get worked out slowly, in writing, rather than delivered.
I also took a real vacation, which I’d recommend.
With the summer change of pace I’ve picked up several books that I’m excited to read together as a set. I expect that to be generative for this space in the long run. More soon!