{"id":95,"date":"2026-06-24T20:55:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurenpressley.com\/library\/?p=95"},"modified":"2026-06-24T20:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:58:04","slug":"where-ive-been-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurenpressley.com\/library\/2026\/06\/24\/where-ive-been-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I&#8217;ve Been Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This summer has been off to a good start! I&#8217;ve been busy with different kinds of things, including sharing the set of ideas about libraries as epistemic infrastructure I&#8217;ve been exploring here in other spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To make sure all the ideas have a home together, I&#8217;m linking to them now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I shared a bit about the <a href=\"https:\/\/zsr.wfu.edu\/2026\/starting-with-values-introducing-our-ai-engagement-framework\/\">AI work we&#8217;ve been doing at the ZSR Library<\/a> in a lightning talk at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aserl.org\/meetings\/\">Association of Southeastern Research Libraries Spring Directors Meeting<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I was invited to share a keynote at the <a href=\"https:\/\/talaconf.org\/\">Triad Academic Library Association<\/a>, and spoke on <a href=\"https:\/\/myzsr.org\/handle\/10339\/112322\">What Libraries Make Possible: Conditions for Belonging, Learning, and Care<\/a>. 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. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And I also was invited to share at the <em>Library Journal<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/course.libraryjournal.com\/products\/26S-sustaining-academic-conference\">Sustaining the Future of Academic Libraries Online Conference<\/a>,&#8221; on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/myzsr.org\/handle\/10339\/112386\">Sustaining What Matters: Academic Libraries as Epistemic Infrastructure in the Age of AI.<\/a>&#8221; It was a great online conference with a thematically linked sessions that support navigating the times that we&#8217;re currently in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also took a real vacation, which I&#8217;d recommend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the summer change of pace I&#8217;ve picked up several books that I&#8217;m excited to read together as a set. I expect that to be generative for this space in the long run. More soon! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/laurenpressley.com\/library\/2026\/06\/24\/where-ive-been-thinking\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Where I&#8217;ve Been Thinking\"><p>This summer has been off to a good start! I&#8217;ve been busy with different kinds of things, including sharing the set of ideas about libraries as epistemic infrastructure I&#8217;ve been exploring here in other spaces. To make sure all the ideas have a home together, I&#8217;m linking to them now. 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