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Published: April 28, 2026 14:57

One "trend" ive noticed about academic ai search is that in early days maybe 50% or more would take your input "how are you" or "tell me a joke" and just search. These days most have some sort of system probably LLM that would interpret your query often…

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Published: April 28, 2026 10:31

[Read] AgentIR: Reasoning-Aware Retrieval for Deep Research Agents texttron.github.io/AgentIR/ - everyone says we design search engines for agents not humans, idea - throw in the agent's reasoning trace alongside its query into the retriever! Training the…

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Published: April 27, 2026 21:54

Agentic search via MCP eg to your library discovery layer/catalogue turns discovery into a function of the model plus its tool use. That introduces a new inequality layer: better models can issue more, and smarter, queries, iterate further, and verify more…

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Published: April 27, 2026 15:54

"FWCI: ... guarantees average FWCI = 1.0 within any cohort." Good that they fixed this, was noticing this bug. Also INTERESTING "Content API. Direct access to 60M+ open-access PDFs and parsed GROBID TEI XML at predictable URLs like…

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Published: April 25, 2026 17:48

Looking at draft of ALA Draft Guidance of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Libraries. Overall seems to be mostly pragmatic middle of road suggestions, definitely not "resist ai" camp material but that was never on the table really.. bit.ly/48k60wy…

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Published: April 25, 2026 15:58

One thing I noticed about terminology is that its tricky and it moves very fast even in academic literature. For example, I notice some librarians like to use the term "neural retrieval" and "neural search" to perhaps signal that they are somewhat aware of…

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Published: April 24, 2026 13:53

Using Codex to create a hybrid of CMU's https://omnomdombomb.github.io/ai_evaluation_framework_tool/AI-Tool-Assessment-Framework.html and alfredhw.github.io/airubric/ + my own twist. (1) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 24, 2026 10:30

So far people are trying to argue with me are not even touching my actual point. Even the cost argument is odd because if you concede llms can be useful just not worth the cost, cost drop as tech becomes more efficent, so what then? [contains quote post…

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Published: April 24, 2026 10:01

Librarians who insist LLMs can *never* be useful for *anyone* & anyone claiming so is deluded are really comparable to flat earthers. Even skeptics like Gary Marcus & Margaret Marshall - one of the authors of thestochastic parrot paper is on record for…

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Published: April 23, 2026 18:09

Wow its 2026 and people are still throwing around cringe terms like "rockstar librarian" unironically & self identify as one. Lol.

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Published: April 23, 2026 15:07

It is trendy nowdays in librarianship to critique efforts to improve efficiency for our users, claiming that's not the point. The last I checked- save the time of the user is a law of librarianship. not "push our views/values" on our users. I acknowledge…

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Published: April 23, 2026 13:14

Spare me from librarians running around saying "trust is our super power" and its "our core strength". Typically accompanied by the hubris of thinking because they are a librarian, their words should automatically be given extra weight even if they have no…

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Published: April 22, 2026 17:05

I have always said among all the subfields of LIS, information literacy is the area which eludes me the most and makes me feel a sense of confusion on what the core really is. I think I'm starting to slowly realise why (1)

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Published: April 22, 2026 16:25

An advice i can give to librarians starting out is to focus on learning from first principles. Actually understand how things work as deeply as you can. It can be difficult & gains will not be obvious at first but in the long run are more adaptable &…

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Published: April 22, 2026 15:44

It really feels to me all the academic ai search tools are inching closer and closer to reinvent reference managers though all but one is saying so. This might be a good timing given new capabilities due to LLMs & current leaders Zotero, Endnote, Mendely…

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Published: April 22, 2026 10:37

What Are Libraries Actually Doing About the Sustainable Development Goals? https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2026/what-are-libraries-actually-doing-about-the-sdgs - honestly this whole libraries "doing sdgs" has all the hallmarks of…