We have made it to the promised land (the refurbished Casa Bonita).

Weirdest book mark you've found in a library book? A new exhibit at Vienna's central library displays some doozies: "A belt, tweezers, hair and even a slice of sausage were discovered over the years. That last reader was tracked down and promptly fined." (h/t @jacobsberg.bsky.socialwapo.st/3zICSRt

Sausage slices and love notes: The improvised bookmarks librarians find

The Vienna central library has a new exhibition drawn from its collection of 8,000 items found over the past 20 years.

So I’m chartering a sailboat, & they’re asking about my shoe size.

Putting my library degree to use working on the relaunch of limn.it. Determining metadata for website; figuring out author agreements & copyright; explaining why metadata pathways are crucial; working w/ a digital-library partner on preservation. The other editors were privy to little of this.

Limn

Outlining Contemporary Problems

We've just posted a new preprint, "Care for the Soul of Science", by @sarahderijcke.bsky.socialosf.io/preprints/me...#metascience#sts We bring together crisis framing and religious motifs around scientific reform. A thread: 1/

Great work going on at TU Delft | Library and TU Delft | OPEN Publishing! New fund for supporting open scholarly communication initiatives. I especially like the breadth of what is in scope. Congratulations the TU Delft library team! library-collections.tudl.tudelft.nl/2024/10/inno...

Innovating Scholarly Communication: TU Delft’s new fund for open publishing - TU Delft Library collections

At TU Delft Library, we're taking bold steps to address the evolving landscape of scholarly communication. We are committed to advancing open access that not only shared knowledge, but is financially ...

Stigler's Law of Eponymy states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. It was first proposed by sociologist Robert K. Merton, but statistician Stephen Stigler, in fulfillment of the law, named it after himself in 1980, tongue-in-cheek. You may know Robert Merton ...

The Internet’s Dizzying Citogenesis Problem Circular reporting is a real problem on platforms like Wikipedia—and it’s harder to solve than it looks. slate.com/technology/2...

The Dizzying Problem of Citationless Wikipedia “Facts” That Take On a Life of Their Own

“Citogenesis” is a real problem for anyone who relies on the platform—and it’s harder to solve than it looks.

I dislike the replication crisis framing of open science reforms by both skeptics & proponents (itself an interesting case study in how scandals & psych drive discourse). Every major OS reform (open data, methods, study registration, open access) predates the replication crisis, some several decades

Copim Connects: Developing an Information Hub for the #OpenAccesscopim.pubpub.org/pub/developi...

Copim Connects: Developing an Information Hub for the open access book community

‘Not another knowledge base / toolkit / resource bank’ we hear the community say ….