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the Library Loon

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The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.

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Joined December 28, 2024
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https://gavialib.com/

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LibraryLoon
the Library Loon @LibraryLoon@glammr.us · Jun 03, 2026
the Library Loon
@LibraryLoon@glammr.us

The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.

glammr.us

This is really rather good.

https://leidendeclaration.ai/

It stops short of a rigorous examination of the ethics of using commercial AI at all, and that omission deserves to be rectified, but otherwise, this is really rather good.

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics
Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research.

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LibraryLoon
the Library Loon @LibraryLoon@glammr.us · May 29, 2026
the Library Loon
@LibraryLoon@glammr.us

The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.

glammr.us

Vietnam is doing it. Pray what is everyone else's excuse?

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/05/28/vietnam-researchers-face-bans-and-funding-cuts-for-violating-integrity-rules/

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LibraryLoon
the Library Loon @LibraryLoon@glammr.us · May 27, 2026
the Library Loon
@LibraryLoon@glammr.us

The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.

glammr.us

This piece by @TheyOfHIShirts@glammr.us will resonate with Coordinators, dumpster-job holders, innovation shields, and folk in similar positions.

https://alki.pubpub.org/pub/mzbehihz/release/1

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LibraryLoon
the Library Loon @LibraryLoon@glammr.us · May 18, 2026
the Library Loon
@LibraryLoon@glammr.us

The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.

glammr.us

New post on Gavia Libraria, in #EtCetera:

W(h)ither “… and AI”?

https://gavialib.com/2026/05/whither-and-ai/

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LibraryLoon
the Library Loon @LibraryLoon@glammr.us · May 15, 2026
the Library Loon
@LibraryLoon@glammr.us

The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.

glammr.us

New post on Gavia Libraria, in #ScholarlyCommunication:

Won’t get hoaxed again

https://gavialib.com/2026/05/wont-get-hoaxed-again/

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LibraryLoon
the Library Loon @LibraryLoon@glammr.us · May 14, 2026
the Library Loon
@LibraryLoon@glammr.us

The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.

glammr.us

arXiv has also said "if we catch AI guano in your work, it's out and you're out."

Good.

https://bsky.app/profile/aniloza.bsky.social/post/3mltoq2cnhc2u

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LibraryLoon
the Library Loon @LibraryLoon@glammr.us · May 13, 2026
the Library Loon
@LibraryLoon@glammr.us

The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.

glammr.us

Well, well, well.

This is well done of the Association for Computational Linguistics. May it be swiftly adapted and adopted in many more venues.

https://2026.aclweb.org/acl_statement/

ACL 2026

ACL Statement on Desk Rejecting Papers with Hallucinated References

Official website for the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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LibraryLoon
the Library Loon @LibraryLoon@glammr.us · May 08, 2026
the Library Loon
@LibraryLoon@glammr.us

The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.

glammr.us
Replying to @LibraryLoon@glammr.us
@rowmyboat@glammr.us "What happens when a single grain of guano is emplaced in a soup?" may also be an apropos question.
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LibraryLoon
the Library Loon @LibraryLoon@glammr.us · May 08, 2026
the Library Loon
@LibraryLoon@glammr.us

The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.

glammr.us
Replying to @rowmyboat@glammr.us
@rowmyboat@glammr.us Exactly so. Do not guano the Loon (or anyone else) and say it matters whether the guano is dross or fertilizer.
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LibraryLoon
the Library Loon @LibraryLoon@glammr.us · May 08, 2026
the Library Loon
@LibraryLoon@glammr.us

The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.

glammr.us

RE: @petersuber@fediscience.org

Every single paper with a fake citation should be redacted and the authors barred from the publication.

Authors with more than one article in the set should be fired.

Zero tolerance. It is the only way to be sure.

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LibraryLoon
the Library Loon @LibraryLoon@glammr.us · May 07, 2026
the Library Loon
@LibraryLoon@glammr.us

The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.

glammr.us

Classic hybrid job. Completely senseless combination of distinct types of work.

https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/ucmo/jobs/5313768/assistant-instructor-open-educational-resources-oer-librarian

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LibraryLoon
the Library Loon @LibraryLoon@glammr.us · May 05, 2026
the Library Loon
@LibraryLoon@glammr.us

The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.

glammr.us

This is probably not news, but nonetheless: a suspiciously low salary for the demanded knowledge, skills, and experience is a strong sign that the employer does not value the work.

https://jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/evidence-synthesis-information-scientist-blacksburg-virginia-united-states

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LibraryLoon
the Library Loon @LibraryLoon@glammr.us · May 05, 2026
the Library Loon
@LibraryLoon@glammr.us

The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.

glammr.us

Loonish predictions borne out:

* "More trumpeted triumphalist trials of generative AI for useful ends that fizzle on closer examination." https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/influential-study-touting-chatgpt-in-education-retracted-over-red-flags/

* "At least one major social-media platform will come out swinging against age verification." Not quite coming out swinging, but still an indicator: https://qz.com/roblox-full-year-forecast-cut-age-verification-user-growth-050126

And it is only May. The Loon has had worse prediction years.

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LibraryLoon
the Library Loon @LibraryLoon@glammr.us · Apr 15, 2026
the Library Loon
@LibraryLoon@glammr.us

The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.

glammr.us
Replying to @LibraryLoon@glammr.us
With entire bluntness: court libraries, librarians, and relevant library associations now or expect this initiative to fail miserably. Not doing so before launch has made this necessary work immensely harder. That does not mean the launchers can walk away from it.
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LibraryLoon
the Library Loon @LibraryLoon@glammr.us · Apr 15, 2026
the Library Loon
@LibraryLoon@glammr.us

The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.

glammr.us

The Loon is not against this idea; indeed she suggested something like it once (https://gavialib.com/2025/02/bringing-back-govdocs-librarianship/).

She notes, however, the same distressing "about librarianship without librarianship" tendency she has previously called out in the open-access movement.

Kindly do better. It would have been both politic and strategic to get a research library or two onboard before launching this. Or ASERL, and if the launchers don't know why, they didn't do their homework.

https://publicinformationtrust.org/

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LibraryLoon
the Library Loon @LibraryLoon@glammr.us · Apr 01, 2026
the Library Loon
@LibraryLoon@glammr.us

The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.

glammr.us

RE: https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/digital-dark-times-salaries-in-digital-preservation/

This job is indeed the worst. Coordinator Syndromed dumpster job.

The Loon would add to @beet_keeper@digipres.club's excellent takedown that no one else in the Serpentine will understand, and few if any value, what the person in this job does. That will make the policy parts of this job flatly impossible, everything else merely absurdly difficult.

https://gavialib.com/2016/09/the-dumpster-job/

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LibraryLoon
the Library Loon @LibraryLoon@glammr.us · Mar 23, 2026
the Library Loon
@LibraryLoon@glammr.us

The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.

glammr.us

Apropos of the Loon's recent post on sanctions for authors whose articles include AI slop citations, this by Dr. Dorothea Baur: https://dorotheabaur.ch/en/texts-and-media/hallucinated-references-five-excuses-for-academic-misconduct/

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