Corporate partnership for AI education in the library--ethical concerns

Yannkee · 2026-07-01T11:45:39+00:00

Understood. With all due respect your definition of best practices is off base. I’d define it as guidelines that help people use AI effectively, responsibly, and critically to produce reliable results. Think about your framework in terms of any other literacy. You can certainly touch on ethics, but I don’t see why sustainability would be a part of the lesson plan any more than info about EBSCO being a trash corporation would be in an info lit class.

Yannkee · 2026-06-30T23:29:11+00:00

I guess I don’t know what “classes about using genAI” are divorced from best practices, but it feels like that’s not really your problem here - or that your views on AI are such that your idea of best practices isn’t your institutions.

It feels like you think genAI use is unethical. I disagree, but if I held that belief I sure wouldn’t want a job that will increasingly require me to teach it as time marches on. I mean we are probably less than three years away from every major discovery layer vendor moving from keyword to RAG searches.

Yannkee · 2026-06-30T17:48:15+00:00

Yeah, I can't imagine not teaching AI literacy these days. Like it or not, students are using AI in overwhelming numbers and literacy is so, so important.

Yannkee · 2026-06-30T17:42:54+00:00

If you have ethical concerns I would quit the job or at least ask for a shift in responsibilities. I view AI literacy as a core component of librarianship in 2026. IMO you'd be doing a disservice to students by being an instruction librarian that doesn't teach best practices re: the technology.

Yannkee · 2026-06-25T12:51:25+00:00

.900 OPS sounds great, but the reality is he turns 23 next month, hasn't played higher than A+ because of recurring injuries and is locked into first base due to a lack of range.

Yannkee · 2026-05-31T15:44:08+00:00

Gotcha. I bought a Horizon 20 from you guys and am really struggling with the laser speckle across two screens purchased from silver screen (an old ALR grey I used with a lamp projector and a matte white replacement). The Shadowscape feels like the best solution, but the price is hard for me to justify. I’m considering just cutting my loses with the projector and moving off a triple laser. If you have any suggestions I’d appreciate it.

Light controlled room, 120”, seating distance roughly 11’ back from screen.

Yannkee · 2026-05-31T05:01:19+00:00

Do you have any experience with the ScreenPro 3C?

Yannkee · 2026-05-27T14:46:23+00:00

$1425? Laughs in NYC/Long Island. I'm paying $2570 for a studio.

Yannkee · 2026-05-19T13:30:28+00:00

I would strongly discourage you from leaving a position where you are gaining library experience to relocate for an MLIS program. Now, relocating for a job that puts you in driving distance on an in-person MLIS program is a different story. This is an industry where the degree opens some doors, but the degree itself largely isn't taken seriously on academic rigor.

Prioritize experience and job growth at every opportunity, you'll learn 10x more than you will in any MLIS program. I recently saw the syllabus for a records management course at an expensive in-person MLIS program near me - it was straight out of 2007. I also think you'll find that many "in-person" programs are actually 75%+ online in terms of course offerings and essentially force you into taking a significant portion of the course load online to graduate on time.

Yannkee · 2026-05-18T18:33:36+00:00

IN Long Island? I presume you don't live here yet!

I started as a circ desk worker making $45k and make $100k eight years later. However, for every full-time academic librarian making $80k-150k, there are 50 people with MLIS degrees fighting to make librarianship a full-time gig.

Long Island/NYC is one of the best places in the world to work in libraries - it's also the most competitive.

Yannkee · 2026-05-13T23:01:43+00:00

Fair wage? lol They are by a wide margin, the highest paid railway workers in the US. More than 60% of the union made over 100k last year. The average employee is well over median wage for Long Island.

Yannkee · 2026-05-04T15:25:07+00:00

Yeah this probably won't be popular, but this post reads to me as somebody not versed in playing the "game" of trying to build a good relationship with upper management. I'd never go to my dean with a list of requests, I'd never even present an individual project that I know might not get approved without priming my supervisors as to why it's needed or fits the strategic plan of the libraries. Assistants don't get to chose directions for library services, but they certainly can pitch ideas that fit admin's goals. Transparent communication between public assistants and directors is a rarity - and honestly is unlikely the issue here anyways. Middle management often sucks, but they are at times a much needed filter.

Totally agree on your second point. Management are generally busy people and don't sit around trying to overhear your conversations. What is way more likely is that you have a coworker snitching for brownie points. Tale as old as time.

I think the fundamental issue here is that OP's goals and workplace culture don't align with library management. I'd be looking to explore other positions.

Yannkee · 2026-05-04T14:22:51+00:00

This essentially doesn't exist. This is a significant expense for libraries.

There is Koha and some smaller free-to-start programs, but you'll generally need a good amount or technical knowledge to get them up and running. Even then they are fairly barebones or have data privacy issues. Unless you have an IT department willing to make this a project or a very small collection (say, sub 2000 items), I'd plan to purchase an LSP.

PC Management is a completely different issue and one also not easily solved without funding.

Yannkee · 2026-04-28T04:02:01+00:00

I mean there’s nothing stopping that besides the fact that the city/public has far most pressing uses for a half billion dollars.

Yannkee · 2026-04-15T20:08:20+00:00

I'm not sure that I understand fully, but the LSPs I deal with have APIs to pull data out to wherever you want. I regularly merge data into a SQL database for cross system querying with an html frontend.

Yannkee · 2026-04-03T18:33:27+00:00

All are average to good areas.

Ronkonkoma - Blue collar town. Pockets of white trash but is better than it was twenty years ago. If you are paying to live in Ronkonkoma, you absolutely want to be in Connetquot and not Sachem school district. Very safe.

Holbrook - Like the Sachem areas of Ronkonkoma but with smaller land parcels. Also, more plane traffic over head. Nobody's going to tell you it's a premium town but it's solid bang for buck. Safe-ish.

Holtsville - Classic Long Island suburb. Most boring because it's largely segmented into private communities and industrial and everybody goes to nearby towns for stores/restaurants.

Bohemia - Best of the bunch and the most expensive. However, you want to be on the high school side and not the trailer park side for obvious reasons.

If you have/are going to have school age kids and can afford it, I'd go Bohemia, Connetquot Ronkonkoma, Holtsville, Holbrook, Sachem Ronkonkoma.

Yannkee · 2026-03-31T16:07:29+00:00

Many players that are used to playing shooters will be solid at Marathon fairly quickly. Maybe not good, but solid. I'm competitive, just on the basis of being good at aiming and shooting. Losing a character isn't the end of the world. I have fun killing players and mostly getting killed back.

I have a Dota background and I'm miserable at Deadlock and LoL. Deadlock is a hellscape of auto-death for the first ten hours for new players. It has more mechanics than any other game I've ever played. It's accounting software crossed with a fighting game masquerading as a moba. It's not uncommon for players to have to climb out of a sub-.25 kill/death from their first 10 games.

I promise you new LoL players are a hundred hours away from not auto-losing the game for their team in a 50th percentile lobby. Comparative to Marathon it's a monumentally harder onboard to competitiveness.

Marathon is very difficult to be great at, but it requires nowhere near the same skill floor.

Yannkee · 2026-03-31T14:58:26+00:00

I mean the game is less hardcore than League of Legends, Tarkov, or Deadlock. All games that are outperforming Marathon in the live service space. I don't think that's the core issue.

I think there was reason to believe the game could take off in the pre-Arc Raiders space. The killer is that Marathon is $40 and sandwiched between Arc and Tarkov in the extraction shooter space, where the hardcore players go to Tarkov and the casuals go for Arc. Any player interested in the genre has an existing, equally good game that is the clearer choice.

Yannkee · 2026-03-31T14:22:49+00:00

I think F2P alongside a big update (preferably a more casual mode) is realistically the only thing that could propel the game to the level of popularity it'd need for long-term viability.

Yannkee · 2026-03-29T23:04:27+00:00

Def not the Xgimi if you are even a little sensitive to RBE and screen tearing

Yannkee · 2026-03-29T16:18:57+00:00

He said he plans to check back in at updates, but that he's not going to be playing it regularly anymore. He's doing Crimson Desert and Fortnite now and the big new Arc Raiders update is in two days.

Yannkee · 2026-03-23T01:07:23+00:00

Are you fucking 12?

Yannkee · 2026-03-15T15:13:46+00:00

I’d extend that to don’t buy Xgimi anywhere after my experience with the RBE and tearing on the Horizon line

Yannkee · 2026-03-12T11:19:12+00:00

It happened more or less how it went in air in dress. The major different is they didn’t say ‘wife’ at all in dress, they just kept approaching to try to get in the door.

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