A useful explainer for users of these kinds of sites who didn't really understand in detail what has been going on. (Me.)

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Allowing students to use LLMs to summarize articles for them is robbing them of a key skill set of the humanities - critical work with scholarly text. How are they meant to write it if they never read academic scholarship? Let alone the basic skill of grasping and summarizing a text‘s arguments. /1

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One of my great sorrows is that I didn’t get a chance to learn from Jim Croft before his passing. I signed up for his Old Ways workshop shortly before his health turned. His wife wasn’t sure if they’d be offering the class again that summer, but at the time we were still hopeful. Don’t wait.

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Anthony Griffith's 'Prints and Printmaking: An Introduction to the History and Techniques'. Accessible introduction with references to further reading. (And for those who need to explore the subject more deeply: Griffith's 'The Print Before Photography'.)

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[disparaging tone] “Defending the degree has become synonymous with defending librarianship itself.” Yes, that is my take actually

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