The world-renowned library inspired and created by love

https://www.cntraveller.in/story/7-stunning-libraries-housed-within-unesco-world-heritage-sites

Check out this collection of essays on women in library history by the Feminist Task Force of the American Library Association!:

https://www.tumblr.com/womenoflibraryhistory

https://www.ala.org/news/2025/11/court-permanently-blocks-trumps-executive-order-dismantle-federal-agency-americas

“Highlight of my academic career was getting a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 2008-9 to research a history of one of America’s most ubiquitous and beloved civic institutions. The book was the result. This morning’s NYT carries a story about what the Trump administration has done to NEH, which (when combined with its elimination of funding for the Institute for Museum and Library Services) convinces me my 2008 project proposal wouldn’t stand a chance in 2025. Perfect example of ‘controlling the narrative'”

Thanks, Dr. Wiegand, for sending his Facebook comment about recent events at universities to the blog:

“Article in this morning’s NYT about Texas A&M establishing rules re:teaching about gender and race ideologies gave me pause. For a course in American library history, if I assigned my latest book–which taps CRT to demonstrate that the nation’s library profession entirely ignored the subject of segregated public school libraries 1954-1974–would I be called into the Provost’s office at Texas A&M, or Kentucky, Wisconsin, or Florida State (institutions at which I taught 1976-2010) for attempts to “indoctrinate” my students?”

https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/bible-described-mona-lisa-illuminated-manuscripts-goes-display-rome

Check out the funded digitization projects for 2025!:

https://www.clir.org/hiddencollections/funded-projects

The School of Information Science & Learning Technologies, Missouri’s iSchool, invites you to engage with our faculty and students at the upcoming ASIS&T Conference.

First, thanks to Professor Jenny Bossaller, who served as the Papers Chair for the 2025 ASIS&T Annual meeting.

Papers Sessions

• Associate Professor Heather Moulaison-Sandy and Doctoral Student Heather Thach: “The Wicked Problem of ChatGPT: Information Avoidance, Uncomfortable Knowledge, and AI in Scholarly Communication.”
• Associate Professor Laura Ridenour and Doctoral Student Heather Thach: “Library Genesis to Llama 3: Navigating the Waters of Scientific Integrity, Ethics, and the Scholarly Record.”

Panels

• Professor Jenny Bossaller: “Panel 15: Making History: The Pioneers of Information Science Who Made A Difference” and “Panel 18: Whither Library Data: The Withering of Research Information About Public Libraries in the US”
• Professor Emeritus John Budd: “Panel 27: Memory and History: Reconciling Inquiry and AI“

Posters

• Doctoral Student Zach Coble and Assistant Professor Wenyi Shang: “Does the Semantic Meaning of Class Names Matter? A Study of the Library of Congress Classification“
• Doctoral Student Xuhan Zhang: “Disclosing Generative AI Use in Digital Humanities Research“

Pre-Conference

• Assistant Professor Laura Ridenour and Doctoral Student Heather Thach: “Knowledge Organization Meets Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice”

Other Service

• Professor Emeritus John Budd, Associate Professor Heather Moulaison-Sandy, and Assistant Professor Laura Ridenour are serving as mentors for the 2025 ASIS&T Doctoral Consortium.
• Professor Emeritus John Budd and Associate Professor Heather Moulaison-Sandy are serving as Paper Session moderators.

Virtual Conference Participation

• Professor Jenny Bossaller: “Co-Creation in Context: Participatory Approaches to Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Work” 

Virtual Conference Participation

• Professor Jenny Bossaller: “Co-Creation in Context: Participatory Approaches to Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Work”

We are looking forward to a great conference with our friends, colleagues, and alumni. See you in D.C.!

Denice Adkins   (she/her/ella)

Professor & Director

303 Townsend Hall | Columbia MO |65211

E: adkinsde@missouri.edu

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/documentation-is-resistance

“Rodney Freeman Jr. is a librarian and executive producer of the forthcoming documentary “Are You a Librarian: The Untold Story of Black Librarians.””