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Comment on 20 Ways “AI” Has Created More Work for Me by Our faculty on Scite.AI, plus other short AI developments | This Liaison Life

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:05:23 +0000

[…] out Abigail Goben’s new post “20 Ways “AI” Has Created More Work for Me”. Very good (and […]

Comment on 20 Ways “AI” Has Created More Work for Me by stevebizlib

stevebizlib — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:31:42 +0000

The September “workslop” article in Harvard Business Review has become very popular in MBA programs all over — those business professionals are reporting many of these same issues in their workplaces. So it’s not just academia!

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Comment on 20 Ways “AI” Has Created More Work for Me by HR

HR — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 21:49:10 +0000

I am hopelessly ‘old school’ but I was researching the number of homeless in Canada for a project and not doing well with it. The official numbers were ridiculously low — would you believe the federal govt total was lower for the nation than the total listed for the city of Toronto? In desperation, I repaired to the DDG browser AI. It produced an 800,000 number — equally ridiculous. Sure enough, factchecking the 800K produced a Statistics Canada census of 800K in shelters across the country — meaning women’s shelters which number also counts their kids, nightly homeless shelters, and ‘others’ which, for all I know, could count animal shelters! I switched to a meta-web browser and finally got a reasonable total of 300k-330k nationwide from several sources who service the homeless. My seat-of-the-pants was 500K, based on 45K in Toronto [actual counts, averaged] times 12 major urban centres across the country. So 300K from frontline organisations seemed more reasonable that 800K from the AI, blindly plucked out of a census. But how many users doublecheck???

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Comment on Executive Function Theft by 20 Ways “AI” Has Created More Work for Me – Hedgehog Librarian

20 Ways “AI” Has Created More Work for Me – Hedgehog Librarian — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:56:03 +0000

[…] clicks per tool, sometimes every time I use it, to de-activate things is my new least favorite Executive Function Theft […]

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Comment on This Feels Familiar – Co-Pilot and the Risk of the Renewing Contract by Tobin Magle

Tobin Magle — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 01:55:23 +0000

at least it’s not “free” [to them]

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Comment on Can Librarians Stop Filling in the Coding Intro Gap? by Embracing late career librarianship | This Liaison Life

Embracing late career librarianship | This Liaison Life — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:23:38 +0000

[…] Hedgehog Librarian had an interesting and thoughtful post last week: “Can Librarians Stop Filling in the Coding Intro Gap?” The focus was mission creep for functional liaisons. Maybe not just functional liaisons – I […]

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Comment on (Mis)adventures in Coding Self-Education by Can Librarians Stop Filling in the Coding Intro Gap? – Hedgehog Librarian

Can Librarians Stop Filling in the Coding Intro Gap? – Hedgehog Librarian — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:44:12 +0000

[…] That this is still an expectation of academic librarians in 2025 points to a notable issue where faculty and professionals across other disciplines are expecting their students and graduates to have these skills but haven’t addressed it on their end. They have had at least a full decade to train their own faculty, hire faculty to develop and teach integrated courses, and run them through the curriculum committees. And certainly quite a few programs and disciplines have undertaken work to ensure their students are getting this education and training but the consistent rounds of emails I see asking the library where these introductory workshops are being provided on campus suggests there remains a significant gap. I suspect the programs who have not are relying on another longstanding complaint of mine which is that there is a CONSTANT assumption i…. […]

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Comment on It’s Like Having a Really Good Manager by Making time for AI (evolving liaison work & priorities) | This Liaison Life

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 19:07:02 +0000

[…] Hedgehog Librarian posted “It’s Like Having a Really Good Manager” in December, a cryptic title at first. It’s an interesting post about career planning and […]

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Comment on Executive Function Theft by EFT + 1 Year – Hedgehog Librarian

EFT + 1 Year – Hedgehog Librarian — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 14:02:08 +0000

[…] been a year since I first published the Executive Function Theft blog post. As of 9:30 p.m. on 8/13/24, I’m at 29,925 […]

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Comment on Full Professor Hedgehog Librarian by stevebizlib

stevebizlib — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:50:01 +0000

Congratulations, Professor Goben!

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