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• This page has been weededPage · Published page

  The page you're looking for doesn't exist. But we have plenty of other things to read.

• Both sides of the deskPage · Published page

  Sam Chada on library technology, professional judgment, and the records behind the decisions.

• ArchivePage · Published page

  Every entry in the catalog, newest first.

• BuildingPage · Published page

  Experiments in infrastructure libraries could own and govern. The decisions, the working pieces, and the parts still unproven.

• Why I’m Building a Library System From ScratchStory · Published page

  L/30 asks what a library could control if it could inspect and change the software beneath its daily work.

• The sources behind the reporting.Source · Published page

  The records behind my reporting on library software: vendor announcements, court filings, and what library patrons experience.

• ExplainersPage · Published page

  Plain-language guides to how library technology, licensing, and digital access work.

• NotesStory · Published page

  Short observations, practical methods, and developing questions from the practitioner's notebook.

• What an Outside Book Rating Can Actually Tell YouStory · Published page

  An outside rating can point to passages for review. The library still has to evaluate the book under its own policy.

• Find and save a board document.Tutorial · Published page

  Follow a real board agenda to its attachment, save the original PDF, and keep a source note.

• If you run a public libraryPage · Published page

  A look at what it takes to inspect and change the software libraries use every day.

• If you work in schoolsPage · Published page

  Check the source and edition, read passages in context, and apply your library's policy.

• The Unhinged Librarian · Independent reporting on library technologyPage · Published page

  An independent publication about who controls library technology, what the records show, and which decisions professionals can still understand and own.

• Method: How These Filings Are SourcedPage · Published page

  The sourcing standard behind every filing on this site. Every public claim needs a public, linkable source. Source grading, documented limits, dated corrections, and no tracking.

• On the DeskPage · Published page

  Dated working notes. Struck through when wrong, never deleted.

• Open-Source Research: How to Check a Claim From Public RecordsPage · Published page

  How the research on this site gets done, step by step, using only public records: finding the document, saving it, grading every claim, testing every absence, and having someone argue against the piece before it publishes.

• Anatomy of a Book RatingStory · Published page

  Under the hood of an automated book content rating: talking to an AI is just sending it a text message. No book, no database, no internet travels with it.

• How a Book-Rating Machine Is BuiltStory · Published page

  How an AI rating machine gets built, and the five levers that quietly change its answers. Plus five questions that catch every trick.

• Same Book, Different Machine, Different VerdictStory · Published page

  Seven AI programs rated the same books for content severity. The scores don't agree with each other, and don't hold still when you ask twice. Every raw run shown.

• We asked an AI to rate a baby book.Story · Published page

  An AI rated the wordless bunny bedtime book Goodnight Moon a 4 out of 5 for sexual content, and said it's fine for a 3-year-old. It never read the book. The 20-second version.

• Baker & Taylor and the vendors libraries rely onStory · Published page

  Follow the companies that supply library books and services, from their beginnings through Baker & Taylor’s collapse. Each event identifies what the available records establish.

• Overdue ConversationsPage · Published page

  Ownership, contracts, pricing, and company decisions reconstructed from public records.

• Who’s behind Libby?Story · Reporting draft

  The app is familiar. The companies and investment funds behind it deserve a closer look.

• The renewal quoteStory · Published page

  Transcript of Shelf Life episode 1. The invoice goes up forty percent and the clause that decides it was signed in 2021. Little Schitt Creek Regional Library is fictional.

• Shelf LifeStory · Published page

  A scripted series about Little Schitt Creek Regional Library dropping its vendors, and what it cost them. Eight episodes. The library is invented. The systems are real.

• Saved Utah statewide removal listTutorial · Published page

• Who’s behind the ebook service?Tutorial · Published page

  Have a question about an ebook service’s costs or privacy? Use Libby to find the company behind an app and choose the record to check next.

• TutorialsTutorial · Published page

  A local preview of practical learning paths for librarians.

• Changes worth coming back forPage · Published page

• What happened to this book?Tutorial · Published page

  Follow one preserved state spreadsheet entry, check what its dates and columns mean, and keep a source note.