Olivia Inwood

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Learning Programs Manager, Western Sydney University Library | PhD, Active Researcher | she/her | using this account to keep a record of what I read 📚 Research: mis/dis info, social media www.oliviainwood.com | ORCID: 0000-0001-6678-888X

Article: The Generative AI Conversation Hub of the University: Positioning Reflection and Skill-Building in the Daily Work of Library Practitioners

A book quote with a picture of a flower.

Is Sustainable Use of Gen AI Possible? Poster

"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation".

Tuition at the College-on-the-Hill is fourteen thousand dollars, Sunday brunch included. I sense there is a connection between this powerful number and the way the students arrange themselves physically in the reading areas of the library.

The Last Human Job by Allison Pugh (orange and blue book)

As humans we learn through experience and we grow through adversity. The hardest times of our lives are often the ones that really shape us.

All this misses the point of libraries because they provide not only a refuge but also places of serendipity, where we discover routinely things we are not looking for.

A red book with the title "Academic Diary" by Les Back

Without school, however, there are days and weeks and months and years, but no clear way to know when or why any one thing should happen. It can be a disorienting, cavelike existence.

A green book titled "The Defining Decade" by Meg Jay.

But I ask you to consider whether these great unhappinesses did not rather pass through you. Whether much within you has not changed, whether somewhere, in some part of your being, you were not transformed while you were unhappy?

I wondered if perhaps I had changed too much. All my studying, reading, thinking, traveling, had it transformed me into someone who no longer belonged anywhere?

Brining love into the work environment can create the necessary transformation that can make any job we do, no matter how menial, a place where workers can express the best of themselves. When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth. It's not what you do but how you do it.

The State Library of Victoria with a banner between each column that spells out "treaty".

example of a mastodon account that connects to a bluesky account

$How does one live with conclusive failure? It's a question for everyone, even if it cuts sharper and deeper for some. Projects worthy but frustrated or forgotten are endemic in life. 'If we remembered even a fraction of our million tiny plans,' writes the poet-aphorist James Richardson, 'our whole lives would be regret at their failure'. There is comfort to be found in the sheer pervasiveness of projects gone awry. In a self-described 'book of solace', the British social critic Joe Morgan regales us with narratives of failure great and small, culminating with an artist 'who neither learnt from his failtures nor wished to learn', who completed few paintings, and whose most famous fresco began to flake before he died, the result of a failed experiment. The artist was Leonardo da Vinci.$