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We send our weeded books to Better World Books and I'm surprised at the titles they want including nonfiction written in the 1990s that we are weeding because the information is outdated. I hear stories of AI companies buying massive amounts of books to scan and feed into their models and I worry this is the destiny of these books and what it means for the quality of these AI models' "education."

P.S. Why does my post have to include flair in order to post it? 😒

My dad is in an assisted living facility. I'd say it is somewhere in the middle as far as niceness. It's not a hell-hole but it's also not a top tier facility. We are having a lot of issues with him not getting the daily care he needs with cleanliness and wound care of sores on his buttocks. He has money saved so I think we should look into moving him to a nicer (more expensive) facility. But will this guarantee better care? Or are nicer facilities facing the same issues of high turnover of staff and staff that just don't care?

We want to set up an account with another vendor in addition to our account with Ingram in the event something happens to them, ex. cyberattack, staffing issues, etc. We will continue to use Ingram as our primary vendor but just need an emergency backup in place.

Any feedback on Follett or Brodart? We are a public library so need adult and children's titles. I'm not sure we would even set up processing b/c we can do that in-house in a pinch.