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points by mcmcmc 1 day ago | 0 comments

Couldn’t possibly be that serving data to scrapers isn’t a core function for a university or that they can’t pay big tech salaries to draw sysadmins and engineers that know how to handle large scale deployments

[–] hedora 1 day ago

If the core function of the university library's archival system is not providing free access to their collection, then what is its core function?

[–] sdellis 1 day ago

The core function is being obstructed by irresponsible AI bot traffic taking down their catalogs and archives and preventing humans from having access. Bots have never been the intended audience of library content.

[–] JDups 15 hours ago

Free access for its student body and research community wouldn't have required to be able to handle 11k request a day for a single item.

[–] mcmcmc 1 day ago

> university library

First function is archival and preservation, second is access for university students and researchers. It’s not Anna’s archive or TIA