By Marci Cohen, Head of Research Services for Instruction and Consultation, Boston University Swedish rockers the Hives are back with The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons, their first full-length album in over a decade. The band are surprising survivors of the early 2000s...
Taking the GenAI Bull By the Horns
By: Jill Heinze, Research Director at WillowTree, and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and a Conference Director Matthew Ismail Matthew: For years now, I’ve been telling librarians and people in publishing that artificial intelligence is...
Libraries and 50 Years of Hip-Hop
Marci Cohen, Head of Research Services for Instruction and Consultation, Boston University Not every musical genre can pinpoint the date and location of its start, but hip hop is distinctive in that way. Hip hop was born in the Bronx on August 11, 1973 when graffiti...
Anita Schjoll Abildgaard and iris.ai
By Matthew Ismail, a Charleston Conference Director and Editor-in-Chief, Charleston Briefings “We’re not doing Large Language Models, we’re doing Smart Language Models.” Anita Schjøll Abildgaard It’s always fun to chat with Anita Schjøll Abildgaard about her company,...
Janelle Monáe: The Age of Pleasure (Wondaland Arts Society/Atlantic)
Marci Cohen, Assistant Head, Music Library, Boston University The 2016 deaths of David Bowie and Prince were tragic for music fans everywhere, but must have put a lot of pressure on Janelle Monáe. Lots of musicians have taken inspiration from those two music and style...
Above the Fold: Playing Games
Last year, it seemed like everyone in my social media feed was suddenly sharing their Wordle results daily. I had no idea what it was; it just looked liked like patterns of colorful blocks and I thought "who has time to play this every day and then post their...
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NORTH Business Research Librarian Professional, MIT Lincoln Library, Lexington, MA Consortial Systems Librarian - University of Maryland Libraries - College Park, MD Multiple Positions, CUNY Queens College, NY Assistant Director, Content Access - Princeton University...
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NORTH Business Research Librarian Professional, MIT Lincoln Library, Lexington, MA Consortial Systems Librarian - University of Maryland Libraries - College Park, MD Multiple Positions, CUNY Queens College, NY Assistant Director, Content Access - Princeton University...
Tea Time With Katina and Leah
9-29-23 What wonderful people you meet living on the water at Sullivan’s Island! Just met Jake and Ruby and their teenage adult/children. They have come all the way from North Dakota and some of them have never seen the ocean! They have moved their business from North...
From Dall-E to ChatGPT: Navigating AI in Academic Libraries – Webcast – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 9/29/23
From Dall-E to ChatGPT: Navigating AI in Academic Libraries - Webcast (ACRL) Join ACRL from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Central on Wednesday, October 11 for the Online Learning webcast “From Dall-E to ChatGPT: Navigating AI in Academic Libraries. Lately, it seems like everywhere...
University of Leeds Research Report on Potentials for AI in LIbraries – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 9/28/23
University of Leeds Research Report on Potentials for AI in LIbraries According to the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) "The Library at the University of Leeds in the UK has just issued a fascinating report on AI in what they call “library spaces” titled...