by Leah Hinds, Executive Director, Charleston Hub Photo by mana5280 on Unsplash Day Three: Monday, January 30, 2023 (Links to reports from Day One and Day Two) My final day of LibLearnX started with a winter weather advisory for my return flight connecting through...
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LibLearnX 2023: Day Two
by Leah Hinds, Executive Director, Charleston Hub Photo by mana5280 on Unsplash Day Two: Sunday, January 29, 2023 (Read the report from Day One here) The second day of LibLearnX '23 dawned foggy with misty rain over the Mississippi River. I had a...
Content or technology: What makes libraries different?
by Andreas Degkwitz, Director of the University Library, Humboldt University Berlin1 Academic libraries are striving to survive in the competition of digitization and are doing so on the one hand by strongly technologizing their service portfolio. On the other hand,...
Press Release: 2022 Charleston Conference Plenary Videos Now Openly Available
The Charleston Hub is excited to announce that the Plenary Session videos from this year’s Charleston Library Conference are now available on our YouTube channel. The 2022 conference was a fantastic gathering of in person and virtual speakers from across the fields of librarianship and publishing. These plenary sessions were highlights from a week of powerful presentations and great discussions.
Looking Ahead to 2023: Five Downs and Five Ups
by Steven J. Bell, Associate University Librarian, Temple University Libraries When we get to the end of the year, it seems we have collectively come to express how terrible that just-ending year was. At the same time, we also tell ourselves there is no chance the...
Reflections on the Charleston Conference 2022
by Meg White, Conference Director, Charleston Conference Feels Like Home 2022 Conference Theme Step by step, piece by piece, we continue to find our way back to “normal” in a post-pandemic world. The 2022 Charleston Conference was no different. While...
How to Craft Compelling Messages for Patrons
In my role at SAGE Publishing, I’ve had the amazing opportunity to learn from Victoria Dew, founder and CEO of Dewpoint Communications. Victoria has been incredible in helping my colleagues and me cut through all of the “noise” and improve how we communicate within our organization. I spent some time with her and asked her to share some of her best advice for academic librarians who are working to ensure that their invaluable resources and services are used by students and faculty.
Would a Google of AI’s be able to predict the Future? An excerpt from Artificial Intelligence in Libraries and Publishing
This week on the ATG: The Podcast, we featured a conversation between Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings, and Todd Carpenter, Executive Director of NISO and author of a chapter in the recent Charleston Briefings title Artificial Intellegence...
FROM THE SCHOLARLY KITCHEN: The Predator Effect- Fraud in the Scholarly Publishing INdustry: An Interview with Simon Linacre
By LISA JANICKE HINCHLIFFE NOV 28, 2022 Today Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe interviews Simon Linacre, author of the recently published book, The Predator Effect: Understanding the Past, Present and Future of Deceptive Academic Journals, and Head of Content, Brand...
Don’s Conference Notes: The Internet Librarian 2022 Conference
By Amy Affelt (Director, Database Research Worldwide, Compass Lexecon) Column Editor: Donald T. Hawkins (Freelance Editor and Conference Blogger) Column Editor’s Note: I am delighted to welcome Amy Affelt from Compass Lexecon as a guest columnist for this installment...
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arXiv announces new policy on ChatGPT and similar tools – PLUS MORE ATG NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR 2/1/23
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arXiv announces new policy on ChatGPT and similar tools – PLUS MORE ATG NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR 2/1/23
MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES arXiv announces new policy on ChatGPT and similar tools According to the arXiv.org blog "The recent release of AI technology that generates new text has raised serious questions among the research community....
OhioLINK and De Gruyter reach agreement for eBooks from 6 university presses – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 1/31/23
OhioLINK and De Gruyter reach agreement for eBooks from 6 university presses According to KnowledgeSpeak, "OhioLINK and De Gruyter have announced an agreement to provide OhioLINK’s 89 member libraries with newly published frontlist eBooks from University of...
American Society for Microbiology Is Now Using CCC’s RightsLink for Scientific Communications – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 1/30/23
American Society for Microbiology Is Now Using CCC's RightsLink for Scientific Communications According to Information Today, "CCC announced that “the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), has adopted RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC) to manage its...
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