by Steven J. Bell, Associate University Librarian, Temple University Libraries In July 2022 I published a two-part blog post titled Our Wicked Discovery Problem. Part one, titled “Inconvenient and Boring” examined why academic library discovery systems are often the...
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Don’s Conference Notes- Peer Review Challenges and Opportunities: The 2023 Charleston In Between Conference
By Donald T. Hawkins, Freelance Columnist and Editor The Charleston In Between conference occurs approximately halfway between two Charleston Library Conferences in the first week of November; its purpose is to conduct an in-depth exploration of important developments...
Don’s Conference Notes- Transformation, Trust, and Transparency: The 2023 SSP Meeting
By Donald T. Hawkins (Freelance Conference Blogger and Editor) The Society for Scholarly Publishing’s (SSP’s) 45th Annual Meeting in Portland, OR had 712 attendees, 611 in person and 101 online (I attended online). According to a recent report in The Scholarly...
Are We Ready to Find Joy and Meaning in Our Work?
by Steven J. Bell, Associate University Librarian, Temple University Libraries Student mental health is frequently found at or near the top of any list of the higher education’s most pressing problems. One way in which colleges and universities are responding is to...
LIBER 2023 Annual Confernce: Day 3
by Leah Hinds, Executive Director, Charleston Hub See previous reports from Day 1 and Day 2. Friday, July 7 The final day of the LIBER conference was a perfect wrap-up of the event with a "sneak peak" to look forward to next year's event as well. There were breakout...
LIBER 2023 Annual Conference: Day Two
by Leah Hinds, Executive Director, Charleston Hub Thursday, July 6 The second day of the meeting opened with a keynote presentation from Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who presented "Role of Research Libraries in...
Tea Time with Katina and Leah
7/7/23 The awesome Lindsay Cronk has been appointed the new dean of Tulane University Libraries effective August 1, 2023. Whooha! You will remember that Lindsay has spoken several times in Charleston including a Neapolitan with Rachel Fleming and Cris Ferguson about...
LIBER 2023 Annual Conference: Day One
By Leah Hinds, Executive Director, Charleston Hub The 52nd annual LIBER conference is being held July 5 - 7 in Budapest, Hungary, held at the Central European University campus. The conference theme is “Open and Trusted: Reassessing Research Library Values,” and just...
SSP 2023 Day Three
by Leah Hinds, Executive Director, Charleston Hub The Society for Scholarly Publishing’s 45th annual meeting took place May 31 – June 2 in Portland, OR. See the report on Day One and Day Two here. Friday, June 2 The last day of the conference dawned sunny...
Don’s Conference Notes-Libraries: Tech Partners for Community Sustainability: Computers in Libraries 2023
By Donald T. Hawkins, Freelance Editor and Conference Blogger The 38th annual Computers in Libraries (CIL) conference was held in Arlington, VA on March 28-30, 2023 and attracted 785 attendees. Each day began with a keynote which on the first two days, was followed by...
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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...
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