welcome Welcome to the blog for the 2023 Charleston Library Conference. I look forward to bringing you the news. For now, just sit back and decide which sessions you want to attend. The conference starts on Tuesday November 7 with the Vendor Showcase (a.k.a.) Exhibit...
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.
Sunrise on Long Beach Island, NJ (photo by Donald T. Hawkins) The photo above is appropriate for the final posting of this year's blog. It shows sunrise, not sunset, because it provides an optimistic view of future Charleston Conference. Everyone agreed that this...
The closing session is always entertaining. Derek Law, Emeritus Professor, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland summed up the conference. He noted how thoughtful the organizers have been. During the COVID lockdown he spent time dreaming of Charleston, studying...
I thank Leah Hinds, Executive Director of the conference for giving these slides to me.
This highly popular session, now in its 13th year, followed its previous format: a rendition of The Long Arm of the Law, followed by 2 presentations that were moderated by Anne Okerson, Senior Advisor on Electronic Strategies for the Center for Research Libraries....
Innovation sessions feature brief presentations on various subjects. I attended session 3 on scholarly publishing Multimodal Monographs: Content, Collaboration, Community Sarah McKee from Emory University and Allison Levy from Brown University described Mellon's...
Delivering a unified reader and author experience. Ralph Youngen, American Chemical Society: The user journey has two separate operations: the user goes to one place to read and another to publish. How we got here: From the 1990s user names and passwords were for only...
The annual Charleston Premiers session provides an opportunity for publishers and vendors to showcase their newest and most innovative products. Speakers participate in 5 minute lightning rounds. The audience then votes on several "Best of" categories, and the...
Cris Ferguson, Dean of Libraries, Murray State University became Assistant Dean of Libraries in 2018. Temporary leadership can occur because of illness, retirements, transfers, etc. It can feel uncertain: how long will it last? What will you be expect to do as an...
The best new e-readers of 2023 Good eReader observers that "The year 2023 is drawing to a close and there has been enough e-readers and e-notes launched to keep us engaged all year through. However, as we approach the end of another exciting year, it is also time to...
Digital Science Fully Acquires AI-Based Academic Language Service Writefull "Digital Science has today announced it has fully acquired the AI-based academic language service Writefull, which assists users worldwide with all aspects of their scholarly writing....
Elsevier Health and OpenEvidence partner to launch ClinicalKey AI According to KnowledgeSpeak "Elsevier Health, a global leader in medical information and data analytics, has announced a strategic collaboration with OpenEvidence, an artificial intelligence (AI)...
Technology from Sage, a suite of library technologies that improve your patrons’ workflow, has released its third Librarian Futures report exploring the current librarian skills landscape and identifying areas for further development. The report, developed with...
Press Contact: Casey LongIGI Global701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, PA 17033Tel.: 717-533-8845clong@igi-global.com Hershey, PA, November 2023 - IGI Global, an independent international academic publishing house, recently challenged the validity of the presumption in...
