This post is generously contributed by Dr. Sami ÇUHADAR, Director of Libraries, İstanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. In the ’90s, when I first began studying librarianship, my professors emphasized that libraries consist of five essential elements: building, budget, staff, users, and collection. Many library science studies I encountered also highlighted these criteria. National and international reports […]
Read moreThis post is by Corey Halaychik, who is the Head of Content Management at The University of Texas at Austin Libraries and the Founder of The Library Collective, an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to education and innovation for better librarianship. Make no mistake about it, Artificial Intelligence (AI) will replace some tasks and jobs performed […]
Read moreThis post is by Mimi Calter, Vice Provost & University Librarian, Washington University Libraries in St. Louis and Chair of the ARL Section, for the ARL Division on the attendance grant Winners for the Information Summit, 2024. For more than a decade, the Academic & Research Libraries section, supported by SAGE and ExLibris, has been […]
Read moreThis post is by Mimi Calter, Vice Provost & University Librarian, Washington University Libraries in St. Louis and Chair of the ARL Section. I had the pleasure to join several members of the IFLA Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) section in participating in the Division D Joint Mid-Term program in Istanbul on June 5th through […]
Read moreThis post is by Matthias Liffers. He is the Product Manager for the Persistent Identifier Services at the Australian Research Data Common Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are a core component of a national information infrastructure and key to world-class research and innovation. In 2024, the Australian Research Data Commons released the 2024 Australian National PID Strategy – […]
Read moreThis post is by Karen E. Downing, Education Liaison Librarian, University of Michigan, Donovan Johnson, Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan, and Prakruthi Manjunatha, Graduate Student, University of Michigan https://www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-study/events-and-exhibits/today-and-upcoming/being-mixed-race-mono-racially-organized Academic and research libraries are highly committed to contributing to their campus diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) efforts. Through the library’s collections, staff, services and […]
Read moreThis posting is sponsored by the Library Publishing SIG and published in cooperation with the ARL Section. This post features Talea Anderson, a Scholarly Communication Librarian at the Washington State University, USA. I manage our university’s institutional repository, where we publish unique materials including theses, dissertations, student culminating projects, and datasets. In addition, I have […]
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