This post is by Ane Ah Poe, one of the beneficiaries of the ARL grant to attend the IFLA Information Futures Summit 2024 in Brisbane, Australia. Attending this three-day Summit conference with more than 700 participants and 70 nationalities can be an overwhelming experience, exhilarating and enlightening at the same time. This experience not only […]
Read moreThis post is by Lorraine J. Haricombe, who managed the Hot Topics program of the IFLA ARL Committee. IFLA’s Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Standing Committee hosted its annual Hot Topics session on August 13, 2024.The Hot Topics event is ARL’s signature event that attracts significant interest from WLIC attendees every year. In the absence […]
Read moreThis post is by Sue Fung, who is the Outreach and Engagement Librarian, Faculty Liaison Librarian (Arts & General Education) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library Open Books Hong Kong is the first Open Access (OA) Chinese monograph project, featuring a landmark collaboration among the libraries and university presses of The Chinese University […]
Read moreThis 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 […]
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