This write-up is by Adriana Cybele Ferrari, Brazil Always present in the perspective of librarians, teachers and researchers, Open Access to knowledge has been and continues to be a working premise. In recent decades, this view has gathered more and more defenders, including scientists. Science itself has increasingly been considered a public good, which must […]
Read moreAuthor: Jayshree Mamtora, Manager, Scholarly Communications, James Cook University, Australia In Australia, Research Support Community Day (RSC Day) has become the premier professional development event for research librarians, and open to anyone working or interested in research support and related services. It started “small” with the very first event held in person at Griffith University […]
Read moreMy Experience as a Grant Winner at the World Library and Information Congress 88th IFLA General Conference and Assembly My name is Anabelly Tinoco Altamirano, I live and work in Costa Rica. In this document I write some of my experiences at the World Library and Information Congress 88th IFLA General Conference and Assembly and […]
Read moreThis post features Snehal Dilip Bhalerao, one of the 2023 IFLA ARL Grant winners from India. I am Snehal Dilip Bhalerao and I studied at the Savitribai Phule Pune University. I currently work as a research fellow at the Centre of Publication Ethics at the Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. I feel very lucky […]
Read moreThis post features Ezequiel Vallejo Ríos who is one of the 2023 IFLA ARL Grant winners. from México. Attending the IFLA WLIC 2023 Congress certainly opened an opportunity for those of us who are not in mainstream librarianship to see the various aspects of the profession. I experienced this through my interactions with colleagues who […]
Read moreThis posting is sponsored by the Library Publishing SIG and published in cooperation with the ARL Section. Members of the Library Publishing SIG reach out to library publishers and invite them to respond to a series of questions. This post features Dave Ghamandi who is the Open Publishing Librarian at the University of Virginia and Managing Editor, Aperio. […]
Read moreAuthor: Siviwe Bangani, Director, Research Services, Stellenbosch University Library, South Africa Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially the latest tool, ChatGPT, is the hottest topic in academic and research libraries (ARLs) at the moment. Many ARLs around the world have started to think about ways to adopt and adapt AI tools to improve their services and workflows. […]
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