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The article provide examples and instruction on how to make acquisitions process of libraries more efficient with the use of technology-driven acquisitions model as compared to paper-driven acquisitions model. Topics discussed include retrieving the desired record in the cataloging module, using Google tools for filing, tracking and filtering and implementing time-saving strategies at one time.

The article examines controlled digital lending (CDL) in libraries, emphasizing its adherence to copyright law through fair use and the first sale doctrine. It discusses CDL requirements, legal challenges highlighted by cases like Hachette versus Internet Archive, and practical considerations for libraries in consortia like PASCAL, addressing budget limitations and the need to balance access with legal compliance in digitizing print resources for interlibrary loan.

The article focuses on the evolving role of librarians in supporting scholars' research endeavors, encompassing areas such as research data services, scholarly communication, and the integration of Artificial intelligence (AI) into library systems. It discusses how AI tools are being utilized to enhance various aspects of research, from peer review and manuscript editing to automated literature reviews and personalized recommendations.

The article focuses on the challenges faced by public libraries in shifting to primarily digital holdings, especially with the contentious relationship between libraries and major publishers like the Big Five regarding ebook access. Topics include the impact of publishers' changing license terms on libraries' ability to provide digital content; legislative efforts to address fair licensing options; and the need for innovative practices to sustain library digital content operations.

The article reflects on the profound impact of AI on various aspects of education and information access. It discusses how AI will shift the focus in higher education towards skill-building, emphasizing the need for students to develop practical skills in addition to knowledge acquisition. The article also highlights the challenges of navigating the vast amount of information available and the role of librarians and instructors in guiding students through the research process.

The article discusses about transformative impact of AI technology on information access, particularly in libraries and other information fields, highlighting innovations like customer service chatbots and text-to-speech algorithms. Topic include While AI tools promise increased accessibility and efficiency, there are concerns about potential unintended consequences, prompting a careful consideration of their deployment.

The article offers information about how book challengers and defenders are now using technology, such as online keyword searches, to compile lists of books to target or to promote reading diversely. It also highlights how book challengers have created websites that take book passages out of context to promote objections, while book advocates use the internet to facilitate access to challenged titles and offer support to one another.

The article delves into the transformative influence of AI on libraries, drawing a parallel with the cautionary myth of Pandora's box. It explores AI's multifaceted impact on libraries, encompassing misinformation challenges, cybersecurity threats, privacy dilemmas, and literacy opportunities. Framed as an allegorical journey, the narrative underscores the responsibility to actively shape AI's role in fortifying library security, maintaining integrity, and upholding principles of privacy.

The article explores the transition from paid to free printing services in libraries and its impact on accessibility and resource management. It discusses challenges such as potential abuse, excessive printing, and the strain on budgets, alongside success stories from libraries that implemented limits on free prints to balance access and sustainability.

The article focuses on the developments in open access (OA) agreements between academic institutions and major publishers such as Wiley and Springer Nature, facilitating greater access to scholarly research and increasing opportunities for researchers to publish in OA journals. Topics include transformative agreements with Vanderbilt University and Turkey's National Academic Network, as well as expansions of OA pilot programs and partnerships between publishers and library software providers.

The article provides information on the Research Horizon Navigator, an artificial intelligence (AI) module within InCites Benchmarking & Analytics, from Clarivate.

The author shares insight on predatory publishing, its impact on business schools and business scholarship, and damage to professional reputations including for librarians. She considers the threat posed by predatory publishing when used with generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools. She cautions about the possibility of misinformation, flawed research and the diminishing quality of scholarly research.

The article explains the intricacies of scholarly publications in a digital world. It provides an overview of the evolution of information landscape and stresses the need to teach students about the nature and authorial voices of the information landscape. It outlines principles for information clarity, as well as signs of changes to academic literature presentation including preprints, predatory or inferior journal publication, and artificial intelligence (AI)-generated academic literature.

The article highlights initiatives of publishing company Springer Nature that use advanced technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) in scientific research publications. These include machine-generated books and reports, SN Insights platform and its Nature Research Intelligence service, and book auto-translation tool. It also reports Springer Nature's acquisition of the Science division of Slimmer AI and services provider Research Square and its partnership with protocols.io platform.

The article focuses on environmental sustainability in libraries and archives through jan zastrow's views. Topics include constant advances in new technology, and data centers are becoming more environmentally aware like Cloud-based systems, implementing hierarchical storage management (HSM) policies for alternative data storage, and a hybrid digital-analog world if the future.

The article reports software publishers company Research Solutions Inc. has acquired artificial intelligence platform scite, to enhance its product offerings and leverage scite's Smart Citations for cross-selling opportunities, benefiting both scite's B2C consumer base and Research Solutions' B2B.

The article offers information on San Joaquin Valley in central California is home to our nation's largest agricultural region, and a disproportionate number of our residents live in poverty and how can we guarantee access for all of our students and children when their families and communities cannot provide the services they need. Topics include the group of dedicated library educators has decided to take on the challenge has presented this news paper headline in spring 2018.

The article discusses the impact of ChatGPT, an AI-powered language model, on various sectors, including libraries and education. It highlights concerns among librarians and educators about the potential misuse and misinformation generated by ChatGPT. The article also mentions developments related to ChatGPT, such as its availability on Android devices and the introduction of plugins to enhance its capabilities.

The article examines Google and Bing and discusses on performances of them. Topics discussed include making the top results of search; pulling of information by the search engines from a webpage; and powerful search tools provided by Bing and Google, with both engines performing well in many reference areas.

The article offers information about the few trends in the content marketplace including the atomization of content and the rise of the article-based economy. It discusses the article-based economy is gaining interest among publishers, the author remains skeptical about its potential impact on collection design and use patterns. It also provides a brief history of the evolution of online searching and the importance of granular metadata.

The article informs that a federal lawsuit against the Escambia County School Board for book removals can proceed, ruled by a U.S. district court judge in Florida. Topic include Plaintiffs, including PEN America and banned authors, have been granted standing under the First Amendment, challenging the removal of books based on ideology, with classic literary works like The Bluest Eye and Slaughterhouse-Five among those targeted.

The article discusses the challenges of accessing scholarly literature beyond graduation and highlights several Open Access (OA) resources for finding academic sources. The author recommends directories like DOAJ, new tools like Internet Archive Scholar, databases like Dimensions, and platforms like Core and Google Scholar, while also addressing the rise of preprints, OA books, and the limitations and challenges associated with paywalls in academia.

The article highlights impact of open access (OA) on preparing for changes in scholar publishing. Topics discussed include research papers which published on library-managed websites that operated at cost of print subscriptions; the scholarly publishing industry on navigating the transition from print to digital formats; and OA gaining on involving advance payment of article-processing charge (APC).

The article focuses on the challenges and issues related to assessing the impact of open research data. It discusses the increasing demand for researchers to make their data open and shareable, emphasizing the importance of transparency and replicability in the scientific ecosystem. It also highlights the significance of open science and the need for standardized metadata, citation practices, and data description to enhance the discoverability and reusability of open data.

The article focuses on libraries function as multifaceted centers of information and resources, which is a role that includes preserving and sharing the collective history of their communities. Topics include digitizing local history records is one way for libraries to reflect and contribute to the historical memory of the people and places that they serve, and overarching goal of this digitization project is for the original documents to be safely preserved in archive boxes.

The article discusses about challenges faced by libraries to adapt to the changing information landscape and offers suggestions to accommodate each new variation of the content ecosystem. Topics discussed include new publishing and content models, opportunities to enhance library services and impact of library management systems.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of using optical character recognition (OCR) and machine learning in digitizing rare American Civil War letters and make them accessible to library users.

The article highlights opening access for academic research through Institutional Repository (IR). Topics discussed include defining a place for academic libraries to store and showcase faculty; making certain limitation on access due to legal reason on making digital resources accessible to all users; and providing access to post-embargo accepted manuscripts.

The article discusses concerns of information professionals regarding the dominance of generative AI, such as ChatGPT, highlighting both extensive history of AI applications in libraries and the challenges and fears associated with the rapid advancements in generative AI technology. The author urges these professionals to proactively navigate transformative effects of generative AI, emphasizing the need to explore its benefits and drawbacks to lead confidently in this evolving search landscape.

The article informs about advancing the cloud in close alignment with local collections will yield new opportunities for curators to partner with far-flung collaborators. Topics include attention-grabbing e-resources can be seen in the Bancroft Library's project documenting the internment of West Coast Japanese Americans during World War II; and emphasized building persistent local resources even as cloud services and collections continue to advance.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of Zoom for remote usability testing.

In the article, the author discusses issues on copyright. Other topics include how to use images based on the fair use doctrine, the resources from the Center for Media & Social Impact about fair use for academic and research libraries, the things libraries to consider regarding the sharing of online content, and the need for libraries to consider copyrighting their collections like images.

The article focuses on art of archiving photos with script and batch processing. Topics inlcude the harvest photographs housed only in web-based photo galleries on the law school website and import them into our repository's collection, the digital repositories were initially promoted as a mechanism to capture the scholarly output of an institution, and the library's initial approach to capturing scholarly output has focused heavily on faculty publications.

In this article the author talks about the access services and collection services departments at the University of Georgia's Alexander Campbell King Law Library team up to share an alphabetical catalog of their favorite ideas, tips, and tools. It mentions that the list includes favorite tech for creating and deploying library exhibits, schemes for fueling social media sites with content, and apps for staying organized.

The article talks about Community Technology Empowerment Project (CTEP) AmeriCorps that housed within the nonprofit Saint Paul Neighborhood Network, a program which focuses on addressing digital inequities in St. Paul and Minneapolis. It mentions AmeriCorps members serving a variety of settings, including public libraries and help community members of all ages use technology to better access social, civic, educational, and economic opportunities.

The article offers information on the findings of a library usability test conducted at the University of Georgia's Alexander Campbell King Law Library (UGA Law Library). It mentions that based on practice runs, the estimated time for completing all parts of the usability test was between 5 and 6 minutes, with the maximum duration for any given part clocking in at 2 minutes 10 seconds; and also mentions the process has allowed to locate certain aspects that need attention.

The article discusses that user-experience (UX) testing of the library website and online resources has a healthy history at the University of Tennessee–Chattanooga's Library (UTC Library). It mentions that the usability testing approach was influenced by usability consultant Steve Krug, who recommends informal, frequent testing with a small number of users; and also mentions that participants were asked to provide demographic and usage information.

The article focuses on South Carolina State Library (SCSL) similar to many state libraries provides access to publications produced by state agencies and state-supported academic institutions. It mentions SCSL retains three copies for the library's collection and distributes the rest to participating depository libraries and the Library of Congress (LC). It also mentions South Carolina State Documents Depository provides immediate access to digitized and born-digital state agency documents.

The article focuses on Altmetrics. Topics discussed include altmetrics' reliance on the social web to evaluate scholarly publications along with their use to evaluate work on social media such as Facebook and Twitter, flexibility in evaluating researchers with it and comments from Heather Piwowar of Impactstory tool, on advantage of altmetrics over traditional bibliometrics.

The article discusses the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, particularly those that enable dynamic interaction with documents, on information professionals. It highlights the potential of tools like PDF.ai and ChatDOC to upload documents and ask questions, providing context-sensitive answers. It further explores the applications of such tools, including cataloging and information access.

The article offers information about the implications of artificial intelligence generated content, specifically ChatGPT, from an information literacy perspective. It emphasizes the need for educators to acknowledge and address the existence of AI-generated content as it becomes increasingly accessible to students.

In the article, the author discusses how librarians can maintain community calendars highlighting events of interests in their community and how to use personal calendars effectively by citing their experiences at Vermont Library Association (VLA). Also cited are how they created a single events page for the VLA website, and the importance of curation and communication in events management.

In the article, the author discusses some strategies to ensure users are enjoying digital library services amidst the coronavirus pandemic, particularly the use of library metrics. Also cited are their use of targeted access and information counseling to reach potential users, the faculty outreach programs of the University of California--Berkeley (UC-Berkeley) library, and the user training sessions covering topics like information literacy and the future of publishing.

The article presents the discussion on news briefs. Topics include Indiana State Library naming the the U.S. Government Publishing Office's (GPO) Federal Depository Library of the Year for 2022; and Indiana State Library offering instructions for accessing government information across the state for school-aged children and adults.

The article offers information on several aspects associated with an impacts of the Internet of Things (IoT) on libraries and its associated users. The topics addressed include details on the several elements which should be consisted in the information technology (IT) infrastructure in libraries and details on several applications of IoT in libraries.

The article focuses on the importance of websites, repositories and databases to libraries. It discusses how to make a decision as to whether it is better to provide users with an interface designed to deliver the ultimate user engagement experience with a particular type of materials or to just leave everything into an all-in-one system.

The article presents various announcements including Sophia Muirhead appointed as executive director of Institute of electrical and electronics engineers, Emily Singley as Vice President of library relations in Elsevier North America, and Judi Dodson joining Tools 4 Reading as a trainer relations.

The article offers information on The Wikipedia Library (TWL) as a gateway for the world's library that provides information and reference services for everyone with internet access. Topics discussed include TWL program funded by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, the TWL program now having 51 partners including JSTOR, Oxford University Press and Project Muse, and TWL promoting the Resource Exchange project.

The article discusses role of advocacy work undertaken by several organizations on behalf of patron privacy. Topics discussed include role of librarians to protect privacy and intellectual freedom because of deep-seated historical and ethical principles; need to keep security practices updated for protecting sensitive data; and recommendations for institutions to improve their practices and technologies in reaction to changes in perceptions and security threats.

The article offers an overview of the state of research data including its definition, its importance, and the practical steps in establishing it. It presents as an example the data repository across Texas. It reports information on data archiving services and research data repository library adoption cycle. It also discusses data management planning.