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The article reports on the author's initiative to design and share fun, paper-based math games for diverse age groups, utilizing tools like LibreOffice Calc, and details the evolution of the Pairs Math Game, its varied versions, and potential uses in educational and community settings. The author also emphasizes promoting playful conversations about numbers and fostering a sense of agency in students to invent their math questions.

The article focuses on the challenges and complexities associated with citations in research papers. It highlights the importance of citations in validating information and guiding further research, but acknowledges the confusion and difficulties students face in understanding different citation styles and formats. It also discusses the role of citation generators in helping students create accurate citations and mentions several popular citation generator tools.

The article explore the usage and potential of ChatGPT plugins and data analysis. It discusses the evolution of ChatGPT, from its early limitations in generating inaccurate information to its improvements through the introduction of plugins. It explains that plugins provide ChatGPT with the ability to access real-time information, enhance its functionality, and reduce the generation of inaccurate data.

The article explores the significant issue of link rot in scholarly publications, detailing the challenges faced by academic scholarship due to broken or inaccessible digital resources. Topics discussed include the prevalence of broken links and Digital Object Identifier (DOIs) across various disciplines, highlighting the inefficacy of current DOI systems and proposing solutions like persistent identifiers .

The article focuses on the impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI), specifically ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs), on the search technology landscape. It discusses the advancements made by OpenAI with the release of ChatGPT 4. It further highlights the potential implications of generative AI for various professions, such as writers, journalists, educators, artists, students, lawyers, and more.

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 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 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.

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.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of being took a quiz to see if using best practices such as strong passwords.

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.