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The article offers information on the evolving digital divide and the challenges it poses, including computer costs, internet accessibility and empowerment and confidence in using technology. It discusses the complexities of modern technology use; including interconnected systems; misinformation; and the need for systems thinking to bridge the divide and empower users in navigating digital landscapes effectively.

The article explores how Libib, typically used for personal library management, was creatively applied to manage a small, dispersed school library with over 17,000 books. Topics discussed include the challenges of organizing a distributed collection, the need for affordable yet functional library management systems, and the customization capabilities of Libib to meet unique school library needs.

The article informs readers about the University of West Georgia's efforts to enhance library outreach and engagement through the optimization of its subject librarian program. Topic include By reevaluating their approach, the library has reduced website maintenance, maximized librarian skill sets, and identified opportunities for more effective resource utilization.

The article offers information on the profound impact of AI, especially ChatGPT, on various aspects of librarianship. Topics include the integration of AI into daily work tasks, the training of future professionals, providing guidance to constituents in navigating the information landscape, and acquiring new skills and roles in organizations.

The article focuses on the history and evolution of the American Library Association (ALA), highlighting its founding, early leadership, and current governance structure. Topics discussed include the ALA's inception during the 19th century, its role in shaping library science and safeguarding information, and its ongoing efforts in advocacy, outreach, and professional development within the field of librarianship.

The article discusses the author's role as an information services librarian and founder of the Innovation Lab at St. Petersburg College, U.S. Topics covered include the author's background, the evolving complexity of technology over the past two decades, and a preview of upcoming columns focusing on emerging technologies such as quantum computing, AI, extended realities, makerspaces, and the Internet of Things (IoT), aiming to make libraries more innovative and promote digital literacy.

The article involves integrating library skills into data and information lifecycle design, supporting both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research practices. It aims to empower users in the evolving landscape of data analytics and information systems design. It recognizes the growing importance of data in research and scholarship, challenging librarians to adapt their roles and thinking while collaborating with other stakeholders.

The article presents the discussion on curating a digital collection. Topics include ebooks, digital audiobooks, subscription digital content such as databases that contain ebooks, news sources, trade and popular magazines; and ease of modification or the ability to make necessary adjustments for the library system.

An introduction is presented in which the author discusses articles within the issue on topics including the change of digital archives to a digital repository at Texas A&M University, computer courses in Spanish offered by Loveland Public Library to reach an underserved population, and the challenge of artificial intelligence (AI) in schools.

The article discusses the evolving role of librarians and the debate surrounding the necessity of advanced degrees in the field. It highlights how requiring a master's degree could impact equity, diversity, and inclusion within the profession. The article also presents a case study of the Prince George's County Memorial Library System, which eliminated the master's degree requirement for certain positions to promote diversity and provide advancement opportunities for staff members.

In the article, the author offers tips to school libraries on how to respond to book challenges in schools by citing the strategies of their FReadom Fighters group to fight for intellectual freedom and against book censorship in Texas as example. Also cited are the move by Texas state Congressman Matt Krause to release his list of unwanted book titles, and the alleged claim by the Texas governor that school libraries contained pornography.

The article discusses the article also briefly traced the history, rise, and fall of the professional news researcher and librarian role as a highly valued and sometimes even exciting career path. It also explored the status of the news librarian today. the last 20 years or so, many media organizations have eliminated their research librarians and rely on their own reporters to do research for articles.

The article reports noteworthy appointments, including Ian Palmer as vice president of marketing and Duncan Campbell as executive director of client engagement and business development at copyright licensing company Copyright Clearing Center (CCC) and Rachel Hendrick as editor at publisher Choice.

The article explores During the summer of 2020, DEI became a focus area for my institution, the Gilson D. Lewis Health Science Library at the University of North Texas. We were charged, through a lens of DEI, to provide assistance, dialogue, and awareness and to turn our vision inward toward what resources the library offers and how those resources reflect the community and patrons served.

The article offers information on the dynamic evolution of library technology over a 15-year span as the author concludes their tenure with Computers in Libraries. Beginning with the usage of Firefox 2.0 and Microsoft Word submissions, the author reflects on the enduring relevance of open-source tools like Audacity and WordPress.

The article offers information on the Dot Collector which is a real-time employee feedback system that allows employees to rate other employees' performance throughout the day. It discusses about Yelp (yelp. com) is the perfect online rating/review system for seeing all sides of this issue at work as the platform boasts 92 million users a month, all generating rating/review data on various small businesses around the world.

The article discusses that Blockchain technology bears enormous implications for libraries and publishers. Topics discussed include the recent proliferation of NFTs introduces further opportunities for institutions eager to progress beyond legacy systems; and libraries are uniquely positioned to capitalize on the NFT upswell because their platforms are designed to distribute ideas, art, and community organization.

The article discusses the debate surrounding the use of the term "library" in various professional settings and the importance of preserving the term. Topics include the preference for the term "librarian" over alternative titles, concerns about undermining the value of libraries in the digital age, and the role of librarians in defending against censorship.

The article highlights the growing threat to librarianship, with bills in states like Louisiana and Idaho aiming to criminalize librarians for supporting organizations like American Library Association or allowing patrons to petition for book removal. Topics include the criminalization of librarianship, banning books, and adverse legislation affecting libraries and their patrons, exemplified by bills in Louisiana, Idaho, and Tennessee.

The article discusses the growing importance of understanding and utilizing generative Artificial Intelligence tools like ChatGPT in libraries for storytelling and other tasks, emphasizing the need for familiarity to provide quality assistance. Topics covered include using ChatGPT for playful storytelling, satire writing, and creating stories with serious themes for educational purposes, highlighting both the surprising capabilities and limitations of the tool.

The article presents an interview with Christa Porter, the Library Development Director at the Nebraska Library Commission, who discusses her background in libraries, projects she's proud of, and major shifts in libraries over the years. Topics discussed include her career journey into librarianship, grant programs for library improvement, and the impact of the maker movement on libraries.

The article describes evidence-based librarianship (EBL) "an approach to information science that promotes the collection, interpretation, and integration of valid, important and applicable user-reported, librarian observed, and research derived evidence". It mentions that the collected evidence is then analyzed and applied to solve practical problems using a decision-making framework; and use of EBL requires that a driving question leads the process.

The article explores Futures thinking is a guiding theme in many recent library and information science publications. Approaches to Liaison Librarianship takes a new look at the perennial discussion of how librarians can keep the best of traditional library practices while offering innovative services.

The article offers information related to the academic support for scholarship, research libraries, and global publishing. It mentions changes in academic librarianship with literature documenting focused on North America and Europe; scholarly publishing in sub-Saharan Africa to a combination of technological and economic factors. It also mentions that poorly funded institutions can neither finance research projects nor afford many of the important resources upon which scholars rely.

The article advocates for increased representation of librarians in Congress, citing their unique ability to discern facts, synthesize knowledge, and explain complexities. It emphasizes the contrast between the skills of lawyers and librarians in decision-making, favoring the latter for their expertise in navigating the nuances of the modern world.

A personal narrative is presented which discusses the author's experience of working as a law librarian and joining the law firm Haynsworth Sinker Boyd in January 2001.

The article presents the discussion on librarians showcasing the books about underrepresented groups, including LGBTQ people. Topics include collaborating on ways to support, promote, and align around research integrity throughout research and research publishing; and looking at the need for an evidence-based approach to integrity and the exploration of new directions and opportunities after the committee’s launch of its 2023–2025 strategic plan.

The article focuses on the American Psychological Association (APA) by Heather Stringer who discusses libraries as "mental health hubs" citing examples of those that hire social workers or train librarians to provide basic crisis assistance. Topics include examines Rebecca Tolley book A Trauma-Informed Approach to Library Services reimagines the library laying out strategies for destigmatizing trauma and extend library services to those who have suffered from it.

The article focuses on the requirement of building digital libraries. It mentions the challenges for library innovations as effective innovation which requires two skills, the ability to see a trend before others and the ability to transform that vision into a new venture that empowers users; and also focuses on developing optimistic and abstract visions of the library's mission to persuade key administrators who prefer pragmatic strategies.

The article offers information on the survey Librarian Perception of Artificial Intelligence on the views of librarians on the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on their work and the numbers in the workforce. Topics discussed include views of librarians on the transformative effects of AI on librarianship; virtual services in libraries accepted AI in the form of discovery software; and use of supercomputer in the libraries.

The article informs that the American Library Association Library Bill of Rights states librarian should never express any judgment or analysis of information requested by a library user. It is noted that teaching information literacy is not the only activity in which academic librarians violate the absolutist interpretation of neutrality and librarians were at the forefront of efforts to limit the reach of academic journals that didn't follow accepted standards.

The article focuses on the relevance of diversity residency programs in the field of librarianship, which aim to address the lack of diversity in the profession. Topics include the purpose and goals of diversity residencies, the benefits of quality mentorship and residency coordinators, factors contributing to successful residencies, and the potential impact of affirmative action on these programs in the wake of a recent Supreme Court decision.

The article focuses on the joint conference of the Medical Library Association (MLA) and the Special Libraries Association (SLA) held in Detroit, celebrating the 125 anniversary of MLA, with topics discussed including the conference format, exhibitors, and notable sessions, such as those addressing the history of filing cabinets, combating fake news, and librarianship-related subjects.

The article discusses the Democrat was running for governor of Virginia, and he had a number of advantages. Topics discussed include Joe Biden had just won Virginia in the previous year's presidential election by 10 points; and Virginians awoke to the news that Youngkin, not McAuliffe, was their next governor.

The article focuses on the roles of libraries in post-truth world with the heated political and social discourse of 2016 was fueled by appeals to emotion and personal belief. Topics discussed include privacy, diversity, social responsibility with Core Values of Librarianship, as expressed by the American Library Association (ALA), libraries have extoled the virtues of information literacy and information and communication technologies are weapons of mass deconstruction.

The article informs the Entrepreneurship and Libraries Conference (Entrelib or ELC International) increasing role of entrepreneurial librarianship in library services, with a global audience in attendance. It mentions the conference was sponsored by BLINC, the business librarianship section of the North Carolina Library Association, and was co-led by three academic business librarians.

The article reviews the musical "Hamilton the Musical", written by Lin-Manual Miranda, and by Alexander Hamilton.

The article focuses on the future of the libraries build on the terms including innovative technologies, librarianship's emerging ideas, and new software and apps. It adds on the history of the libraries that is evolved with crowdsourcing, and sketchnoting like new tools. The libraries and the librarians are taking the help of the programming, planning and learning to build new channels, new spaces, and future trends of the libraries.

The article presents the experiences of Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals who work in temporary or part-time jobs, often referred to as "nomads," and how this phenomenon is reshaping the LIS field. It mentions that there is a need to better inform LIS graduate students about this professional phenomenon, and suggests that this work could be used for ethnographic research to better understand the experiences of LIS professionals.

The article offers multiple news briefs. Topics discussed include SAGE Campus and SAGE Video products were appointed to the Advanced Procurement for Universities and College (APUC) Framework Agreement for online streaming and online training services; the Joint Council of Librarians of Color (JCLC) was unanimously chosen as the recipient of the 2021 ALA Equality Award; and MIT Press launched Direct to Open (D2O), a first-of-its-kind sustainable OA monograph framework.

The article discusses the trends that affect the profession of librarians that are brought by technological and economic change. The author offers suggestions of what librarians may do to accomplish changes in the representation of their profession, along with questions to help determine the critical trends from the fad in librarianship. Some of the trends observed by the author are noted.

The article announces several awards winners and personnel changes in publishing industry including Antonia Seymour as managing director of IOP Publishing; the 2020 Miriam L. Hornback Scholarship to Sara R. Kennedy; and the 2020 Tom and Roberta Drewes Scholarship to Nicole Lewis.

Several charts are presented that lists the library and information science (LIS) databases of EBSCO Industries Inc. including the Library Literature & Information Science Index (LLIS), Library & Information Science Source (LISS), and the Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA). INSET: The Strange Case of JASIST.

The article discusses the advantages of using of library discovery tools over Internet searching. A proposal by Sharon Q. Yang and Kurt Wagner notes that the search engines' interfaces pose the threat of replacing library interfaces. For Jody Condit Fagan, the Web-scale discovery services for libraries transform the Internet search engines. Discovery tools and Web-scale discovery services also have allowed users to conduct single keyword searches over the entirety of the library's resources.

An excerpt from the book "The Embedded Librarian: Innovative Strategies for Taking Knowlege Where It's Needed," by David Shumaker is presented.

The article reviews the FutureReady 365 blog created by volunteers within the Special Libraries Association (SLA). INSETS: Future Ready Is...;Collaborative Social Networking: An Applied-Science Tip Sheet;Collaborative Social Networking: An Applied-Science Tip Sheet.

The article examines how the advent of information technologies might influence librarians to reconsider their commitment to the technological obsession and instead shift to a more humanistic approach. It discusses the thesis that technological infrastructure for information delivery is so easy to use to the point of invisibility. As such, the roles and unique skills of librarians come into better focus. An overview of smart technologies is offered.

The article explores several approaches by which professional librarians can exhibit their resiliency during times of economic downturns. According to the author, one way is to get employed in a traditional job, and at the same time, work on developing additional skills and learning every aspect of the job. She also recommends that librarians use their inventory skills to try a nontraditional job or start a business where they can apply their skills.

The article discusses the concept of embedded librarianship, which is when librarians manage online and virtual libraries instead of a physical library and are placed within organizations as researchers and information specialists. It studies the advantages and disadvantages of such setup and suggests that the shift into electronic libraries is inevitable. Also suggested are areas where embedded librarians may be needed, such as hospitals and medical schools, corporations, public and law libraries.

The article offers a look at the implementation of federated search at the University of Wyoming (UW). UW is the only four-year university in the state, and because of this, it is expected to offer a wide variety of general and specialized resources to support its curriculum. Students and faculty at the university want to streamline their searching across web-based search engines, library collections and the bibliographic databases to which the library subscribes. The concept of federated search was seen as the answer to such wish. With this in mind, the university implemented Central Search, a federated search tool marketed by Serials Solutions.