(22 Apr 2025) The Washington Post has become the latest media company to strike a deal with OpenAI, with both companies announcing a “strategic partnership” on Tuesday that will feature the outlet’s news content when ChatGPT users search for answers. Moving forward, ChatGPT will show summaries, quotes and links to WaPo stories that help answer…
(30 Apr 2025) Retention issues—driven, among other factors, by staff dissatisfaction and burnout—are a key concern in public library systems. To solve the problem, we first need to close the leadership competency gap. Library and information science programs have traditionally covered topics such as archives and records management, information policy, information literacy, and collection…
(1 May 2025) Two and half years after ChatGPT’s commercial release, the higher education community is still coming to terms with how generative AI technology is impacting teaching, learning, and research. Universities, publishers, and other stakeholders in and around higher education have been obliged to react quickly, creating task forces, new guidelines and policies, and other…
(6 May 2025) A law student at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) said students had been “left in the lurch” after an announcement on Monday that said next month’s exams for two law subjects would have to be handwritten. In an announcement from the Dean, Professor Geoff McLay, he said he had become “increasingly worried…
(1 May 2025) The library technology industry showed its maturity in 2024. Businesses have become increasingly stable and robust products delivered rich functionality. But decades of consolidation have created a narrower slate of competitors, resulting in a smaller number of products available for each type and size of library. The marketplace is seeing more specialized…
(6 May 2025) Emerald Publishing Limited has today acquired now publishers. Founded in 2004, now publishers is a leading source of academic content, publishing research monographs, journals and Foundations and Trends (FnT) with strengths in the areas of Business, Economics, Computer Science and Engineering. The sale comprises over 50 books, 14 peer-reviewed journals and 28…
(8 May 2025) Wiley and Perplexity, the leader in trustworthy and verifiable AI, today announced a new partnership that will integrate Wiley’s authoritative content into Perplexity’s generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) search capabilities for educators and students. With the agreement, Wiley becomes Perplexity’s first education partner, creating new pathways for educational institutions to interact with trusted…