(21 Aug 2025) The Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) today announced that their members have cleared the way for the organizations to merge. SLA members voted overwhelmingly to accept the dissolution plan proposed by their Board of Directors. Separately, ASIS&T members resoundingly approved their Board’s proposal to welcome…
(21 Aug 2025) The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India and Springer Nature have announced a collaboration aimed at strengthening awareness of research integrity, open access, and evolving scholarly publishing practices across India’s Tier 2 and Tier 3 academic institutions. The partnership is anchored in the RISE-UTTHAN initiative, an academic engagement…
(14 Aug 2025) The Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with iesResearch, the research engagement arm of iGroup, which advances research excellence through AI integration, strategic outreach, and partnerships across the Asia-Pacific and other emerging regions. This collaboration focuses on strengthening research capacity and visibility for institutions in Africa and Asia.…
(20 Aug 2025) Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to automate repetitive, data-intensive and pattern-recognition tasks, thereby freeing human cataloguers for more complex work. What impact will this have? We interviewed Getaneh Alemu because his current work demonstrates a proactive engagement with AI in cataloguing. He is actively involved in exploring, testing and evaluating various…
The number of tools available to help library staff identify potential research misconduct is rapidly expanding. Here are some recommendations. (7 Aug 2025) The management of open access agreements within academic libraries creates the possibility for library staff to play a new role in the ongoing publishing integrity crisis. When library staff monitor open…
(11 Aug 2025) Boston Public Library, one of the oldest and largest public library systems in the country, is launching a project this summer with OpenAI and Harvard Law School to make its trove of historically significant government documents more accessible to the public. The documents date back to the early 1800s and include oral…
(18 Aug 2025) New Delhi, The government, through the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation under the Ministry of Culture, has recently launched a significant initiative to compile and maintain a comprehensive, “national-level dynamic database” of public libraries across the country, Parliament was informed on Monday. The Ministry of Culture, through the RRRLF, Kolkata an…
The conference is an interdisciplinary forum for delegates to present research results, share and discuss innovations, trends and practical challenges in the field of libraries and academic publishing. (20 Aug 2025) On August 20, in Gia Lai, the Vietnam Science Association and the International Center for Interdisciplinary Science and Education (ICISE) opened the “International Conference on Information…
(25 Aug 2025) I apologize for being so far behind on my current Ruth’s Rankings article on Impact, but every morning’s news brings more discouraging postings from my government on its involvement in education and research. It makes rankings seem trivial and it makes my colleagues and I feel helpless. By the time I finished…