(17 Oct 2025) “AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers,” approved by ACRL in October 2025, is a comprehensive framework to help academic library workers navigate the integration and ethical use of AI technology in higher education libraries. It emphasizes the critical role of academic libraries in understanding and responding to AI’s impact on research, pedagogy,…
(10 Oct 2025) Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) has launched the RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM), preserving in a digital format for the first time several valuable, rare, and largely unknown independently published music magazines. This continuously expanding, fully searchable collection features over 125 magazines and fanzines published from the late 1960s…
(22 Oct 2025) Elsevier, a global leader in advanced information and decision support in science and healthcare, is expanding its Geographical Pricing for Open Access (GPOA) initiative to an additional 150 gold open access journals, following the success of its 2024 pilot. This expansion means around 300 journals will offer pricing based on geography to help…
With over 56,000 reading programmes held in 2024 alone, the Government renews its commitment to becoming a reading nation by 2030 (5 Oct 2025) FAR from becoming relics of the past, public libraries are being transformed into dynamic, digital-age learning hubs — part of a nationwide mission to build a reading nation by 2030. This…
(26 Sept 2025) On 26 September 2025, the official donation agreement signing ceremony took place between AIT President, Prof. Pai-Chi Li and Mr. Pote Narittakurn Lee, Chairman of iGroup (Asia-Pacific) Limited, at AIT. Mr. Lee, a distinguished alumnus of AIT and former member of AIT’s Board Executive Committee, who earned his Master’s in Engineering in…
(10 Oct 2025) According to Master Nguyen Huu Gioi, digital transformation in libraries in Vietnam is both the goal and the destination of the whole process. Digital transformation is not simply a “technical move” to convert information and documents from paper to electronic form using modern scanners and photocopiers; but importantly: information resources, digital collections, data…
(14 Oct 2025) Wiley today announced the launch of Wiley AI Gateway, the industry’s first AI-native research intelligence platform that provides researchers access to trusted content from world-leading scholarly publishers through a single endpoint. Unlike closed ecosystems that require researchers to adopt proprietary tools, Wiley AI Gateway prioritizes intentional interoperability, seamlessly integrating scholarly content…
(14 Oct 2025) Orion Newby, a sophomore at Adelphi University in New York, is suing the school, claiming that he was falsely accused of using generative AI on a history paper. According to the lawsuit, Newby has learning differences and, as part of that, works closely with tutors to improve his grammar. He claims that…
(14 Oct 2025) In a recent interview with Yonhap News Agency, Kim Hee-sop, director of the National Library of Korea, said, “Now is the time when the value of libraries becomes even clearer, as AI becomes more naturally integrated into everyday life.” “AI requires high-quality, diverse datasets to improve performance,” Kim said. “Libraries are…
The country’s output in quality health research is going from strength to strength, but can it overcome questions about the integrity of its publishing practices? (1 Oct 2025) Increasing evidence suggests that the geographical centre of medical research might be moving, as the amount and quality of research produced by China’s research hospitals rises, and…