(4 Jan 2024) With the December 31, 2023, retirement of Ms. KATAYAMA Nobuko, Mr. YAMAJI Yasushi has been named Deputy Director General of the National Diet Library, effective January 1, 2024. Since joining the National Diet Library in 1989, Mr. Yamaji has served as director general of the Acquisitions and Bibliography Department and, since February…
(2 Jan 2024) About the position: At La Trobe University, the Library is the heart of teaching and learning support. The Library Learning Services (LLS) team comprises specialists distributed across five campus locations, dedicated to enhancing the learning experience and academic success of our students. Together, they offer a diverse range of learning and…
(3 Jan 2024) In the year since ChatGPT brought AI mainstream, the technology landscape has exploded with apps and bots that do more than mimic human intelligence and hallucinate electric sheep. Gary Price is a leader in advocating for better AI tools for librarians, researchers, and students (check out his presentations at Charleston and CNI this fall)—so I asked him, what are his…
(4 Jan 2024) With over 170 million items in the collection, from Magna Carta to Shakespeare’s First Folio, the British Library is one of the world’s largest national libraries. If you are a mid-career library or archive professional, you’re welcomed to apply for the fourth International Library Leaders Programme, running in July 2024. This intensive week-long…
(27 Dec 2023) Let’s take a moment to look back at the top 10 articles that gained the most attention on LibraryLearningSpace in 2023 as we bid farewell to this remarkable year. In 2023, we noticed a significant increase in interest and discussions related to AI, with over 70 posts shared. However, our readers remained…
(21 Dec 2023) As 2023 rolls to a close, Knowable Magazine has looked back over its articles and canvassed editorial committee members from the 51 academic journals — covering analytical chemistry to vision science — published by Knowable’s parent company, Annual Reviews. From good news to bad, from novel vaccines to insect invaders, this year left us with much…
(7 Dec 2023) In 2023, Coursera has seen a growth of learners, partners, courses, degrees, and enrollments. 2023 is a year for generative AI, while huge interest in learners seeking out such content with searches growing 4x in 2023 compared to 2022. Coursera also analyzed all course enrollments in 2023 and 2022, which are…
(1 Dec 2023) The Choice Outstanding Academic Titles (OAT) list for 2023 has been announced. This prestigious list, released today, reflects the best scholarly titles reviewed by Choice during the previous calendar year, as chosen by the editors. This year’s list features 499 books from 109 publishers. As in previous years, Choice editors will present…
(7 Dec 2023) Richard Poynder has long been one of the most respected and insightful commentators on the scholarly communication ecosystem, and in particular on the development and progress of the open access (OA) movement – to which he has always been a friend, but one admirably willing to speak truth even when the truth was…
(19 Dec 2023) Eleven countries have introduced open science policies, strategies and legislative frameworks since the adoption of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science two years ago, according to the UNESCO Open Science Outlook 1: Status and Trends Around the World. This means that the the total number of countries with open science policies has…