(12 Mar 2025) Prime Minister Hun Manet has called on local authorities to set up mobile libraries to promote reading across Cambodia. Speaking at the graduation ceremony of Vanda Institute yesterday, Mr. Hun Manet also urged provincial administrations to create public spaces, especially in urban areas and parks, in each province where a mobile…
(13 Mar 2025) The National Library of the Republic of Indonesia and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology signed a memorandum of understanding. National Library together with Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology will collaborate in providing integrated journal access facilities and creating a research tool database system that can be used for the…
(20 Feb 2025) A total of 256 municipalities have neither a public library nor a bookstore, the Yomiuri Shimbun has learnt. This amounts to 15 per cent of the 1,718 municipalities nationwide. “If having few chances to enjoy books becomes normal, print culture itself will fade away,” an expert said about the decrease in places…
(17 Feb 2025) The higher education community continues to grapple with questions related to using artificial intelligence (AI) in learning and work. In support of these efforts, we present the 2025 EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study, summarizing our community’s sentiments and experiences related to strategy and leadership, policies and guidelines, use cases, the higher education workforce, and…
(30 Jan 2025) In an era when students and teachers alike spend hours a day reading on screens, large print books are an easy-to-implement alternative that increases reading engagement and comprehension for a vast majority of students. New research released today by Thorndike Press from Gale, part of Cengage Group, found that 87% of teachers saw…
(2 Dec 2024) Oxford University Press announced the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 as ‘brain rot’. ‘Brain rot’ is defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something…
By Lukas Tschopp* (10 Dec 2024) Higher education is being fundamentally challenged by the introduction of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT. In my daily interactions as a liaison librarian, I observe the erosion of core academic principles by these tools: Students using AI as an unreliable source of information, prioritizing polished presentation…
(14 Nov 2024) Book bans are increasingly becoming common in US schools. In the 2022-23 school year, PEN America reported 3,362 book bans, affecting 1,557 unique titles. And its latest data, released Nov. 1, 2024, shows that the number of book bans soared in the 2023-24 school year to more than 10,000, with Florida and Iowa accounting…
(29 Aug 2024) The latest LTI white paper aims to gain a better understanding of the place of AI literacy in information literacy instruction. With increased discussions around generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT, librarians are now confronted with accessible AI technology that students are using to offset their research and writing…
(29 Jul 2024) Stela Madruga, head librarian at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil, began her journey with Wikimedia Projects in 2019: “The library where I work hosted a ‘Wikipedian Librarians’ event. It was initiated by a professor and his outreach team. The workshop aimed to teach…