(23 Mar 2023) AI tools can help us create content, learn about the world and (perhaps) eliminate the more mundane tasks in life – but they aren’t perfect. They’ve been shown to hallucinate information, use other people’s work without consent, and embed social conventions, including apologies, to gain users’ trust. For example, certain AI chatbots,…
(13 Mar 2023) To better understand librarians’ viewpoints on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education, Helper Systems, a company that is striving to make information easier to find, manage and use, conducted a survey of more than 125 academic librarians in the United States. The survey results are freely available, with no registration.…
(8 Mar 2023) In a sector first, Jisc has released a framework to help universities make strategic moves towards digital transformation. Underlining the importance of digital technology in delivering education, Jisc has released a framework to help universities improve strategic planning around necessary digital transformation. The first framework for digital transformation in higher education contains…
(26 Nov 2022) The country is celebrating National Book Week from November 24 to 30 amid the struggle to arrest Filipino learners’ dwindling reading proficiency. Even before the pandemic struck, international large-scale assessments showed that learners were already struggling to meet the minimum required proficiency in reading, according to Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chair of the…
(27 Oct 2022) Americans have long been much more likely to trust information from local and national news organizations than information on social media sites. This remains the case today, except among the youngest adults. Adults under 30 are now almost as likely to trust information from social media sites as they are to trust…
(10 Oct 2022) The NLB’s 2021 National Reading Habits Study showed that 95 per cent of adults last year consumed reading materials such as the news, online articles and books in their spare time more than once a week – up from 88 per cent in 2018. Teenagers, too, seemed to be reading more for…
(16 Sep 2022) The wave of attempted book banning and restrictions continues to intensify, the American Library Association reported Friday. Numbers for 2022 already approach last year’s totals, which were the highest in decades. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” says Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. “It’s both the number…
(5 Sep 2022) Sarawak State Library is awarded the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy for its program ‘’People Accessible Network for Digital Empowerment & Inclusivity (PANDei)’. Established in 2000, the Sarawak State Library is one of the players appointed by the Sarawak Government in Malaysia to enhance the competency and readiness of all communities in the State…
(7 Sep 2022) To mark International Literacy Day 2022, we’re taking a look at the work done by libraries in Indonesia in order to help the over 8.5 million people lacking basic literacy skills there to develop the capacities they need to participate fully in the knowledge society. IFLA has the story in full.
(8 Sep 2022) On a recent Friday morning, the plaza in front of Seoul City Hall had a group of children browsing through books, lying on bean bag chairs, picnic mats, or swinging benches under the warm sunlight. Brightly colored bookshelves were scattered across the plaza’s open lawn space, beckoning passersby to grab one and…