(20 Nov 2024) The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2023, which analyzes salary data for professional staff working in 126 of the 127 ARL member libraries during 2023. Data are reported for 11,118 professional staff from 120 university ARL libraries in Canada and the United States and for 2,044…
(1 Nov 2024) From the abstract: The purpose of this study is to learn more about virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) practices at the United States’ top one hundred university libraries, as well as how they are engaging with the metaverse. We conducted qualitative and descriptive analysis on the websites of the…
(3 Oct 2024) ACRL announces the publication of the report The State of U.S. Academic Libraries: Findings from the ACRL 2023 Annual Survey. Academic libraries provide essential services that support research and student success in higher education. To help track the nature and quantity of those services, ACRL fields an annual Academic Library Trends and Statistics…
(2 Oct 2024) This innovative programme aims to bridge the gap between library professionals in ASEAN and beyond. Offered by NUS Libraries, the Transforming University Libraries Leadership & Innovation Programme (TULLIP) enables early career librarians and other learners to network with the wider academic community, equipping them with the necessary skills and competencies to achieve…
(30 Sep 2024) On Monday, September 30, the University Based Publishing Futures [UBPF] community officially launched with an open virtual meeting attended by 150 colleagues. UBPF is a new, multi-community coalition made up of the professionals who work at university presses, library publishers, and other academy-affiliated programs that support the infrastructure of scholarly publishing. The purpose…
(30 Sep 2024) We don’t need to know for sure what the future holds for libraries and the communities they serve in order to be able to play a role in shaping it. The 2024 Trend Report, launched at the Information Futures Summit and made possible by SIGL support, offers a key resource for librarians,…
(27 Sep 2024) A hundred years ago, in Madras Presidency, there lived a libarian name S R Ranganathan (SRR), who was bored. So Bored that in Jan 1924, just a week after being appointed the first librarian of the University of Madras, he, quit, telling his boss he couldn’t “bear the solitary imprisonment day after…
(4 Sep 2024) Widely considered to be the earliest form of audio recordings, wax cylinders offer rare glimpses into how the world sounded in the distant past. Indeed, a unique collection from China, recently acquired by UC Santa Barbara Library, provides an elusive glance into the history of the Chinese language and some of…
(16 Sep 2024) From Aaron Tay’s Musings about librarianship blog: “Ex Libris surprised us by suddenly releasing Primo Research Assistant to production on September 9, 2024 (when the earlier timeline was 4Q 2024 with some believing it might even be delayed). Despite the fact that there are so many RAG (retrieval augmented generation) academic search systems today…
(9 Sep 2024) Clarivate Plc today launched its first Pulse of the Library™ report. The report reveals that libraries are in the early days of Artificial Intelligence (AI) implementation. Librarians are considering applications of AI that support the library mission, particularly in enhancing content discovery and increasing efficiency for their teams. However, there are notable concerns, including a…