(27 Oct 2026) AI tools are an increasingly regular part of how people search for and read scholarly content. As that’s happened, tracking agentic usage in a clear, consistent way has become a top priority for our community. This new update extends our original best practice to cover not just agentic activity on publisher platforms, but…
(19 Oct 2026) Hilary Turner, Business Librarian at Baylor University, as a new First Year Academic Librarian, shares her experience on how to outreach to her patrons: “The biggest challenge for me right now as a first-year academic librarian is: How do I become a familiar presence on campus and acquaint students, professors, and…
(1 Oct 2026) Choice announces the tenth publication in a series of white papers designed to provide actionable intelligence around topics of importance to the academic library community. The paper, “The Optimized Library: Prescriptive Foundations for Resource Stewardship in an Era of Fiscal Austerity,” will show academic libraries how to navigate fiscal threats by bridging library…
(5 Oct 2026) Ask National Library of Malaysia (PNM) director-general Edy Irwan Zulkafli whether libraries still matter in an age when almost any question can be answered with a tap on a screen, and he does not hesitate. Perhaps now more than ever was his reply. The problem today, he argued, is not a shortage…
(25 Sep 2026) The CDNLAO Newsletter is published to share information from national libraries in the Asia and Oceania region. This newsletter is edited and distributed by the National Diet Library of Japan on behalf of the members of the Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO). In this issue, [Japan] National Diet…
(29 Sep 2026) Library and influencer: two words you’d probably never expect to see together. But today’s libraries and librarians are turning to social media to connect with their community in direct – and often hilarious – ways. Unexpected stars include a 72-year-old rare books librarian in Queensland and a career librarian in suburban Adelaide, both…
(10 Sep 2026) The facade of Louis Vuitton’s Seoul Dosan store now reads as a row of books stacked upright, their covers worked over with monogram detailing. Visitors enter through a corridor lined with bookcases, and inside, merchandise sits on library shelves or lies open on reading desks. Thee luxury house said the Seoul…
(11 Sep 2026) Every bookworm knows that reading books and buying books are two separate hobbies. Sometimes, all you want to do is curl up at home with a weighty tome in hand. Other times, nothing is more exciting than a day spent wandering the shelves of a well-stocked bookshop in search of your next…
(7 Sep 2026) Just 17 months after opening, a municipal library in this west Japan city has become a popular gathering place for residents by challenging the long-standing expectation of silence at libraries and allowing visitors to chat, play games on their smartphones, and interact freely with one another. The library’s biggest attraction may…
(8 Sep 2026) Academic libraries are no strangers to large-scale deselection exercises. Driven by space constraints, evolving curricula, and the shift towards digital resources, the question is no longer whether to withdraw print materials, but what comes next. In the past year, SMU Libraries explored a different answer: instead of recycling withdrawn books, could we reimagine…