(23 May 2023) In this blog post, Alejandro Marquez, a Collection Development Librarian, discusses the challenges librarians face, including a lack of advancement opportunities, low pay compared to education levels, and a culture that overvalues busyness. Despite these issues, Marquez remains hopeful, offering solutions such as making career paths explicit, avoiding non-promotable tasks, and implementing…
(13 Jun 2023) The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces that results from the 2022 Academic Library Trends and Statistics survey are now available. This is the largest survey of academic libraries in the country, providing one of the most comprehensive portraits of the impact of academic libraries across the United States. The…
(16 May 2023) Twenty bus stops across Boston were outfitted last week with quick response, or QR, codes allowing riders to browse and borrow audiobooks, e-books, e-newspapers and e-magazines from the Boston Public Library, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced Thursday. Users are not required to have a library card or download an app to access the…
(9 May 2023) As generative AI technologies continue to evolve, their potential to impact library services, operations, and user experiences is becoming increasingly apparent. We conducted a quick poll of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member representatives in April 2023 to gather insights into their current perspectives on generative AI adoption, its potential implications, and…
(1 May 2023) Today we’ve released the fourth report in a series of national surveys of school libraries in Aotearoa New Zealand that started in 2018. What we found in 2022 As each school makes their own decisions about library funding, there are still persistent variations between schools in every aspect of library provision…
(30 Mar 2023) The Ithaka S+R Library Survey has examined leadership and strategic perspectives in the field by surveying library deans and directors nationally on a triennial basis since 2010. The research project’s overarching goals are to provide the library community with a valuable data source to inform decision making and track the emerging opportunities and…
(21 Mar 2023) In this issue of IFLA Asia and Oceania Regional Quarterly News: NLB’s Historical Asian Children’s Literature Collection Recognised By UNESCO As Documentary Heritage Of Influence Director of Capital Library of China: an introduction IFLA Asia-Oceania Regional Division Committee in-person business meeting in Bangkok Pacific Virtual Museum Project: digitalpasifik.org IFLA-ILA South Asian…
(10 Mar 2023) The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Research Library Impact Framework (RLIF) pilot initiative, established in 2019, has released its final report, Building a Community of Assessment. The report details the research projects, findings, and lessons learned conducted under the pilot phase of this framework. It also includes information about the framework itself as…
(21 Feb 2023) The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2021, which analyzes salary data for professional staff working in the 125 ARL member libraries during 2021. Data are reported for 10,751 professional staff from the 117 university ARL libraries in Canada and the United States and for 3,504 professional…
The library is training state-of-the-art AI models on a half-millennium of Swedish text to support humanities research in history, linguistics, media studies and more. (23 Jan 2023) For the past 500 years, the National Library of Sweden has collected virtually every word published in Swedish, from priceless medieval manuscripts to present-day pizza menus. …