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Your New Neighborhood Library

Information Governance Perspectives

Library science is an interdisciplinary field incorporating the humanities, law, and applied science that studies topics related to libraries, the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources, and the political economy of information. What’s it like to work in this field?

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LibTech EdTech – transition, challenges and contradictions

CILIP

CILIP Copyright COnference 2024 By Gary Horrocks THE summer 2023 issue of UKeiG’s open access journal, eLucidate , featured my reflections on the implications of a Members’ Day presentation by Ken Chad on the “library technology ecosystem". Ken notes there is “a dichotomy between the provision of library resources and learning resources.”

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Connecting town and gown through the library

CILIP

Connecting town and gown through the library How to help a community explore its slave-trading history: Lesley English, Head of Library Engagement at Lancaster University Library, explains how the library plays a key role in building bridges between town and gown. We connect, we innovate, we include.”

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CILIP welcomes new members to Board of Trustees

CILIP

Together they bring a unique and diverse skillset from libraries, finance, and brand management, that will help steer the direction of CILIP as we implement our We are CILIP strategy and action plan , during this election year. Andrew Praeter Andrew is Director of Library Services at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Accelerating partner innovation through digital self-serve co-create experience with IBM

IBM Big Data Hub

To that end, IBM recently announced a set of embeddable AI libraries that empower partners to create new AI solutions. Using the DSCE self-serve portal, partners can discover and try the recently launched IBM embeddable AI portfolio of IBM Watson Libraries, IBM Watson APIs, and IBM applications at their own pace and on their schedule.

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3 myths hindering your business from adopting generative AI 

IBM Big Data Hub

It offers ease of integration and scalability for analytics and AI workloads using your company’s data, and offers guardrails for ensuring governance, security and compliance. IBM offers a portfolio of technologies, including watsonx , AI libraries, applications and APIs that can be tailored to suit different needs.

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Attracting and Retaining the Next Generation of Information Management Leaders

AIIM

This preference for in-person work stems from having completed much of their higher education virtually and a desire to establish meaningful relationships. During the next-gen panel at AIIM23, two of the three student panelists expressed a desire to work in-person full-time or part-time, surprising many in the audience.

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