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Library buyers' role in tech start-ups

CILIP

Library buyers’ role in tech start-ups Frode Opdahl, CEO of Keenious explains the origins of an AI-driven start-up and how its success depends on library buyers keeping the sector attractive to start-ups that wish to innovate the research experience. It was later that we saw it as a tool for libraries.”

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Exploring the impact of Digital Technologies on the Library, Knowledge and Information workforce

CILIP

CILIP is excited to announce a new project to prepare the library, information and knowledge workforce for the opportunities afforded by new technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics and Process Automation. These are the technologies which are collectively shaping the ?4th future-ready?

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Five open-source AI tools to know

IBM Big Data Hub

Open-source artificial intelligence (AI) refers to AI technologies where the source code is freely available for anyone to use, modify and distribute. Open-source AI projects and libraries, freely available on platforms like GitHub, fuel digital innovation in industries like healthcare, finance and education.

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Going Down the Rabbit Hole

AIIM

When I was a young child, in an era when school papers had to be researched in libraries with card catalogs and shelves upon shelves of books, my father had the bright idea to purchase a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica. Our girls need the best education we can offer,” so of course, mom relented. Dad wouldn’t hear of it!

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Skilled partners hold the key to accelerating AI adoption

IBM Big Data Hub

early chairman and CEO of IBM, once said, “Education is the foundation of our progress.” Education is a cornerstone of our approach with partners. Unsurprisingly, the hunger for AI-based solutions has created high demand for education around Automation. Watson, Sr.,

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Follow the path, but don?t be afraid to explore different routes

CILIP

A WELL-trodden path from Weekend Assistant in a public library to a career as an information professional may sound familiar to many readers. My first experience of working in libraries was during my time at college when I was an A-Level student and I secured a Saturday job in my local public library. During my first Master?s

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Highlights of the 2019 CILIP Conference

CILIP

Topics covered on day one ranged from artificial intelligence to public libraries in Kirklees working with excluded children. Later in the day Liz Jolly , Chief Librarian at the British Library, delivered an important and personal account of her experience of professionalism and how it gave her direction in difficult times.