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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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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

Now information technologies and the information revolution are again transforming society. The COVID-19 pandemic further accelerated the transformation from many years to just a couple of years. This 3-part series will discuss digital transformation (DT) from several perspectives. The Genesis of Digital Transformation.

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e-Records 2019: Early Bird discount expires soon!

The Texas Record

The result is more and more of our information is born digitally; accessed and used solely via screens; stored on hard drives, servers, and in the cloud; and will eventually be deleted or transferred to a digital archive all without ever having been reduced to paper.

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The need for need

CILIP

Beth Montague-Hellen, the new Head of Library and Information Services at the Francis Crick Institute, asks how big changes like this can be achieved without the help of a crisis. Most people have no clue what we do in libraries. But in the library we approach from the other direction. I certainly didn’t. And I loved it.”

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Advocating for our profession

CILIP

As the Chartered body for library, information and knowledge workers, CILIP has an important responsibility to advocate for the value and impact of our profession locally, nationally across all four nations of the UK and internationally. invest in libraries? public libraries?) Manifesto for Libraries? Build the future ?

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Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia and the search for trusted information

CILIP

s Rob Green about the search for trusted information and the role of libraries and librarians in the face of the rise of fake news, clickbait and the erosion of trust in news and information sources. and points to libraries and librarians as the facilitators to improve skills. That is what education is fundamentally about ?

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How Content Services Are Enabling the Digital Transformation of Electric Utilities

AIIM

To get greener, electric utilities must digitally transform. However, even as digitization is phased in, more carbon-killing innovation can occur via force-multiplying tech such as Cloud, AI, and IoT. Good luck if it’s on paper. This sector vies only with transportation in producing the most pollution on the planet.