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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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Terry Kendrick helps libraries achieve their marketing, communications and engagement goals

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Facet Publishing announce the publication of Engaging your Community through Active Strategic Marketing: A practical guide for librarians and information professionals by Terry Kendrick. Now more than ever, libraries must find ways to engage with their communities in order to demonstrate the value they create and deliver.

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Library buyers' role in tech start-ups

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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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LibTech EdTech – transition, challenges and contradictions

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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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South African print market growth lagging behind African recovery

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Chris de Beer Chris de Beer, Africa Regional Manager at Infosource These are worrying times for the South African print and digitalisation market. Furthermore, the influx of lower-priced Asian brands into the market is also fuelling growth. These devices are primarily marketed in retail settings or for use in home offices.

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CILIP welcomes new members to Board of Trustees

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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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Apprenticeships: supporting new talent in to libraries

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Apprenticeships: supporting new talent in to libraries. Last summer Kirklees Libraries recruited two new apprentices as part of a council-wide programme to develop and deliver apprentice opportunities. Among the vanguard of library apprenticeships schemes is Kirklees Libraries in West Yorkshire. Career opportunities.