Herbert van de Sompel, recently interviewed for the ATG Podcast, describes himself, somewhat modestly, as an “infrastructure plumber” rather than a librarian. Putting it more accurately, he explains “Over the past 25, 30 years, I’ve done a lot of basic infrastructure …
The UKSG Forum (Birmingham, 5 December 2024) provided some remarkably informative sessions about AI, from the perspective from the library, as well as from researchers. As …
If the Search Solutions conference is to be believed, there isn’t much hope for genAI. This conference is always worth attending, because of its unique relaxed …
The current issue of Against the Grain (July 5 2024) contains two contrasting pieces about the use of generative AI for scholarly discovery. …
A workshop at the UKSG Annual Conference 2024 revealed, I believe, a vital role for the institutional library.
I joined a fascinating workshop run by the energetic and motivating Judith Carr …
I noticed a lack of any timeline of library history in the recent introduction The Library: A Fragile History (2022), and I didn’t see one in Wikipedia either, so here …
In many countries, especially the UK, the public library is under threat. Despite the establishment of public lending right over 100 years ago, the very existence of public libraries is coming into question: public libraries are underfunded and being closed by …
What are libraries for? This question was prompted by being given a copy of The Library: A Fragile History (2021), by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen, for Christmas (full disclosure: I asked …
Now that artificial intelligence (AI) tools are widely used across academic publishing, how can we make informed assessments of these utilities? One problem is that new utilities appear almost weekly. It’s challenging for any academic to keep up with what is …
This is the story of a tragedy: a step forward for the academic community that was resisted and then blocked. It’s difficult to imagine, but Along Came Google (Princeton, 2021) is as gripping as any thriller – except for the conclusion.…
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