Some implications of "digital" for scholarly writing and communication

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How libraries can experiment with AI

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Small libraries face the same challenges as larger institutions, but with fewer resources, which is why it was so fascinating to talk for ATGthePodcast with Russell “Rusty” Michalak, Library Director at Goldey-Beacom College in Delaware. Despite having only 1300 students, Goldey-Beacom …

Orland Hoeber: how to use AI in the loop

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Orland Hoeber (University of Regina, Canada) has spent much of his academic career looking at why and how we search for scholarly content. Should we have one search interface for everything? Clearly not, but what kind of searching is most appropriate …

Ben Lee, Digital Humanities teacher and researcher  

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Ben Lee teaches on the library master’s course at the University of Washington, including AI literacy, as well as editing a scholarly journal, Digital Humanities Quarterly. He  trained as an astrophysicist, but got involved in human-computer interaction by working with …

The Trip Database

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Trip is that rare exception, a David in a world of Goliaths. In the real world, the Goliaths usually win, but in Trip’s case, it has survived and gone from strength to strength.

What is Trip? It is a database of …

Shadow Libraries : a lesson for us all

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The books may be there, but can you access them? [my photo]

Sci-Hub, Anna’s Archive, Library Genesis – we are all familiar with these names. They are collectively known as shadow libraries; who knows, perhaps because they only exist in the …

Will genAI replace Wikipedia?

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A print edition of the 11th edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Nice to see they have an entry for “mum” – I always thought she deserved one.

Having started using genAI, I can’t resist comparing its coverage with Wikipedia – and the …

The benefits of a small language model (SLM)

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Large and small silver plates from Egypt, c650-550 BCE (Athens, Benaki Museum)

It was a moment of pure geekdom. Guglielmo Iozzia, director of machine learning at Merck, Dublin, proposed in a presentation how to run an LLM on a Commodore 64. …

Interview with Allison Belan, Duke University Press

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How can a university press survive and flourish when faced with constant technical change and increasingly monolithic commercial competition? In this interview, Allison Belan, Director for Strategic Innovation and Services at Duke University Press, describes her 20+ years with Duke, and …

Are timelines value-free?

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Joseph Priestley, A New Chart of History, 1769

Rosenberg and Grafton’s Cartographies of Time (2010) is a lovely book to look at. It has an elegant design, and is illustrated in four colour throughout. Most of the timelines mentioned are …

The library as an active learning hub

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Helen Bischoff gave a fascinating and inspiring presentation at the last Charleston Conference: how the library can become an active learning hub. Helen, who is liaison coordinator at the University of Kentucky. As a follow-up, I talked with her to find …

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