One unexpected aspect of digital publishing is the increasing misuse of links. Instead of explaining something, writers are increasingly turning to hyperlinks, saying, in other words, that I don’t need to explain this term – …
One of the most impressive capabilities of genAI is the ability to summarise and to define terms. Increasingly, I, like many users, ask natural-language questions of AI and I often find the answers valuable. One …
Halliwell’s Film Guide is a collection of film reviews, first published 1977, and reprinted many times over at least 25 years. I still have a copy of this guide, and I’m afraid to say I …
During several years of creating, editing, publishing, and revising dictionaries and encyclopedias, I produced guidance for my team of editors on what constitutes the perfect reference article. Subsequently, as a user, I continue to consult reference resources as part of the …
Reading Time: 3minutesIpswich County Library, the second oldest municipal library in the UK
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 …
