Interesting Idea from a collaboration in Boston born at a convention of the Commonwealth Honors Council held at the library’s main branch in Copley Square two years ago. Cheryl Nixon, a professor of ...

“I’m curious whether there are good prospects for ‘time capsule encryption,’ one of several ways of storing information that renders it inaccessible to anyone until certain conditions — such as the ...

Sarah Glassmeyer set up a wiki where librarians and other interested parties can share information about all aspects of the library/vendor relationship. It can be found at www.LisVendor.info. She says ...

vonjobi writes “The Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians (CONSAL) will be holding its General Conference in Manila from 25-30 March 2006. The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended ...

The showdown between the city and JoAn Karkos ended Friday even though Karkos failed to return a library book she has deemed obscene. Karkos will not be ordered to jail for violating a judge’s orders.

“ Organized crime ” usually refers to illegal activity as a collaborative enterprise, involving large networks of people and undertaken for profit or power. That’s too damned bad, really, because ...

Britannica Didn’t Just Survive. It’s an A.I. Company Now. The encyclopedia maker could have become a casualty of the Wikipedia era. But it has remade itself into a digital learning giant that is ...

The fact is that the health of the nation%u2019s libraries is a national security issue. We learned this lesson once, and profoundly, during World War II. The story of how underinvesting in our ...

he 132-year-old University of Chicago houses more than 800,000 volumes related to South Asia, making it one of the world's premier collections for studies on the region. But how did such a treasure ...

According to ChatGTP, below are the main themes of this year’s library headlines (using Library Link of the Day as the source): Highlighting state legislation targeting librarians, legal battles in ...

‘AI-Mazing Tech-Venture’: National Archives Pushes Google Gemini AI on Employees In June, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) gave employees a presentation and tech demo ...

It’s again time (for the 20th time!) for a look back at the notable library stories from the last year. In September, Lizzo toured the Library of Congress, stopping to play a crystal flute that once ...