Investigations into how AI and LLMs are affecting libraries, librarians, and their users provide important insights for internet librarians.
Posted 2 December 2025
Only a week left to save some money.
Posted 2 December 2025
Registration has opened for the KMWorld Europe and Taxonomy Boot Camp London, to be held 13-14 April 2026, and Early Bird Tickets are available at a significant savings.
Posted 4 November 2025
How librarians handle the current ecosystem, when it is dominated by rumours, viral videos and AI, depends on community engagement
Posted 4 November 2025
Access to European university theses has never been more crucial for researchers and information professionals. Between the generalization of direct access on university websites and the disappearance of two platforms, the landscape is evolving quickly.
Posted 7 October 2025
KMWorld announces the debut of KMWorld Europe and Taxonomy Boot Camp London, two new in-person events to be held in London 14-15 April 2026
Posted 7 October 2025
Opportunities to learn more about taxonomies and search—with no travel involved—are on offer this October
Posted 2 September 2025
Choosing Family and Wellness Over Burnout
Posted 2 September 2025
You, yes you, or your colleague, could be the winner but only if a nomination is submitted by 8 August 2025, so get cracking!
Posted 5 August 2025
As SLA prepares to merge with ASIST and IFLA considers its future, this is a good time to look at the importance of international library associations.
Posted 5 August 2025
At Knowledge Summit Dublin the overlap of missions, mindsets and challenges between librarianship and knowledge management was an exciting revelation.
Posted 1 July 2025
The Boot Camp is designed for all information professionals looking to enhance their taxonomy skills.
Posted 3 June 2025
Starting with the 2025 JCR (Journal Citation Reports) release, Clarivate will exclude citations to and from retracted content when calculating the JIF.
Posted 3 June 2025
A half-day virtual event for knowledge managers and info pros everywhere
Posted 6 May 2025
Stories about engaging and collaborating with library users to communicate the value of the library provides several action ideas.
Posted 6 May 2025
At the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands, the library wanted to make the library come alive by activating its collection in a meaningful way to make its digital holdings visible and move from collection to connection.
Posted 1 April 2025
As the new U.S. administration takes down and alters government data, initiatives to preserve data spring up.
Posted 4 March 2025
Tickets are available at a reduced rate when you order them for all three dates, 12 March, 18 June and 8 October.
Posted 4 February 2025
A project to elevate Indigenous initiatives and voices and to help decolonize work, spaces and services was the goal of librarians at this Canadian university.
Posted 4 February 2025
The newest wrinkle in AI technologies involves agents, AI that independently takes action, executes tasks, solves multi-step problems, and makes decision. Will Agentic AI open up new job opportunities for AI Librarians? It's possible.
Posted 7 January 2025
The Jason Farradane Award is presented by the UK electronic information Group (UKeiG) in recognition of an outstanding, creative and enterprising contribution to the library, information and knowledge profession.
Posted 7 January 2025
In an era where generative AI is transforming how organisations manage and leverage their knowledge assets, library and information professionals are emerging as even more crucial players in the knowledge management landscape.
Posted 3 December 2024
The call is for experts in taxonomies, information management, and KM who can share their experiences and expertise at these virtual events.
Posted 3 December 2024
Clarivate released its generative AI-powered Research Assistant for the Web of Science in early September 2024. François Libmann and his team at FLA Consultants took the time to test this new tool very thoroughly to determine its fitness for purpose for online research.
Posted 5 November 2024
Consider it a pumpkin spice addition to your day
Posted 1 October 2024
Scholarly publishing is shaken by allegations of collusion and restraint of trade
Posted 1 October 2024
Heidi Julien, Professor in Information Science, University of Buffalo, used her keynote address at the Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) conference to call for a greater emphasis on marginalized groups in research studies and to fight against the neoliberal approach to higher education.
Posted 3 September 2024
The deadline is tomorrow, 7 August 2024 so get cracking!
Posted 6 August 2024
International is not in the official name of the ALA's annual conference, held this year in San Diego, California, at the end of June, but it has a strong international component and many delegates from outside the USA.
Posted 6 August 2024
The Scopus platform has long offered classic search tools: Boolean operators, proximity operators, navigation through citing/cited documents. The features already in place from Scopus AI encourage experimenting with new strategies and new technologies. François Libmann and Anne-Marie Libmann test its capabilities.
Posted 2 July 2024
The long-running Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp returns on 19 June 2024 with three fabulous sessions and five outstanding speakers.
Posted 4 June 2024
Phil Bradley considers whether generative AI is a true "Google killer" and how newer AI technologies redefine search as conversations that transform information seeking behaviour.
Posted 4 June 2024
Searching the scholarly literature has long presented challenges to researchers, who grapple with online searching using keyword methods when they want to find concepts. Peter Webster, Technology Services Librarian at Saint Mary's University, Patrick Power Library, in Canada, became interested in how AI tools could make academic searching easier and solve the problems of concept identification. Here are his thoughts.
Posted 7 May 2024
Information gathered from ChatGPT and other generative AI chatbots have been infiltrating the scholarly literature, according to several accounts appearing in the popular press, which is worrisome not only for scholars and librarians but also for the wider world. Distrust of scientific research has enormous implications. How bad is the problem? Marydee Ojala investigates.
Posted 2 April 2024
The new Bite-sized event features David Snowden as its keynote speaker.
Posted 2 April 2024
Taxonomy Boot Camp is once again presenting its Bite-sized series, which provides information on new technologies and insights on taxonomy tools in a webinar format.
Posted 5 March 2024
Mark Carden deserves congratulations for organising one of the most distinctive conferences on the scholarly calendar. This is a smallish conference, with around 160 attendees, but the attendees—publishers, librarians, and researchers—tend to return, because they know what to expect, and everyone I spoke to agreed it has a special atmosphere.
Posted 5 March 2024
Cyberattacks on major libraries, including the British Library and the Toronto (Canada) Public Library, have had a crippling effect on their ability to provide even routine services. We look at what happened, the repercussions, the cost involved to recover and how to prevent such calamities going forward.
Posted 6 February 2024
The world is now embroiled in intense discussions about ChatGPT. Canadian librarian Bill Badke adds his comments, from a library, information literacy and educator perspective. He looks at unproductive approaches to students' use of AI tools, worries about the future of research projects in academia and notes how AI-generated text could benefit international students.
Posted 2 January 2024
For the first time ever, the same person received both of these prestigious awards by the UK electronic information Group (UKeiG)
Posted 5 December 2023
This is your opportunity to share your knowledge and experience with colleagues.
Posted 5 December 2023
Beth Rudden delivered an inspiring keynote talk about moving responsible AI forward in our communities at Internet Librarian Connect (ILC), the virtual conference held 16-19 October, 2023. She concentrated on describing the AI revolution, giving a practical guide to AI experimentation, and stressing the need for librarians to be courageous stewards.
Posted 7 November 2023
In the session on "Decoding citizen science: Putting libraries in the public sphere," presented by IFLA's Science and Technology Libraries section during the World Library and Information Congress in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 21-24 August, 2023, four public librarians described citizen science activities at their libraries.
Posted 3 October 2023
This is it! The last Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp this year. On 11 October, you can brush up on taxonomies in SharePoint, see taxonomies in action and learn more about SKOS taxonomies.
Posted 3 October 2023
Initially very excited about ChatGPT, it didn't take long before some of the flaws in the program became evident to Phil Bradley. Consequently, what had looked like a very useful and powerful tool was quickly becoming nothing more than an idiot savant. Phil then found some plugins that are really helpful.
Posted 5 September 2023
Programs that reach out to artists and to minority youth interested in starting successful businesses can help individuals transcend dismal economic conditions
Posted 1 August 2023
Recognize great taxonomy work by nominating someone (or yourself) for this year's award
Posted 4 July 2023
Despite his many years in the information industry, following technological advances from CD-ROMs to the early years of the internet, the dot com boom, and the development of social media tools, Phil Bradley admits he has have never seen anything like the explosion of AI based tools, and the opportunities that they are bringing us.
Posted 4 July 2023
This half day Zoom event focusses on Airtable, recruitment, product & semantic taxonomies and more
Posted 6 June 2023
Librarians' skill sets align perfectly with the job requirements for prompt engineering
Posted 6 June 2023