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 03 December 2024
These were the Trend Report 2024, the Strategy 2024-2029 and the Brisbane Declaration.
Posted 05 November 2024
Consider it a pumpkin spice addition to your day
Posted 01 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 03 September 2024
All three awards are open to individuals or groups from anywhere in the world.
Posted 06 August 2024
The key theme of this year's forum will be how artificial intelligence is shaping the education landscape, and the wider issue of strategic responses to the challenges and opportunities it has presented to the library, information and knowledge community.
Posted 04 July 2024
The long-running Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp returns on 19 June 2024 with three fabulous sessions and five outstanding speakers.
Posted 04 June 2024
Technology from Sage has released its third Librarian Futures report exploring the current librarian skills landscape and identifying areas for further development.
Posted 05 December 2023
This half day Zoom event focusses on Airtable, recruitment, product & semantic taxonomies and more
Posted 06 June 2023
Join taxonomy experts for a half-day virtual boot camp covering the basics of taxonomy creation on 26 April 2023.
Posted 04 April 2023
The American Psychological Association (APA) and edX, a leading global online learning platform from 2U, Inc., announced APA as the newest member of the global edX partner network and the launch of its first Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
Posted 03 January 2023
The UK electronic information Group (UKeiG) is delighted to announce its online CPD course programme for the first quarter of 2023.
Posted 14 December 2022
In the opinion of Denise Carter, Managing Director of DCision Consult and a long-time information professional, the answer is yes, librarians should be interested in KM, but they should consider why and when, plus what value that interest could deliver for them.
Posted 06 December 2022
At the 2022 ISIC (Information Seeking in Context) biennial conference, held in Berlin, information researchers from around the world gathered to share their research about information seeking behaviours. If that all sounds very academic and scholarly, it mainly was. But that doesn't mean practicing librarians couldn't come away with a few nuggets they could use.
Posted 01 November 2022
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine lets you see what websites used to look like but it can only do that if volunteers actively save those sites and pages. Gary Price explains how to do that.
Posted 04 October 2022
Virtual Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp takes place on Wednesday 12 October 2022.
Posted 04 October 2022
While we wait for the opportunity to host an in-person Internet Librarian International conference, we decided to go ahead with another Bite-sized one. On 11 May 2022, we'll have a half day virtual event, featuring librarians from the United States, Germany, and Mexico covering library technology, preserving videos, and information literacy topics.
Posted 03 May 2022
Infographics give an added dimension to textual information, as taxonomist and trainer Joyce van Aalten explains. Visuals provide powerful elements to get your message across--and they are not that hard to create.
Posted 01 February 2022
Following the success of the 2021 virtual series, Information Today Europe has set dates for three half-day events in 2022 and issued a Call for Speakers.
Posted 07 December 2021
The features are designed to help conference organizers around the globe provide advanced audience engagement, combat digital fatigue, and improve the marketability of their event.
Posted 07 December 2021
Pippi Longstocking, the children's hero in the Astrid Lindgren books, was never afraid to try out new things. You could even say that she was always looking for new challenges, not afraid to take some risks and brave enough to wander out in a new world. How we loved to read about her adventures. Didn't we all want to be like Pippi, while we probably were more like her careful and responsible friends Tommy and Annika? We should adopt the mantra of: "I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that."
Posted 02 November 2021
Save the dates! Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp is back with another virtual session on 10 November 2021.
Posted 05 October 2021
Smart academic seminar platform creates an accelerated and early route to communicating scholarly research
Posted 07 September 2021
One of Internet Librarian International's most popular speakers, Ned Potter, looks at the different types of videos that librarians can create and shares his tips for making library videos. It's not as hard as you might think, as his examples illustrate.
Posted 06 July 2021
Need to brush up your taxonomy skills? Want to learn more about what taxonomists are doing that could help you in your job? Join taxonomy experts for the second Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp on 9 June 2021. It's all virtual; no travel involved.
Posted 01 June 2021