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Webinar – Preserving our cultural heritage: academic libraries in the community

4 December 2025, 15.00-16.30 CET(2pm-3.30pm BST) Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter Brill The academic library has always played a major role in curating rare works. Some libraries hold unique collections of ephemera and artefacts, while others deploy modern technologies to capture past oral traditions or the literature of ethnic minorities beforeContinueContinue reading “Webinar – Preserving our cultural heritage: academic libraries in the community”

“Budget is an issue but there are deeper challenges.” – An Interview with Mimi Calter

A conversation with Mimi Calter, Chair of the Academic and Research Libraries Section of IFLA and Vice Provost and University Librarian at Washington University St Louis (WashU). This interview is the last in our current series Librarians Investing Ahead. In it, Mimi describes the sweeping changes that are taking place in librarianship and the fundamentalContinueContinue reading ““Budget is an issue but there are deeper challenges.” – An Interview with Mimi Calter”

Webinar – Artificial Intelligence: a global phenomenon with regional variations?

23 October 2025 12.00-13.30 Chinese Standard Time(5am-6.30am BST) Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter Brill Artificial Intelligence makes the headlines every day. It is an especially hot topic at universities worldwide, where its relevance and proper use for teaching, learning and research is fiercely debated. Often the librarian is the arbiter ofContinueContinue reading “Webinar – Artificial Intelligence: a global phenomenon with regional variations?”

Artificial Intelligence: the lowdown – webinar report

The eleventh De Gruyter Brill webinar for librarians – and the third about Artificial Intelligence – took place on Thursday 11th September. The speakers were Dr Andrew Cox, Senior Lecturer in the School of Information, Journalism and Communication at the University of Sheffield and Dr Iman Magdy Khamis, the Library Director at Northwestern University inContinueContinue reading “Artificial Intelligence: the lowdown – webinar report”

“Service is our watchword” – An Interview with Mazmin Mat Akhir

This blog-post is the fourth of the Librarians Investing Ahead series within the De Gruyter Brill Conversations series that explores how librarians continue to triumph in the increasingly resource-squeezed Higher Education environment. This month’s interview in the Librarians Staying Ahead series is with Madame Mazmin Mat Akhir, University Librarian at Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia. MazminContinueContinue reading ““Service is our watchword” – An Interview with Mazmin Mat Akhir”