Trends in Global Academic Library Spending Survey Are you a librarian involved in acquisitions? Would you be available to spare 10 minutes for us, and raise some funds for IFLA? On behalf of De Gruyter Brill, Gold Leaf is conducting a short global survey on trends in academic library spending and would especially appreciate helpContinueContinue reading “Survey: Trends in Global Academic Spending”
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DOAJ community consultation – results
One of the projects Gold Leaf worked on in 2024 was a worldwide community consultation, that we conducted on behalf of DOAJ. The consultation’s objective was to gather the community’s reactions to the metadata DOAJcollect. We received almost 1,700 responses from a wide range of countries. We then held twenty semi-structured interviews to dig deeperContinueContinue reading “DOAJ community consultation – results”
Taming the Dragon: librarians, creativity and AI
In another whirlwind year for advances in artificial intelligence, librarians took bold steps to find innovative applications for AI tools. The final webinar of 2024, the Year of the Dragon, was a brilliant exchange of strategy for mastering AI in libraries. Unusually, the most recent webinar featured three sessions and four speakers before concluding withContinueContinue reading “Taming the Dragon: librarians, creativity and AI”
Guardians of Scholarship: how librarians protect and promote copyright in the complex and fast-changing world of Artificial Intelligence
Academic librarians are not only law-abiding but also extremely well-informed. Academics have long relied on librarians’ support as they navigate the choppy waters of open access and copyright; and the recent addition of Artificial Intelligence to the scholarly publishing landscape has made the librarian’s contribution yet more invaluable. Publishers are also deeply indebted to librariansContinueContinue reading ” Guardians of Scholarship: how librarians protect and promote copyright in the complex and fast-changing world of Artificial Intelligence”
Taming the dragon: librarians, creativity and AI
5 December 2024, 15.00-16.30 CET(2pm-3.30pm BST) Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter Brill The grand finale of last year’s De Gruyter Brill webinar series for librarians addressed the emerging phenomenon of AI. Boon or world-buster? Enable or destroyer? The myths about AI persist and some are grounded in logic: AI needs carefulContinueContinue reading “Taming the dragon: librarians, creativity and AI”
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