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Read more: London Book Fair 2025
London Book Fair 2025
The London Book Fair 2025 took place between 11th and 13th March. The venue was Olympia, as it has been for the past few years – and although earlier fairs have been held at Earl’s Court, Excel and even, in the distant past, at the Barbican, to old lags, alias seasoned fairgoers, Olympia feels like
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Read more: Variety is the spice of life: bibliodiversity, scholarly publishing and the inexact science of making ends meet.
Variety is the spice of life: bibliodiversity, scholarly publishing and the inexact science of making ends meet.
6 March 2025, 15.00-16.30 CET(2pm-3.30pm BST) Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter Brill The open access movement has brought a spotlight to bibliodiversity—the preservation and promotion of scholarly research at both national and international levels. For countries with rich cultural heritage and talented researchers, but limited publishing funds, bibliodiversity is especially critical.
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Read more: Survey: Trends in Global Academic Spending
Survey: Trends in Global Academic Spending
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 help
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Read more: DOAJ community consultation – results
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 deeper
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Read more: Taming the Dragon: librarians, creativity and AI
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 with
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