Rethinking reference in the AI era The nature of reference librarianship becomes transformational as knowledge practices change, trust is renegotiated, and user questions shift, all thanks to AI. 1 September 2026 Marydee Ojala A series of lightning talks ... See more
A plea from Ukraine to support the country by reading its books To counteract the russification of Ukrainian culture and literature, booksellers and libraries are urged to promote Ukrainian writing. 15 August 2026 Marydee Ojala An August 2026 article in T... See more
Anthropic gets ready to pay the $1.5 billion price tag for copyright violations Book authors and publishers are set to receive compensation for Anthropic using their intellectual property illegally to train its Claude language model. 4 August 2026 Marydee... See more
The online search world lost one of its pioneers, Roger Summit, on 7 June 2026 Roger Summit, founder of Dialog Information Services (aka Dialog), paved the way for automated, interactive information retrieval that defined online searching some 25 years be... See more
AI is in the library yet the future is very human Librarians are thinking beyond chatbots, algorithms, and prompts to the human elements of leadership, management, wellness, data services, and research. 2 June 2026 Marydee Ojala Meeting in Milwaukee, Wisc... See more
