Lessons in Resilience: Libraries' Roles in Disaster Preparedness and Recovery | Climate Crisis

Lessons in Resilience: Libraries' Roles in Disaster Preparedness and Recovery | Climate Crisis

The vital role libraries play in their communities has been well documented, yet many libraries are overlooked, and certainly underfunded, for their significant involvement in disaster preparedness and recovery. Each new disaster brings focus to the urgency around recognizing libraries as key climate resiliency partners. To that end, academics, practitioners, educators, and other leaders have created a body of work to help share stories that raise awareness.
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Going, Going...Gone? | Editorial

Hallie Rich, Apr 01, 2025
Capturing and preserving information has long been part of the library mission. As the world grapples with the wide range of threats climate change presents to the environment, ecosystems, and society, we can make a difference by keeping people informed.

The Environmental Cost of AI | Climate Crisis

Matt Enis, Apr 03, 2025
Generative AI services use a lot of electricity and water, and create a lot of e-waste. The ecological impact of the technology is just beginning to be studied and discussed.

Lessons in Resilience: Libraries' Roles in Disaster Preparedness and Recovery | Climate Crisis

Denise Lyons, Apr 01, 2025
The vital role libraries play in their communities has been well documented, yet many libraries are overlooked, and certainly underfunded, for their significant involvement in disaster preparedness and recovery. Each new disaster brings focus to the urgency around recognizing libraries as key climate resiliency partners. To that end, academics, practitioners, educators, and other leaders have created a body of work to help share stories that raise awareness.

Academic Movers Q&A: Allison Jennings-Roche on Information Systems and Their Impact

Amy Rea, Apr 08, 2025
Allison Jennings-Roche was named a 2024 Library Journal Mover & Shaker for her work at the University of Maryland helping educate students, faculty, and librarians who work with information systems. LJ recently spoke with Jennings-Roche, who is now the associate director of digital initiatives and collections (and a PhD candidate) at the University of Baltimore’s RLB Library, about why it’s vital to understand information, where it comes from, and how it affects everyone.

Gary Price, Apr 26, 2025
From The Washington Post: The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent a letter to the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, accusing the tax-exempt organization of “allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda to the American public.” In the letter dated April 24, Ed Martin, said he sought to determine whether the […]
Gary Price, Apr 25, 2025
The article (preprint) linked was recently posted on arXiv. Title Metadata Augmentation Using NLP, Machine Learning and AI-Chatbots: A Comparison Authors Alfredo González-Espinoza University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University Dom Jebbia University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University Haoyong Lan University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2504.17189 Abstract Recent advances in machine learning and artificial […]
Gary Price, Apr 24, 2025
Alabama Alabama Porn Filter Bill Closer to Becoming Law: ‘This Is Far Worse Than Library Books’ (via AL.com) Arkansas Crawford County Library System Votes to Foot the Bill for Legal Fees From Lawsuit (via 5NewsOnline) Maine Maine Libraries Face Uncertainty Amid Potential Federal Funding Cuts (via Livermore Falls Advertiser) North Carolina NC Senate to Review […]
Gary Price, Apr 24, 2025
Alabama Alabama Porn Filter Bill Closer to Becoming Law: ‘This Is Far Worse Than Library Books’ (via AL.com) Arkansas Crawford County Library System Votes to Foot the Bill for Legal Fees From Lawsuit (via 5NewsOnline) Maine Maine Libraries Face Uncertainty Amid Potential Federal Funding Cuts (via Livermore Falls Advertiser) North Carolina NC Senate to Review […]
Mike Eisenberg, Apr 01, 2025
It’s March Madness time! So, check your brackets, grab a beverage and snacks, root for your favorite teams, and join Beth & Mike as they share and challenge each other’s perceptions and predictions with their library & information science perspectives on the whole phenomenon.
Mike Eisenberg, Mar 03, 2025
Find out what's it like to look at the world from an information perspective, to put on your"information colored glasses!
Mike Eisenberg, Feb 02, 2025
From the Libraries Lead Podcast - February 2025, AI Watch Segment. Dave Lankes explains and demonstrates DeepSeek - the Chinese-based AI system. Go "under the hood" on DeepSeek and see how it performed better than any other current AI on Beth's query about integration in Alabama schools.
Sarah Wolberg,  Apr 25, 2025
Tommy Orange’s Wandering Stars wins the Aspen Words Literary Prize. Denene Millner’s One Blood wins Georgia’s top literary award, the Townsend Prize. A coalition of literary advocates are opposing Florida House Bill 1539, which would require schools to remove any book deemed harmful to minors within five days of a challenge. People explores how a Department of Education shutdown could impact book bans. Plus, Page to Screen and where to start with the works of Terry Pratchett.

Libraria,  Apr 24, 2025
Public libraries that are experiencing long wait times to get new books delivered from their book suppliers are often hesitant to look for other fulfillment options, because the technical services onboarding process for new vendors can be complex and unwieldy. But that isn’t always the case.

Lisa Peet,  Apr 24, 2025
The second Independent Publisher and Librarian Forum—IndieLib for short—was held on April 16 in downtown Manhattan, at New York University’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy. The event brought together public and academic librarians, representatives from indie publishers and their distributors, and others across the field to learn more about one another’s work and concerns and imagine new ways to move forward.

Laura Galán-Wells,  Apr 24, 2025
While those in favor of book bans believe children should be protected from content perceived as inappropriate or abusive, those opposed worry about the societal consequences of censoring information and ideas, the infringement of First Amendment rights, and the negative impacts on authors and publishers. Researchers Uttara M. Ananthakrishnan, Naveen Basavaraj, Sabari Rajan Karmegam, Ananya Sen, and Michael D. Smith set out to examine how bans at the district level affect consumption at the national level.

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