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FEATURE – Libraries in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Information Today, Inc.
by Ben Johnson, February 13, 2023 Ben Johnson (bjohnson@councilbluffslibrary.org) is the adult services manager at the Council Bluffs Public Library in Iowa. You can ask Google, Alexa, Cortana, Watson, or Siri—but will you be able to ask your local library? A century or so ago, electricity was a new, quasi-magical thing—a novelty with few applications. Back…
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Are News Librarians Making a Comeback? The Past, Present, and Possible Future of News Librarians | Information Today | Online Searcher
By Robert Berkman, Volume 46, Number 3 – May/June 2022 As many information professionals know, the position of news librarian (as well as news researcher) was once quite common inside media organizations. Journalists relied on news librarians as critical partners for carrying out the higher mission of their jobs—that is, to expose sources of unaccountable…
