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ACRL Releases AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers
ACRL (Association of College & Research Libraries) recently published AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers. Leo Lo, former ACRL President and Dean of Libraries at the University of Virginia, posted on LinkedIn about the publication and with his permission we are sharing it below. Thanks Leo! From Leo Lo (via LinkedIn): I’m especially proud to
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How Campus Novels Reveal the Power—and Danger—of Pure Ideas ‹ Literary Hub
Tara Isabella Burton on the Combination of Isolation, Vulnerability, and Hunger for Knowledge By Tara Isabella Burton, March 9, 2022 Every few years, I go through entries of my now-defunct Livejournal: a journaling website I used with obsessive regularity throughout my teenage and college years. And I believed, with childish conviction, that books—and only books—could teach me…
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The age of unenlightenment
The most pressing question of our age is not what will happen when the computers outsmart us. Nor is it the future of globalisation, or how to stop climate change. It is much more fundamental than these. Why is everyone so mean and stupid, and why is it getting worse? Book essay: The Knowledge Illusion:…
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‘Not Sitting Quietly Anymore’: How Librarians Are Fighting Trump | Broadly
“In a political climate where truth is dismissed, it can be difficult to figure out where politics end and moral, or even professional, imperatives begin.” Though some people may think the job involves more shushing than rallying, many librarians consider “making America read again” to be a radical political proposition. Source: ‘Not Sitting Quietly Anymore’:…
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‘We did not start this fight’: In Trump era’s dawn, scientists rally in Boston – The Washington Post
#GoScience #Resistance #Facts #Truth The demonstration was a small-scale version of a much larger March for Science planned in April. Source: ‘We did not start this fight’: In Trump era’s dawn, scientists rally in Boston – The Washington Post
