#academiclibraries — Public Fediverse posts

Gaming meets Open Access: OApoly der KIT-Bib jetzt auf Zenodo!

Spieler*innen schlüpfen in die Rolle von Forschenden und erleben spielerisch, wie sie wiss Ergebnisse sichtbar machen und gleichzeitig ihre Reputation steigern können. Dabei erhalten sie Einblicke in die Grundlagen von Open Access, wiss Publizieren und den Services wiss Bibs.

Zum Spiel: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20050761

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #Informationskompetenz #KITBibliothek #Wissenschaftskommunikation #AcademicLibraries #Publizieren

[Re-share] Recommended Reading
Slater, Kailyn "Kay". "Against AI: Critical Refusal in the Library." Library Trends, vol. 73 no. 4, 2025, p. 588-608. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lib.2025.a968497
#genAI #generativeAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AcademicLibraries #Libraries #HigherEducation #HigherEd #Universities #Colleges #Faculty

Thrilled to share that my chapter "Using #LibCal Seats to Better Serve Students" is now available in #OpenAccess.

In book "Changing Information Services and User Experiences" (2026), we explore how the #LibCalSeats booking system at #ULiège #Library evolved from a pandemic response into a valued service that improves #studentexperience, supports equitable access to study space, and highlights the power of user-centred innovation in #academiclibraries.

https://hdl.handle.net/2268/338194

#LibraryTech

How can academic libraries obtain the buy-in to create a makerspace, media lab, or other creative technology space? This chapter from "A Complete Guide to Creative Technology Spaces in Academic Libraries: Media Labs, Makerspaces, and More" outlines how to communicate to others what you want your creative technology space to be. https://www.choice360.org/libtech-insight/creating-a-media-lab-in-your-library-from-scratch-vision-advocacy-and-outreach/

#medialabs #makerspaces #librarytechnology #academia #academiclibraries #library #libraries

"Thompson said the Library Studio’s mission is to help students and faculty 'get the technology out of the way' so they can focus on learning and creating." Learn about the UTC Library Studio and Core's new guide to creative technology spaces: https://blog.utc.edu/news/2025/10/utc-academic-librarian-co-authors-first-comprehensive-guide-on-creative-technology-spaces/

#makerspaces #MakersCommunity #academiclibraries

After several months of #discovery and development, the #HathiTrust #ResourceSharing project has launched a pilot with nine participating member #libraries.

https://www.hathitrust.org/press-post/hathitrust-resource-sharing-pilot-now-underway/

#ILL #Digitization #AcademicLibraries

Ohio University Libraries announces new Zero Cost Textbook Program

https://www.ohio.edu/news/2025/09/ohio-university-libraries-announces-new-zero-cost-textbook-program

#ZeroCostTextbooks #ZCT #OpenEducationalResources #OER
#AffordableEducation #EducationEquity #HigherEd #OpenAccess #Libraries #AcademicLibraries

God, I love first-years. A student just shook my hand after I showed him how the library catalogue works.

#LibraryWorker #AcademicLibraries

📚 Libraries as “Academic Traffic Facilities”: Interlibrary Loan Imaginations after 1945

After #WWII, German #libraries faced massive losses. This article explores how interlibrary loan became central to rebuilding the academic landscape — not just through logistics, but through a new vision of knowledge.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735653

#LibraryHistory #InterlibraryLoan #ILL #ResourceSharing #KnowledgeInfrastructure #AcademicLibraries #PostwarHistory #UnionCatalogs #Germany #Collections #Holdings

Platforms, programmability, and precarity: The platformization of research repositories in academic libraries

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2025/06/04/platforms-programmability-and-precarity-the-platformization-of-research-repositories-in-academic-libraries/

#AcademicLibraries #AndreaThomer #JeanChristophePlantin #OpenRepositories #platformization #ScientificCommunication

Generative artificial intelligence in the activities of #academiclibraries of public #universities in #Poland

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133325000394

"43 % of #libraries indicated that they did not think there was a need to use #GAI tools with the main reasons given including a lack of staff #competencies and the appropriate regulations in the area."

#generativeAI #AI #artificialintelligence

Automating borrowing #eBooks through interlibrary loan

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15228959.2024.2442712

#InterlibraryLoan #ResourceSharing #Automation #ILL #libraries #AcademicLibraries #ILLiad #WorldShare

Analyzing Chat Transcripts to Improve Interlibrary Loan Services

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26915979.2024.2417275

#InterlibraryLoan #ILL #QualitativeAnalysis #Reference #VirtualChatTranscripts #ResourceSharing #LibChat #ILLiad #AcademicLibraries #Libraries

📢 The #IGeLU2024 Conference app is now available and ready to be used by the participants of the next edition of the annual IGeLU meeting.

👉 Put the conference in your pocket! 📱

https://igelu.org/igelu-2024-conference-app/

#libraries #igelu #academiclibraries #researchlibraries #librarysolutions #campusM #LibraryMobile

Does anyone have experience using #Endnote with #GoogleDocs? I'm trying to assist a team who may have reached some sort of threshold (at 175+ references), and the document is no longer updating. I've suggested that they file a support ticket, but said I'd try to consult the hive mind in the meantime. #AcademicChatter #Librarians #AcademicLibraries #Academia #PhDchat @librarians

We Here's (@wehere) new course will study a snapshot of the histories of academic librarians, focusing on the 1950s–1970s towards asking what is the professionalization of librarianship, and why did it happen? For who did it happen? How does it affect today's profession?

🔗 https://www.wehere.space/shop/p/howweworkbetter2024

#AcademicLibraries #AcademicLibrarians #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #WeHere #Professionalization #MLIS #JaimeDing

#IGeLU Steering Committee is meeting this week the local contacts from the Royal Danish Library in #Copenhagen to organize the #IGeLU2024 edition.

(Here the Black Diamond where Developers Day and Ex Libris Knowledge Day are taking place.)

#librarysystems #libraries #academiclibraries

The relationship between #university #presses, e-book #vendors, and academic #libraries: A platform theory analysis

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09610006231185883

#ebooks #academiclibraries #publishing #universitypresses

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cc @Bernardpo @jdfr

DIGITAL HUMANITIES FOR THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK
instructor: Catherine DeRose

Full course description and application are
available using QR code or link in bio!

#digitalhumanities #bookhistory #datavisualization #naturallanguageprocessing #library #specialcollection #arcgis #storymaps #dh #trello #geospatial #georeferencing #academiclibraries #humanities

@animalcognitionproject @damonyoung Don’t know ‘Elicit’ but probably more tools out there like it. Moreover, there’s a pretty big push to make Open Access research available on a growing number of institutional digital repositories. I think you’d find most major academic institutions are trying to contribute to these efforts (not least out of a reaction to the stifling effects of out-of-control publisher costs) for their faculty and associated researchers. Also, e-theses tend to be widely available. For articles, Open Access is not always the final published version (depends on publisher and institutional policy) but close. OA is a key tenet of what some of us do. #OpenAccess #AcademicLibraries
#ResearchLibrary #InstitutionalRepositories

#introduction #introductions Hi :ablobcatwave: I work in the #DigitalLibraries area of HE managing library and research systems #LeedsBeckett Am also a #PhD #researcher #mixedmethods looking into virtual & physical study space & place in #academiclibraries , outside of work I have #labradors , drink #tea and I'm involved in #HistoricalReenactment #reenactors (ecws.org.uk)