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Archives: information standards

Guest Post — Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI?

If libraries are civic institutions that structure society’s relationship to knowledge, and generative AI is poised to reshape discovery whether libraries act or not, will library leaders will develop strategies that preserve trust, equity, and sustainability?

  • By Mark McBride
  • Oct 30, 2025
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Tackling Science’s ‘Nasty Photoshop Problem’

What can be done to resolve concerns about image integrity in scientific publications?

  • By Phill Jones
  • Mar 20, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Web-scale Institutional Search: What are Publishers Doing Today?

Twelve years after the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) launched, I wonder: How are scholarly content providers leveraging ODI conformance statements to drive transparency and usage via web-scale library discovery services?

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Aug 16, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Web-scale Library Search: Where Are We Today?

Eleven years after the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) launched, I wonder: How are ODI conformance statements helping to drive transparency and cross-sector improvements to web-scale library discovery services?

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Nov 10, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Humans are the Loop: Social Solutions to Technological Challenges

From Siri to autonomous vehicles, the magic of tech innovations are wrought by human ingenuity — and setting boundaries around these technologies is a social enterprise, with inherently cultural implications.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Mar 2, 2020
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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