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LibTech EdTech – transition, challenges and contradictions

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CILIP Copyright COnference 2024 By Gary Horrocks THE summer 2023 issue of UKeiG’s open access journal, eLucidate , featured my reflections on the implications of a Members’ Day presentation by Ken Chad on the “library technology ecosystem". Ken notes there is “a dichotomy between the provision of library resources and learning resources.”

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Designing Libraries: An academic question

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Designing Libraries: An academic question. Earlier this year I attended the biennial Liber Architecture Group (Lag) seminar, held in the Zaha Hadid-designed library and learning centre building on the impressive campus of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (known locally as WU). Members sign in. to read full text.

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Highlights of the 2019 CILIP Conference

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Topics covered on day one ranged from artificial intelligence to public libraries in Kirklees working with excluded children. Later in the day Liz Jolly , Chief Librarian at the British Library, delivered an important and personal account of her experience of professionalism and how it gave her direction in difficult times.

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Learning, work and flexibility: a case study

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Oona Ylinen (OY): I was studying Creative Writing at the University of Surrey but because study space was hard to come by on campus, I would study at the local public library. During one such study session in 2018, I saw a poster advertising a part-time role in the library. Picture Oona Ylinen.

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Copyright: evolution or extinction?

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Also use of the material so long as it does not seriously affect the owner (copying for fair dealing, education, reporting the news, etc.) and provisions for libraries to make copies and preserve material. He has run workshops and seminars in many different sectors of the information industry. opyright Circle. Insight. ? ?

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Take action with your library this Libraries Week

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Take action with your library this Libraries Week. This Libraries Week (4-10 October 2021) libraries across the UK showcase their vital role in supporting active and engaged communities as we celebrate the transformative impact libraries can have on people?s s much-loved libraries.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Right To Repair

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Play it out across a few decades and you start to see the type of trouble we’ll be in if we don’t start educating our legislators now, if current trends are allowed to just continue. Every three years the US Library of Congress is tasked with reviewing section 1201 of the DMCA. It’s not.