Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.

Amid new attempts by states to legislate e-book agreements between publishers and libraries, a new report from the AAP and Authors Guild found that increased e-book lending at libraries is threatening...

First season sponsored by the AHA! The AHA is delighted to sponsor the first season of a new initiative at Impact Studio’s History Lab. Field Notes will feature a pair […]

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The ATSILIRN Protocols – 30 Years On: Research Symposium was held on 26 November 2025 at the University of Technology Sydney, convened by the Indigenous Archives and Data Stewardship Hub at Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, and supported by the Brett Clegg Foundation in collaboration with the ATSILIRN 2.0 group. The symposium brought together practitioners, researchers, and advocates to reflect on thirty years of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Library, Information and Resource Network (ATSILIRN) Protocols for Libraries, Archives and Information Services, first published in 1995 and last updated in 2012. This Report brings together participants' reflections on future direction for the ATSILIRN Protocols.

Frank Bongiorno will be in conversation with Joshua Black, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu on Gold Standard? Remembering the Hawke government. Edited by Frank Bongiorno, Carolyn Holbrook and Joshua Black.

A small signed floral fine art print (≈A5 size, about 15 × 21 cm / 6 × 8″), with a studio note, mailed each month.

Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

This site is notes and drafts that may someday become a Handbook of Data Visualization with Textiles.

An irregular newsletter about library metadata and the forces that shape it.

40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

A report on the value of the State Library of NSW and NSW public libraries.

Gunnar Ridderström/Pexels As a hospital librarian, Jessica Waite is typically successful at tracking down elusive articles for clinicians at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in England. So when a colleag…

The Gemini LLM generates fake records and screenshots from the UK National Archives, a family historian has revealed

Clarivate's new 'Nexus' product is integrity-washing.

We all know poorly designed chairs cause physical strain. But here’s why poorly designed workplaces are so mentally draining.

Award-winning Tasmanian artist’s work was published by The Australian, The Saturday Paper and The Hobart Mercury Jon Kudelka, the Australian political cartoonist, has died at the age of 53. His wife Margaret Kudelka announced the news in a statement on Tuesday: “We are sad to tell you that our beloved, brilliant Jon Kudelka died peacefully in South Hobart on Sunday afternoon, surrounded by his family and friends.” Continue reading...

A blog post written by Anna Perricci, Head of DPC Americas, and Amy Currie, Training and Grants Manager at the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Many of those taking on digital preservation can,…

The verification tricks that would make fact-checkers weep with joy.

The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives

The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade

A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...

If the ‘suits’ can come for the State Library of Victoria, they can come for anyone, and no public institution is safe

If the ‘suits’ can come for the State Library of Victoria, they can come for anyone, and no public institution is safe Pardon me that this is a little personal. I first visited the State Library of Victoria aged 12. I held books retrieved from its mountainous stacks with trembling hands. Its stupendous card catalogue blew my schoolboy mind. Search my name in the modern electronic counterpart today and it appears 125 times, mostly for works I researched there. My 84-year-old mother has been a volunteer library tour guide for more than a decade. Continue reading...

Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers...

Discover why Melissa Terras believes cooperatives like READ-COOP represent the future of AI, fostering community-driven, sustainable technological innovation.

Learn how to hack a web browser to view and access online collections in different ways