Libraries sometimes have policies or practices that, while well intentioned, can have unintended consequences. Columnist Meredith Farkas shows how unpaid practica and internships in LIS education can ...

There is much computer scientists can learn from the library and information science community. If they hurry, they might just be able to learn some of it before it all gives way to the data-driven wa...

Computational literary study offers correctives to problems that literary scholarship was never confused about in the first place.

Each year, millions of dollars awarded to libraries, archives, and museums (LAM) fund a variety of processing, digitization, and digital infrastructure projects. In the process, the field creates hund...

Land acknowledgments state that activities are taking place on land previously owned by Indigenous peoples. They’re popular – but they may harm more than they heal, say three anthropologists.

Universities had a chance to make a quality education affordable for everyone. Here's the absolutely infuriating history of what they did instead.

More than a dozen institutions certified retention plans with management or “highly compensated” employees during a fraught stretch of 2020.

For nearly a decade, Jorge Contreras has been railing against the broken system of scientific publishing. Academic journals are dominated by the Western scientists, who not only fill their pages but a...

A new study examines how human biases and institutional barriers affect the groups responsible for finding diverse candidates for faculty positions.

Billionaires are looting the country, leaving everyday Americans to clean up the mess—and fight for the scraps.

The pernicious spread of garbage language.

At elite colleges the “best and brightest” are shamelessly flattered.

Supporting transnational worker organizing should be at the center of the fight for “ethical AI.”

A years-long attack on their status is bad for all of us.

Done wrong, the movement will just reproduce the old monopolies.

The web is filled with content designed for Google, not humans.

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

Essay | Only a computationally informed humanities can save us now.

An insidious creep of artificial intelligence is already penetrating our most important institutions.

It’s a trippy time to have a library card.

Some companies are working to remedy the issue.

The New York Times photographed and interviewed two dozen former federal workers from across the country to get a sense of what they left behind and what they face next.

Just one-third of researchers, publishers, funders and librarians believe academic reward and recognition systems are working well, according to a survey from Cambridge University Press.

Or: Why I’m Tired of My Colleagues Making Arguments That Only Work on Us

The philosopher’s report on the state of literary studies is a shambles.

Fuck your "use case."

One of the most dehumanizing effects of AI is the short cuts it offers through the gaps and impasses intrinsic to the act of writing.