Special Issue:Selected Papers from RAILS: Research Application in Information and Library Studies 2025. Volume 75, Issue 3 of Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association

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LIS Education: Past, Present and Future:Guest Editors: Prof Philip Hider, A/Prof Jane Garner, A/Prof Chin Ee Loh, Prof Kim Thompson and Dr Simon Wakeling. Volume 74, Issue 4 of Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association

Special Issue: Selected papers from Research Application in Information and Library Studies (RAILS) 2024, held at Curtin University, Western Australia.. Volume 74, Issue 3 of Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association

Theory is a hallmark of any discipline’s identity. Theory development and theorisation facilitate a healthy cultivation of ideas, help enculturate the future generation of scholars in a discipline,...

The paper explores the past, present, and possible futures of international collaboration in the context of library and information science (LIS) education and highlights past and present examples ...

This article presents an evaluation of a three-workshop codesign methodology implemented for two public libraries as part of an Australian Research Council Linkage project, examining the effectiven...

Theory is a hallmark of any discipline’s identity. Theory development and theorisation facilitate a healthy cultivation of ideas, help enculturate the future generation of scholars in a discipline,...

Using the history of the Parihaka community, a peaceful village in South Taranaki that was invaded by colonial forces in 1881, this article builds on the Decolonising Māori collections article publ...

Recent years have seen the opening of many large and expensive new public library buildings, including in Australia. These new libraries reflect the increasing emphasis placed on the role of the li...

It's a big week for Australian culture, with announcement of the shortlist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, one of the country's top writing prizes.

Wikipedia has always run on volunteer power and idealism. Now it’s running into A.I.’s bottomless appetite. In candid conversations with Observer, two Wikimedia executives explain why ChatGPT and i…

“Brigham Young University faculty survey seeks to advance open education through academic libraries” by opensource.com is licensed via CC BY-SA 2.0. Opening up and sharing education is necessary if…

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Volume 74, Issue 2 of Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association

Our lives today increasingly depend on data centres for simple activities like writing emails or watching videos. The arrival of large language models such as ChatGPT has caused a significant uptick…

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I used AI in my plasma physics research and it didn’t go the way I expected.

At least two major newspapers recently ran an AI-generated summer reading round up that featured several books that do not exist. The Philadelphia Inquirer (on May 15) and the Chicago Sun-Times (on Ma...

Gathering of face and voice data went unnoticed for one month after it was automatically enabled for video conferencing app users in March

It’s a battle of the bots: Teachers use AI detection to spot cheating while students use it to maintain innocence.

Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showin...

23andMe was sold by bankruptcy auction, a year after the company had a massive data breach.

During the Metadata Gone Wrong – What to Fix and Why It Matters Workshop held on 24 April 2025, speakers spoke about issues with metadata.  The biggest takeaway was the need to identify pathways and i...

Paper mills are also likely contributing to “false discoveries”

The Trump administration has been ordered to stop dismantling the IMLS and has been ordered to restore the agency to its pre-Executive Order functions and staffing.

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

Bundyi, a Wiradyuri word meaning ‘to share with me’, is a new First Nations imprint from Dr Anita Heiss and Simon & Schuster. Join Anita and Bundyi author Tasma Walton for a free Q&A session, which wi...

Every single library levy on Tuesday's ballot passed in Ohio, and none of them were close.

Banned words list 2025: The federal government is banning a growing number of words to comply with executive orders from President Trump.

Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter was appointed to the post by now former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, who herself was fired by President Trump earlier this week.