Initial presentation given by Karen Robson and Jenny Ruthven for the Hampshire Field Club Conference on the 19th September 2026.

Librar Labs looks like another YC W2026 SaaS — AI-powered school library management — until you look at the team and the technical claim under the hood. OpenAI / Scale / Palantir alums plus quantum physicists plus a 'self-healing database for unstructured data' don't build a school librarian assista

My readthrough notes of a MUST-READ work on the abilities (and inabilities!) of computers

A roundup of Florida education news from around the state

In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.

Fair use is more than an "affirmative defense" that a party in default waives. This post goes into details about the procedural aspect of the fair use defense.

and the optimal cases and contexts for using each type of media.

An Oval Office executive order threatens access to trusted databases used by thousands of students in public libraries. “People are angry,” says Deb ...

The open access journal Information Research is celebrating 30 years of high quality publication with a special issue (Vol 30 no. 2, 2025). Information Research has maintained this quality without charging author fees. The issue includes: - A Reflection on 30 Years of Information Research with Professor Tom Wilson (Crystal Fulton interviews founder and researcher, Professor Tom Wilson) - Information Research at 30: its role as a diamond open access journal supporting scholarly communication in library and information science by JungWon Yoon, James E. Andrews, EunKyung Chung - An examination of Wilson’s Concept of Information Need: implications by Charles Cole - Expanding Wilson’s information behaviour model using social cognitive theory: A case study by Peymon Montazeri - 30 years of Information Research papers citing Professor Tom D. Wilson: a bibliometric analysis by Tanja Svarre, Birger Larsen - A 24-Year Bibliometric Analysis of the Journal Information Research: Insights from CiteSpace by Lin Wang, Yiyu Chen - Searching for Information Research: A bibliometric analysis celebrating 30 years of a pioneering open access journal (1995-2024) by Gustaf Nelhans, Camilla Lindelöw, Pablo Lillo Cea, Marco Scirone, Rui José António , Björn Hammarfelt - Tom Wilson and Information Research: Pioneers of the diamond open access by Jose-Vicente Rodriguez-Munoz, Francisco Javier Martinez Mendez, Pedro-Manuel Diaz-Ortuno, Gregorio Moya-Martinez, Rosana Lopez-Carreno - Information Research comes to Borås by Karen Nowé Hedvall et al. Go to https://publicera.kb.se/ir/issue/view/3787 Photo by Sheila Webber: young chestnut leaves, April 2025