Look inside for who we are and what winning means.

The hidden query transformations (e.g HyDE, Query2doc) and counterintuitive logic used in modern AI-powered academic search.

For as long as I can remember I’ve been in charge of my library’s Induction / Orientation process for new students, and it has evolved over the years into a fairly well oiled machine. We treat the whole thing as a marketing campaign, designed to maximise the chances of the students taking in our key

I gave this talk this afternoon at Concordia University, as part of the SkepTech series questioning education technology. Today's bird, which does not appear anywhere in the talk, is the house sparrow, which along with the pigeon is one of the most widely distributed wild birds, thanks in no

Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too.

When Lake Villa District Library moved into a building twice the size of its old location, staff discovered that internal communication had become much harder. The solution wasn’t simply buil…

Librarians must hold the gates against machine-generated titles.

I don’t know that we figured everything out, but the shape of the challenge is pretty clear.

Dartmouth’s provost raises a tension we should examine.

About a year ago I was invited to give a lecture designed to spark critical thinking in graduate students when considering using generative AI and other tools that had started applying the “a…

As more PE firms invest in food establishments, people are bemoaning the ‘same-ification’ of NYC’s restaurant scene

But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.

Some college students using AI to complete their assignments are going to absurd lengths to avoid being caught cheating.

Legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog tore apart a film that used AI to imitate his distinct style and narration.

In the prologue to their book Tinkering Toward Utopia, historians David Tyack and Larry Cuban highlight the tensions in how Americans think about schooling: we have, almost since the nation’s outset, believed in the transformative power of education; and yet, despite the importance we grant to education and our

A year of conversations with editors, agents and scholars taught me that breaking through takes practical know-how and remembering how to teach.

It's not easy to be confident in a body of knowledge that has phantom limbs

ALT: Kelly Leak Bad News Bears

As the new semester gets ready to kick off, among other things, I’m getting ready for a new Project SEARCH intern. In preparation, we’re thinking about the work they might do at the library, including working on our sensory room. Which brings me to the topic of this post: the sensory room itself. Before I

Toward a working definition.

If writing matters, why don’t we put sufficient resources toward teaching it?

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Senka Stankovic, Head of User Services at the Jean-Léon Allie Library, Saint-Paul University. As an early-career librarian halfway through a year-long parental leave contract at Saint Paul University, I've noticed that digital tools are fundamental to how we ideate and deliver educational workshops. Born-digital, recently a

It's a saying that appears in multiple iterations across multiple slide decks and cited in multiple books, all extolling some sort of highly technological future of education: something about the need to constantly be learning, relearning, unlearning. I roll my eyes whenever I see this, particularly when it’s

To understand a technology, you need to know the problem it was meant to solve.

Where and Whenever Possible!

In a random sample of 10,000 webpages collected in July 2026, one-in-ten show signs of being written or substantially edited by AI.

Making space for student self-regulation is good, actually.

I am tired of proving I'm human. One of the promises of technology adoption is making things easier and removing friction. Increasingly though - I've noticed how things are harder and taking more time because of technology. This makes me ask: who is this technology actually serving? The case

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.

How The New York Times just bungled this one, and why it matters, immensely

The rising popularity of digital course materials is helping students save money, a new survey shows.

It makes it easy to trick them into doing things they shouldn’t, such as telling you how to sabotage an aircraft’s navigation system.

How I at least partially mitigate Claude Fable's ridiculous yoda-speak

AI is not a neutral technology whose benefits need to be redistributed. It is a weapon of class war from above, designed to cheapen labor and concentrate power. Nationalizing it does nothing to change that.

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