The Future of Libraries

There has been much speculation over the past few decades as technology evolves and reality-changing technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and well, e-readers, have found their place in life and libraries. Many believe the value of libraries have been lost on a new generation that wants the information they need at their fingertips instantaneously…

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Road Trip Symposium: What Makes Special Libraries Special

There is no substitute for face-to-face networking. This particular opportunity takes advantage of knowledgeable professionals at an amazing venue. Join these information professionals at the Road Trip Symposium : What Makes Special Libraries Special? The only in-person event of the Route 66 Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) in 2018. In these rapidly changing…

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Library Shark Tank Weekend

Mark your calendars today for October 12-14, 2018 for Library Shark Tank Weekend in Monterey, California. Are you curious by nature? Do you love collaborating with diverse colleagues, relish provocative thinking and the interchange of ideas? The Library Shark Tank Weekend gives you an opportunity to kickstart your ideas—or help work on other big ideas—at this…

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1776 Was A Leap Year

The United States will celebrate its Independence Day –  July 4th – this week. Fireworks, parades, cookouts, music–the typical content of a 4th of July celebration. It’s a time when many people relax, have fun, and wave the American flag. But who stops to think about what the 4th of July means? Sure, we learned in middle school…

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Relationships: The Good, the Bad, and the Analyzed?

Relationships can be challenging at best. Relationships with family, friends and people in general contain facets and dynamics that are evolving and often contentious. When it comes to data content, relationships are just as important and just as volatile. Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is a natural language processing technique that analyzes relationships between a set of documents and…

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Happy Father’s Day

We celebrated Father’s Day yesterday, so it felt appropriate to share an article written several years ago for this blog about the “father of library science” – Shiyali Ramamrita (S. R.) Ranganathan. As described in the Wikipedia article about him, Ranganathan “is considered to be the father of library science, documentation, and information science in India and is widely known throughout the…

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