Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association
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Publishes research on library science and information research and practice within the Australian and Southern Asia Pacific regions.
Current issue is here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ualj21/current
Current issue is here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ualj21/current
The latest full issue of JALIA with over 8 articles open/free access.
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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
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August 31, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The latest full issue of JALIA with over 8 articles open/free access.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/ualj21/7...?
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The Risks of Declining Theory Construction and Theorisation and Rising Empiricism in the Discipline of Information Science: An Overview
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The Risks of Declining Theory Construction and Theorisation and Rising Empiricism in the Discipline of Information Science: An Overview
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,...
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August 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The Risks of Declining Theory Construction and Theorisation and Rising Empiricism in the Discipline of Information Science: An Overview
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A great review of all the global collaborative efforts in LIS Education
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Shaping the Global Future of Library and Information Science Education: Lessons Learned from the Web-based Information Science Education (WISE) Consortium and Other International Collaborations
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 ...
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August 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM
A great review of all the global collaborative efforts in LIS Education
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Another wonderful open access early online article from JALIA
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Public Library Codesign Workshop Process
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...
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August 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Another wonderful open access early online article from JALIA
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An important reflection by Dr. Waseem Afzal at Charles Sturt University
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The Risks of Declining Theory Construction and Theorisation and Rising Empiricism in the Discipline of Information Science: An Overview
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,...
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August 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
An important reflection by Dr. Waseem Afzal at Charles Sturt University
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A great paper by Professor Spencer Lilley on decolonising Māori collections.
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Applying a Critical Lens to Parihaka Collection Materials from a Kaupapa Māori Perspective
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...
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August 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A great paper by Professor Spencer Lilley on decolonising Māori collections.
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Have a look at the early online version of this JALIA article with its gorgeous photos of some amazing libraries!
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An Analysis of the Design Characteristics of New Public Library Buildings
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...
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August 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Have a look at the early online version of this JALIA article with its gorgeous photos of some amazing libraries!
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Did you know the Reserve Bank of Australia has its own digital collection online? https://unreserved.rba.gov.au/
Reserve Bank of Australia Unreserved
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July 31, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Did you know the Reserve Bank of Australia has its own digital collection online? https://unreserved.rba.gov.au/
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Between EBSCO Natural language search, Web of Science Smart search & JSTOR AI Research tool (all bundled in "free"), we starting to see databases offer non-boolean mode as an option, based on idea that users influenced by CHATGPT will be using long natural language queries instead of keyword?(1)
July 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Between EBSCO Natural language search, Web of Science Smart search & JSTOR AI Research tool (all bundled in "free"), we starting to see databases offer non-boolean mode as an option, based on idea that users influenced by CHATGPT will be using long natural language queries instead of keyword?(1)
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For academics & scholars who've uploaded papers to Academia, this message I received this morning should be of major concern. I'll delete my account, but I assume damage is done & they've already scraped everything of mine. Should stand as a warning about sharing one's work on commercial websites
June 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
For academics & scholars who've uploaded papers to Academia, this message I received this morning should be of major concern. I'll delete my account, but I assume damage is done & they've already scraped everything of mine. Should stand as a warning about sharing one's work on commercial websites
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Here’s something absolutely cooked about books in Australia https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/heres-something-absolutely-cooked-about-books-in-australia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=heres-something-absolutely-cooked-about-books-in-australia #auspol
Here's something absolutely cooked about books in Australia - The Australia Institute
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.
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June 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Here’s something absolutely cooked about books in Australia https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/heres-something-absolutely-cooked-about-books-in-australia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=heres-something-absolutely-cooked-about-books-in-australia #auspol
If you have a copy of the Australian Academic and Research Libraries (AARL) 23 (3), 1992, Confronting the Future: University Libraries in the Next Decade hiding in your shelf, please contact editor.jalia@alia.org.au as we are looking for it. AARL is one of the precursor journals to JALIA.
June 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
If you have a copy of the Australian Academic and Research Libraries (AARL) 23 (3), 1992, Confronting the Future: University Libraries in the Next Decade hiding in your shelf, please contact editor.jalia@alia.org.au as we are looking for it. AARL is one of the precursor journals to JALIA.
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As Wikipedia becomes more central to the infrastructure #AI the organization is grappling with rising bot traffic, attribution and how to sustain its ecosystem in the face of powerful new users. observer.com/2025/03/wiki...
Wikipedia Built the Internet’s Brain. Now Its Leaders Want Credit.
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…
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June 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
As Wikipedia becomes more central to the infrastructure #AI the organization is grappling with rising bot traffic, attribution and how to sustain its ecosystem in the face of powerful new users. observer.com/2025/03/wiki...
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To better understand OER and the role of our organization, as well as CC licenses and their application in implementing the 2019 UNESCO Recommendation on OER, we developed some helpful resources. Check them out here: creativecommons.org/about/educat...
Open Education - Creative Commons
“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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June 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
To better understand OER and the role of our organization, as well as CC licenses and their application in implementing the 2019 UNESCO Recommendation on OER, we developed some helpful resources. Check them out here: creativecommons.org/about/educat...
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Missed our webinar on #libraries, #copyright, and #AI? The recording is now available!
Explore how two new #IFLA copyright statements can support library advocacy, covering essential principles and the latest debates around AI and copyright law.
Watch it here: youtu.be/lKY858b0ChY
Explore how two new #IFLA copyright statements can support library advocacy, covering essential principles and the latest debates around AI and copyright law.
Watch it here: youtu.be/lKY858b0ChY
Webinar: Establishing core principles for copyright and libraries
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June 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Missed our webinar on #libraries, #copyright, and #AI? The recording is now available!
Explore how two new #IFLA copyright statements can support library advocacy, covering essential principles and the latest debates around AI and copyright law.
Watch it here: youtu.be/lKY858b0ChY
Explore how two new #IFLA copyright statements can support library advocacy, covering essential principles and the latest debates around AI and copyright law.
Watch it here: youtu.be/lKY858b0ChY
The new issue of JALIA is out!
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Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association
Volume 74, Issue 2 of Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association
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June 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The new issue of JALIA is out!
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Good, long thread. I had a similar experience recently when a patron brought me a prompt response and we tried to validate it.
I just saw a good example of what I was talking about with chatgpt being a crackpot generating machine.
A guy had started Wheeler's Spacetime Physics, and had a problem on page 2.
Wheeler expressed a square root as a power of 1/2.
√a = a^1/2. This is basic algebra, not physics.
A guy had started Wheeler's Spacetime Physics, and had a problem on page 2.
Wheeler expressed a square root as a power of 1/2.
√a = a^1/2. This is basic algebra, not physics.
May 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Good, long thread. I had a similar experience recently when a patron brought me a prompt response and we tried to validate it.
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Large language models (#LLMs) such as #ChatGPT have increased our dependence on #DataCentres, with troubling consequences for the environment.
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Eugenie Dugoua: Data centres are the factories of our modern lives - LSE Business Review
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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May 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Large language models (#LLMs) such as #ChatGPT have increased our dependence on #DataCentres, with troubling consequences for the environment.
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In an era where truth-telling is hard to discern, Wikipedia is an invaluable tool for fact-checking and combating misinformation. That's why from 15 May to 5 June 2025 1 LibRef2025 is calling on all Librarians and Information Professionals to add at least one reference to Wikipedia.
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Librarians! Join us for #1Lib1Ref
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May 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
In an era where truth-telling is hard to discern, Wikipedia is an invaluable tool for fact-checking and combating misinformation. That's why from 15 May to 5 June 2025 1 LibRef2025 is calling on all Librarians and Information Professionals to add at least one reference to Wikipedia.
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“I’m excited to publish this guest post by Nick McGreivy, a physicist who last year earned a PhD from Princeton. Nick used to be optimistic that AI could accelerate physics research….” www.understandingai.org/p/i-got-fool...
I got fooled by AI-for-science hype—here's what it taught me
I used AI in my plasma physics research and it didn’t go the way I expected.
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May 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“I’m excited to publish this guest post by Nick McGreivy, a physicist who last year earned a PhD from Princeton. Nick used to be optimistic that AI could accelerate physics research….” www.understandingai.org/p/i-got-fool...
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This is the LAST CHANCE to tell Congress to #FundLibraries. We need you to make your voice heard TODAY. Letters in Congress in support of library funding are about to close.
Call your Senators and urge them to fund libraries in next year's budget: bit.ly/Call2FundLibraries #ForOurLibraries
Call your Senators and urge them to fund libraries in next year's budget: bit.ly/Call2FundLibraries #ForOurLibraries
May 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is the LAST CHANCE to tell Congress to #FundLibraries. We need you to make your voice heard TODAY. Letters in Congress in support of library funding are about to close.
Call your Senators and urge them to fund libraries in next year's budget: bit.ly/Call2FundLibraries #ForOurLibraries
Call your Senators and urge them to fund libraries in next year's budget: bit.ly/Call2FundLibraries #ForOurLibraries
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In an update, the Philadelphia Inquirer ceo is investigating how they came to publish a supplement with AI-generated incorrect content, which “is a violation of our own internal policies and a serious breach.” King Features produced the piece.
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Newspapers Run Fake Summer Reading List - Publishers Lunch
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...
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May 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
In an update, the Philadelphia Inquirer ceo is investigating how they came to publish a supplement with AI-generated incorrect content, which “is a violation of our own internal policies and a serious breach.” King Features produced the piece.
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Don't mess with Texas libraries! #bookbans
So we thank the authors, parents, grandparents, veterans, librarians, and citizens who spoke up for library access today. We ask the legislature - Don't mess with Texas libraries! @aclutx.bsky.social @equalitytexas.bsky.social @aabbri.bsky.social @everylibrary.bsky.social #txlege
May 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Don't mess with Texas libraries! #bookbans
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What the Library of Congress should be.
Public domain photos by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
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Public domain photos by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
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May 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
What the Library of Congress should be.
Public domain photos by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
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Public domain photos by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
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I have a feeling it wouldn't just be the NSW education department where biometric data started being collected when Microsoft Teams turned it on by default. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW education department caught unaware after Microsoft Teams began collecting students’ biometric data
Gathering of face and voice data went unnoticed for one month after it was automatically enabled for video conferencing app users in March
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May 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I have a feeling it wouldn't just be the NSW education department where biometric data started being collected when Microsoft Teams turned it on by default. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...