Welcome to the first Libfocus link-out edition of 2025, an assemblage of library-related things we have found informative, educational, thought-provoking and insightful on the Web over the past while.
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Lending out a person instead of a book? Abington looks to ‘human library’ to foster conversations.
Kenny Cooper writes about the success of the Danish Human Library movement in this article for WHYY. Aimed at fostering conversations between people who might not normally interact, Human Library events have taken place in over 80 countries since 2000.
Building a university library service where everyone feels welcome.
In this article for Times Higher Education, staff from Cardiff University write about how University libraries can make their services more inclusive and sustainable. Tracey Stanley, Sara Huws and Susan Cousins explain how they translated their EDI goals and strategies into practical actions.
Libraries & Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library.
This report sets out to establish a relationship between public libraries and the well-being of library patrons. By aligning with positive psychology and positive humanities research, and drawing connections to prior research on public libraries’ impact on community building, social and cultural capital, and civic engagement, we construct a relationship between library use and individual well-being
The State of Library Marketing in 2025: Survey Reveals New Obstacles and Frustrations.
The struggles and goals of libraries shifted in some major ways during. This report from Angela Hursh (of Super Library Marketing: Practical Tips for Library Promotion) sets out the state of library marketing as we begin 2025.
‘WithdrarXiv’ database of 14,000 retracted preprints launches.
Preprints are an important form of Open Access publishing. However, many preprints are withdrawn and Dalmeet Singh Chawla in Nature looks at why that happens.
Using Open Data to Sharpen Science Stories.
Many breaking news stories are based on the availability of open data sources, reports Alice Fleerackers in the Open Notebook.
Using AI to supercharge your library's web presence, marketing, and social media.
In Information Today, David Lee King provides a brief introduction to how libraries can use AI tool to boost marketing efforts.
Libraries as drivers of policy initiatives on a large scale.
Newly released IFLA commissioned report focusing on library functions required to deliver successful large scale projects.
Arkansas Act 372 Declared Unconstitutional in District Court | Library Journal.
Lisa Peet looks at the recent Arkansas District Court decision that declared laws which would expose librarians and booksellers to criminal penalties for provision of LGBTQ+ and sex education materials as unconstitutional.
The endangered library | New University | UC Irvine.
An opinion piece by Isabella Ehring for UC Irvine News on the loss of support for libraries in the wake of shifts in e-books usage and OpenAI.
Libraries and/as Extraction.
The Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship is delighted to release their latest special issue, Libraries and/as Extraction, co-edited by Maura Seale, Nicole Pagowsky, Rafia Mirza, and Karen P. Nicholson. Taken together, the essays in this special issue home in on how extraction functions as a logic or organising principle of current forms of capitalism within academic librarianship: how libraries extract, and how libraries are extracted from, sometimes discretely, sometimes mangled together in a Gordian knot.
White Paper: Building an AI Literacy Framework: Perspectives from Instruction Librarians and Current Information Literacy Tools.
While information literacy frameworks and standards have traditionally helped librarians plan their instruction sessions, these structures do not address AI. From the analysis of interviews with instruction librarians about AI literacy, Sandy Hervieux and Amanda Wheatley identify the main themes and concerns related to AI for academic libraries and develop a robust framework for AI literacy.
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