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People tend to get a lot of random emails that they send right to the trash. A few months ago, one such wayward email (or so I thought) arrived in [...]

This is going to be a different column. Keep reading, and you'll see why. After I take a look at three topics from the September/October issue of KMWorld, I'm going [...]

For this issue, I am highlighting two features from the May/June 2022 issue of Online Searcher. The first takes a look at the potential comeback of the news librarian profession. [...]

This issue, I'm sharing three articles from the March/April issues of KMWorld and Online Searcher. WHOM DO YOU TRUST? Alan Pelz-Sharpe writes the Ethical Innovation column for KMWorld. In his [...]

When COVID-19 started shutting down just about everything in March 2020, information technology came to the rescue on many levels. It enabled students to go to school online and employees [...]

Do you want to use more pictures to accompany articles and promotional pieces about your library, but you aren't sure what, or more specifically, whom, you can include in the [...]

Do you need to find a better way to communicate with your patrons--or potential ones--that might help your library (and staff) become more engaged with the population at large? A [...]

For an expanded version of this article, visit newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Spotlight/ Hitting-the-Books-A-Pro-Baseball-Player-Promotes-Reading-and-Media-Literacy149312.asp. At 6 feet, 4 inches tall, the Washington Nationals' switch-hitting first baseman Josh Bell is an imposing figure. When he [...]

The EDTECH feature from the September issue of Computers in Libraries and the Technology & Power column from the September/ October issue of Online Searcher both deal with how libraries [...]

The two feature articles I'm highlighting from the July/August issue of the Marketing Library Services (MLS) newsletter are about reaching out to people who are in some kind of new [...]

Remember when the word 'information' appeared more often without prefixes like 'mis' or 'dis'? Now, it seems like most of what you read about information concerns its dark side. The [...]

Here's something you may never have thought of: Bulletproof vests were not created to accommodate a woman's upper torso. Why? An article in the November 2021 issue of Computers in [...]

This issue, I've picked two columns by writers who are well-known within the streaming world: Tim Siglin and Dom Robinson. I'm highlighting Siglin's September Streams of Thought column from the [...]

The article discusses the book "Your Career Advantage: Overcome Challenges to Achieve a Rewarding Work Life" by Caroline Dowd-Higgins. Topics include the author's background, the importance of investing in oneself, playing to one's strengths, reframing situations, taking action to make positive changes, addressing conflict, setting goals, avoiding the trap of busyness, overcoming self-doubt, and earning respect versus being liked.

In this article the author discusses three topics from the September/October issue of KMWorld related to sentience, the final frontier, hyperautomation and adieu. The author states that Alan Pelz-Sharpe starts off his Ethical Innovation column, "To Hyperautomate or Not to Hyperautomate?" by paraphrasing the meaning of hyperautomation. He uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate processes and augment humans.

The article explores how Josh Bell, a pro baseball player promotes reading and media literacy. Topics include reading and helping people recognize the importance of literacy especially media literacy; and different aspects of life in book helps everyone dive inside themselves and allows them to reflect on their own habits and upbringings.

The article presents the EDTECH feature from the September issue of Computers in Libraries and the Technology & Power column from the September/October issue of Online Searcher with how libraries are evolving in our constantly changing world, whether they are responding to a global pandemic or to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Topics include the term "chopportunities," coined by author Carolyn Foote's colleague, which is subtitled "Turning Challenges Into Opportunities for School Libraries."