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The Authority File — 468 episodes · page 1 of 5
Defining Shared Services and What’s Next for Library Consortia
How Library Consortia Support Affordability and Student Success
Why Library Consortia Are More than Just Content Buyers
If You’ve Met One Consortium, You’ve Met One Consortium: The Scope, Missions, and Agility of PALCI, SCELC, OhioLINK, and VIVA
DEIA Trends in Higher Education and Collection Development—and What’s Next for TIE
Celebrating Five Years of Toward Inclusive Excellence: History, Evolution, and Highlights
Libraries, Publishing, and the Future of Mathematics in AI
Teaching, Learning, and Mathematical Literacy in the AI Era
Where Mathematical Research Meets AI
The Mathematical Foundations of AI
Talking Metadata Challenges and Surprising Discoveries in ECCO Part III
From Texts to Objects: The Digitization Process of Tiny Books
Exploring the History, Allure, and Research Impact of Tiny Books
Looking Back at Eighteenth Century Collections Online—and Introducing Part III
Supporting Librarians as Essential Information Professionals
Evaluating the Current Environment for Public Trust in Science
Key Takeaways and Action Steps to Increase Public Trust in Science
Why We Need Information Curators to Build Public Trust in Science
TDM Literacy for the Future: Campus Partnerships, Licensing, and the Connection to AI
Addressing the TDM Literature Gap with Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians
How Soundin’ Canaan Remixed Its Design, Launch, and Website
Examining Sonic Citizenship, Remixing, and Multiculturalism in Soundin’ Canaan
How Decentering and the “DJ Methodology” Enhanced the Writing Process of Soundin’ Canaan
Soundin’ Canaan Explores How Aesthetic and Rhetoric Intertwine in Black Canadian Poetry
AI’s Potential Impacts on Policy, Content Agreements, and the Competitive Academic Publishing Landscape
Addressing Librarians’ Research Integrity Concerns with AI Transparency and Detection Tools
How One Publisher Is Learning and Responding to Author Use of AI
Innovative STEM Publishing Strategies in an Evolving AI Landscape
Proving the Library’s Value in Today’s Higher Education Landscape
Communicating the Library’s Value to Partners, Leadership, and Donors
Aligning the Library’s Mission with the University through Campus Partnerships and Metrics
Why Libraries Need to Demonstrate Value to University Administration
Expanding Refugee Comics through Interdisciplinarity, Documenting the War on Gaza, and Moving Beyond Trauma Studies
Can Refugee Comics Effect Political Change? Discussing Comics Journalism and “Refugeeness”
How Graphic Refuge Explores the Ethics of Artist-Refugee Relationships
What the Implied Reader of Refugee Comics Tells Us about the Genre and Citizenship
How Academic Libraries and HSS Can Shape AI Policy
Balancing AI Applications in Publishing with Human Oversight
How Publishers Are Building AI Regulation—and Who They’re Looking to for Guidance
Why Humanities and Social Sciences Matter for Today’s AI Landscape
The Sustainability of Documentaries in Today’s Political Climate
The Academic Impact of Documentary Films: The Faculty and Librarian Perspectives
Building a Documentary Collection: The Distributor and Publisher Perspectives
Documentaries as Learning Tools: The Filmmaker’s Perspective
Mapping Ontario’s Black Archives and Canada as Part of the Atlantic World
Gender, Race, and the Archives of 19th-Century Minstrelsy and Vaudeville
Timeline, Conflict, and Jubilee Singers in Canada and the Blackface Atlantic
Talking Infrastructure, Education, and Canada and the Blackface Atlantic
Unanticipated Benefits of OA and the Future of D2O
Citation and Global Impacts of the Open Access Book Model
Open Book Benefits for Authors and Readers
D2O Refresher and Open Access Publishing for Authors
Implications and Solutions for AI Bot Traffic on Library Websites with Rosalyn Metz
Library Tech Milestones, AI Evolution, and Advocating for Innovation with Eric Lease Morgan
The Library’s Unique Role in HSS Data Sharing
Establishing HSS Data Sharing Policies, Repositories, and Resources
GenAI in Academic Libraries: Exploring AI-Driven Scholarship and Clarivate’s Web of Science Research Assistant
The Benefits and Challenges of HSS Data Sharing: Community, Data Sets, and Privacy
Data Sharing in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Current Landscape and Pressures
The Future of Academic Podcasting: Establishing its importance and uses in scholarly communication
Academic Podcasting in Action: Pedagogical practices and appeal to general audiences
Defining Podcast Studies: Challenging the traditional principles of scholarly communication
Podcasting in Academia: A critical look at its potential and discussing a new book, Podcast Studies
AI-Generated Misinformation, Fact-Checking Trends, and Political Education for Students
Instruction, Regulation, and Solutions for Today’s Information and Political Environment
Navigating the Changing Information Landscape
Definitions, Uses, and Current Contexts for “Fake News”
Improving Research Integrity and Library-Research Office Partnerships
Action Steps for Libraries and Publishers to Assist With Open Research
How Open Research Is Impacting the Research Enterprise
Introducing Our Guests and the Goals of Open Research
AI In Librarianship Trends, New LTI White Paper, and Choice Reviews of AI Products
Launch and Development of Choice’s LibTech Insights
How Art Changes Culture and the (Interdisciplinary) Future of the Environmental Humanities
Themes of Interruption, Interpretation, and Gathering in Ecologies in Practice
Environmentally Engaged Arts, Calls to Action, and Canadian Case Studies in Ecologies in Practice
Exploring Ecologies in Practice and Environmental Humanities
One Year of Pledge to Open, OA Mandates, and Exploring AI
The Library’s Role in Open Access Publishing and Pledge to Open
Inspiration, Launch, and Challenges of T&F’s Pledge to Open Pilot
Publisher-Library Discussions on OA and the Challenges of Author Charges
SDG Progress and Driving Employee Engagement
Preventative Measures against Predatory Publishing and Potential New Threats
Supporting the Global South and Inclusive Science
Predatory Publishing Red Flags and Cabells’s Evaluative Criteria
Springer Nature’s Editorial and Publication Strategies for the SDGs
Predatory Journal Tactics and Scholarly Communication Pain Points
Springer Nature’s Adoption and Scale of the SDGs
Defining Predatory Journals and What’s at Stake
How AI Will (and Won’t) Impact Library Work
The Epilogue, Cats, and the Future of Comics Studies
On the Ground Realities of Librarian Skill Development
Connecting Personal Experience with Scholarship
Current Challenges and Developments in Librarian Skill-Building
Discussing the Themes and Formats in the Book On Comics and Grief
Librarian Skills Landscape Report and Overview
Outlining the “Big, Big Tent” of Comics Studies
Digital Preservation and Whole Ebook Lending at Purdue
Evaluating Resource Licenses, Negotiations, and AI Clauses
Navigating Vendor Platforms and the E-Resources Ecosystem