June 5, 2026 by Gary Price
From an APA Release: The Audio Publishers Association Sales Survey, conducted by Toluna, shows audiobook sales revenue continuing to grow, reaching $2.43 billion in 2025, 9% over the previous year. Publishers reported over 750,000 active titles in 2025, a 43% increase from 2024. The Audio Publishers Association 2026 Consumer Survey, conducted by Edison Research at […]
May 1, 2026 by Gary Price
Here’s the video recording of the closing plenary talk (recorded at the Spring 2026 CNI Membership Meeting in Salt Lake City) by Manish Parashar, Executive Director, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute; Inaugural Chief AI Officer; Presidential Professor, University of Utah. Manish is introduced by Kate Zwaard, CNI Executive Director The current data renaissance, accelerated by advances […]
May 1, 2026 by Gary Price
Here’s the video recording of the opening plenary talk (recorded at the Spring 2026 CNI Membership Meeting in Salt Lake City) by Rebekah Cummings, Director of Digital Matters and Head of Open Scholarship and Data Services, University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library. Rebekah is introduced by Kate Zwaard, CNI Executive Director Artificial intelligence (AI) has […]
March 30, 2026 by Gary Price
From RLUK (via YouTube): Dr Carla Hayden in conversation with Jane Harvell, Director of Library Culture and Heritage and University Librarian at the University of Sussex and RLUK Chair. Carla Hayden was sworn in as the 14th Librarian of Congress on September 14, 2016. Dr. Hayden, the first woman and the first African American to […]
March 30, 2026 by Gary Price
From Research Libraries UK (via YouTube) Chaired by Ed Fay, Director of Library Services and University Librarian at the University of Bristol. Lynda Kellam, Ph.D., is the Snyder-Granader Director of Research Data and Digital Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and a co-founder of the Data Rescue Project. Her work focuses on the U.S. […]
March 10, 2026 by Gary Price
From the Charleston Hub Channel on YouTube: Today’s episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Brewster Kahle, Founder & Director, Internet Archive. Brewster says that back in the 1980’s he believed that everything would eventually become digital. He dreamed of building a Library of Alexandria where humanity’s knowledge would […]
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March 5, 2026 by Gary Price
From Research Libraries UK: Throughout the second half of 2025, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) held a series of workshops for research library leaders on using the Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit—a modular resource for integrating the ARL/CNI AI Scenarios into institutional strategy and planning work. Judy Ruttenberg, […]
December 9, 2025 by Gary Price
From Pew Research: Young people turn to a variety of platforms, but YouTube stands out for being used by nearly all teens. Roughly nine-in-ten report ever using it. Teens widely use three other platforms: About six-in-ten or more say they use TikTok and Instagram. A somewhat smaller share say they go on Snapchat (55%). Fewer use Facebook (31%) and WhatsApp (24%). And no more than about […]
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November 13, 2025 by Gary Price
From a Google Blog Post: Here’s what makes NotebookLM’s Deep Research different: the report is just the beginning. You can add the report and its sources directly into your notebook. You can continue to add other sources while Deep Research runs in the background, helping you assemble a rich knowledge base on any topic without leaving […]
October 24, 2025 by Gary Price
Video recordings of presentations were shared on YouTube yesterday. The conference was organized by the Pacific Library Partnership and held at the San Francisco Public Library on Wednesday, October 8, 2025. From the Conference Website: This year’s program will feature talks on: Library funding issues and advocacy with Deborah Doyle (United for Libraries) Disability inclusion […]

