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The Preservation of Ephemeral Scholarship

As academic discourse moves toward dynamic living documents and social media data, libraries face a technical and ethical crisis in digital preservation. How should your institution approach the long-term archiving of non-traditional scholarship to e...

Mediating Open Data and Data Sovereignty

The push for universal transparency often runs into direct conflict with the right of Indigenous communities to govern how their own cultural and intellectual data is collected and shared. As global funding mandates push for "Open Data" by default, h...

Shadow Libraries

As shadow libraries like Sci-Hub and LibGen become routine tools for researchers globally, how can academic libraries effectively communicate the unique value add of institutional subscriptions to university administration beyond simple access?

Ephemerality vs. The Archive in Student Portfolios

Current students are being encouraged to build robust digital identities through personal websites, Omeka collections, and digital portfolios. However, as hosting costs rise and platforms go obsolete, what is the ethical obligation regarding the 'lon...

Credit, Citations, and the DH Project

As Digital Scholarship centers increasingly co-author complex projects with faculty, ranging from GIS mapping to large-scale data visualizations, how are your institutions formally recognizing the intellectual labor of library staff? (For reference: ...

The Death of the Search Bar? - Conversational Discovery vs. Boolean Logic

Prompt: As our library discovery layers (like Primo and Summon) integrate more 'Conversational AI' wrappers, we’re seeing a generation of students who have never used a Boolean operator ($AND$, $OR$, $NOT$).Are we doing a disservice by letting 'Natur...

Research as Inquiry vs. The "Answer Engine" Mentality

Prompt: The ACRL defines Research as Inquiry as a process that focuses on 'finding responses to unexpected puzzles' rather than seeking a single, uncontested answer. However, generative AI tools are designed to provide the opposite: a singular, polis...

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The Preservation of Ephemeral Scholarship

Mediating Open Data and Data Sovereignty

Shadow Libraries

Ephemerality vs. The Archive in Student Portfolios

Credit, Citations, and the DH Project

The Death of the Search Bar? - Conversational Discovery vs. Boolean Logic

Research as Inquiry vs. The "Answer Engine" Mentality

The Preservation of Ephemeral Scholarship

Mediating Open Data and Data Sovereignty

Shadow Libraries

Ephemerality vs. The Archive in Student Portfolios

Credit, Citations, and the DH Project