Monthly Archives: June 2023

A Milestone: Danton’s Dimensions of Comparative Librarianship published 50 years ago

The 1970s saw the publication of several noteworthy contributions to the theory and methodology of comparative librarianship. The first was Simsova and MacKee’s (1970) Handbook of comparative librarianship, a pioneering but ultimately disappointing work, of which a revised edition followed … Continue reading

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Global Gleanings # 16: More disruption: chatbots in the news

This quarterly column of news, views and snippets from the international literature of books, libraries, and information, appears in LIASA-in-Touch, the newsletter of the Library and Information Association of South Africa. Generative artificial intelligence What is ChatGPT?At time of writing … Continue reading

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