Academia & Publishing

Variety Is the Spice of Life: Bibliodiversity, Scholarly Publishing and the Inexact Science of Making Ends Meet

What does bibliodiversity mean for libraries and academia today? Last month, an international panel explored how diverse voices, open access and local publishing initiatives can transform scholarly communication and advance equity worldwide.

Arts & Humanities

How Soul Music Became the Heartbeat of the Panama Canal Diggers’ Descendants

Trump’s recent declaration to take back the Panama Canal brings to light the forgotten sacrifices of Afro-Caribbean workers – and the legacy of U.S. imperialism in the region.

Business & Economics

How Embracing Complexity Changes the Way You See the World – and Can Even Transform the Way You Write

Inspired by Daoism and complexity science, Jean Boulton set out to write a book that mirrors its own message: that embracing flow, paradox, and noticing the detail of what is emerging can improve our creative process as well as inform our actions.

Academia & Publishing

Taming the Dragon: Librarians, Creativity and AI

In another whirlwind year for advances in artificial intelligence, librarians took bold steps to find innovative applications for AI tools. The final webinar of 2024, the Year of the Dragon, was a brilliant exchange of strategy for mastering AI in libraries.