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Practical, responsible and human-centered: the future of AI in libraries

Last week on this blog, we told you about a new leadership brief from the Urban Libraries Council, which outlined ways ...

Five must-read magazines for Health Literacy Month, all available on PressReader

October is Health Literacy Month, an observance rooted in the recognition that a majority of people have challenges ...

How digital resources at libraries can create a better experience for patrons

At PressReader, we focus a lot on how the role libraries play in their communities has shifted, and how it will ...

Media literacy and civic engagement: empowering citizens to participate in democratic discourse

As we have explored in a number of previous articles, media literacy is a critical skill in our digital age for a ...

Library outreach: teaching media literacy to underserved communities

As we gear up for UNESCO's Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2023 (which officially takes place in Jordan from ...

Faced with budget cuts, academic libraries must get creative with resources

Academic libraries don't generally make the headlines, but one particular topic does tend to put them in the news: ...

At a 'human library' event, people's real-life stories are an open book

Here at PressReader, we are big fans of libraries and the many resources that they allow their patrons to access, from ...

Libraries and intellectual freedom create informed, engaged citizens

To get a sense of just how important a public figure Barack Obama remains, even some six years after leaving higher ...

Mindfulness in libraries: cultivating attention and focus skills in the digital age

We live in an age of distraction. The fact is, our attention is already easily diverted by what's happening around us, ...

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