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The Next Chapter for Public Libraries: How Current and Future Trends are Shaping the Libraries of Tomorrow

Clark Nesxen

Over the last few years, public libraries have transitioned from being buildings that only store and lend books to being fully featured community centers. The most successful public libraries are designed with people in mind and with the help of the community they serve. What is most important to those who use the library?

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions

SRHE

Here the three presenters reflect on some of the ideas and issues raised during the first symposium on ‘Networks’. I’d be interested to see what the role of space utilisation monitors/ technology will be in the future of spaces like this. Furniture is important; learning booths are popular in corridors as informal meeting places.

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5 High Tech Solutions that Enable High Touch Campus Experiences

University Business

It’s no great revelation that today’s students are digital natives and view technology as an intrinsic part of how they navigate the world. However, despite their preference for using digital technology to complete day-to-day tasks, they crave interpersonal connections and relationship building.

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How Virtual Reality is Changing Campuses

Higher Ed Connects: Technology

But thanks to technological limitations and prohibitive costs, it didn’t. Now, 20 years after that breathless article, VR technology is finally catching up with its promise. Cal Poly Pomona took advantage of AR for its library orientation and scavenger hunt , using an app called Aurasma. Not for years. . Virtual conferences.

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Fair use or copyright infringement? What academic researchers need to know about ChatGPT prompts

SRHE

She teaches academic and professional communication skills to undergraduate computing and engineering students. This evokes the question: Why doesn’t the proposed research align with fair use? Anita Toh is a lecturer at the Centre for English Language Communication (CELC) at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

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Backlash as a university says its library will be 'all digital'

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Last week, Vermont State University announced plans for an “all-digital” academic library when the new institution, formed from the consolidation of three colleges, officially launches on July 1. “What we heard was that they need and want access to library resources where they are, whether on or off campus.”

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The Challenges of International Credential Evaluation

Parchment

We need to be well informed about our own education system because this is the system that we are measuring an international program against. So evaluators have to really be alert and informed of the terminology used in that education system. Jasmin Saidi-Kuehnert (00:23.453) I look at international credential evaluation as a puzzle.