Library of Congress’ Post

📚🎉 Today, we celebrate not only the birthday of the father of library science, Prof. S.R. Ranganathan, but also Librarians Day! His groundbreaking work laid the foundation for modern librarianship and information science. Let's take a moment to honor his legacy and the invaluable contributions of librarians worldwide. 📖👏 #LibraryScience #LibrariansDay #S.R.Ranganathan #InformationScience

Empowering academic institutions with transformative agreements! Discover the motivations behind their growing adoption in our article featuring insights from librarians. Gain a deeper understanding of the transformative agreement landscape and its benefits for scholarly communication. http://spkl.io/6048f6DMw #AcademicEmpowerment #LibrarianInsights

"In Native communities, you have to think about how settler colonialism displaced people and disconnected people from their knowledge, from their lands, from families, from kinship, so that others could settle and use the resources. You have to think about the power dynamics, the resources, the historical trauma, people’s connections to land and family, and how libraries and archives play a role in that. Are they just upholding those colonial systems that were taking away Indigenous peoples’ access to that knowledge? Now the question is: What can we do within our own systems to help uphold some of those protocols of knowledge transfer and communities?" https://lnkd.in/eQA6SUR9

https://lnkd.in/gUZZrQ_M - Celebrating the vital contributions of school librarians! Discover how their role enriches education in this insightful article. #Education #SchoolLibrarians #LoveForLearning #LIRAlearning

Of course!

Thanks, Emily M. Bender, for taking the time to explain why librarians and library & information science are so crucial to our information ecosystems.

https://lnkd.in/gUZZrQ_M - Celebrating the vital contributions of school librarians! Discover how their role enriches education in this insightful article. #Education #SchoolLibrarians #LoveForLearning #LIRAlearning

Sage advice from Emily Bender (and thanks for the shout out for our field): “as we look for ways to repair our information ecosystem in the wake of the depredations of the current AI hype-driven deluge of synthetic media, a key step should be shoring up support for library systems and learning from the practices, traditions, and current research of librarians and library and information scientists” #AIethics #informationscience #democracy

“ So, as we look for ways to repair our information ecosystem in the wake of the depredations of the current AI hype-driven deluge of synthetic media, a key step should be shoring up support for library systems and learning from the practices, traditions, and current research of librarians and library and information scientists.” Beautifully stated. #ai #artificialintelligence #informationscience #libraryscience

https://lnkd.in/gUZZrQ_M - Celebrating the vital contributions of school librarians! Discover how their role enriches education in this insightful article. #Education #SchoolLibrarians #LoveForLearning #LIRAlearning