...Sara Mandiá-Rubal Purpose This paper examines how artificial intelligence (AI), understood as a form of cognitive automation, may reshape the labour structures and social functions of contemporary libraries. It seeks to explain how AI can complement, rather than displace, the library's communal...

...Negin Dahya; W.E. King; Kung Jin Lee; Jin Ha Lee Purpose Virtual reality (VR) is becoming a more available technology including in public spaces like libraries. The value and role of VR as a tool for learning and social engagement are unclear. The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways...

... workflow, making direct use of growing repositories of digitised images of historical texts. By providing examples of institutions and researchers who are generating new resources with Transkribus, the paper shows how HTR can extend the existing research infrastructure of the archives, libraries...

...Gary P. Radford; Marie L. Radford; Jessica Lingel Purpose – Using Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia as a guide, the purpose of this paper is to explore the implications of considering the library as place, and specifically as a place that has the “curious property of being in relation...