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How to Enhance Search With LLMs
Dan Russell, author of The Joy of Search, offers best practices for using large language models (LLMs) for advanced search in this clip from his presentation at Internet Librarian Connect 2024.

NewsLink Spotlight

Eight Ways Your Library Is Like a Hospital
by Steve Albrecht
The library is like a hospital. OK, so the library doesn't take insurance, and library workers aren't doing surgery in the stacks. Still, there are some parallels between the two environments, especially when viewed from the eyes of the patients and patrons.

Weekly News Digests

Perspectives on the (Likely) End of the Net Neutrality Debate
"A federal appeals court struck down the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules, ending a 20-year push to regulate internet service providers like a public utility," NPR reports.
hoopla Digital Rolls Out Creativebug BingePass for Crafters
hoopla Digital added a new BingePass in partnership with Creativebug, which "provides users unlimited access to thousands of arts and crafts classes taught by experts, making crafting accessible at any time and any place."
California State University Adopts AI Student Engagement Platform From Clarivate
Three California State University (CSU) campuses have agreed to become early adopters of Clarivate's AI-powered student engagement solution, Alethea.
SirsiDynix Provides Details on Its Acquisition by Harris Computer
SirsiDynix shared that Harris Computer acquired it on Dec. 24, "ringing in an exciting new era of long-term growth and possibility."
Cabells Integrates Its Predatory Journal Data Into Third Iron's LibKey Ecosystem
"In an exciting step forward, Cabells has teamed up with Third Iron to integrate our predatory journal data into the LibKey ecosystem, ... empowering mutual subscribers to navigate the publishing landscape with confidence. ..."

NewsBreaks

TopicLake Insights: The AI Tool Making Government Regulations and Updates More Intuitive
by Terry Ballard
A New Jersey-based company named Gadget Software developed a new program, TopicLake Insights, which adds AI-based search-and-retrieval software to the entire corpus of federal regulations. It is an API—a set of rules or protocols that enables software applications to communicate with each other to exchange data, features, and functionality. The product addresses search limitations by expanding queries to include a word cloud. This helps the searcher to expand the possibilities of search to find new connections with similar concepts.

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