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Prompt Engineering and Librarianship video clip

Prompt Engineering and Librarianship

What is prompt engineering, and what are its strengths and weaknesses that specifically pertain to library databases and professional search applications in the age of generative AI? Online Searcher editor Marydee Ojala explains it all in this clip from her presentation at the latest Internet Librarian Connect conference.


LibConf logoCatch up on coverage of the 2025 Computers in Libraries conference at LibConf.com. Follow the blog for upcoming posts about Information Today, Inc. conferences.

NewsLink Spotlight

Pew Research Center Reports From Early 2025
by Brandi Scardilli
NewsBreaks often covers recent surveys and reports from Pew Research Center, "a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world." The following are some of the latest reports and other analyses from 2025.

Weekly News Digests

Continuing Comments on IMLS and Condemnations of the Executive Order Targeting the Smithsonian
The following are additional reactions to the Trump administration's March 14 executive order threatening to defund IMLS that NewsBreaks began tracking on March 18.
New JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services Will Streamline Preservation and Discovery
Kevin Guthrie, president of ITHAKA, shares, "For thirty years, JSTOR has partnered with libraries and the broader academic community to leverage technology in service of a shared mission: preserving knowledge, expanding access, and supporting the essential work of research, teaching, and learning. … I'm excited to share the next step in that work: the launch of JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services."
hoopla Adds a Puzzmo BingePass for Online Word Games, Puzzles, and More
hoopla partnered with Puzzmo for a BingePass that gives partner library patrons a week of unlimited access to a variety of online games as a single checkout.
Cadmore Media and HighWire Team Up for Integrated Video Accessibility
Cadmore Media entered into a strategic partnership with HighWire "to streamline how scholarly organizations manage and deliver video content."
DOAJ Transitions to the DOAJ Foundation
DOAJ is becoming a new legal entity: the DOAJ Foundation, a Danish nonprofit foundation. In the coming months, it will transfer its operations from current host Infrastructure Services for Open Access to the new foundation.

NewsBreaks

Does the Rise of Deep Research AI Assistants Spell Trouble for Knowledge Work?
by Kashyap Kompella
The duality of AI's impact is coming into sharper focus as AI tools become more capable.

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