Category: college libraries
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How AI could reveal secrets of thousands of handwritten documents – from medieval manuscripts to hieroglyphics
How AI could reveal secrets of thousands of handwritten documents – from medieval manuscripts to hieroglyphics Mark Faulkner, Trinity College Dublin Have you ever struggled to read what that scrawl between “carrots” and “potatoes” is on your shopping list? Soon, artificial intelligence (AI) may be able to help. Over the last ten years, researchers have gradually…
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The libraries of the future will be made of DNA
The libraries of the future will be made of DNA Jerome de Groot, University of Manchester This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. There are 6,000 tweets sent a second. In the time you have read this sentence, 42,000 tweets will have been sent. At an average of 34 characters per…
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Copyright exceptions in Canadian education aren’t a loophole, they’re essential
Copyright exceptions in Canadian education aren’t a loophole, they’re essential Stephanie Savage, University of British Columbia and Jennifer Zerkee, Simon Fraser University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Recent op-eds about Canadian copyright law call on the Canadian government to stop allowing uncompensated copying in education. At the end of…
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Friday essay: the library – humanist ideal, social glue and now, tourism hotspot
Friday essay: the library – humanist ideal, social glue and now, tourism hotspot Stuart Kells, La Trobe University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Last year two Danish librarians – Christian Lauersen and Marie Eiriksson – founded Library Planet: a worldwide, crowdsourced, online library travel guide. According to them, Library…
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4 ways college students can make the most of their college library
4 ways college students can make the most of their college library Carrie M. Macfarlane, Middlebury This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. If you’re a student about to go to college, then perhaps you’ve scanned college orientation websites and social media feeds for glimpses of your new life. As a…
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