The Digital Shift
The Digital Shift explores how technology is transforming libraries, cultural heritage, and higher education. Written by Rosalyn Metz.
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Look Mom, Libraries are in the New York Times! (opens the original)
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So I thought today I’d kick off my series with the keynote I gave at Fantastic Futures last week, or maybe I might write about the hack on Elsevier (more on that here). <source type="
A Strategy for Protecting Content from AI (opens the original)
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These days, the web is dominated by AI bots harvesting content with abandon. For Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAMs), this creates a twofold problem:<img alt="open book lot" class="sizing-normal" height="3648
Having Grace for Every Community (opens the original)
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For months, I have been reading, listening, watching, and sitting with a growing sense of urgency about how our profession is responding to artificial intelligence and its use of the content in our buildings and systems.
Pacing Trust (opens the original)
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A key hallmark of a truly great technologist is the understanding that technology itself is not the primary focus of their work. Instead, their true focus is the organization or community they serve. What makes this perspective so vital? While technology can be deployed or adopted almost instantaneously—limited only by the speed at which data flows from one point to another—successful technology implementations depend on something else entirely. A skilled technologist recognizes that the true ga
On how I do my writing (opens the original)
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About a month ago, I posted a little update on my vacation and included an AI-generated image of where I was staying. Well, I’ve included an actual photo of the view below.It’s pretty wild how much the AI version references the real thing — and yes, the first photo I did take on vacation, but versions of that view already existed in my Google Photos.Taking a full month off was exactly what I needed. It gave me the chance to dive into books and podcasts that have absolutely nothing to do with my
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