c/o Katina Strauch Post Office Box 799 Sullivan’s Island, SC 29482
VOLUME 35, NUMBER 3
JUNE 2023 TM
“Linking Publishers, Vendors and Librarians”
ISSN: 1043-2094
Librarian Futures in a Time of Transformational Tech Guest Edited by Martha Sedgwick (VP Innovation – Research & Learning, Sage Publishing) and Kimberley Simpson (Head of Brand Marketing, Technology from Sage) Begins on Page 12
If Rumors Were Horses By Katina Strauch with Contributions from Leah Hinds
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t’s finally getting to feel like summer here on Sullivan’s Island. Mind you I am not complaining but it has been unseasonably cool and breezy over the past months. Sometimes it was even like February. But now the heat is here and let’s hope the breezes keep up anyway!
Cough Cough Dr. Brian Fors, curator of MUSC’s Waring Historical Library, is interested in the future of historical medical collections and is beginning a campaign to update the facility. How about this 1834 “recipe for a cough” which calls for 60 grains of saltpeter, which was one of the components of gunpowder. (See Reclaiming history by Tom Corwin, October 3, 2022, Post and Courier.com) Waring is a special collections and rare book library of the Medical University of South Carolina continued on page 8
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THIS ISSUE: Librarian Futures in a Time of Transformational Tech.............. 12 Sensemaking in An Era of Crisis and Change...................... 14 Libraries and Technology: A Dynamic Partnership................ 17 Generative AI Tools Transforming the Library? Rethinking Possibilities and Questions..... 19 Librarian Futures Part II.......... 23 Library Leader Perspectives on Global Changes in the Knowledge Landscape................26 Libraries as Organizations...... 29 Op Ed — To Err is Human Pt3.... 32
REGULAR COLUMNS Bet You Missed It....................... 10 Reader’s Roundup..................... 37 Booklover.................................... 41 Legally Speaking....................... 42 Questions and Answers............ 44 And They Were There............... 46 Let’s Get Technical..................... 52 Learning Belongs...................... 54 Biz of Digital............................... 56 The Digital Toolbox.................. 58 Back Talk..................................... 72
INTERVIEWS Dr. K. Matthew Dames.............. 29 Marta Sanchez........................... 54 Paul Gerbino............................... 62 Matthew Ismail.......................... 66
PROFILES ENCOURAGED People, Library and Company Profiles........................................ 68 Plus more...................... See inside