Every reference in a research paper is a promise. It tells readers: if you want to check this claim, here is where the evidence came from. References allow researchers to trace ideas, verify findings, and understand how new discoveries build on earlier work. But what happens when a citation leads nowhere?
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What You Gain By Not Attending Professional Association Conferences By Azeez ADEOYE, Ph.D, CLN, MNLA, MLSA, The Wizard Librarian Sometimes,
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The people cheering the dancing robot and the people warning about the killer robot think they are on opposite sides. They are running the same script, watching a human-shaped body instead of the system. Real AI harm has been arriving without a face, without an announcement, and without anyone identifiable to blame.
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Have you ever asked ChatGPT a question just to get a quick answer? You’re not alone. Millions of people now turn to AI assistants before opening Google, visiting a website, or asking a librarian for help. College students are no different. Instead of beginning a research assignment by searching for books, articles, or websites, many now begin by asking a generative AI assistant a question and receiving a polished response within seconds. It feels much faster and easier. Yet this seemingly simple shift raises an important question: if research increasingly starts with an answer instead of a search, how do learners move from information to understanding?
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This InfoFire conversation is with Ravi Venkatesan—business leader, social entrepreneur, author, and one of India’s most influential voices on leadership and inclusive development. Having led organizations as diverse as Cummins India, Microsoft India, Bank of Baroda, and the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME), while also serving on the boards of institutions such as Rockefeller Foundation, Hitachi, and Harvard Business School, Venkatesan brings a rare perspective that spans business, public policy, education, and social innovation. What makes his perspective particularly compelling is his conviction that AI is not merely a technological phenomenon but a societal one, requiring us to rethink markets, institutions, education, and entrepreneurship together.
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Social media is used today by billions for work, education, social interaction, and commerce. Yet, at the same time, it is a story of dependence, addiction, extremism, intimidation, subversion, pollution, and politics. Technical outages, addictive programming, control and intimidation by tech giants, pollution of information and discourse environments, and political manipulation are only some of the issues rattling social media platforms. Important controversies have arisen around the promotion of anti-social behavior, malicious content, and addictive algorithms. Prominent human rights issues have emerged around privacy, data protection, digital rights, inequitable access and representation, and government interference.
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This review asks what the current evidence says about reading for pleasure and the school library in India specifically, and draws on UK and international research only where it clarifies what is distinctive, or missing, in the Indian case.
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A few months ago, an undergraduate student came to the library searching for a specific article. She had found a citation in another research paper complete with journal name, volume, issue, and page numbers. Everything looked legitimate. The only missing element was a DOI. At first, I thought it was a simple indexing issue. But when I checked the journal’s volume and issue, I discovered no such article existed. The citation was completely fabricated. It looked real, but it was not real. In the age of generative AI and large language models, this kind of incident is increasingly common in academic research. As we widely utilize AI tools for academic writing and literature review, a new problem has emerged: AI hallucination.
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Young and old, those seeking learning opportunities beyond traditional paths find Open Distance Learning (ODL) opportunities as their best resort. Distance learning open doors for a vast and diverse community to education yet leaves the student in isolation. Isolation in ODL is the physical and psychological disconnection a student experience from their learning community. It leads to increased emotional and academic stress resulting in high dropout rates.
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Public knowledge is not simply found; it is produced, filtered, circulated, and contested across institutions, platforms, algorithms, and everyday acts of participation. Bringing together contributions on journalism, education, marketing, archives, health communication, cultural representation, and artificial intelligence, this special issue examines how information gains visibility, credibility, meaning, and public consequence in a networked society.
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