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April 22, 2026 Ronald Yaros

A User’s Digital DIET Overrides Interest in What Gets Read—Can “Smart Story” Structure Bridge Quick Scans and Deep Reading in One Interface?

Have you ever opened something you genuinely wanted to read—only to leave within seconds? This happens even with topics we care about. The problem is not a lack of interest. It is that every user arrives with real-world constraints that shape engagement in the moment. I call this the digital DIET: the mix of available time, environment, individual interests, and device conditions that determines what gets attention, what gets scanned, and what gets ignored.

Education Translation

April 7, 2026 Angelica Lo Duca

From Content Generation to Content Validation: Why Human Judgment Still Matters in the AI Era

In the past year, the focus of AI in education has shifted from generating content to evaluating its quality. While large language models can now produce vast amounts of material in seconds, ensuring that this content is accurate, reliable, and pedagogically sound remains a challenge. Emerging research shows that using AI as an evaluator is still unreliable, making human judgment more essential than ever. In this new paradigm, the real bottleneck is no longer creation but validation.

Education Opinion

March 21, 2026 Azeez Adeoye

Digital Cocaine: The Business Model of AI Addiction, When the Savior Becomes the Dictator

When artificial intelligence systems were first introduced to the public around 2022, they were celebrated as revolutionary assistants, tools designed to augment human productivity, creativity, and efficiency. The early versions were freely accessible or offered generous trial capabilities. Students used them to summarize readings; professionals used them to draft emails; programmers relied on them to debug code. The public welcomed these tools with enthusiasm, regarding them as the next great step in technological progress. Yet by 2026, the situation has evolved in ways that invite deeper reflection.

Education Featured

November 6, 2025 Nicole A. Cooke

Nourishing Communities with Knowledge: A Culinary Analogy Revisited

When teaching brand new doctoral students in library and information science (LIS), much discussion is dedicated to theories, paradigms, and the distinctions, and divides, between library science and information science. After reading Marcia Bates’ iconic article, The invisible substrate of information science (1999), a student asked: How do I explain what I do to others? How do I describe the relationship between data, information, and knowledge?

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October 15, 2025 Rachel Williams

Training Librarians for Crisis Communication: Why Virtual Reality Might Be the Answer

When you step into your local public library on a typical afternoon, you might see children and their families gathered for story time, a retiree reading in a corner, or a student hunched over a laptop. But, just as often, librarians encounter a very different scene: a patron in crisis. Public libraries have increasingly become places where people facing houselessness, mental health crises, or other personal struggles turn for help.

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May 15, 2025 A. Miller

Integrating AI in Education: Educational Technology Practices, Tools, and Accessibility

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly a topic of interest and concern in higher education. Much of the current research focuses on AI policies, how AI is changing education, and the AI use cases that include benefits (e.g., new insights) and concerns (e.g., academic integrity) of AI use. This article focuses on AI integration and builds on an earlier article on AI tools, algorithmic literacies, and educational technology, demonstrating how inclusive design impacts accessibility and the design of AI in education. With this understanding, educators can evaluate existing educational technologies and AI tools as options they may consider adding to their curriculum. The integration ideas presented may help educators plan for educational technology practices, such as scaffolded lessons and assessments for AI literacy (which include digital and AI literacy frameworks and the benefits and challenges of AI). Additionally, these ideas may help educators get started with AI by offering suggestions on technologies to evaluate.

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April 30, 2025 Pam McKenzie

Western Alumni Leading the Discipline

This article gives a short overview of the impact Western PhD graduates have had and continue to have on ASIS&T and on the discipline.

Professional Development

April 28, 2025 Atticus Hawk

Naloxone Now! Canadian Librarians Save Lives

Nearly 50% of library workers in Canada have responded to an opioid overdose at work, while only half of library workers who had responded to a suspected overdose on the job felt that they had been properly trained or were confident in how they handled the situation. This situation should give us pause: most library workers are unequipped to handle this very real part of the job. As iSchool educators, we ought to ask ourselves: what are we going to do about this? Can saving lives be considered a core LIS principle?

Education

April 28, 2025 Lisa Shamchuk

Tracing “CanCon” in Library and Information Science Research

LIS professionals and practitioners may find it challenging to access current research that supports library decision-making, program development, or service evaluation through a distinctly Canadian lens. Public, school, and special libraries did not seem to have the same kind of representation in the research, and it made me wonder: what is the state of Canadian LIS research content?

Education

January 14, 2024 Sigy George

Read Smart Read Right

The intricate world of reading techniques and the art of reading goes beyond mere consumption. It is an active engagement with information, an intellectual journey, and a means of personal and professional empowerment.