What do Collegebot, Hello Literature and Book.AI have in common? They are all AI applications that can provide inspiration for library services. We present them and other exciting tools in this blog post.

There is still room for improvement: Although the shareconomy is growing steadily and libraries are definitely involved, they could help to better utilise the potential. They could benefit from this themselves. How could this work?

Which conferences, symposia and other events could be worth a visit online or on site in 2024? We have put together a selection of events relating to Open Science and libraries.

The ZBW's Open Economics Guide now offers a new section on Open Educational Resources (OER). Here, researchers can find out how they can benefit from open teaching. At the same time, useful practical tips help them get started with creating open teaching resources themselves. Libraries and other institutions can also make use of the contents of the guide – even beyond the field of business studies and economics.

by Birgit Fingerle How to bridge the gaps caused by the pandemic and technological development? Some digital trends might be suitable to build new bridges. Bridges are for instance needed between the benefits of home office autonomy and a meaningful return to office to reach successful collaboration, between human creativity and artificial intelligence embedded in everyday work processes, between information overflow, loneliness and other mental health problems as well as the growing skills shortage. The digital trends selected for this blog post address these gaps and could be interesting for libraries and other digital infrastructure facilities and in the context […]

No one knows when the pandemic will end, how societies will transform and if humanity will be able to stop the climate change. But some emerging trends indicate that new ways and practices arise that will support the transformations needed or to mitigate unwanted side-effects. This blog post sheds a light on a few of them like metaverse and tech fatigue, new practices for environmental protection and for taking diversity seriously as well as platforms and communities to create meaningful connections.

Could more agile working in libraries and other information institutions make a contribution towards the successful implementation of innovation projects and Open Science? The project management method Kanban offers an easy entry to the topic of agility. See for yourself! We present the essentials of this popular method, which can be flexibly deployed in the most varied projects.