Library & Information Services SIG Webinar: View From the Top: A Leadership Perspective on Libraries YouTube video by ECIS

Thank you so much to everyone who joined our webinar Lessons From the Library: View From the Top: A Leadership Perspective on Libraries on April 16. Whether you joined us live or are catching up later, you can watch the full recording here: youtu.be/7IlR128mST4?...
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Library & Information Services SIG Webinar - View From the Top: A Leadership Perspective on Libraries: April 16 16:30 London time Facilitated by: Rebecca Leonhard What does your school administration really think about the library’s role in your school for now and in the future? Join a candid conversation with ...

Join ECIS Library this Thursday for "View From the Top." Three international school leaders talk about metrics for success 📊, budgeting 💰, and leading on AI 🤖.

Plus a live Q&A! 🗣️
🗓️ Apr 16 | 11:30a EDT | 4:30p BST
Register: ecis.org/event/librar...

Library & Information Services SIG Webinar: Digital Foundations: A Practical Toolkit for Library Website & LibGuide Accessibility: 19 March 19 March 15:30 (London) Facilitated by: Rebecca Leonhard Hosted by: Elizabeth Nye Di Cataldo Is your library’s digital front door truly open to everyone? This session presents a practical toolkit and ...

Is your library's digital front door open to everyone? 🚪💻

Join the Lessons From the Library webinar TODAY to get a practical toolkit at Digital Foundations: A Practical Toolkit for Library Website & LibGuide Accessibility.

⏰ 11:30 AM EDT / 15:30 GMT
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: ECIS Lessons From the Library: AI Community of Practice. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: ECIS Lessons From the Library: AI Community of Practice. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Our next Lessons From the Library webinar is this Thursday! 🤖📚
Join our AI Community of Practice to discuss practical AI applications in international school libraries, share ideas, and ask questions.
🗓️ Feb 26 | 7:00 AM EST
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Worried about time zones? Busy schedule? The ECIS Library Conference is designed for you. 🌍 Your registration includes access to the LIVE event on Jan 10 plus full on-demand access for 6 months afterwards. Learn at your own pace! Register now: web.cvent.com/event/705906...
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Happy Holidays from the ECIS Library Committee! 📚❄️ We hope you are enjoying a well-deserved break. We can't wait to connect with you all on Jan 10 for #ECISLibraries2026. Check out the schedule: web.cvent.com/event/705906...
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AI for research: the ultimate guide to choosing the right tool Curious about using artificial intelligence to boost your research? Here are the programs you shouldn’t miss.

Curious about using artificial intelligence to boost your research? Here are the programs you shouldn’t miss

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🎬 "THE WAYBACK MACHINE" by Diego Diaz & Can Sark earned an Honorable Mention in the Internet Archive’s 2025 Public Domain Day Film Contest.

What kind of film can YOU make for the 2026 contest?
📆 Deadline: Jan 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...

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Just had marks deducted for being too scientific on the family Christmas quiz 🙄.

So escaped (in a slightly petulant strop) for a bit to dip into my new book...
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When F Scott Fitzgerald’s Christmas wish came true The Pat Hobby stories about a washed-up writer in Hollywood were written to make money fast — they are also the final flowering of Fitzgerald’s eccentric genius

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John Updike’s best books – Ranked! Following the publication of the novelist’s letters, we count down the best of his books, from the dark magic of The Witches of Eastwick to the misadventures of Rabbit Angstrom

John Updike’s best books – Ranked!

These are the most-cited research papers of all time Some studies have received hundreds of thousands of citations, Nature’s updated analysis shows.

What is the most highly cited paper in scientific literature?

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Ali Smith: Do you call that a Christmas present? On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me: a whole month whose daylight ended at roughly half past three. I looked out the window and watched it fall.

“It was the time of year when things could change their nature… Light is shaving the darkness off already, a couple of minutes a day. Have you noticed?”

—from 2008: “Do you call that a Christmas present?”
A short story by Ali Smith, via @the-independent.com
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Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s PICTURESQUE NOTES: EDINBURGH can be downloaded as a free ebook from @gutenberg.org
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The best art and photography of 2025 Jenny Saville’s bruising paintings, Andy Goldsworthy’s immersive stones, Lee Miller’s surrealist shots and Diane Arbus’s unforgiving nudes – our critics highlight a spectacular year

The best art and photography of 2025

Why an overreliance on AI-driven modelling is bad for science Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good.

Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good

go.nature.com/4iZwCXT

David Walliams dropped from Waterstones festival following allegations of inappropriate behaviour The bookshop chain said the bestselling author will ‘no longer be appearing’ at a Dundee event after HarperCollins announced it won’t publish new titles by him David Walliams has been dropped from the Waterstones Children’s book festival following allegations of inappropriate behaviour. The decision comes days after his publisher, HarperCollins, cut ties with the author. Walliams has denied the allegations. Walliams was set to appear at the Dundee leg of the festival on February 7. He has now been removed from the list of speakers on the festival’s website. A spokesperson for Waterstones told the Guardian: “HarperCollins have confirmed that David Walliams will no longer be appearing at our festival in Dundee.” Continue reading...

David Walliams dropped from Waterstones festival following allegations of inappropriate behaviour

Excited to announce Dr. Leo Lo as the Keynote Speaker for our Jan 10 conference! 🚀
He’ll be setting ending a day of learning about AI, innovation, and the changing landscape of libraries. Join us to hear his insights on building new foundations for the future.
Register: web.cvent.com/event/705906...

Which of These Updated Health-Care Plans Is Right for You? If the San Andreas Fault opens up, we’ll send Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson to help. Not to help you, specifically—he’ll just generally lend a hand in California.

Thrilling news: it’s time to decide what health-care plan you’ll be opting in to for the coming year. In New Yorker Humor, here are your choices. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/lh-3bQ

£15,000 prize launched for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds The Footnote x Counterpoints prize is intended to uncover new literary voices whose work reflects the experiences of migration Footnote Press and Counterpoints Arts have announced a new fiction award celebrating writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds, offering a £15,000 prize and a publishing deal for the winner. The Footnote x Counterpoints prize for fiction, launching on Thursday, marks the second time the two organisations have collaborated on a prize. In 2023, writers were invited to submit narrative nonfiction, but now the prize will focus on fiction for the first time. Continue reading...

£15,000 prize launched for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds

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This or that: Would you rather only be able to read books you've already finished or books you've never picked up?

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Happy Thanksgiving to my American followers.
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📣Join us on 10-Dec for a webinar on the Arab #OpenAccess journals landscape!

Get insights on journal distribution, language diversity, financial models, & indexing challenges across the region.🌍

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Week in wildlife: seal pups, albino turtles and a sleeping tiger This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

Week in wildlife: seal pups, albino turtles and a sleeping tiger