In this series, we wanted to take a few moments to celebrate some of the amazing tools that have been developed for and by librarians (and other library pros). These often fill a vital gap in workflows or solve a pain point that library staff encounter in their work. We don’t mean the big tools […]
As the year ends, we always like to take a moment to reflect on the past 12 months and what we’ve learned. A favourite part of this is sharing the most popular newsletter links, which inspire our team and, hopefully, our readers too. And while admittedly our own blog was a little neglected this year, […]
While we wear many hats, building things has always been central to our work at Artefacto. We’ve always described ourselves as both makers and librarians and our consultancy, training and design work fits within these identities. We are especially excited when we can build and share tools, resources and platforms that deliver a user-friendly experience. […]
We’re excited to be part of the upcoming Health Libraries Group Conference 2024. Kate from Artefacto will be presenting at the HLG conference, where she’ll talk about our ongoing partnership with a network of fantastic UK health libraries. Health Library and Information Services Directory (HLISD), affectionately known as health lizard🦎, is a directory for the […]
We love seeing case studies, posts and articles from libraries and library staff celebrating their wins, whether big and small. But we also learn a lot from libraries sharing their experiences when things don’t necessarily go to plan. And we’ve learnt from publishing more than 230 issues of our library newsletter that library professionals also […]
It’s already that time again (where has the year gone?) where we reflect on the past 12 months and the valuable lessons learned along the way. One of the ways we do this is by bringing together the most popular links from our newsletter, an ongoing source of inspiration for our team and hopefully for […]
This is a text version of a talk I gave at the recent Libraries Rewired event in London, as part of the Doing More with Data session with Dave Rowe and chaired by Luke Burton. Our work is data-ish Because of the projects that we work on at Artefacto as well as our backgrounds in […]
We talk a lot about open access in libraries, but not necessarily about open access content about libraries. But open access (OA) books are a fantastic way to share knowledge with everyone and keep up with the sector, for free. They’ve become a key source for learning about the latest trends and practices in different […]
We held our inaugural Library Make or Break event on the 13th September at CILIP Scotland HQ in Glasgow. We envisaged this event to give library professionals an opportunity to engage with new technologies and share updates on their own projects and innovations (both big and small). And after a long hiatus from hosting in-person […]
OpenAI recently announced the launch of GPTBot, a web crawler that will collect text data from the public web to improve the accuracy and safety of its large language models. Unfortunately, it is not possible to retroactively remove content previously scraped from a site from ChatGPT’s training data. But now there are some steps you […]