Managing current awareness in a noisy, pushy world Keeping up with the latest in the profession (or your particular corner of it) is an important part of professional development. It’s good to know what’s happening across the sector, whether that’s the latest news and relevant product updates or a useful post from another library pro. […]
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 […]
We love stories! No matter what we are working on – whether it’s training in person, online learning, or designing a website – we like to incorporate interactive and narrative elements to make it more enjoyable and engaging for our users. Interactive storytelling also has significant pedagogical value. For example, we often use branching scenarios […]
There is a lot of talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI), with the release of powerful tools and new initiatives and techniques emerging. But it can be hard to separate the signal from the noise, and figure out what this all means for our work and the future of the library sector. The debate really kicked […]
In our hectic world of endless to-do lists, it can feel as if everything needs to be done now, ticked off, and completed. There’s often little space for experimentation and practice, no time to dwell or mess around discovering how things work by getting them wrong and trying again. Failure is scary. It can feel […]
Introduction Google has announced the end of life for their Universal Analytics, which is being replaced by Google Analytics 4 (GA4). This means that from July 1, 2023, you will no longer get web metrics recorded using standard Universal Analytics properties. If your library uses Google Analytics to track usage of any of your websites, […]
It’s no secret that we ❤️ newsletters and library newsletters can come in quite a few different flavours. In this second post in our series to mark 200 issues of Newslet, our own library newsletter, we wanted to recognise some of our favourite examples and explore how they produce content that keeps their audiences engaged. […]
All of us here in the Artefacto team are creative technologists, makers or artists of some kind, so the concept of makespaces as creative spaces for learning and collaboration has always been appealing to us. Makerspaces are many things to many people. They can be permanent, temporary, stationary or mobile. They come in different shapes, […]
Online exhibits can be a great way to engage users in your collections. Whether these are standalone narratives or designed to consolidate or compliment exhibitions and experiences in the physical spaces of museums, libraries, galleries and archives, it’s important that these exhibits are accessible and user friendly for both visitors and curators alike. We often […]
When it comes to using any kind of images in your work, it can be difficult to avoid those stereotypical library images that tend to include rows of bookshelves or glasses. On their own, these things are pretty great, but it certainly doesn’t accurately reflect the diverse work of libraries. Unfortunately, these out-dated ideas around […]