It's Friday. Grab a cup of tea and have a read;

Little Library (ish) Links June 20

https://mailchi.mp/84425686894d/little-libraryish-links-june-20

Prospects of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for Academic Library Search and Retrieval

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI

Clarivate reaffirms support for ERIC, launches free index

Ms. Jinwoo Lee Elected as the 32nd President of the Korean Library Association

Sunsetting the Open Access Button & InstantILL

Release of ‘IFLA Entry Point to Libraries and AI’ document

Report: Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline?

Many of you know that I am interested in ways to build collective power for positive social change. You also may be aware that I really dislike seeing people do the same thing over and over separately when they could pool their resources and do it more effectively together.

But most of you probably don't know I'm on the board of the Commons Social Change Library, (https://commonslibrary.org) which aims to help with both of these things!

Social change movements usually focus on immediate tactical considerations and often when a campaign finishes, a bunch of knowledge disappears and has to be learned all over again the next time. The Commons Library exists to solve that - making case studies, tactics and templates available for anyone to access freely.

This work needs resources to keep it going! You can donate to support the library as a once-off or as a regular donor, here: https://2025-eofy-appeal.raiselysite.com

Donations are tax-deductible in Australia *and* in the USA. 

This was a really great talk from @EmiliaCaraBell at ANZREG.

"Beyond provocation: Reimagining systems through care, critique, and community"

https://www.emiliabell.com/2025/06/13/beyond-provocation-reimagining-systems-through-care-critique-and-community

Finding things for this week's Little Library(ish) Links that were not all about AI was harder than most weeks!

But, here we are;

https://mailchi.mp/2c2ddb5f9279/little-libraryish-links-june-13

Closing June 16: Editor in Chief for Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era: Announcing the Theme for Peer Review Week 2025

Paying APCs: 8 Years of an Open Access Fund

Human-generative AI collaboration enhances task performance but undermines human’s intrinsic motivation

The LibParlor Podcast: Summer Call!

When is workplace chat ‘just gossip’ and when is it ‘sharing information’? It depends who’s doing it