Tag: librarianship
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Reflection on the 2024 ABTAPL conference: What I learned about AI and libraries
Read more: Reflection on the 2024 ABTAPL conference: What I learned about AI and librariesIn March 2024, I was awarded a grant to attend the annual conference of ABTAPL, held at the University of Edinburgh. Apart from networking with a lovely group of theological librarians, I also learned a lot about AI in a library context. In his talk, ‘Generative AI and the Chatbot Revolution’, Prof Nigel Crook spoke…
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Increasing women theologians in the Heythrop Library collection
Read more: Increasing women theologians in the Heythrop Library collectionHow many women theologians can you name? Since March 2023, the librarians have worked to increase the representation of women theologians in the Heythrop Library collection. Historically, women have been underrepresented in academic Theology and the Library’s Theology holdings are indeed dominated by male authors. There’s not scope within this blog post to explore the…