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Mary Beth Weber and Melissa De Fino, "Library Technical Services: Future Forward" (B…

9/21/2026 • 47 min

Library Technical Services: Future Forward (Bloomsbury, 2025) edited by Mary Beth Weber and Melissa De Fino looks at the future of technical services post-pandemic and at the brink of technological disruptions through a diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility lens. Libraries have undergone a tremendous transformation that has been driven by multiple fact… Play episode

Building Better Scientific Teams through Team Science and TeamMAPPS
R. Joshua Scannell, "The Carceral Surround" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Lee Alan Dugatkin, "Nary a Horse Left Standing: How a Nineteenth-Century E…
Chika Watanabe, "Play to Survive: Disaster Preparedness Along the Ring of …
Marnie Hughes-Warrington, "Artificial Historians" (Routledge, 2025)
Xiaochang Li, "Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial…
Special Episode: Accounting for Computing, or Why We So Badly Need a New S…
Eran Shalev, "The Star-Spangled Republic: Political Astronomy and the Rise…
Steve Feldstein, "Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech, and t…
Sandeep Vaheesan, "Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the…
Jessica Riskin, "The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revol…
A Succinct View of How AI is Changing Business and Work Right Now
Jeff Jarvis, "Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Me…
Jehnie Burns on Mixtape Culture
Karen M'Closkey and Keith VanDerSys eds., "Media Matters in Landscape Arch…
Aarthi Vadde, "We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Cent…
Ellery E. Foutch, "A Perfectionist Impulse: The Art of Stopping Time in th…
The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine w…
Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought
Hiroshima's Last Witnesses and Japan's Nuclear Future
The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods
Elizabeth Darling, "Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Archit…
Magdalena E. Stawkowski, "Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhsta…
Devin Kennedy, "Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postw…
The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control
The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: Evolving Forms of Transnational Authorit…
Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, "Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformat…
Lana Swartz on Digital Money and Digital Cultures of Money
Mitra Sharafi, "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime i…
Building A Freedom Infrastructure in the Age of Networked Control
Mark Crinson, "Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landsca…
Daniel L. Gardner, "Thresholds of Digital Gameplay" (MIT Press, 2025)
Stefan Höltgen et al., "Commodore 64: Past, Present, and Future of a Home …
Hector Amaya, "The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identificatio…
Gretchen Heefner, "Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Con…
Fenwick McKelvey, "SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Com…
Spirituality, Science and Environmentalism in Taiwan
Adam Geczy, "Glasses" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Soraya Murray, "Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination" (MIT Pr…
The Emerging Anocracy: AI, Tech Oligarchs, and the Future of Democracy wit…
Ali Fard, "Grounding the Cloud: Urbanism in the Shadow of Data" (U Minneso…
Kit Chapman, "The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemi…
Roberta J. Magnusson, "Urban Infrastructure in Medieval England: Sustainab…
Meena Khandelwal, "Cookstove Chronicles: Social Life of a Women's Technolo…
Aswin Punathambekar, Adrienne Shaw and Jonathan Gray eds., "Planet Digital…
Hayagreeva Rao and Henrich R Greve, "Ctrl+Alt+Doubt: Decoding the Language…
Bjørn Berge, "Smell: The Tale of a Fading Sense" (Reaktion Books, 2026)
Joseph Turow, "The Problem with Personalization: How Advertisers Learned t…

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