A good example of a near-monopoly from recent history is the De Beers Group, perhaps the best-known diamond mining, ...

The “plot,” such as it is, is a very short, very slapstick take on The Terminator, as a man’s hubris (turning a crank to make ...

L.A. city librarian Everett Perry’s progressive ideas about books in the early 1900s can still be felt in your library experience today.

While a basic Large Language Model (LLM) agent—one that repeatedly calls external tools—is easy to create, these agents often struggle with long and complex tasks because they lack the ability to plan ...

LangExtract lets users define custom extraction tasks using natural language instructions and high-quality “few-shot” examples. This empowers developers and analysts to specify exactly which entities, ...

ST. CLOUD — For library staff in central Minnesota’s Great River Regional Library system, recent moves from the Trump administration are calling into question the future of beloved library services.

More than a billion Catholics worldwide are mourning the April 21 death of Pope Francis. And it has many in Oregon and across the world wondering which direction the church will go, once a new pope is ...

How public libraries shaped a nation and remain a beloved sanctuary for Americans today. Lucie Faulknor is an arts management and documentary film professional. Founder at Serendipity Films, LLC, she ...

Public libraries have always been busy spots, but they’ve grown even more so in the years since the pandemic. They’ve become not just spots for homework or book browsing but free co-working spaces, ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it will begin to restrict Canadians’ access to a library that straddles the international border due to "a continued rise in illicit cross border activity." The ...

Director of Conservation Kim Nichols shines a light through a page of Ayer 1485, a Nahuatl-language manuscript, in the conservation lab at Newberry Library on the Near North Side on Wednesday, Dec. 11 ...