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Charleston Library Conference 

May 31, 2022

Join us for our latest podcast episode featuring a conversation between Anita Schjøll Brede, CEO & Co-Founder at Iris.ai, and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director.

Anita currently lives in Denmark and is the CEO and Co-Founder of Iris.ai, which is an AI company handling...


May 23, 2022

Join us for our latest podcast episode featuring a conversation between Arne Almquist, Library Administrator and Technologist, and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director.

Arne is a University administrator and technologist with a wide range of experience in IT and mid-sized...


May 9, 2022

Join us for our latest podcast episode featuring a conversation between Kent Anderson, Founder, Caldera Publishing Solutions and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director.

Kent has a background in art and journalism, and a long history of working at the top of the publishing...


May 2, 2022

In this episode, we feature audio from the 2021 Charleston Library Conference from a session titled "From Ideals of Equity to Equity in Practice for Open Access” presented by Emily Farrell, Director of Open Research, Americas, at Taylor & Francis Group, and Greg Eow, President, Center for Research Libraries.

Libraries...