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Key Takeaways: Serials budgeting requires libraries to consider multiple variables, including format, currency, licensing terms, and renewal timing. Print and electronic serials face different cost pressures, making format an important consideration when planning collections and budgets. Changes in scholarly publishing are influencing serials planning, including open access models, transformative agreements, and the use of artificial intelligence.

Full article SUMMARY: Geothermal energy can be harnessed for domestic heating or to produce electricity via steam turbine. “Geothermal” refers to heat from the interior of Earth generated from the forces that led to the planet’s creation and the ongoing slow radioactive decay that continues to generate thermal activity.

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What You'll Learn AI-generated answers can sound authoritative even when the underlying sources vary in quality and context. Information quality deserves a place alongside security, privacy, and governance in a university AI strategy. Universities have an opportunity to connect trusted research content to emerging AI-enabled research experiences. Technology leaders can evaluate AI tools by asking about source transparency, access controls, currency, and links back to research.

IPSWICH, Mass. — October 5, 2026 — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has released its 2027 Serials Price Projection Report, providing libraries and publishers with insights to help inform planning for the upcoming renewal cycle. EBSCO estimates that overall effective publisher price increases for serials in 2027 will be in the range of four to six percent before currency impact.

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Overview Anderson University is a private university in South Carolina, serving approximately 4,500 students with more than 90 degree programs. The university’s Thrift Library collection contains 171 online databases, more than 1,029,505 e-books and approximately 75,000 physical books. The library’s mission is to foster the development of self-directed, lifelong learners through multiple literacies and facilitate the discovery of new knowledge through systematic research.

Overview The library at Israel’s Academic Center of Law and Business has said "goodbye" to databases that won’t load and frequent authentication requests. It has migrated from a proxy solution to OpenAthens Compass, with support throughout from EBSCO.

What You'll Learn: Simple ways to make everyday FOLIO workflows more efficient How libraries are using FOLIO APIs to automate reporting and institutional processes Why libraries should revisit workarounds created during migration How FOLIO APIs can support experimentation with new interfaces and workflows At WOLFcon 2026, libraries and FOLIO experts shared real examples of how they are extending, adapting and using FOLIO in ways that go beyond the expected. The session, “Wait, FOLIO Can Do That?