圖書館面對數位時代，汲取專業資訊以追求服務的精實不可或缺。American Libraries 中由 Anna Gooding-Call 所推介以下數本實用的書籍，提供館員未來規劃數位資源和服務之參考。

• Erin Berman.  Your Technology Outreach Adventure: Tools for Human-Centered Problem Solving  (ALA Editions, 2019. 208 p. $54.99. PBK. 978-0-8389-1778-7. Also available as an ebook.)
• Denise E. Agosto, editor.  Information Literacy and Libraries in the Age of Fake News.  (Libraries Unlimited, 2018. 184 p. $65. PBK. 978- 1-4408-6418-6. Also available as an ebook.)
• Nicole Hennig.  Power Searching the Internet: The Librarian’s Quick Guide.  (Libraries Unlimited, 2018. 103 p. $35. PBK. 978-1-4408-6697-5. Also available as an ebook.)
• Kenneth J. Varnum.  New Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know: A LITA Guide.  (ALA Editions, 2019. 304 p. $70. PBK. 978-0-8389-1782-4. Also available as an ebook.)
• Andrea PaganelliPower.  Power Up Your Read-Alouds: Building Reading Excitement through Technology.  (Libraries Unlimited, 2019. 150 p. $45. PBK. 978-1-4408-6520-6. Also available as an ebook.)
• Nancy J. Keane.  Tech-Savvy Reading Promotion: A Toolbox for Librarians and Other Educators.  (Libraries Unlimited, 2019. 166 p. $50. PBK. 978-1-4408-6850-4. Also available as an ebook.)

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The study is an attempt to understand the trends in LIS research by analyzing published literature on the topic. The study identifies and analyses 39 research papers on LIS research trends in various countries, three papers on LIS research trends in regional countries and 13 papers on LIS research trends with an international perspective. The findings of the study reveal that there is a similarity among various countries as far as the LIS research topics are concerned but with a different focus at different periods. While understanding international research trends in LIS, it was interesting to note that the research trend in China was similar to the worldwide research trend while the pattern in other countries differed.

This article describes experiments in the use of machine learning techniques at the British Library to assign language codes to catalog records, in order to provide information about the language of content of the resources described. In the first phase of the project, language codes were assigned to 1.15 million records with 99.7% confidence. The automated language identification tools developed will be used to contribute to future enhancement of over 4 million legacy records.

In 2015, the PCC Task Group on URIs in MARC was tasked to identify and address linked data identifiers deployment in the current MARC format. By way of a pilot test, a survey, MARC Discussion papers, Proposals, etc., the Task Group initiated and introduced changes to MARC encoding. The Task Group succeeded in laying the ground work for preparing library data transition from MARC data to a linked data, RDF environment.

The Program for Cooperative Cataloging's 2018–21 strategic plan includes as one of its goals to “expand [the] use of linked data value vocabularies to augment, and where feasible to replace, existing metadata practices”. This paper sets out the reasons for pursuing this goal and considers some of the implications for MARC cataloging practice.