The June 2025 <https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/issue/view/1392>
issue of the open-access journal Information Technology and Libraries
(ITAL) is now available. This issue contains the following peer-reviewed
articles:

Leveraging Innovative Technologies for Improved Library Practices in the
Digital Era: The Nigerian Perspective
<https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/16767> (Rebecca
Chidimma Ojobor, Victoria N. Okafor, and Richard N Ugwuanyi) highlights the
challenges and opportunities of libraries in a developing country.

Simplifying and Enhancing Access to Full-Text Articles with LibKey Discovery
<https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/17264> (Jessie
London, Barbara McArthur, Kimberly Vardeman, and Cynthia L. Henry)
discusses the implementation of LibKey in a discovery environment and how
users responded.

Irrelevant Discovery Layers? An Evidence-based Evaluation of Three Common
Library Search Tools
<https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/17266> (Ruth
Szpunar, Eric Bradley, Erin Gabrielson, and Catherine Pellegrino) compares
search results from a discovery layer with a central index, a subscription
interdisciplinary index and abstract database, and a freely accessible
academic web search engine.

Weaving the Threads of Bibliographic Ontologies: Application of a Reference
Ontology to Advance Semantic Interoperability
<https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/17289> (Helena
Patrício, Pedro Nogueira Ramos, and Maria Inês Cordeiro) shows how a
Reference Ontology could allow the integration of different ontologies
without imposing a common central one to overcome limitations of mapping
techniques.

Web Archives Metadata Generation with GPT-4o: Challenges and Insights
<https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/17305> (Ashwin
Nair, Abigail Huang YongPing, Zhen Rong Goh, and Tianrui Liu) explores how
GPT-4o was used to generate metadata for Web Archives (WARC) files.

Prospects of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for Academic Library
Search and Retrieval
<https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/17361> (Ravi
Varma Kumar Bevara, Brady D. Lund, Nishith Reddy Mannuru, Sai Pranathi
Karedla, Yara Mohammed, Sai Tulasi Kolapudi, and Aashrith Mannuru) examines
the integration of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems within
academic library environments.

This issue also has our regular contributed columns:


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   From the Field: Starting up a Digital Preservation (Pilot) Program
   <https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/17452>
   (Kimberly Hoffman) describes how Hamilton College started a project to
   pilot Archivematica, a digital preservation platform.
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   ITAL & …: Learning, Listening, and Leading: A Systems Librarian’s First
   Year <https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/17455>
   (Amber Wu) reflects on the experience of starting as a Systems Librarian
   after that position was vacant for an extended time.
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   Public Libraries Leading the Way: Ready Year One: Lessons Learned During
   Our First Year in Virtual Reality
   <https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/17424>
   (Dalton Bennett) chronicles the first year of establishing a Virtual
   Reality (VR) program at the Paul Sawyier Public Library in Frankfort,
   Kentucky.

Contributing to the Journal

We invite all readers to contribute to the journal. If you are involved in
any aspect of libraries—we consider this an inclusive scope, including
cultural memory institutions such as museums, archives, and more—we welcome
submissions for peer-reviewed articles or communications. Information
Technology and Libraries is proud to be diamond open access -- that is, it
is free to read for all, charges no article processing fees to authors or
their institutions, and content is published under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/>. Want to know more? See
our Call for Submissions
<https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/call-for-submissions>. If you
have questions or wish to propose a topic, get in touch!

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