“…Following our previous special issues on social robots (Kelner et al , 2022), smart cities (Chang and Abdel-Basset, 2022) and COVID-19 (Huang et al , 2021, 2022, 2023), we are glad to continue with part II of this special issue on contemporary technologies for education from part I (Chiu and Ho, 2023d) with 15 articles. As we have overwhelming responses on our recent special issues and thematic selection of articles to be published in recent issues (Chiu and Ho, 2021, 2022a, b, c, 2023a, b, c, 2024; Ho and Chiu, 2023), we shall continue this practice in organizing our publication and guide readers to thematic research and practices presented by authors of Library Hi Tech .…”