Report on the 1st Workshop on Building Innovative Research Systems for Digital Libraries (BIRDS 2025) at TPDL 2025

The first workshop on Building Innovative Research Systems for Digital Libraries (BIRDS) took place at TPDL 2025 as a full-day workshop. BIRDS addressed practitioners working in digital libraries and GLAMs as well as researchers from computational domains. Our interdisciplinary workshop focused on connecting members of both worlds. One of today's biggest challenges is the increasing information flood. Large language model-based services like ChatGPT seem to offer good performance for answering questions on the web. So, shall we just build upon that idea and use chatbots in digital libraries? Or do we need to design and develop specialized and effective access paths? Answering these questions requires to connect different communities, practitioners from real digital libraries and researchers in the area of computer science. In brief, our workshop's goal was thus to support researchers and practitioners to build the next generation of innovative and effective digital library systems. Date: 23 September 2025. Website: https://ws-birds.github.io/birds2025.github.io/.