April 16, 2024 by Gary Price
From the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $26.2 million in grants for 238 humanities projects across the country. Grants awarded today will underwrite a new permanent exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh on how the Nile River shaped ancient Egyptians’ ideas of […]
April 16, 2024 by Gary Price
From The Library of Congress: ABBA’s “Dancing Queen,” Blondie’s era-defining “Parallel Lines,” The Notorious B.I.G.’s landmark “Ready to Die,” Green Day’s “Dookie,” The Chicks’ “Wide Open Spaces” and Lily Tomlin’s comedy have been selected as some of the defining sounds of history and culture that will join the National Recording Registry of the Library of […]
April 10, 2024 by Gary Price
Here’s the Full Text of the Announcement From the National Indigenous Knowledge and Language Alliance (NIKLA): The Respectful Terminology Platform Project (RTPP), an Indigenous-led initiative under the NIKLA-ANCLA umbrella, is honoured to announce that the project has been awarded a two-year grant for a total of $1.4M USD from the Mellon Foundation. Led by RTPP […]
March 28, 2024 by Gary Price
From The Harvard Crimson: The Caselaw Access Project published nearly seven million cases from the Harvard Law School’s collections online on March 8, concluding a nine-year process to digitize the HLS Library’s archive of court cases. The Caselaw Access Project, also known as CAP, aimed “to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to […]
March 27, 2024 by Gary Price
Crowdsourcing Crowdsourced Data Provides Accurate Biodiversity Picture to Aid Conservation Efforts (via eLife) Scholarly Communications Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) Celebrates Fourth Anniversary Texas Montgomery County, Texas Directs Citizen Board to Review, and Potentially Remove, Library Books (The Texas Tribune) Vermont Final Reading: Senate Advances Bill To Counter ‘Attacks’ on Libraries (via VT Digger) Washington […]
March 26, 2024 by Gary Price
Artificial Intelligence (AI) ChatGPT “Contamination”: Estimating the Prevalence of LLMs in the Scholarly Literature (preprint via arXiv) Why Large Language Models Like ChatGPT Treat Black- and White-Sounding Names Differently (Stanford HAI) Library Publishing Coalition Announcing the New LPC Board Members and Bylaws Update Linked Data An Introduction to Library Linked Data (via OCLC Next) Western […]
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March 1, 2024 by Gary Price
The paper linked from below was recently made available by Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) via Zenodo. Title The Cost and Price of Public Access to Research Data: A Synthesis Authors Gail Steinhart Invest in Open Infrastructure Katherine Skinner Invest in Open Infrastructure Source Invest in Open Infrastructure (via Zenodo) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10729575 Abstract Beginning on […]
February 12, 2024 by Gary Price
Here’s the Full Text of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Announcement: AIP is delighted to announce the appointment of Trevor Owens as its first Chief Research Officer. Starting Feb. 12, Owens will lead AIP Research, a core element of the Institute’s strategic transformation enabling AIP to leverage its work in statistical research, history, policy, […]
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January 30, 2024 by Gary Price
From the Dayton Daily News: A $5 million grant to a Yellow Springs-based public radio station will fund the preservation of radio material for every Historically Black College or University that has a radio station in the country. WYSO has been awarded major funding from the Mellon Foundation to support The HBCU Radio Preservation Project, […]
January 30, 2024 by Gary Price
Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Library of Congress Release : Elton John and Bernie Taupin, one of the great songwriting duos of all time, will be the 2024 recipients of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today. The prize is named for another legendary songwriting […]