Report: “LA Public Library to Celebrate the Life and Legacy of LA’s First Black Librarian, Miriam Matthews”
From LAist: This Wednesday, Dec. 11, the Los Angeles Public Library’s Hyde Park Miriam Matthews Branch will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the building’s opening, as well as the life and legacy of its namesake, Miriam Matthews. [Clip] Matthews’ accomplishments run the gamut from advocating for Negro History Week in [...]
Report: Hawaii State Archive Plans to Digitize Pearl Harbor Memorial Records
From the Honolulu Star-Advertiser (via Military.com): The Hawaii State Archive is cataloging documents and records from the Pacific War Memorial Commission, chronicling how the state raised money to commemorate the Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. [Clip] “We’ve always had these records, but we never really dove into [...]
Journal Article: “Library Professionals: Instrumental in Black Digital Humanities”
The article linked to below was recently published by DHQ (Digital Humanities Quarterly). Title Library Professionals: Instrumental in Black Digital Humanities Author Jina DuVernay Clark Atlanta University Gwinnett County Public Library Source DHQ (Digital Humanities Quarterly) Volume 18 Number 4 (2024) Abstract Librarians and archivists, particularly those whose work focuses [...]
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Report: “Media Personalities Stumble as ChatGPT Invents Presidential Pardon History”
From The Decoder: Ana Navarro-Cardenas claimed on X that President Woodrow Wilson pardoned his brother-in-law Hunter deButts—a person who, according to Lopatto, never existed. Navarro-Cardenas is known as a commentator on CNN and The View. Esquire and other media outlets spreaded similar misinformation, stating that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil and Jimmy Carter […]
The New York Public Library Publishes New Study on Libraries and Well-Being
From the NY Public Library: Libraries & Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library, a new white paper published by a groundbreaking partnership between The New York Public Library’s Strategy & Public Impact team and the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project within The University of Pennsylvania’s Positive Psychology Center, finds for the […]
Authors Alliance: “Developing a Public-Interest Training Commons of Books”
From the Authors Alliance: Authors Alliance is pleased to announce a new project, supported by the Mellon Foundation, to develop an actionable p lan for a public-interest book training commons for artificial intelligence. Northeastern University Library will be supporting this project and helping to coordinate its progress. Access to books will play an essential role […]
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AI Roundup: Document Chat: An Early AI Use Case; Shaping AI’s Impact on Billions of Lives; & More Items
Dow Jones/Factiva Dow Jones Negotiates AI Usage Agreements with Nearly 4,000 News Publishers (via Nieman Lab) Ethics Striking a Balance: Navigating the Ethical Dilemmas of AI in Higher Education (via EDUCAUSE Review) Impact Shaping AI’s Impact on Billions of Lives (via arXiv) UCLA An Upcoming UCLA Humanities Class Will Utilize AI-Generated Textbook and Assignments (via […]
Case Over: Internet Archive Decides Not to Pursue Supreme Court Review in Copyright Lawsuit (Roundup of Statements and Media Reports)
Statement From Internet Archive While we are deeply disappointed with the Second Circuit’s opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the Internet Archive has decided not to pursue Supreme Court review. We will continue to honor the Association of American Publishers (AAP) agreement to remove books from lending at their member publishers’ requests. We thank the many readers, […]
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Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) Launches Recommendations to Tackle Inequity in Open Access Publishing
From the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA): In a world of digital abundance, and over a million articles being published open access in 2023, vast quantities of scholarly outputs remain locked behind paywalls, and many scholars across the world are blocked by dominant models of open access publishing. Blockers include funding systems that uphold […]
Workshop Report: “Future of Information Retrieval Research in the Age of Generative AI”
The report linked to below was published by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) from the Computing Research Association (CRA). Title Future of Information Retrieval Research in the Age of Generative AI Authors James Allan University of Massachusetts Amherst Eunsol Choi University of Texas at Austin New York University Daniel P. Lopresti Lehigh University CCC Hamed […]
