Roundup (May 5, 2020)

May 5, 2020 by Gary Price

Facebook Uses 1.5 Billion Reddit Posts To Create Chatbot (via BBC)

In Europe, COVID-19 Misinformation Runs Rife On Facebook: Report (via Politico)

Jisc and LYRASIS Introduce Institutional Repository Usage Statistics (IRUS); US is Fourth Country to Join Online Repository Community, Alongside Australia, New Zealand, and UK

National Library of Medicine Migrates to Ex Libris Alma Platform and Primo Solution

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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AP: "Boston Symphony Orchestra Plan to Digitize John Williams Concerts Almost Complete"

From the Associated Press: An effort to digitize more than 200 Boston Pops radio broadcasts conducted by John Williams from 1979 until 1991 is almost complete, the Boston Symphony Orchestra ...

Louisiana: "AG Releases Report on 'Sexually-Explicit' Content in Public Libraries"

From the Lafayette Daily Advertiser: Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry unveiled a new report — titled the “Protecting Innocence Report” — on Tuesday, which includes a list of books his ...

Minnesota: Over St. Paul Mayor’s Objections, Hamline-Midway Library Added to National Register of Historic Places; Wisconsin: Interim Vice...

Minnesota: Over St. Paul Mayor’s Objections, Hamline-Midway Library Added to National Register of Historic Places National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) Shares Ukrainian Books to Aid ...

Collections: JSTOR is Introducing a New Archive Fee Model Option

From a Letter by Ithaka President Kevin Guthrie: I recently shared the 2023 priorities ITHAKA has set to help provide the infrastructure the academic community needs to support research, teaching, and learning ...

Funding: HathiTrust Receives 5-Year, $1 Million Grant From Mellon Foundation

Here’s the Full Text of HathiTrust Announcement: HathiTrust, a member-based organization hosted by the University of Michigan, has received a 5-year, $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to fund ...

Library as Publisher: "UMass Amherst Libraries Announce Publication of Open-Access Peregrine Falcon Curriculum

From UMass Amherst Libraries (Full Text): The University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries are pleased to announce the publication of The UMass Amherst Libraries Falcon Curriculum: An Open Source, Common Core PreK-12 ...

Report From Annenberg/UPenn: "Americans Don’t Understand What Companies Can Do With Their Personal Data — and That’s a...

From the Annenberg School of Communications/U. of Pennsylvania: In a new report, “Americans Can’t Consent to Companies’ Use of Their Data,” researchers asked a nationally representative group of more than ...

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AP: "Boston Symphony Orchestra Plan to Digitize John Williams Concerts Almost Complete"

Louisiana: "AG Releases Report on 'Sexually-Explicit' Content in Public Libraries"

Minnesota: Over St. Paul Mayor’s Objections, Hamline-Midway Library Added to National Register of Historic Places; Wisconsin: Interim Vice...

Collections: JSTOR is Introducing a New Archive Fee Model Option

Funding: HathiTrust Receives 5-Year, $1 Million Grant From Mellon Foundation

Library as Publisher: "UMass Amherst Libraries Announce Publication of Open-Access Peregrine Falcon Curriculum

Report From Annenberg/UPenn: "Americans Don’t Understand What Companies Can Do With Their Personal Data — and That’s a...

Fast Company: "Study: Over 50% of Academics Admit to Pirating Research Papers"

AI Models Spit Out Photos of Real People and Copyrighted Images; New Web Archives from Columbia University Libraries...

Journal Article: "Libraries Advancing Health Equity: A Literature Review"

Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board: "As Libraries Turn the Page on Bookmobiles, Something is Lost"

LC's African and Middle Eastern Division Announces Release of the Africana Historic Postcard Collection

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