News Roundup (September 16, 2021)

September 16, 2021 by Gary Price

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.

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UC Berkeley Researchers Present Starling-7B, An Open LLM

From The Decoder: UC Berkeley researchers present Starling-7B, an open Large Language Model (LLM) trained with Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF). Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF) uses feedback ...

A New Issue of Code4Lib Journal (Issue 58) is Now Available Online

Direct to Complete Table of Contents + Abstracts (Issue 58, December 4, 2023) Direct to Articles Editorial Enhancing Serials Holdings Data: A Pymarc-Powered Clean-Up Project The Use of Python to ...

Lorcan Dempsey Writes: "Understanding the Discussion About AI Benefits From Hands-On Experience of Tools and Services" (We Agree!)

Ed. Note: Another “must read”. Using AI tools/resources is essential and the best way to understand how they work and who they work (or don’t work) for. Kudos Lorcan! From ...

Rizz is the Oxford Word of the Year 2023 (WOTY)

From Oxford University Press: After over 30,000 language lovers around the world got involved to help refine our shortlist of eight words, we are pleased to announce that the Oxford ...

Mapping Colorado: Libraries Supporting Their Communities; Ottawa Public Library Seeks $3 Million For Security to Address Increase in...

Books Freedom Reads, National Book Foundation, Center for Justice Innovation Launch First Major US Book Prize to be Judged Exclusively by Incarcerated People Europe EU: Commission Launches New Database to ...

AI/GPT Roundup: Leading Corporations Introduce Data Provenance Standards; TikTok Owner ByteDance Joins Generative AI Frenzy with Service For...

Data Provenance Leading Corporations Introduce Data Provenance Standards (via DTA) Development Who is Leading in AI? An Analysis of Industry AI Research (preprint) GPT TikTok Owner ByteDance Joins Generative AI Frenzy ...

New White Paper: "Access to Science and Scholarship: Key Questions About the Future of Research Publishing"

From MIT Press: The project—including MIT Press’s Director and Publisher Amy Brand and Director of Journals and Open Access Nick Lindsay—examines the current state of the research enterprise and what ...

Milestones: Over One Million Card Catalog Records Digitized in Copyright Public Records System Pilot

From the Library of Congress “Creativity at Work” Blog: This summer, the Copyright Office reached a new milestone in our modernization efforts: surpassing one million card catalog records digitized with ...

Not Real News: An Associated Press Roundup of Untrue Stories Shared Widely on Social Media This Week

From the Associated Press: A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were ...

Books, Internet and Naloxone: In-House Nurse Supports People in Crisis At Edmonton Library; ALISE Position Statement: The Importance...

Alberta Books, Internet and Naloxone: In-House Nurse Supports People in Crisis at Edmonton Library (via CBC) Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) DOAJ Finances – Updated For Year-End 2022 Iowa ...

Official Launch of the Experimental Publishing Compendium

From the Launch Announcement: The compendium is a guide and reference for scholars, publishers, developers, librarians, and designers who want to challenge, push, and redefine the shape, form, and rationale ...

ChatGPT One Year On: Who Is Using It, How And Why?; Elizabeth (Liz) Lorang Named Dean of University...

AI/GPT Ai Image Generator Stable Diffusion Perpetuates Racial and Gendered Stereotypes, Study Finds (via University of Washington) ChatGPT One Year On: Who Is Using It, How And Why? (via Nature) ...

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