April 1, 2023 by Gary Price
The article linked to below was recently published by Urban Library Journal. Title Conversations That Matter: Engaging Library Employees in DEI and Cultural Humility Reflection Authors Angel TruesdaleUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte Kimberly LoobyUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte Christin LampkowskiUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte Abby MooreUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte Source […]
March 31, 2023 by Gary Price
From The Texas Tribune: Officials in Llano County must return to the public library system books they removed and allow them to be checked out again, a federal judge ruled this week. The Texas judge is also prohibiting the officials from removing any more books while a lawsuit remains pending. Seven library patrons last year sued the county judge, […]
March 31, 2023 by Gary Price
From the Website (via Society of Scholarly Publishers): The US OSTP’s Nelson Memo, which requires immediate public access to federally funded research papers, sent a shockwave across the scholarly communications landscape. Now that the first policy implementations of the memo are out, what impacts will it have on different stakeholders in our community? A panel […]
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March 31, 2023 by Gary Price
From the Library of Congress: To celebrate the start of the 2023 season, the Library is pleased to announce a new digital collection: Early Baseball Publications. The collection, which will grow over time, provides full-text digitized access to more than 120 early baseball publications. The initial release includes a large selection of 19th- and early 20th-century annual […]
March 31, 2023 by Gary Price
Associated Press: Italy: Privacy Watchdog Temporarily Blocks ChatGPT Citing Data Breach ChatGPT Opened a New Era in Search. Microsoft Could Ruin It (via WIRED) General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence (New Briefing Doc via European Parliament Research Service) Images & Video Search Integrated Into Bing Chat; Maximum Turns In a Single Conversation Increases From 15 to 20 (via […]
March 30, 2023 by Gary Price
From the Ithaka S+R Library Survey by Ioana G. Hulbert Executive Summary The Ithaka S+R Library Survey has examined leadership and strategic perspectives in the field by surveying library deans and directors nationally on a triennial basis since 2010. The research project’s overarching goals are to provide the library community with a valuable data source […]
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March 30, 2023 by Gary Price
From a LIBER Announcement: LIBER is pleased to announce that Martine Pronk has been appointed as Interim Executive Director, for the period 22 May-1 September 2023. Martine will take over the role from current Executive Director Astrid Verheusen, who will leave LIBER in May to begin a new role as Managing Director and CIO at RKD (Netherlands Institute […]
March 30, 2023 by Gary Price
Here’s the Full Text of an Announcement From Lancaster University: A new project that works to increase access to valuable research is to receive more than £5.8 million [$7.15 Million/USD] in funding. Led by Lancaster University [a list of partners is found below], the Open Book Futures (OBF) project will develop and support organisations, tools […]
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March 30, 2023 by Gary Price
Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) Call for Working Group Proposals 2023 (via RDA) Envisioning Together: A Report of Session 803 (SAA 2022) (via DLF) International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) and ALA CORE Post Joint Statement on the Metadata Rights of Libraries Japan: New National Cataloging Platform for Libraries is Launched Using OCLC’s Syndeo […]
March 29, 2023 by Gary Price
From Bard College: The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) today announced that acclaimed curator Robert Storr has donated major selections of his library and archive, an intensely comprehensive research collection that significantly enhances CCS Bard’s campus resources. Consisting of over 25,000 volumes, the library deepens CCS Bard’s holdings to include publications spanning […]