May 17, 2024 by Gary Price
From The Seattle Times: Whose job is it to care for a city’s most vulnerable residents, and how do libraries fit into the spectrum of services? On Monday, Seattle Times Mental Health Project engagement reporter Taylor Blatchford moderated a live discussion on mental health and the role of libraries. The event was co-hosted with the […]
May 17, 2024 by Gary Price
From National Archives News: Did you know that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) isn’t just a building in Washington, DC? It’s actually a collection of more than 40 facilities nationwide, including field archives, federal records centers, and presidential libraries. To better highlight the archival holdings nationwide, the National Archives established a new web […]
May 17, 2024 by Gary Price
From AL.com: If Alabama public libraries want to get millions in state funding, they now must move “inappropriate” material for children, mandate library cards specifically for minors, and obtain advanced approval for obtaining materials — and they need to make changes this summer. After more than 6,000 letters and 87 public comments, many in opposition, the executive […]
May 16, 2024 by Gary Price
American Library Association ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom toBenefit From New Book of Essays Kentucky Daviess County Public Library Facing Further “Pornographic Book” Scrutiny (via 14News.com Minnesota Minnesota Legislature Bans Book Bans (via Minn Post) Missouri St. Charles County Library Branches May Close, Cut Staff. Board To Consider On Friday (via St. Post-Dispatch) MIT Press […]
May 15, 2024 by Gary Price
From Syracuse University Libraries: Syracuse University Libraries has launched its new online Plastics Collection comprised of digitized content from the Special Collections Research Center’s (SCRC’s) plastics collecting area. This new landing page for the collection reimagines the previous site, which formerly focused on the digital photography of more than 3,000 objects from the Plastics Artifacts Collection. The new Plastics Collection brings […]
May 15, 2024 by Gary Price
AI NY Times Op/Ed: Will A.I. Ever Live Up to Its Hype? Senators Urge $32 Billion in Emergency Spending on AI After Finishing Yearlong Review (via AP) CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) Edition Guide For CNI’s May Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series Now Live Crossref Crossref Releases 2024 Public Data File Featuring New Experimental Formats FEDLINK […]
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May 14, 2024 by Gary Price
From the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC): Today [May 13, 2024], the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) filed two complaints with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), urging an investigation into Georgia’s Cobb County School District and Florida’s Collier County Public School District for creating a hostile environment for students through […]
May 14, 2024 by Gary Price
AI Astra Is Google’s ‘Multimodal’ Answer to the New ChatGPT (via WIRED) Can Google Give A.I. Answers Without Breaking the Web? (via The NY Times) Google is Building Gemini Nano AI Right Into Chrome (via The Verge) EAST Tina Baich Appointed Director of EAST (Eastern Academic Scholarly Trust) Ebooks How to Improve Tools For Accessible […]
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May 13, 2024 by Gary Price
From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA): With generous sponsorship from De Gruyter Publishing (Boston/Berlin), ENSULIB circulated a Call for Submissions for the IFLA Green Library Award for the ninth year in a row. Any type of green library, or outstanding green library project, initiative or idea was invited to apply for the Award. Libraries with a small budget but […]
May 13, 2024 by Gary Price
AI A Survey on RAG Meets LLMs: Towards Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models (via arXiv) Authors Alliance Post: “Books Are Big AI’s Achilles Heel” (by Dave Hansen and Dan Cohen) How Much Research Is Being Written by Large Language Models? (via Stanford HAI) Digital Humantites A Toolkit for Archivists and Librarians Supporting Research and Teaching in […]