February 19, 2024 by Gary Price
European Commission Commission Opens Formal Proceedings Against TikTok Under the Digital Services Act (via EC) Information Security Why Data Breaches Spiked in 2023 (via Harvard Business Review) Pennsylvania Shapiro Administration Awards Nearly $4.5 Million in Keystone Grants To 17 Public Libraries (Penn. Dept. Education) University of Maryland University of Maryland Libraries Announces Go-Live Date For […]
January 2, 2024 by Gary Price
AI/GPT UPDATED: A Generative AI Primer (via JISC, National Centre For Artificial Intelligence) Boston Library Consortium BLC’s Inaugural Annual Report Highlights a Year of Collective Impact EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center DHS Releases Data Mining Report After EPIC FOIA Request Language Lake Superior State University Releases 2024 Banished Words List Missouri Kansas City Public Library […]
December 19, 2023 by Gary Price
Alabama State Library Board Creates Form For Residents to Submit Alleged Inappropriate Books For Review (via 1819 News) AI/GPT New Report: “Risky Analysis: Assessing and Improving AI Governance Tools” (via World Privacy Forum) Maryland Baltimore: Enoch Pratt Free Library CEO Heidi Daniel Stepping Down to Take CEO Position of the King County Public Library in […]
December 18, 2023 by Gary Price
AI/GPT Lorcan Dempsey on “AI, OpenAI and the Evolving AI Environment” (via LorcanDempsey.net) GEAR-Up: Generative AI and External Knowledge-Based Retrieval Upgrading Scholarly Article Searches for Systematic Reviews (via arXiv) (preprint) Arkansas Arkansas Republican Who Wanted to Suspend Funds to Libraries Suing State Confirmed to Library Board (via Ozark Public Radio/KSMU/AP) Funding University of Kentucky School […]
December 6, 2023 by Gary Price
AI/GPT Association of American Publishers (AAP) Submit Reply Comments to Copyright Office in Artificial Intelligence Proceeding Google’s New Gemini AI Will Understand Your Photos and Videos, Not Just Text (via News.com) Archives Release of Success Criteria for Digitizing Permanent Records (via NARA: US National Archives and Records Administration) Connecticut CT Librarians Looking For Lawmaker Help […]
October 23, 2023 by Gary Price
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) CLIR Receives Grant to Launch CLIR Climate Resiliency Program New York State Library State Library Awards $186,000 in Grants to Preserve Library Research Materials OCLC Libraries and Open Access Discovery Open Library of Humanities (OLH) Dawn of the Zombie Journal: New Poster Celebrates History, of OA Community Activism […]
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October 21, 2023 by Gary Price
Title Blended Librarianship—20 Years Later Authors Amanda Hovious Emporia State University Andrew Smith Source Kansas Library Association College and University Libraries Section Proceedings Vol. 13: No. 1. (2023) DOI: 10.4148/ 2160-942X.1088 Abstract In 2004, Steven J. Bell and John Shank introduced the term blended librarian to describe an emerging skill set of academic librarians in teaching […]
September 23, 2023 by Gary Price
From Knowledge Exchange: Different alternative publishing platforms have appeared over recent years. But what are their pros and cons? Do they differ significantly from traditional scholarly journals? To better understand what individual publishing platforms do and how they fit in the open scholarly communication ecosystem, Knowledge Exchange invited platforms working in open access publishing to […]
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August 29, 2023 by Gary Price
From a Joint Announcement: ScienceOpen and Scite.ai announce announce a new cooperation to provide greater context around citation information for the academic community. The citation index at the core of ScienceOpen’s discovery environment has been augmented with Scite badges indicating whether those citations are supporting, contrasting or just mentions. ScienceOpen, founded in 2013, is a […]
August 9, 2023 by Gary Price
The paper linked below is being presented this week at the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium in Anaheim, California. Title How Library IT Staff Navigate Privacy and Security Challenges and Responsibilities Authors Alan F. Luo, Noel Warford, and Samuel Dooley University of Maryland Rachel Greenstadt New York University Michelle L. Mazurek University of Maryland Nora McDonald […]