May 23, 2023 by Gary Price
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Comments on Increasing Public Access to Results of USDOT-Funded Transportation Research Illinois: Mayor Johnson Unveils Plans for Chicago Public Library Mural (via CBS Chicago) Coherent Digital Launches World’s Largest Collection of Municipal Reports Meta Fined a Record $1.3 Billion Over EU User Data Transfers to the U.S. (via CNBC) OpenAI […]
May 22, 2023 by Gary Price
A Look at Creative Common’s Open Culture Roundtable in Lisbon (via CC) AUPresses Releases 2023 Annual Report Connecticut: Banning Books: In CT, Titles For Teens Are Being Challenged (via CT Insider) Florida: Miami-Dade K-8 Bars Elementary Students From 4 Library Titles Following Parent Complaint (via Miami Herald) Washington: Seattle Public Library’s Citywide Book Club, Seattle […]
May 16, 2023 by Gary Price
American Library Association (ALA) Announces 240 Recipients of Library Accessibility Funding For Small and Rural Libraries Association of University Presses (AUPresses) Joins in Supporting Ukrainian Publishers EIFL Releases 2022 Annual Report Open Access Publisher Frontiers Moves to Counter Platform for Article Metrics Initiative Supporting Ukrainian Publishing Resilience and Recovery (SUPRR) Receives Grant From De Gruyter eBound […]
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May 15, 2023 by Gary Price
Equitable Scholarly Publishing Systems Viewed as Key to Solving Development Challenges Identified by UN (via SPARC) MIT Press to Launch Open Access Journal Imaging Neuroscience (via MIT Press) Webinar on Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information: What’s New in Draft SP 800-171, Revision 3 (via NIST)
May 11, 2023 by Gary Price
Discover America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2023 (National Trust For Historic Preservation) Don’s Conference Notes-Charleston In Between 2023: “The Future of Scholarly Communication in a ChatGPT World” Institute for Nonprofit News Launches RuralNewsNetwork.org (via INN) The Most Important AI-Related Announcements Google Made at I/O 2023 (via The Decoder) Session Reports and Slide Presentations […]
May 10, 2023 by Gary Price
Confirmed, 52-45: Confirmation of Executive Calendar #79 Colleen Joy Shogan to be Archivist of the United States. — Senate Cloakroom (@SenateCloakroom) May 10, 2023 Here’s the News From NARA: Shogan Confirmed by U.S. Senate as 11th Archivist of the United States The United States Senate voted today to confirm Dr. Colleen Shogan as the 11th […]
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May 9, 2023 by Gary Price
A new issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) is now available online. JEP is published Michigan Publishing. Direct to Complete Table of Contents Volume 26 Issue 1 (2023) Editors’ Gloss: Open Access Mostly by David W. Lewis and Michael Roy Towards an Author-Centered Open Access Monograph Program: Understanding Open Access Cultures in Scholarly […]
May 9, 2023 by Gary Price
From the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress has completed a yearslong effort to digitize the Yongle Encyclopedia (Yongle dadian 永樂大典), the largest reference work created in pre-modern China, and possibly the world. Digital publication of the 41 volumes held in the Library’s collections provides open access to one of the most extensive attempts in world […]
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May 8, 2023 by Gary Price
From EDUCAUSE: This report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future. It is based on the perspectives and expertise of a global panel of leaders from across the higher education landscape. Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken […]
May 5, 2023 by Gary Price
From ABC News (via YouTube): ABC News’ Jaclyn Lee reports on libraries being on the frontlines of the increasing homelessness crisis across the U.S. and how librarians are learning techniques to help.