April 19, 2024 by Gary Price
California Oakland’s Main Library Will Soon Close For Six Months For Repairs (via SF Chronicle) Iowa Legal Filing By PEN America Urges Appeals Court to Uphold Injunction Against Iowa’s Book Ban Law Libraries Listen to a Radio Interview with ALA President Emily Drabinksi: (America’s Top Librarian Says ‘We’re Fighting For Our Lives’ (via WBEZ) Open […]
April 16, 2024 by Gary Price
From the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $26.2 million in grants for 238 humanities projects across the country. Grants awarded today will underwrite a new permanent exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh on how the Nile River shaped ancient Egyptians’ ideas of […]
April 11, 2024 by Gary Price
AI I Tested 4 Different AI Image Detectors: Here’s How Accurate They Were (Make Use Of) Authors James Patterson Speaks Out on $500 Bonuses to Bookstores, Librarians (via ABC News) Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) DPLA Brings Librarians and Independent Publishers Together at Inaugural Indielib Forum California Digital Library UC Libraries Endorse Joint Statement […]
April 3, 2024 by Gary Price
AI Anthropic Researchers Wear Down AI Ethics With Repeated Questions (TechCrunch) Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Financial Services (via CRS) ChatGPT Jailbreak Prompts Proliferate on Hacker Forums (via SC Magazine) Hackers Force AI Chatbots to Break Their Own Rules (via Axios) Is Generative AI the Answer for the Failures of Content Moderation? (via Just […]
April 2, 2024 by Gary Price
Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Acquisition Announcement: OCLC has acquired cloudLibrary, a platform that offers access to a wide variety of digital content through libraries. The acquisition will help OCLC support public libraries in their efforts to successfully manage accelerated shifts to digital collections. Nearly 500 libraries in 20 countries rely on cloudLibrary to […]
March 29, 2024 by Gary Price
From Boise State Public Radio: In 2021, the departments of Interior and Agriculture issued a joint order calling for agreements to co-steward federal lands with tribal governments, and to incorporate Indigenous knowledge. It called for these arrangements “where Federal lands or waters, including wildlife and its habitat, are located within or adjacent to a federally recognized Indian […]
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March 28, 2024 by Gary Price
Florida Morningstar Drops Investment Service at Library After Landing on Florida’s Anti-Israel List (via Orlando Sentinel/Tampa Bay Times) Georgia Law That Would Ban the American Library Association From Georgia Falls Short on Final Day of Session (via WABE) & Georgia Lawmakers Leave Library Bill on the Shelf (via AJC) ORCID ORCID and GitHub Sign Memorandum of […]
March 11, 2024 by Gary Price
From The Guardian: Australia’s chief scientist, Dr Cathy Foley, has placed open access firmly on the agenda before her three-year tenure ends in December. Her world-first open access model, recently finalised for the federal government, would provide a centralised digital library for all Australians to access research papers free of charge, as long as they […]
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February 14, 2024 by Gary Price
AI States are Introducing 50 AI-Related Bills Per Week (via Axios) Alabama Alabama Lawmakers Want to Change Archives Oversight After Dispute Over LGBTQ+ Lecture (via AP) Coherent Digital Coherent Digital and Trojman Acquire Major Canadian Micropublisher to Create Neww Digital Collections EveryLibrary EveryLibrary Institute Announces New Editorial Board Members for The Political Librarian HathiTrust HathiTrust’s […]
February 12, 2024 by Gary Price
Here’s the Full Text of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Announcement: AIP is delighted to announce the appointment of Trevor Owens as its first Chief Research Officer. Starting Feb. 12, Owens will lead AIP Research, a core element of the Institute’s strategic transformation enabling AIP to leverage its work in statistical research, history, policy, […]