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UC-wide Protocols.io Pilot: A Five-Year Journey to Promote Research Reproducibility; Measuring Environmental Impact at CLOCKSS; & More Headlines
British Library Restoring Our Services – 10 October 2024 Update Canada Open Access in Canada: 10 Years of Partnership Between CRKN and Érudit CLIR/DLF Jennifer Ferretti to Depart CLIR’s Digital Library Federation, Takes on New Role as Director of Archives at Texas After Violence Project CLOCKSS Measuring Environmental Impact at CLOCKSS International Federation of Library Associations […]
NARA: “Kenvi Phillips, New Obama Library Director, Puts Emphasis on Access”
From the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): The first primarily digital Presidential Library presents an exciting opportunity to broaden outreach and increase access to the records, according to the Barack Obama Presidential Library’s first permanent director. Dr. Kenvi Phillips took up her duties on June 16, 2024. Three months into her tenure, she talked to National […]
ITHAKA Invests in Perlego to Make Course Materials Accessible and Affordable
From an ITHAKA Announcement (Full Text): ITHAKA is investing in Perlego, a company dedicated to making knowledge more accessible. Perlego, founded in 2017, provides students around the world with affordable access to a digital library of over 1 million textbooks. To date, over 500,000 students have used Perlego in their coursework. Perlego’s impact is meaningful. Studies […]
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Digital Collections: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections Announces Digitization of Neil Armstrong’s Paper Speeches
From Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies (Full Text): Purdue University Archives and Special Collections (ASC) is pleased to announce the digitization of paper transcripts used by Neil Armstong for his public addresses and select speeches. The nearly 500 transcripts—totaling 7,700 pages—were generously donated by his wife, Carol Armstrong, in 2011. The speeches are […]
The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself; Patron Privacy Protections in Public Libraries: IT Professionals’ Points of View; & More Headlines
IEEE IEEE is the Latest Publisher to Join GetFTR IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) Registration Now Open For 2024 International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Online Meeting ||| Meeting Agenda/Session Descriptions Internet Archive The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself (via WIRED) Language Models Language Agents Achieve Superhuman Synthesis of Scientific Knowledge (preprint via arXiv) Library Publishing […]
Digital Collections: Alan Turing and DNA Papers Among Historical Peer Review Reports Made Public For First Time by The Royal Society, Over 1600 Reports Posted Today
From The Royal Society: The Royal Society has today released over 1,600 historical peer review reports, available to view publicly for the first time on the Science in the Making portal. Readers can discover what eminent scientists thought of work by mathematician Alan Turing, as well as Nobel Prize-winning chemist, Dorothy Hodgkin’s review of Crick and Watson’s famous “DNA” paper. […]
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AI: Google’s NotebookLM Adds Audio and YouTube Support; Announcing the Launch of the Peer Review Terminology Website; & More Headlines
AI Google’s NotebookLM Adds Audio and YouTube Support (via Google) Google Serving AI-Generated Images of Mushrooms Could Have “Devastating Consequences” (via 404 Media) ILO Launches New AI And Digital Economy Online Knowledge Hub (Via International Labour Organization) Analytics 2024 EDUCAUSE Analytics Landscape Study (via EDUCAUSE) China Studies Luce/ACLS Digital Archives Mapping Project Publishes Open Database […]
Digital Collections: NAACP Legal Defense Fund Records Newly Digitized and Now Available Online From the Library of Congress
From the Library of Congress: A major portion of the processed records of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund are now available online for the first time from the Library of Congress. Spanning the years 1915-1968, with most dating from 1940 to 1960, these records document the organization’s work as it combated racial discrimination in the […]
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Pennsylvania: Lackawanna County Prison OKs Contract For Digital Library, Bolstering Inmate Reading Options
From The Times-Tribune: Lackawanna County Prison inmates will have free digital access to e-books and audio books offered by more than 5,000 publishers under a contract the county prison board approved this week. The board voted unanimously Wednesday to authorize the use of OverDrive, a digital library product inmates will soon be able to access […]
News From Library of Congress: “COVID Recollections: Now Available – First Collection of Frontline Worker Interviews from the COVID-19 American History Project”
From The Library of Congress: The American Folklife Center is proud to announce that the first collection of interviews documented for the COVID-19 American History Project is now available online. To view these materials, visit the COVID-19 American History Project collection on the website of the Library of Congress. The collection features twenty interviews with service and […]
