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 […]
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, […]
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January 24, 2024 by Gary Price
From Penn Libraries: The University of Pennsylvania Libraries has launched a project to make the full American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) Image Collection available and discoverable online. The collection documents a range of Indian art through black and white photography, with an emphasis on premodern temple architecture and sculpture. An initial batch of 2,300 images—featuring […]
January 24, 2024 by Gary Price
From the Georgia State University Library: Georgia State University Library has completed a $23,945 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to support digitizing audio holdings in the 20th and 21st century Southern Labor Archives. As a result of the project, 523 recordings that were once inaccessible due to their format and at […]