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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 […]
New Digital Library: Prado Museum Offers Free Online Access to More Than 11,500 Publications From the Late 15th to Early 20th Centuries
Exciting news from Spain! From the Prado Museum (in Spanish, Translation via DeepL) The Prado Museum’s new Digital Library, developed with funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), offers free access to 5600 issues of magazines and 6000 books specialized in artistic literature and published between the late 15th and early 20th centuries. […]
AI Roundup: GPTs and Hallucination: Why Do Large Language Models Hallucinate?; Google’s “Audio Overview” Can Turn PDFs Into Podcasts; & More Headlines
Frameworks Is This AI Tool Right for Me? Important Questions From the Framework (via C&RL News) UNESCO Releases New AI Competency Frameworks For Students and Teachers (via UNESCO) Google Google Hit With European Privacy Probe Over Its AI System (via Politico) See Also: Data Protection Commission Launches Inquiry Into Google AI Model (via DPC, Ireland) […]
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OpenAIRE and SCImago Lab Unite to Enhance Scholarly Research Data; Building Assessment Criteria for Collection Development Policies: A Community Resource; & More News Headlines
Collection Development Building Assessment Criteria for Collection Development Policies: A Community Resource (via Copim) HathiTrust Second Accessibility Update to HathiTrust Website and Digital Library IFLA Equity and Inclusion at the Center of Open Science & Scholarship Advisory Committee’s Initial Work Information Power Lorraine Estelle Announces Retirement (via IP) Scholarly Communications Foundations of Trust: The Alignment […]
Second Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms District Court Ruling in Hachette v. Internet Archive
Note: We will be updating this post with media coverage, statements, etc. over the coming hours and days. Please check back. From the Opinion (Page 2): Defendant-Appellant Internet Archive appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Koeltl, J.) denying its motion for summary judgment and […]
Internet2 Awarded $250,000 IMLS Grant to Empower Indigenous Community Libraries in Expanding Broadband and Digital Access
From Internet2: Internet2 has been awarded a two-year $249,994 Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant to bolster the digital capabilities of Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Tribal libraries. Funded through the Laura Bush 21st Century Library Program, the grant will enable the Internet2 Community Anchor Program to work closely with these libraries to scale the […]
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Report: “Grambling State Makes History as First HBCU in the U.S., Only Institution in Louisiana with a Digital Library”
From KTAL: Grambling State University entered the digital age on Thursday with a ribbon cutting to celebrate its new Digital Library and Learning Commons. They declare the $16.6 M facility is the only of its kind at a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in the U.S. According to GSU, the digital library is a state-of-the-art, 50,000-square-foot facility where people can […]
Roundup: Has Your Paper Been Used To Train an AI Model? Almost Certainly; Three (and a Half) Strategies to Help Academic Libraries Achieve Student Success; & More
AI Has Your Paper Been Used To Train an AI Model? Almost Certainly (via Nature) Academic Libraries Three (and a Half) Strategies to Help Academic Libraries Achieve Student Success (via IFLA) Repositories COAR Joins as Signatory of the Barcelona Declaration Yale University Library Digital Collections Objects From 200-Plus Yale University Library Special Collections are New […]
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DOI: “High-Quality Metadata: A Collective Responsibility and Opportunity”
From an Upstream Article by Adam Buttrick (California Digital Library): Our community and tools rely on high-quality DOI metadata for building connections and obtaining efficiencies. However, the current model – where improvements to this metadata are limited to its creators or done within service-level silos – perpetuates a system of large-scale gaps, inefficiency, and disconnection. […]
Final Report Now Available: Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN)
The report linked below was written by: Günter Waibel California Digital Library Turner, Adrian California Digital Library Lisa Schiff California Digital Library Catherine Mitchell California Digital Library From California Digital Library (CDL) News: The California Digital Library is pleased to announce the publication of a final report from the IMLS-funded “Building a National Finding Aid Network” […]
