March 18, 2024 by Gary Price
Little Free Libraries Dav Pilkey, Scholastic, and Little Free Libraries Launch New Initiative Louisiana New Orleans Public Library is Now Fine Free (via NOPL) Open Book Collective Collective Development Fund Grant Programme: Scoping Update (via Open Book Collective) Scholarly Communications Scientific Journals Are Publishing Papers with AI-Generated Text (via 404 Media) Standards W3C Adopts New […]
March 6, 2024 by Gary Price
From Apple: Today [4/5] Apple introduces transcripts for Apple Podcasts, an innovative new feature that makes podcasts more accessible and easier to navigate. With transcripts, users can read the full text of an episode, search the episode for a specific word or phrase, and tap on the text to play the podcast from that point […]
November 17, 2023 by Gary Price
From Cornell University: In this episode of the Inclusive Excellence Podcast, Erin Sember-Chase and Toral Patel sit down with the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell for a conversation about the critical role that libraries play in preserving the past, especially when it comes to censorship, the rise of banned books and this year’s theme […]
October 26, 2023 by Gary Price
From a Clarivate Announcement: Clarivate today announced a partnership with EveryLibrary, the non-partisan advocacy organization for libraries. As part of the partnership, Clarivate™ has made a commitment to advance EveryLibrary’s mission to safeguard and support libraries in the U.S. Bar Veinstein, President, Academia & Government, Clarivate said: “Libraries transform the world through their critical role […]
September 13, 2023 by Gary Price
The article (preprint) linked below is scheduled for publication in portal: Libraries and the Academy. Title A Case for Open Peer Review Podcasting in Academic Librarianship Author Amber Sewell University of Nevada, Las Vegas Source portal: Libraries and the Academy Forthcoming in Vol. 23, No. 4 (2023) Abstract Models of open peer review are being […]
September 12, 2023 by Gary Price
From The NY Times: Emily Drabinski is the president of the American Library Association and an associate professor at the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She is steering an embattled organization at a moment when libraries — and librarians themselves — are increasingly under fire. This conversation unpacks the political and […]
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August 15, 2023 by Gary Price
From the National Endowment For the Humanities: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $41.3 million in grants for 280 humanities projects across the country. These grants will support a documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Stanley Nelson on the life, work, and legacy of jazz legend Sun Ra; the creation of a set of linked […]
August 12, 2023 by Gary Price
At the bottom of this post we will be updating with additional reports, statements, and reactions. Latest Update 8/14: Statement: Internet Archive Responds to Lawsuit From Reuters: Universal Music Group , Sony Music Entertainment, and other record labels on Friday sued the nonprofit Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its streaming collection of digitized music […]
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July 30, 2023 by Gary Price
UPDATE: We’re adding statements/reactions (incl. audio and video) to the news at the bottom of this post. (Last Updated 7:30pm 8/2) From the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: A federal judge in Fayetteville on Saturday temporarily blocked enforcement of two provisions of Act 372, a new state law on library materials, days before the law was scheduled to […]
May 4, 2023 by Gary Price
A new podcast in The CNI Interviews Podcast series (via EDUCAUSE): Joan Lippincott is Associate Executive Director Emerita at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). In this interview, she discusses the Directions in Digital Scholarships initiative, which explores the current and future state of digital scholarship, data-intensive research, and computational research. Text Transcript