January 24, 2024 by Gary Price
The U.S. Senate Committee on Rules & Administration hearing video linked below was recorded on January 24, 2024. Witnesses List & Links to Prepared Testimony Dr. Carla Hayden Librarian Of Congress, Library Of Congress Hugh Nathanial Halpern Director, U.S. Government Publishing Office Ms. Meroë Park Deputy Secretary And Chief Operating Officer, Smithsonian Institution Washington , D.C. Video […]
January 4, 2024 by Gary Price
From OverDrive: Librarians and educators achieved new milestones in 2023 by providing increasingly robust streaming options to satisfy the interests of all ages and audiences. Readers worldwide borrowed 662 million ebooks, audiobooks and digital magazines, a 19 percent increase over 2022. This growth was driven by a regular cadence of new release blockbuster titles, as […]
December 24, 2023 by Gary Price
Digital Curation Network (DCN) DCN Response to NSF Public Access Plan 2.0 Events Lecture: National Libraries in the Digital Era―Focusing on the Strategies of the National Library of the Netherlands (via National Diet Library, Japan) ||| Presentation Materials?Slides ||| Video Recording UNESCO Number of Countries with Open Science Policies Has Almost Doubled Since Adoption of […]
December 23, 2023 by Gary Price
AI/GPT Interview: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Discusses the Promise and Potential Perils of AI (via Morning Edition/NPR) Digital Libraries Learn About: La Bibliothèque Mondiale du Cheval (World Horse Library) Research Tools Free Law Project Powers ProPublica’s New App About SCOTUS Investments (via FLP) ||| Direct to ProPublica’s New “Supreme Connections” App
December 20, 2023 by Gary Price
AI/GPT Journal Article: We Must Fix the Lack of Transparency Around the Data Used to Train Foundation Models (via HDSR) Preprint: Early ChatGPT User Portrait through the Lens of Data (via arXiv) Policy Brief: Students’ Use of Generative AI: The Threat of Hallucinations (via CDT) Elsevier Scopus Will Remove the Source Homepage Links From All […]
December 11, 2023 by Gary Price
From Pew Research: Despite negative headlines and growing concerns about social media’s impact on youth, teens continue to use these platforms at high rates – with some describing their social media use as “almost constant,” according to a new Pew Research Center report. Roughly nine-in-ten U.S. teens say they use YouTube, making it the most […]
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November 17, 2023 by Gary Price
From the University of Chicago: How can we adopt AI in an ethical way? What kinds of work will soon be done by algorithms? How will AI affect the economy, education, politics, and society at large? Hear from UChicago faculty experts as they discuss the promises and perils of artificial intelligence. Discussion Moderator Torsten Reimer, […]
November 16, 2023 by Gary Price
From The Library of Congress (via YouTube): The chief executive of the British Library and Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden discuss how national libraries are vital to connecting and engaging with users, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the British Library. The video was recorded on October 25, 2023 and is also available via […]
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November 14, 2023 by Gary Price
Artificial Intelligence (AI) YouTube Issues New Guidelines For Videos Using AI (via Deadline) Awards ALA Unveils Shortlist For 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medals For Excellence in Fiction And Nonfiction (via American Library Association) Center For Open Science New Funding: Center for Open Science Expands Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) Program Efforts (via COS) […]
October 22, 2023 by Gary Price
From the National Library of Medicine: A collection of reproduced documents from the 1932 study by the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) on the effects of untreated syphilis in Black men at Tuskegee Institute is now available as a digitized collection through the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The USPHS Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee was conducted […]