March 17, 2024 by Gary Price
From Magnolia State Live: Audiovisual holdings in the University of Mississippi’s Department of Archives and Special Collections will be modernized and gain audiences worldwide through a new digitization project. “Here in Archives and Special Collections, we have so many rich resources related to Mississippi and the American South,” said Greg Johnson, head of the department. […]
March 16, 2024 by Gary Price
AI Milestone: NewsGuardHas Found 750 AI-Generated “News” Websites (via NG Reality Check) Alabama UPDATE (3/17): Prattville Library Board Appoints Interim Librarian; Protests Over Firing, Book Challenges Continue (via AL.Com) Prattville Library Gets Interim Director Amid Book Ban Controversy (via Montgomery Advertiser) Statement from the EveryLibrary Institute on the Firing of Autauga-Prattville Alabama Public Library Staff […]
March 8, 2024 by Gary Price
From a Library Innovation Lab Post: We want academics and nonprofits at the table in discovering the next generation of legal interfaces and helping to close the justice gap. It is not at all clear yet which legal AI tools and interfaces will work effectively for people with different levels of skill, what kind of […]
March 5, 2024 by Gary Price
The Journal of eScience Librarianship published a special issue titled “Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives” (Volume 13 Issue 1, 2024) on March 5, 2024. In This Issue The Implementation of Keenious at Carnegie Mellon Universitvby Joelen Pastva, Dom Jebbia, Maranda Reilly and Ashley Werlinich Open Science Recommendation Systems for Academic Librariesby Lencia Beltran, Chasz Griego […]
March 3, 2024 by Gary Price
From the University of Minnesota Libraries: The University of Minnesota now has one of the largest human rights archives at a public university, and it’s already helping researchers, educators, and human rights advocates across the globe. “With everything that’s happening in the world, if we can highlight aspects of the history of human rights, maybe […]
February 23, 2024 by Gary Price
Alaska American Library Association President Hears About Struggles and Successes From Alaska Librarians (Interview with Emily Drabinski; via Alaska Public Media) Idaho Idaho Senate Rejects Bill on ‘Harmful’ Library Material. Is Bill ‘Worse Than this’ Next? (via Idaho Statesman) & Idaho Senate Rejects Library Bill By One Vote (via Idaho Capital Sun) Massachusetts Boston Public […]
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February 21, 2024 by Gary Price
California San Francisco Wants to Offer Free Drug Recovery Books at its Public Libraries (via SF Chronicle) Georgia Bill to Potentially Ban SomeLibrary Books Passes Legislative Hurdle (via Georgia Senate Considers Controls on School Libraries and Criminal Charges For Librarians (via AP) Web Archives/Computational Research Introducing ARCHWay – A Free to Use ARCH Service Tier […]
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 […]
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February 12, 2024 by Gary Price
From the Library Innovation Lab, Harvard Law School: Today we’re releasing WARC-GPT: an open-source, highly-customizable Retrieval Augmented Generation [RAG] tool the web archiving community can use to explore the intersection between web archiving and AI. WARC-GPT allows for creating custom chatbots that use a set of web archive files as their knowledge base, letting users explore collections through […]
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, […]