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Colorado Library Fired Employee For Speaking Out About Cancellation of Pride Event, Lawsuit Alleges; Utah: Book Bans Cost Utah Taxpayers Thousands Of Dollars. Here’s How Much Two School Districts Spent; & More Headlines
Book Bans Video: Turning the Page on Book Bans (via Pen America, via YT) Indiana County Approves $4.2M In Bonds For Library Renovations While Weighing Impact on Taxes (via South Bend Tribune) California In Depth: LA County Libraries (Interview with Skye Patrick) (via Fox LA) San José State Launches the College of Information, Data and […]
Interview: The Government Publishing Office Takes Steps to Preserve Print (Conversation with Superintendent of Documents, Scott Matheson)
From Federal News Radio: We might live in a digital era. But many Americans still like to read things in print — ink on paper. Now, the Government Publishing Office has expanded relationships with four university libraries to preserve federal printed materials and ensure public access. For details, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned […]
Report: New York Times Writer Exposes How AI Models Can Be Fooled by Invisible Text on Websites
From The Decoder: New York Times reporter Kevin Roose has demonstrated how simple it is to manipulate AI chatbots. Roose found that his reputation among AI chatbots took a hit after he published an article about a strange conversation he had with Microsoft’s Bing chatbot, Sydney. His theory is that this article was apparently used to train […]
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Journal Article: “Closing the Loop: Automating Links to Open Access Versions of Articles in Faculty Profiles at a Large Research Institution”
The article (full text) linked below was recently published the Journal of Library and Scholarly Communications (JLSC). Title Closing the Loop: Automating Links to Open Access Versions of Articles in Faculty Profiles at a Large Research Institution Authors Andrew M. Johnson University of Colorado Boulder Donald Elsborg Source Journal of Library and Scholarly Communications (JLSC) 12(1), […]
A New Issue (Vol. 7 No 2) of The Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship is Now Online
The Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship (Volume 7, Issue 2) was published online on August 21, 2024. Direct to Complete Table of Contents In This Issue Articles Public Domain and Paywalled: Journal Articles Authored or Co-Authored by U.S. Government Employees by Philip Young, Jimmy Ghaphery Event Summaries Summary of User Rights Network Symposium: […]
Journal Article: “Factuality Challenges in the Era of Large Language Models and Opportunities For Fact-Checking” (abstract only)
The article (abstract only) linked to below was published today by Nature Machine Intelligence. Title Factuality Challenges In The Era Of Large Language Models and Opportunities For Fact-Checking Authors Isabelle Augenstein University of Copenhagen + 17 Co-Authors Source Nature Machine Intelligence DOI Abstract The emergence of tools based on large language models (LLMs), such as […]
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Report: “Citation Black Market: Schemes Selling Fake References Alarm Scientists”
From Nature: Research-integrity watchers are concerned about the growing ways in which scientists can fake or manipulate the citation counts of their studies. In recent months, increasingly bold practices have surfaced. One approach was revealed through a sting operation in which a group of researchers bought 50 citations to pad the Google Scholar profile of […]
Library of Congress: Dr. Allie Martin Connecting Communities Digital Initiative Artists/Scholars-in-Residence “Samples Library Collections to Create Soundscapes of Black Life”
From a LC Blog Post: Dr. Allie Martin, an assistant professor of Music at Dartmouth College is one of CCDI’s 2024 Artists/Scholars-In-Residence. Martin is also an assistant professor for the Cluster for Digital Humanities and Social Engagement and serves as the director of the Black Sound Lab at Dartmouth College. She began her project, Sampling Black Life: Soundscapes […]
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Report: “How Smithsonian Curators Scavenge Political Conventions to Explain the Present to the Future and Save Everything From Hats to Buttons to Umbrellas to Soap”
From The Conversation: Thousands of Republicans, from a presidential candidate to grassroots party members, began assembling in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024, for that quadrennial political ritual, the party convention. Political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History were there, too. They’re self-described “scavengers” of the physical objects that make up political campaign history, from […]
Annie Callanan Appointed New CEO of EBSCO Information Services (EIS)
Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement: EBSCO Industries (EBSCO) today announced the appointment of Annie Callanan as the new CEO of EBSCO Information Services (EIS), effective August 5, 2024. Callanan will replace Tim Collins, who announced his retirement in January after serving as CEO of EIS for more than 40 years. “Following an […]
