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“CommonsDB Explorer Helps You Discover Declarations About Public Domain and Openly Licensed Works” From a CommonsDB Blog Post: Since launching the CommonsDB Explorer late last year and moving the prototype registry into active testing, we have focused on scaling up the volume of registry declarations. The registry has now surpassed one million declarations, thanks to the contributions […]
From WTVF: The Rutherford County Library Board voted in an 8-3 decision to fire library director Dr. Luanne James. The controversy began when James refused to comply with a board order to relocate 132 children’s books to the adult section of the library. The board recently deemed the books inappropriate, citing LGBTQ+ themes, female empowerment, […]
Video: RLUK 2026 Keynote by Dr. Carla Hayden
| Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Video Recordings
From RLUK (via YouTube): Dr Carla Hayden in conversation with Jane Harvell, Director of Library Culture and Heritage and University Librarian at the University of Sussex and RLUK Chair. Carla Hayden was sworn in as the 14th Librarian of Congress on September 14, 2016. Dr. Hayden, the first woman and the first African American to […]
Video: RLUK 2026 Keynote by Lynda Kellam, University of Pennsylvania (Public Data Stewardship in Challenging Times)
| Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, News, Video Recordings
From Research Libraries UK (via YouTube) Chaired by Ed Fay, Director of Library Services and University Librarian at the University of Bristol. Lynda Kellam, Ph.D., is the Snyder-Granader Director of Research Data and Digital Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and a co-founder of the Data Rescue Project. Her work focuses on the U.S. […]
Funding: “Sustainable Libraries Initiative Awarded $175,000 for Operationalizing Community Resilience: Creating a Training and Partnership Model for Libraries”
| Associations and Organizations, Awards, Funding, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, School Libraries
From SLI: The Sustainable Libraries Initiative (SLI) has been awarded a $175,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Public Knowledge program to lead a 15-month project titled Operationalizing Community Resilience: Creating a Training and Partnership Model for Libraries. The grant will be administered by Educopia, SLI’s fiscal sponsor. The Sustainable Libraries Initiative (founded in 2015 and now […]
The preprint linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title How are AI Agents Used? Evidence From 177,000 MCP Tools Author Merlin Stein UK AI Security Institute, University of Oxford Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2603.23802 Abstract Today’s AI agents are built on large language models (LLMs) equipped with tools to access and modify external environments, […]
Ithaka S+R Publishes Library Partnership Development Framework
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Funding, Jobs, Libraries, News
From an Ithaka S+R Blog Post by Melissa Blakenstein: Public and academic libraries often serve the same populations through different institutional structures. In both settings, libraries regularly serve students balancing coursework, jobs, and family responsibilities, as well as community members seeking reliable internet access, workforce resources, or a place to study and connect. These shared […]
New Report From IFLA: Connecting Libraries to Empower Communities
| Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, News
From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA): A new report presents the key findings of the Libraries Boosting Connecitivity (LBC) initiative launched in 2024 to collect crucial data on how libraries are navigating and adapting to the digital landscape. The report offers insights from the selected pilot countries and provides an analysis of library […]
New Research Platform: MediManus: Preserving Ancient Medical Heritage Through Digital Collaboration
| Libraries, News, Open Access
From the Center For Hellenic Studies, Harvard University: MediManus provides access to digital reproductions of Greek medical manuscripts preserved in libraries worldwide, along with original scientific information about their transmission and significance in modern medicine. The platform aims to revitalize the study of ancient Greek medicine and promote renewed scientific research by making these historical texts accessible […]
New Resource: “ORION Dashboard: Bringing Open Research Data Within Reach”
| Associations and Organizations, Dashboards, Data Files, Journal Articles, Maps, News, Patrons and Users
From a Leiden Madtrics Post by Juan Pablo Bascur Cifuentes The ORION dashboard enables easy exploration of CWTS OpenAlex data on BigQuery, letting users analyse institutions, funders, and research topics via interactive visualisations and reproducible SQL queries without any coding skills required. [Clip] What the dashboard does The current version centres on two types of […]
