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Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab Launches the Open Legal AI Workbench
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|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 […]
Just Published: Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives (A Special Issue of The Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB))
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Open Access
|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 […]
University of Minnesota Libraries Unveils One of the Largest Public Human Rights Archives
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|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 […]
Idaho Senate Rejects Bill on ‘Harmful’ Library Material. Is Bill ‘Worse Than this’ Next?; U.S. Announces Project to Protect Ukrainian State Archives; & More Headlines
Archives and Special Collections, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles, Public Libraries
|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 […]
San Francisco Wants to Offer Free Drug Recovery Books at its Public Libraries; Investigation Into Full Extent of Ransomware Attack on Toronto Public Library Still Underway; & More Headlines
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, School Libraries
|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 […]
AI: “States are Introducing 50 AI-Related Bills Per Week”; “South Carolina Board of Ed Approves Order to Give State Final Say Over Books in Local Libraries”; & More News Headlines
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Lecture, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Reports, School Libraries
|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 […]
New From The Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School: “WARC-GPT: An Open-Source Tool for Exploring Web Archives Using AI”
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users
|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 […]
American Institute of Physics: Trevor Owens Named as AIP’s First Chief Research Officer
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, News, Preservation
|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, […]
American Booksellers Association Donates Archives to Columbia University
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Publishing
|Here’s the Full Text of Today’s American Booksellers Association (ABA) Announcement: The American Booksellers Association (ABA) and Columbia University Libraries are happy to announce ABA’s donation of the association’s extensive organizational and bookseller archives to the university to be housed in Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML). The archives consist of first editions […]
WYSO Gets $5 Million Grant to Preserve Black College Radio Archives at 29 HBCUs
Archives and Special Collections, Funding, News, Preservation
|From the Dayton Daily News: A $5 million grant to a Yellow Springs-based public radio station will fund the preservation of radio material for every Historically Black College or University that has a radio station in the country. WYSO has been awarded major funding from the Mellon Foundation to support The HBCU Radio Preservation Project, […]