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California: “Narcan, Rare Books And Citizenship: How L.A.’s Chief Librarian is Meeting the City’s Needs”
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From the Los Angeles Times: The sparrows fled the courtyard. It was quiet amid the classics. John Szabo stepped out of the elevator and walked through the sunlit atrium of the Central Library. He passed a slumbering homeless man and, with the efficiency of a spy, disappeared into stacks of bound archives, hundreds of thousands of relevant and obscure […]
CLIR Announces Call for Submissions: Grants for Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Awards; Census Bureau Releases International Population Estimates and Projections; & More News Headlines
| Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Funding, Libraries, News
AI Red-Teaming Finds OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard Still Spread Misinformation (via NewsGuard) Council on Library and Information Resources CLIR Announces Call for Submissions: Grants for Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Awards U.S. Census Census Bureau Releases International Population Estimates and Projections
MIT Press’s Direct to Open (D2O) Achieves Second Year Goal, Opens Access to Eighty-Two New Books in 2023
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Publishing
From the MIT Press: With 322 participating libraries and new consortium agreements, the D2O publishing model has now opened access to more than 160 scholarly monographs and edited collections Thanks to the support of libraries participating in Direct to Open (D2O), the MIT Press will publish its full list (see below) of 2023 scholarly monographs and edited […]
Call For Proposals: ai4Libraries Conference 2023; Historic Depository Shipping Lists Now Available on GovInfo; & More News Headlines
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Publishing
arXiv Introducing arXiv’s New Governance Model Association of Research Libraries Call for Proposals: ARL IDEAL 2024—Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Libraries & Archives Conference, July 15–17, in Toronto Artificial Intelligence Call For Proposals: ai4Libraries Conference 2023 (Georgia Tech Library – Virtual Conference – October 19th, 2023) ChatGPT and the Potential Growing of Ghost Bibliographic […]
Digital Collections: The Churchill Archives Centre Launches New Access Portal to Mark its 50th Anniversary
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From Churchill College, U. of Cambridge: The Churchill Archives Centre is a world-leading repository of 20th century history, holding a wide range of documents by more than 570 political, military and scientific luminary figures from the Churchill era and beyond. To mark the 50th Anniversary of the Churchill Archives Centre, we are proud to announce […]
IMLS Announces $20 Million Investment in U.S. Library and Archive Initiatives (64 Project Awards via National Leadership Grants for Libraries and Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program)
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From the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS): The Institute of Museum and Library Services today announced 64 awards totaling $20,363,297 to support libraries and archives across the country. The FY 2023 awards were made through National Leadership Grants for Libraries and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The awarded grants search on the IMLS website contains a complete […]
Preliminary Ruling on Arkansas Library Law Coming By Week’s End, Judge Says; New Biden Rule Would Make Government Websites and Apps More Accessible to People With Disabilities; & More News Headlines
| Archives and Special Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access
AccessNew Biden Rule Would Make Government Websites and Apps More Accessible to People With Disabilities (via AP) ArkansasPreliminary Ruling on Arkansas Library Law Coming By Week’s End, Judge Says (via Arkansas Times) eLifeeLife and PREreview to Enhance the ‘Publish, Review, Curate’ Ecosystem Through Adoption of COAR Notify IrelandOpenAIRE Awarded Contract for the National Open Access […]
From AL.com: A bill to take $5 million in state funds from the Alabama Department of Archives and History because it hosted a one-hour lecture on LGBTQ history did not pass during the special session that ended Friday. But the sponsor, Sen. Chris Elliott, a Republican from Baldwin County, said he plans to bring legislation […]
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Granted $5,000,000 Award From Mellon Foundation For Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices Regranting Program
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From a CLIR Announcement: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has been granted a $5,000,000 award from the Mellon Foundation to bolster the Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices regranting program and related operations. This highly anticipated renewal continues the decisive shift in thematic focus, with a strong emphasis on […]
From the University of Sydney: The University of Sydney’s Fisher Library has digitised Virginia Woolf’s personal copy of the first edition of her debut novel, The Voyage Out, featuring inscriptions and edits by her hand that now anyone can enjoy. This first edition and Woolf’s personal copy is the only one of its kind publicly available […]
