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portal: Libraries and the Academy (Vol 26, No 1; Preprints For All Articles Now Available Online)
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Reports
Preprints for all articles found in in portal: Libraries and the Academy (Vol 26, No 1) are now available online. Links below. From the ICU to Academia: A conversation with Maribeth Slebodnik (Editorial) Author(s): Ellysa Stern Cahoy, Maribeth Slebodnik Insights from a Burnout Debate: Occupational Health Psychology for Academic Librarianship (Worth Noting) Author(s): Matthew Weirick […]
From PEN America: Thousands of books removed from schools out of fear of state governments nationwide. Judy Blume’s Forever… banned from every Utah public school; To Kill a Mockingbird and 39 other titles pulled from a Texas school district that used AI to review materials; a list of 400 titles removed in one district quietly circulated in Tennessee as a resource for other school […]
New Report From US GAO: Public Libraries: Many Buildings are Reported to Be in Poor Condition, with Increasing Deferred Maintenance
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
The report linked below was published today by the US Government Accountability Office (US GAO). From the Report: Public libraries serve as cornerstones of many communities. But aging and outdated buildings can make it hard for libraries to meet increasing expectations to provide access to programming, technology, emergency services, and voting sites—in addition to books. […]
Consulting: Impelsys Acquires Delta Think
| Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Management and Leadership, News, Publishing, Scholarly Communications
The acquisition was announced this morning. The full text of the announcement is found below and is also available here. Impelsys, a global technology services company, today announced the acquisition of Delta Think, a leading consultancy in scholarly communications. Together, the two companies will offer clients a powerful combination of strategy and technology expertise across […]
The Public Interest Corpus Releases Principles and Goals
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Libraries, News
From a Blog Post (via Authors Alliance): Today, we are pleased to release The Public Interest Corpus Principles and Goals. This release builds on the recap of our final planning workshop and anticipates release of our final deliverable later this month. [Clip] The Public Interest Corpus works with a growing coalition of stakeholders to develop a service that […]
Repositories: arXiv Receives $7 Million in Gifts and Grants From Schmidt Sciences and NASA
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access
From an arXiv Announcement: We are pleased to announce that Schmidt Sciences and NASA have generously awarded arXiv $7 million in gifts and grants, respectively, to allow arXiv to complete its technology migration project and to explore ways to improve the arXiv experience through personalized and fair discovery of new preprints. arXiv began its cloud […]
Journal Article: Artificial Intelligence Regulation Matures: Landscapes of the USA, European Union, and China
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The article (full text) linked below was recently published by IFLA Journal. Title Artificial Intelligence Regulation Matures: Landscapes of the USA, European Union, and China Author Leo S. Lo University of Virginia Source IFLA Journal Online First DOI: 10.1177/03400352251384915 Abstract Between 2023 and July 2025, artificial intelligence (AI) governance in the USA, European Union, and […]
From The Daily Texan: The UT School of Law launched a new database designed to highlight the use of artificial intelligence across fields such as academics and government, according to an Oct. 31 University news release. Researchers and nonprofits across the country developed the AI Opportunity Inventory database under the new UT AI Innovation and Law Program, which […]
From the BBC: New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested. The intensive international study of unprecedented scope and […]
Say Hello to Student Media Map! Here’s the launch announcement (via LinkedIn and reposted with permission) from Barbara “Bob” Allen, Founder and Director of CollegeJournalism.org. My little black book now has 1,100 names in it. Newspaper names, that is. Today, I’m proud to announce the launch of the Student Media Map, a searchable database of every […]
