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Atlanta University Center (AUC) Library CEO & Director, Loretta Parham to Retire This Year
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|From AUC (via PR Newswire) (Full Text): Loretta Parham, chief executive officer and director of the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center Inc., will retire after 19 years of outstanding leadership of the Library. The Board of Trustees and governing body of the AUC Woodruff Library is announcing her planned retirement date of June […]
Digital Collections: Georgia State University Library Completes Grant Making Recordings, Speeches, and More From The Southern Labor Archives Audio Collection Digitally Accessible
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|From the Georgia State University Library: Georgia State University Library has completed a $23,945 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to support digitizing audio holdings in the 20th and 21st century Southern Labor Archives. As a result of the project, 523 recordings that were once inaccessible due to their format and at […]
From a FEMA Announcement: The Climate Risk and Resilience Portal (ClimRR) is an award-winning, free, national online source for sophisticated climate data down to the neighborhood level. ClimRR provides easy access to climate data to integrate future conditions into Hazard Mitigation Plans, land use plans, infrastructure design, and FEMA’s Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool (RAPT). ClimRR data is available […]
Annual Reviews Annual Reviews Shares a Collection of Top Downloaded Articles of 2023 Awards 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal Winners Announced (via American Libraries) Freesound Freesound Repository Added 40,940 New Sounds (1134 Hours of Audio) During 2023
Library of Congress Awards Nearly $400,000 to Six Projects Highlighting Uses of Digital Collections
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|From LC: The Library of Congress today announced that six awards totaling nearly $400,000 have been awarded from the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative through a program available to Higher Education Institutions and Libraries, Archives and Museums. The program is part of the Library’s Of the People: Widening the Path initiative with support from the Mellon Foundation. The 2024 awardees will use these […]
Over 150 Libraries Surpass 1 Million Digital Checkouts In 2023; As Illinois Officials Push Back Against Book Bans, Some Advocates Wonder About Actual Impact on Prison Libraries; & More Headlines
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|American Library Association, Library of Congress and ALA Announce New Educational Series (via ALA) Authors Judy Blume to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award For ‘Bravery In Literature’ (via AP) California California Universities Partner with Wiley on Landmark Open Access Agreement Idaho ‘Harmful Materials’ In Idaho Libraries Bills Brought Back (via KTVB) Illinois As Illinois Officials Push […]
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) Updates its Membership Criteria; American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Names Finalists for 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards; & More Headlines
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|AI AI-Powered Misinformation is the World’s Biggest Short-Term Threat, Davos Report Says (via AP) American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) ACLS Names Finalists for 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) ASERL Updates its Membership Criteria Privacy EFF Unveils Its New Street Level Surveillance […]
NEH Announces $33.8 Million for 260 Humanities Projects Nationwide
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|From the National Endowment For the Humanities (NEH): The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $33.8 million in grants for 260 humanities projects across the country. Among these are grants to support research for a cultural, political, and legal history of cancer in America that focuses on the Ames test for carcinogens; create a baccalaureate degree program […]
EveryLibrary Releases 2024 State-by-State “Legislation of Concern” Tracker; Bestselling Canadian Books of 2023; & More Headlines
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|AI Nvidia’s Newest Chips are Designed to Run AI at Home (via CNBC) OpenAI Posts Comments on NY Times Lawsuit Note: The OpenAI post includes a link from the phrase “library associations” to an October 2023 filing by the Library Copyright Alliance. Canada Bestselling Canadian Books of 2023 (via BookNet Canada) Internet Archive The Internet […]
Update 2 HathiTrust Provides Access to Thousands of Titles That Have Just Entered the Public Domain On January 1, titles published in 1928 entered the public domain in the United States, including more than 66,000 items in the HathiTrust collection. Global readers can access 46,829 of these titles. Update 1 Celebrate Public Domain Day 2024: […]