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The Respectful Terminology Platform Project Receives Prestigious Grant from the Mellon Foundation
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|Here’s the Full Text of the Announcement From the National Indigenous Knowledge and Language Alliance (NIKLA): The Respectful Terminology Platform Project (RTPP), an Indigenous-led initiative under the NIKLA-ANCLA umbrella, is honoured to announce that the project has been awarded a two-year grant for a total of $1.4M USD from the Mellon Foundation. Led by RTPP […]
The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island; Three More Books Reach Funding Target to Go Open Access Through Opening the Future at CEU Press; & More Headlines
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Funding, Jobs, Libraries, News, Open Access, Public Libraries
|AI Popular AI homework Helper Gauth Shares Owner with TikTok (via Axios) Alabama New Bill Would Ban “Sexual Content” From Minors’ Shelves In Public Libraries (via Alabama Political Reporter) Archives The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island (via WIRED) Coherent Digital New Tool on Policy Commons Enables Impact Analysis For Millions of […]
Issue No. 105 (Winter 2024) of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship is a special issue on science librarianship and social justice. Direct to Complete Table of Contents Letter From The Editor Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Social Justice by Isabel Altamirano (she/her), Ginny Boehme (she/her), Jeffra D. Bussmann (she/her/hers), Sam Hansen (they/them), […]
NY Times: “How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.”
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|From The NY Times: The race to lead A.I. has become a desperate hunt for the digital data needed to advance the technology. To obtain that data, tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Meta have cut corners, ignored corporate policies and debated bending the law, according to an examination by The New York Times. At […]
AI CDC’s Generative AI Pilots Include School Closure Tracking, Website Updates (Via FedScoop) Even OpenAI says its new voice cloning tool has major potential for misuse (via NPR) This Tool Makes AI Models Hallucinate Cats to Fight Copyright Infringement (via NBC News) Alabama Former Prattville Library Director Sues Governing Board Over Termination (via Alabama Reflector) […]
From a BookNet Canada: The top-selling English language print book in Canada last year was Spare by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, according to new research released by BookNet Canada. Sales of this title drove a 16% increase in the Biography & Autobiography category when compared with 2022. For the first time this year, […]
From Planetizen: Washington, D.C. recently launched a generative AI tool trained on 2,000 open data sets, reports Jonathan Andrews for Cities Today. The beta version of DC Compass, a chatbot similar to ChatGPT, is now accessible to city staff and residents to ask data-oriented civic questions and generate maps at a keystroke. The city worked with Esri, […]
From a SPARC Europe Announcement: A new SPARC Europe report focuses on the state of Open Education (OE) and Open Educational Resources (OER) across European higher education institutions in 2023. Supported by the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL), this report draws on a survey conducted between November 2023 and January 2024. SPARC Europe follows […]
Vermont: “Final Reading: Senate Advances Bill To Counter ‘Attacks’ on Libraries”; Washington State Passes Bill to Protect Libraries, as Other States Target Them; & More Headlines
Data Files, Libraries, News, Preservation, Scholarly Communications
|Crowdsourcing Crowdsourced Data Provides Accurate Biodiversity Picture to Aid Conservation Efforts (via eLife) Scholarly Communications Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) Celebrates Fourth Anniversary Texas Montgomery County, Texas Directs Citizen Board to Review, and Potentially Remove, Library Books (The Texas Tribune) Vermont Final Reading: Senate Advances Bill To Counter ‘Attacks’ on Libraries (via VT Digger) Washington […]
New Data: Association of American Publishers (AAP) Reports Overall Publishing Industry Up 0.4% For Calendar Year 2023, and Down 2.5% for Month of December
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|From the Association of American Publishers: The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today released its StatShot report for December 2023 reflecting reported revenue for Trade (Consumer Books), Religious Presses, Higher Education Course Materials, and Professional Publishing. Total revenues across all categories for December 2023 were down 2.5% as compared to December 2022, coming in at […]