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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 […]
Phase 1 Report: University of California (UC) Palace Project Team on “Investigating a Better UC Ebook Reading Experience”
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|From a California Digital Library/CDLINFO Post: The UC Palace Project Team completed their phase 1 investigation of the Palace ebook reading platform in summer 2023 and submitted a report to the Direction and Oversight Committee (DOC) in fall 2023. DOC endorsed the report recommendations at their December 5, 2023 meeting. The project team was charged […]
‘Cyber Incident’ Cripples London Public Library Systems; How to Make Data Open? Stop Overlooking Librarians; & More Headlines
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|Archives National Archives Building Designated as National Historic Landmark (via NARA) Canada ‘Cyber Incident’ Cripples London Public Library Systems (via London Free Press Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Toward A Digital Library Ownership Model Lyrasis Lyrasis Member Summit 2024 Set For February 22nd, Keynote by Speech Thomas, Grammy Award Winning Founder and Lead Singer […]
NY Review of Books: Robert Darnton Reviews Peter Baldwin’s, “Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All”
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|From Robert Darnton’s NYRB Review: In Athena Unbound Baldwin takes a hard look at the world of knowledge. Have no illusions, he warns: journal publishers are gouging their customers, scholarly monographs reach a tiny audience, libraries are floundering under budget pressures, academics are pursuing careers rather than truth, and readers are not getting all the information they […]
New From ALA: “Digital Public Library Ecosystem 2023” Report
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|Digital Public Library Ecosystem 2023 From the American Library Association: Report authors Rachel Noorda, Ph.D, and Kathi Inman Berens, Ph.D., both professors of book publishing of Portland State University, show how the rise in digital content consumption rates has brought a large group of library patrons and staff into digital content landscape. The report demystifies […]
NEH Funded Street & Smith Digitization Project Completed (113,342 pages From 4,790 Dime Novels)
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|From Northern Illinois University: Northern Illinois University Libraries is pleased to announce the completion of the Street & Smith Project. First begun in 2020 with a grant of $338,630 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), this project involved partner libraries at NIU, Villanova University, Stanford University, Bowling Green State University, and Oberlin College […]
A New Issue of Code4Lib Journal (Issue 58) is Now Available Online
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|Direct to Complete Table of Contents + Abstracts (Issue 58, December 4, 2023) Direct to Articles Editorial Enhancing Serials Holdings Data: A Pymarc-Powered Clean-Up Project The Use of Python to Support Technical Services Work in Academic Libraries Pipeline or Pipe Dream: Building a Scaled Automated Metadata Creation and Ingest Workflow Using Web Scraping Tools A […]
Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh City Clerk’s Office Launches City Archives Digital Collections Website
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|From the City of Pittsburgh: The Records Management Division of the Office of the City Clerk and City Council is pleased to announce the launch of a City Archives Digital Collections website, where extensive material from the archives will be made available to the public to browse and research online: https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/. The website features recently […]
Digital Collections: “All Surviving Drafts, Including Three Rediscovered Pages, of Origin of Species Revealed”
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|From the National University of Singapore: On the 164th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s magnum opus, all known surviving pages of the rough draft of Origin of species have been published online. Three recently rediscovered pages from Darwin’s draft of Origin of Species have been published for the first time together with all the other known surviving pages in a new […]
New ALA Report: “Gen Z & Millennials are Visiting the Library & Prefer Print Books”
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|From the American Library Association: Gen Z and Millennials are using public libraries, both in person and digitally, at higher rates compared to older generations, according to a new report released today by the American Library Association (ALA). Gen Z and Millennials: How They Use Public Libraries and Identify Through Media Use draws on a nationally […]