MORE 'INTERVIEWS' POSTS
From an Ithaka S+R Blog Post by the Brief’s Co-Authors Dylan Ruediger and Ruby MacDougall: Today, Ithaka S+R is publishing an issue brief exploring the current state of data sharing in the humanities and what a productive engagement with data might look like. Our findings are based on semi-structured interviews with key personnel at several humanities projects […]
Idaho Senate Rejects Bill on ‘Harmful’ Library Material. Is Bill ‘Worse Than this’ Next?; U.S. Announces Project to Protect Ukrainian State Archives; & More Headlines
Archives and Special Collections, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles, Public Libraries
|Alaska American Library Association President Hears About Struggles and Successes From Alaska Librarians (Interview with Emily Drabinski; via Alaska Public Media) Idaho Idaho Senate Rejects Bill on ‘Harmful’ Library Material. Is Bill ‘Worse Than this’ Next? (via Idaho Statesman) & Idaho Senate Rejects Library Bill By One Vote (via Idaho Capital Sun) Massachusetts Boston Public […]
Libraries Support Data-Driven Decision Making: Report From OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) & LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) Facilitated Discussion
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Productivity, Profiles, Reports
|From a Hanging Together Blog Post by Rebecca Bryant: The OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) and LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) hosted a facilitated discussion on the topic of data-driven decision making on 7 February 2024. This event was a component of the ongoing Building for the future series exploring how libraries are working to provide state-of-the-art services, as described in LIBER’s […]
ARL Releases Two New Reports: “Making Research Data Publicly Accessible: Estimates of Institutional & Researcher Expense” & “Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative: Research Methodology 2022–2023 Surveys and Interviews”
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Funding, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Reports
|From the Association of Research Libraries (ARL): In 2021 the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and six academic institutions involved in the Data Curation Network (DCN) were awarded a US National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER grant to conduct research, develop models, and collect costing information for public access to research data across from funded researchers […]
Artificial Intelligence in the News: How AI Retools, Rationalizes, and Reshapes Journalism and the Public Arena was published today by the Tow Center For Digital Journalism at Columbia University and Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. Author: Felix M. Simon Abstract Despite growing interest, the effects of AI on the news industry and […]
Interview: “Getting to Know Andrew K. Pace, ARL’s New Executive Director”
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles
|From an Interview by Kaylyn Groves and Andrew Pace: Today the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) welcomes Andrew K. Pace as our executive director. The interview (about 460 words) consists of five questions and responses. Here’s one of them. What is your vision for ARL? Andrew Pace: I think it’s the primary role of an association […]
Texas: A Secret Shelf of Banned Books Thrives in a Texas School, Under the Nose of Censors; Once Upon a Click: Librarian’s Fairy Tale Journey with the Internet Archive; & More Headlines
Funding, Interviews, Libraries, News, Open Access, Profiles, Publishing
|AI OpenAI’s ChatGPT Breaches Privacy Rules, Says Italian Watchdog (via Reuters) Silverchair Announces Launch of New AI Lab, Releases Prototypes Audiobooks NY Times Report: “Audiobooks are Booming. Spotify Wants in on the Action” California NY Times Publishes Interview with John Szabo, City Librarian of Los Angeles, on the LAPL’s Recent Acquisition of a Local Publisher […]
Suzanne Wones is the New University Librarian at UC Berkeley
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Profiles
|From UC Berkeley News: UC Berkeley has chosen a new University Librarian, Suzanne L. Wones, who is associate university librarian for discovery and access at Harvard Library. Wones, with 20 years’ experience as a leader in academic libraries, will start her new post July 1, following University Librarian Jeffrey MacKie-Mason’s retirement. In a recent interview with Berkeley News, […]
Research Tools: “Chicago History Comes Alive Through Interactive Databases”
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interviews, News, Profiles
|From Northwestern University: When Northwestern University’s Leigh Bienen launched Homicide in Chicago,1870-1930 in 2004, the website crashed the School of Communication’s servers the first weekend it went live. The site had more than 70,000 visitors in its first few days, following coverage in the Chicago Sun-Times. The interactive site now has logged more than 1.5 million visitors over the […]
From The NY Times: For decades, the Copyright Office has been a small and sleepy office within the Library of Congress. Each year, the agency’s 450 employees register roughly half a million copyrights, the ownership rights for creative works, based on a two-centuries-old law. In recent months, however, the office has suddenly found itself in […]