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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, […]
Preprints of Generative AI Impact Papers Publish Through MIT Press’s MIT Open Publishing Services (MITops)
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|From a Letter by MIT President Sally Kornbluth Posted on the MIT Press Website: Last fall, Provost Barnhart and I were delighted to provide more than two dozen research teams from across MIT with seed funds to develop impact papers that would articulate effective roadmaps, policy recommendations, and calls for action across the broad domain of generative […]
From the International Science Council (ISC): The report offers a comprehensive analysis of the integration of artificial intelligence in science and research across various countries. It addresses both the advancements made and the challenges faced in this field, making it a valuable read for science leaders, policy-makers, AI professionals, and academics. This working paper provides […]
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 […]
Call for Presentations — GW Ethics in Publishing Conference 2024
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|From a News Release: The 14th GW Ethics in Publishing Conference will be held as a hybrid event on Thursday, October 10, 2024, at the City View Room, GW’s Foggy Bottom Campus, and online. The theme of the 2024 conference is “Integrity in a Time of Change.” Alumni and current students in the GW Publishing program are […]
OCLC Global Council Ratifies Plans to Streamline Council Structure, Increase Member Engagement
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Reports
|From an OCLC Release: Following a comprehensive governance study, the OCLC Global Council ratified plans to establish a new council structure to clarify its role and increase member engagement. The new OCLC Leaders Council will be phased in over the next year with a clear purpose: to provide library perspectives that inform OCLC’s strategic goals […]
From BMJ: Many publicly accessible artificial intelligence (AI) assistants lack adequate safeguards to consistently prevent the mass generation of health disinformation across a broad range of topics, warn experts inThe BMJ today. They call for enhanced regulation, transparency, and routine auditing to help prevent advanced AI assistants from contributing to the generation of health disinformation. Large […]
21 De Gruyter Journals to Be Published Open Access Under Subscribe To Open (S2O) Model In 2024; California is Finally Digitizing Its 100-Year-Old Paper Water Rights; & More Headlines
Digital Preservation, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access
|Alabama CNN host, Prattville Native Kaitlan Collins Interviews Fired Prattville Library Director (via AR) Prattville Library Cuts Hours, Programs As Staff Quit: ‘Hard To Have Hope’ (via AL.com) Arkansas Policing Libraries, aka Book Banning, Moves a Step Further In Arkansas (via Arkansas Times) California EveryLibrary and PEN America Statement on Huntington Beach Censorship Committees Digitization […]
A New Issue (43.1) of Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) is Now Available Online
Academic Libraries, Libraries, New Issue, News, Open Access, Public Libraries
|Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL; 43.1, 2024) was today (March 18, 2024). It’s published by ALA’s Core Division and is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication. Direct to Table of Contents Editorials Letter from the Editors: March 2024 Kenneth J. Varnum; Marisha C. Kelly Public Libraries Leading the Way How Libraries Can Fosr a Vibrant Local Music […]
New Orleans Public Library is Now Fine Free; Dav Pilkey, Scholastic, and Little Free Libraries Launch New Initiative; & More Headlines
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|Little Free Libraries Dav Pilkey, Scholastic, and Little Free Libraries Launch New Initiative Louisiana New Orleans Public Library is Now Fine Free (via NOPL) Open Book Collective Collective Development Fund Grant Programme: Scoping Update (via Open Book Collective) Scholarly Communications Scientific Journals Are Publishing Papers with AI-Generated Text (via 404 Media) Standards W3C Adopts New […]