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Videos Recordings: Presentations From Future of Libraries 2025 Conference
| Funding, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Video Recordings
Video recordings of presentations were shared on YouTube yesterday. The conference was organized by the Pacific Library Partnership and held at the San Francisco Public Library on Wednesday, October 8, 2025. From the Conference Website: This year’s program will feature talks on: Library funding issues and advocacy with Deborah Doyle (United for Libraries) Disability inclusion […]
Funding: Getty Invests $2.6 Million to Support Black Visual Arts Archives Across the U.S.
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Preservation, Profiles, Public Libraries, Video Recordings
Here’s the full text of today’s announcement from Getty: Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement From Getty:The Getty Foundation announced today it has awarded $2.6 million for 12 grants to libraries, museums, and universities across the United States through its Black Visual Arts Archives program. Designed to increase access to archival collections across the country that […]
Audiobook Sales Grow to $2.22 Billion Dollars According to Audio Publishers Association (APA) Annual Survey Data
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Libraries, News, Video Recordings
From the Audio Publishers Association: The Audio Publishers Association Sales Survey, conducted by Toluna, shows a return to double digit growth for the industry with an increase in audiobook sales revenue to $2.22 billion in 2024, 13% over the previous year. Sales increases continue to be driven by digital audiobooks, which accounted for 99% of […]
AI Roundup: “Xinyu AI Search: Enhanced Relevance and Comprehensive Results with Rich Answer Presentations:”; “Extracting Research Instruments from Educational Literature Using LLMs”; & More Headlines
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Chatbots AI Chatbots Become Dramatically Less Reliable in Longer Conversations, New Study Finds (via The Decoder) Extraction Extracting Research Instruments From Educational Literature Using LLMs (preprint, via arXiv) Licensing New York Times and Amazon Announce Licensing Agreement (via NYTCO) “With this new agreement, Amazon is licensing editorial content from The New York Times, NYT Cooking, […]
Video: Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC, Delivers Keynote Presentation “Sustaining Access to Knowledge in a Challenging Political Landscape” at the CRL 2025 Annual Meeting
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From Center For Research Libraries (CRL) via YouTube: Heather Joseph (SPARC) keynote presentation, “Sustaining Access to Knowledge in a Challenging Political Landscape” at the CRL 2025 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 20-21, 2025. SPARC (https://sparcopen.org/) is a non-profit advocacy organization that supports open systems for research and education that enable everyone, everywhere to access, contribute […]
From the Berkeley School of Information (via YouTube): Clifford Lynch came to Berkeley in April 1979 to be manager of computing resources in the Division of Library Automation in the UC systemwide administration. He remained, with steadily increasingly responsibilities, until he left in 1997 to become Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information in […]
The video linked and embedded below was shared today on YouTube by the British Library. Title Libraries & AI – Opportunities or Threat? (British Library Debate/Panel) Recorded at the BL on January 23, 2025. Description Chaired by writer and broadcaster Timandra Harkness this debate looked into how AI might become more present in libraries, and […]
Web of Science Announces Launch of Community Forum For Library Professionals; & More News Headlines
| Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Publishing, Video Recordings
Clarivate Web of Science Announces Formation of Community Forum For Library Professionals Creative Commons (CC) Creative Commons Launches Its 2025-2028 Strategic Plan Public Libraries Video Recording: “Free for All: A Discussion with San Francisco City Librarian Michael Lambert & Former City Librarian Luis Herrera” (via SFPL/YouTube) Publishing The British Academy Selects Liverpool University Press As […]
A Collective Commitment to Strengthen Open Research Europe and Amplify Its Impact in Scholarly Publishing; Navigating Artificial Intelligence in Postsecondary Education; & More Headlines
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AI AI Agents Are Here. How Much Should We Let Them Do? (via WIRED) AP Signs AI Licensing Deal with Google Navigating Artificial Intelligence in Postsecondary Education: Building Capacity for the Road Ahead (via Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education) Share of Teens Using ChatGPT For Schoolwork Doubled From 2023 to 2024 (via […]
New AI Index Study Published by the University of South Carolina College of Information and Communications
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From the U. of South Carolina College of Information and Communication: A College of Information and Communications research team conducted a national survey on “Americans’ Use and Perception of AI Tools” in December 2024. This marks the second survey carried out on this topic, continuing their efforts to understand public attitudes toward AI technologies. The […]
