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Communications of the ACM Relaunched as Open Access, Web-First Publication; Wiley Announces Pilot of New AI-Powered Papermill Detection Service; & More Headlines
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|ACRL Michelle Demeter Appointed College & Research Libraries Editor AI Anthropic (Providers of Claude) Launches a Library of Chatbot Prompts (via ZDNet) Croissant: A Metadata Format For ML-Ready Datasets (via Google Research) Wiley Announces Pilot of New AI-Powered Papermill Detection Service Canada Is Book Banning Coming to Canada? Libraries, Book Stores, Authors Watching Closely (about […]
What Motivates People to Trust ‘AI’ Systems?; ORCID Releases 2023 Annual Report ; & More Headlines
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|AI Combating Deepfakes (Spotlight Brief, via GAO) Google Restricts Gemini From Answering Election-Related Queries Worldwide (via MediaPost) Guiding Your AI Journey: Essential Resources (via JISC) What Motivates People to Trust ‘AI’ Systems? (preprint, via arXiv) Internet Fibre and Fixed Wireless Access are the Two Fastest Growing Fixed Broadband Technologies in the OECD (via OECD) ORCID […]
Report: What Brings Gen Z to the Library?
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|From an EdSurge Article by Jennifer Howard: Gen Zers, born between 1997 and 2012, spend a lot of time online, consuming and creating digital content. Ninety-two percent check social media daily. But they still like print, and they still like to go to the library, according to a survey of Gen Z and Millennial public library […]
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) Releases 2023 Annual Highlights Report
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|From DOAJ News: We’re excited to share our first ‘Annual Highlights’, which outlines some of our activities, projects and statistics from 2023. 2023 has been a fantastic year for DOAJ, where we’ve not only celebrated 20 years of being a key open infrastructure, but also have reached 20,000 journals. Read the Complete Post From the […]
From the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL): The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) Task Force on Machine Learning and AI has released its interim report for feedback from the academic community. The interim report describes use cases for machine learning in university libraries and recommends projects that incorporate machine learning technologies. It also […]
The preprint linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title It Takes a Village: A Distributed Training Model for AI-Based Chatbots Authors Colleen Estes University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press Beth Twomey University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press Annie Johnson University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press Source via arXiv arXiv:2403.01545 [cs.DL] Abstract In […]
From an EveryLibrary Institute Blog Post: In “Divisive Politics and Threats to Academic Libraries,” the EveryLibrary Institute hopes to encourage academic librarians to proactively redefine their roles, engage in policy advocacy, and acquire the advanced training needed to lead in an environment that is fraught with legislative and ideological challenges. We have analyzed the situation […]
Libraries Support Data-Driven Decision Making: Report From OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) & LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) Facilitated Discussion
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|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/CARL Marrakesh Treaty Task Force Issues Final Report, Recommendations to Increase Global Lending of Accessible Materials
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|Here’s the Full Text of the ARL/CARL Publication Announcement: Globally, only seven percent of all printed works are available in accessible formats. The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled is meant to remedy this dearth of accessible-format works. Under the treaty, participating […]
Report: “Colorado Librarians are Now Front-Line Crisis Workers, Managing Homeless Patrons, Mental Illness, Book-Banners”
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|From The Denver Post (about 2300 words): Walk into one of metro Denver’s public libraries — among the few spaces where anyone can come inside and exist for free — and you’ll find a microcosm of society’s most pressing issues: Homelessness in Denver is at a peak, evidenced by the dozens of patrons in the […]