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Atlanta University Center (AUC) Library CEO & Director, Loretta Parham to Retire This Year
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|From AUC (via PR Newswire) (Full Text): Loretta Parham, chief executive officer and director of the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center Inc., will retire after 19 years of outstanding leadership of the Library. The Board of Trustees and governing body of the AUC Woodruff Library is announcing her planned retirement date of June […]
Athena Jackson Named UCLA University Librarian
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|From the UCLA Library (Full Text): Athena N. Jackson has been named UCLA’s Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian. Her appointment will begin March 1. Jackson, the former director of special collections at UCLA Library, has served since 2021 as dean of libraries at the University of Houston, where she holds the Elizabeth D. Rockwell […]
Digital Collections: Georgia State University Library Completes Grant Making Recordings, Speeches, and More From The Southern Labor Archives Audio Collection Digitally Accessible
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|From the Georgia State University Library: Georgia State University Library has completed a $23,945 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to support digitizing audio holdings in the 20th and 21st century Southern Labor Archives. As a result of the project, 523 recordings that were once inaccessible due to their format and at […]
Library of Congress Awards Nearly $400,000 to Six Projects Highlighting Uses of Digital Collections
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|From LC: The Library of Congress today announced that six awards totaling nearly $400,000 have been awarded from the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative through a program available to Higher Education Institutions and Libraries, Archives and Museums. The program is part of the Library’s Of the People: Widening the Path initiative with support from the Mellon Foundation. The 2024 awardees will use these […]
Journal Article: “Quality Assessment of Research Comparisons in the Open Research Knowledge Graph: A Case Study”
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|The article linked below was published online today by JLIS.it: Italian Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science. Title Quality Assessment of Research Comparisons in the Open Research Knowledge Graph: A Case Study Authors Jennifer D’Souza TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology Julia Evans TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology Lars […]
Report: “British Library Restores Access to Online Collection Following Ransomware Attack”
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|From The Record: The British Library — the national library of the United Kingdom and an archive of millions of books and manuscripts — began restoring access to its online catalog on Monday following a ransomware attack last October. [Clip] The online system, for now, will be the only way to see the rarest books, […]
Florida: Jacksonville Public Library Library Lands $1 Million Grant For Black History Collection
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|From Jacksonville Today/WJCT: A $1 million grant will enable the Jacksonville Public Library to digitize more of the history of Jacksonville’s Black community and share it and other documents with other libraries and researchers. The grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, announced Wednesday, is the largest private donation in the library’s history. It will be […]
NEH Announces $33.8 Million for 260 Humanities Projects Nationwide
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|From the National Endowment For the Humanities (NEH): The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $33.8 million in grants for 260 humanities projects across the country. Among these are grants to support research for a cultural, political, and legal history of cancer in America that focuses on the Ames test for carcinogens; create a baccalaureate degree program […]
National Centre For AI in Tertiary Education Releases Updated Version (1.3) of “A Generative AI Primer”; Denver’s Center on Colfax Reopens Free LGBTQ+ Library; & More Headlines
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|AI/GPT National Centre For AI in Tertiary Education Releases Updated Version (1.3) of “A Generative AI Primer” (via JISC) Coalition For Networked Information More CNI Fall 23′ Meeting Videos Live Colorado Denver’s Center on Colfax Reopens Free LGBTQ+ Library (via KUSA) College & Research Libraries (C&RL) “Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications” is the Focus of […]
HistoryMakers Oral History Archive Seeks to Protect Stories of Black Lived Experience: Interview with Julieanna Richardson, Founder of HistoryMakers; How Librarian Spies Helped Win World War II; & More
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|Archives Citizen Archivist Year in Review (via NARA) HistoryMakers Oral History Archive Seeks to Protect Stories of Black Lived Experience: Interview with Julieanna Richardson, Founder of HistoryMakers (via Hear & Now/WBUR) Librarians How Librarian Spies Helped Win World War II (via VOA News)