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From a BookNet Canada Post: In 2023, Canadian library book borrowers visited the library online and in-person more than ever before. Since 2020, the percentage of Canadian book borrowers who visited the library online at least one a month has increased 72% from 50% in 2020 to 86% in 2023. The percentage of book borrowers […]
Alabama NPR: Why Aren’t Some Librarians In Alabama in a Celebratory Mood? CHORUS CHORUS Forum: 12 Best Practices for Research Data Sharing – Event Summary, Comments ||| Slides & Video OCLC OCLC Global Council Elects Xuemao Wang, Re-Elects Anja Smit to Board of Trustees Toronto Public Library What is the Cost of Ransomware Attack on […]
From The Library of Congress: As a reader of the Signal, you may already be familiar with By the People, the Library of Congress’s crowdsourcing program that allows volunteers to transcribe, review, and tag digitized pages from the Library’s collections. Further, you may already know that, once completed, those transcriptions are released to the Library’s website, where […]
New Data From Open Syllabus: “OER Adoption Update: 2023”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From an Open Syllabus Blog Post (about 1500 words): With the release of version 2.11 of the OS dataset, we can update our reporting on adoption rates for open educational resources (OERs) — specifically, open textbooks and ‘open access’ monographs. [Clip] We track OER adoption via the appearance of titles on syllabi — the point […]
The Respectful Terminology Platform Project Receives Prestigious Grant from the Mellon Foundation
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Preservation
|Here’s the Full Text of the Announcement From the National Indigenous Knowledge and Language Alliance (NIKLA): The Respectful Terminology Platform Project (RTPP), an Indigenous-led initiative under the NIKLA-ANCLA umbrella, is honoured to announce that the project has been awarded a two-year grant for a total of $1.4M USD from the Mellon Foundation. Led by RTPP […]
The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island; Three More Books Reach Funding Target to Go Open Access Through Opening the Future at CEU Press; & More Headlines
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Funding, Jobs, Libraries, News, Open Access, Public Libraries
|AI Popular AI homework Helper Gauth Shares Owner with TikTok (via Axios) Alabama New Bill Would Ban “Sexual Content” From Minors’ Shelves In Public Libraries (via Alabama Political Reporter) Archives The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island (via WIRED) Coherent Digital New Tool on Policy Commons Enables Impact Analysis For Millions of […]
Issue No. 105 (Winter 2024) of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship is a special issue on science librarianship and social justice. Direct to Complete Table of Contents Letter From The Editor Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Social Justice by Isabel Altamirano (she/her), Ginny Boehme (she/her), Jeffra D. Bussmann (she/her/hers), Sam Hansen (they/them), […]
NY Times: “How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Libraries, News, Publishing, Video Recordings
|From The NY Times: The race to lead A.I. has become a desperate hunt for the digital data needed to advance the technology. To obtain that data, tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Meta have cut corners, ignored corporate policies and debated bending the law, according to an examination by The New York Times. At […]
AI CDC’s Generative AI Pilots Include School Closure Tracking, Website Updates (Via FedScoop) Even OpenAI says its new voice cloning tool has major potential for misuse (via NPR) This Tool Makes AI Models Hallucinate Cats to Fight Copyright Infringement (via NBC News) Alabama Former Prattville Library Director Sues Governing Board Over Termination (via Alabama Reflector) […]
From a BookNet Canada: The top-selling English language print book in Canada last year was Spare by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, according to new research released by BookNet Canada. Sales of this title drove a 16% increase in the Biography & Autobiography category when compared with 2022. For the first time this year, […]