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Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh City Clerk’s Office Launches City Archives Digital Collections Website
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Management and Leadership, Maps, News, Reports
|From the City of Pittsburgh: The Records Management Division of the Office of the City Clerk and City Council is pleased to announce the launch of a City Archives Digital Collections website, where extensive material from the archives will be made available to the public to browse and research online: https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/. The website features recently […]
Digital Collections: “All Surviving Drafts, Including Three Rediscovered Pages, of Origin of Species Revealed”
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|From the National University of Singapore: On the 164th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s magnum opus, all known surviving pages of the rough draft of Origin of species have been published online. Three recently rediscovered pages from Darwin’s draft of Origin of Species have been published for the first time together with all the other known surviving pages in a new […]
Springer Nature and Projekt DEAL to Build Upon Their Landmark Transformative Agreement; New Digital Archive Allows Black and Native Families to Connect with Ancestors Who Served in the Revolutionary War; & More Headlines
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, News, Springer Nature
|Clarivate Bringing Generative AI to the Web of Science Discussed in New Clarivate Post Disinformation Exclusive: Elon Musk’s X Restructuring Curtails Disinformation Research, Spurs Legal Fears (via Reuters) Infrastructure Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) Version 1.1: Reflections from Adopters (via Upstream/Force 11) Internet Archive Internet Archive Submits Comments on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Family […]
Chatbots May ‘Hallucinate’ More Often Than Many Realize; The Inside Scoop On Watermarking And Content Authentication; & More News Headlines
Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News
|Artificial Intelligence/GPT Chatbots May ‘Hallucinate’ More Often Than Many Realize (via NY Times) Inside Scoop On Watermarking And Content Authentication (via Technology Review) New from OpenAI “Introducing GPTs” (Cre ate Custom Versions of ChatGPT) Reflecting on Last Year’s AI Pilots (via JISC) CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources) Berthiaum, Mandel, and Wilkin Elected to […]
New ALA Report: “Gen Z & Millennials are Visiting the Library & Prefer Print Books”
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|From the American Library Association: Gen Z and Millennials are using public libraries, both in person and digitally, at higher rates compared to older generations, according to a new report released today by the American Library Association (ALA). Gen Z and Millennials: How They Use Public Libraries and Identify Through Media Use draws on a nationally […]
Dr. Adriene Lim to Retire as Dean of the University of Maryland Libraries, June 2024
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|From the University of Maryland (Full Text): Today, the University of Maryland announced the upcoming retirement of Dr. Adriene Lim, dean of University of Maryland Libraries. In the campus message, Senior Vice President and Provost Jennifer King Rice noted that Dean Lim “has been a tireless leader for the Libraries, helping to achieve the Libraries’ substantial […]
Report: “Toronto Public Library Facing Disruptions Due to Cyberattack”
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|UPDATED POST (December 21, 2023) Toronto Public Library Service Reductions Projected To Last Months After Ransomware Attack (via Globe and Mail) UPDATED POST (November 29, 2023) Public Libraries: A Month After A Cyber Attack Took Out Many Toronto Public Library Services, A Library Manager Speaks Out (via CBC) UPDATED POST (November 24, 2023) Toronto Public […]
The Digital Florentine Codex: A Rare 500-Year-Old Manuscript Gets a Second Life Online
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|From the Getty Research Institute: After seven years and the efforts of dozens of specialists from around the world, the Florentine Codex, the most important manuscript surviving from early colonial Mexico and rich in pre-colonial Indigenous knowledge, is now available to explore online with new translations and features. The Florentine Codex (so named because it resides […]
Digital Collections: Over 60 Chaucer Manuscripts Now Available Online From the British Library
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|From the British Library: We hold the world’s largest surviving collection of Chaucer’s works, and this year we have reached a major milestone. Thanks to generous funding provided by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Peck Stacpoole Foundation, and the American Trust for the British Library, the Library has completed the digitisation of all of […]
Digitized Document Collection from U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee Now Publicly Available Through National Library of Medicine (NLM)
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|From the National Library of Medicine: A collection of reproduced documents from the 1932 study by the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) on the effects of untreated syphilis in Black men at Tuskegee Institute is now available as a digitized collection through the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The USPHS Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee was conducted […]