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From The Bookseller: Penguin Random House Audio’s (PRH Audio) global president Amanda D’Acierno told the 2024 FutureBook conference that it would be “almost negligent” if the audiobook publisher was not experimenting with Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies at this time. The publisher recently announced that it has been using artificial voices, generated with AI, in a small number of cases […]
Utah: How the Salt Lake City Public Library is “Filling the Gaps in Homeless Services”
| Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
From Governing: Two years ago, SLCPL hired a licensed social worker for the first time in an effort to deepen the library’s services for the homeless. The hire was recommended by a staff working group to address concerns that staff weren’t trained to provide the help some patrons clearly needed. When Nicole Campolucci took the […]
AI: “Bluesky May Not Train AI on Your Posts, But Others Can, and Users are Furious”; “Mississippi State University Libraries to Digitize Untold Civil Rights Stories with CLIR Grant”; & More News Headlines
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
AI Bluesky May Not Train AI on Your Posts, But Others Can, and Users are Furious (via Neowin) Association of Research Libraries (ARL) ARL/CDL Machine Actionable Plans (MAP) Pilot Team Visits University of Colorado Boulder (via ARL) Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Biodiversity Heritage Library Datasets Now Openly Accessible on the Amazon Web Services Cloud Idaho […]
Digital Preservation: “Act Now to Stop Millions of Research Papers From Disappearing”
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing, Reports
From a Nature Editorial: Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, which Nature reported on earlier this year, was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve, who studies technology and publishing at Birkbeck, University of London. Eve sampled more than seven million articles with unique digital object identifiers (DOIs), a […]
Ed. Note: Congratulations to Jason Priem and the entire OurResearch team! We use Open Alex daily and look forward to the upcoming enhancements. From the OurResearch Blog: OurResearch is proud to announce a grant of $688,800 from The Navigation Fund to develop and launch an open, sustainable, web-based research intelligence (RI) module for the OpenAlex website. Our […]
We Need to Start Wrestling with the Ethics of AI Agents; How Libraries Shape the Future Of Research Infrastructure; & More Headlines
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Springer Nature
AI How Federal Funding Terms and Conditions Could Encourage Safe Artificial Intelligence Development (via RAND) Research University Strategies for Implementing Generative Artificial Intelligence Systems: Webinar (via CNI) We Need to Start Wrestling with the Ethics of AI Agents (via Technology Review) Accessibility W3C Web Accessibility Work Boosted by Ford Foundation Core Funding (via W3C) Infrastructure […]
The article linked below was recently published by Scientometrics. Title Science Communicators, Flat-Earthers, or Fitness Coaches: Who Is Citing Scientific Publications in YouTube Video Descriptions? Authors Olga Zagovora University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Landau, Germany German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, Germany Katrin Weller Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany Heinrich Heine […]
via E-Mail From Dr. Jennifer Steele (Louisiana St. University): Are you a librarian at an academic library who would be willing to share about your library’s accessibility efforts? Consider completing the following survey. The survey is being conducted by Dr. Jennifer Steele with the School of Library and Information Studies. Dr. Steele can be reached […]
Library of Congress: “Collaging with the Library’s Digital Collections”
| Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
From a LC Blog Post by Brian Foo: In 2018, the Library launched the very popular Free To Use and Reuse Sets, where staff curate thematic sets of items from our digital collections that are either in the public domain, have no known copyright restrictions or have been cleared by the copyright owner for public use. The public is not only free to enjoy and […]
From The Michigan Daily: The University of Michigan Libraries Territorial Acknowledgment Working Group hosted an event Thursday afternoon centered around the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Libraries’ Maawn Doobiigeng System, a system that aims to align library cataloging methods with traditional Anishinaabe values. The event, “Creating Maawn Doobiigeng: Developing An Anishinaabe Classification System for a Tribal Library,” was attended by […]
