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Free Law Project Powers ProPublica’s New App About SCOTUS Investments; La Bibliothèque Mondiale du Cheval (World Horse Library) Launches; & More Items
Interviews, Lecture, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Profiles, Video Recordings
|AI/GPT Interview: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Discusses the Promise and Potential Perils of AI (via Morning Edition/NPR) Digital Libraries Learn About: La Bibliothèque Mondiale du Cheval (World Horse Library) Research Tools Free Law Project Powers ProPublica’s New App About SCOTUS Investments (via FLP) ||| Direct to ProPublica’s New “Supreme Connections” App
Journal Article: “Swimming Upstream in the Academic Library: Exploring Faculty Needs for Library Streaming Media Collections”
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Funding, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles
|The article linked below was recently published by Evidence Based Library And Information Practice (EBLIP). Title Swimming Upstream in the Academic Library: Exploring Faculty Needs for Library Streaming Media Collections Authors Elsa Loftis Portland State University Carly Lamphere Reed College Source Evidence Based Library And Information Practice (EBLIP) Vol. 18 No. 4 (2023) DOI: 10.18438/eblip30317 […]
AI/GPT Google’s NotebookLM is Now Availble in the US and Adds More Than a Dozen New Features (via The Keyword) Lorcan Dempsey: “Using a Custom GPT to Ask About Collections and Collaboration” Infrastructure Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) Will Launch Infra Frinder Tool in January 2024 (via IOI) Public Libraries An Interview with Seattle’s Chief […]
Wiley to Stop Using “Hindawi” Name Amid $18 Million Revenue Decline; Council Bluff Library App Among Many Impacted by Vendor’s Unplanned Outage; & More News Headlines
Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles, Public Libraries, Springer Nature
|AI How Can Universities Create AI Tools for their Communities? An Interview with the Creators of UC San Diego’s TritonGPT (via Ithaka S+R) Clarivate Clarivate Add More Than 172 Million Linked Cited References From ProQuest Dissertations and Theses on the Web Of Science Iowa Council Bluff Library App Among Many Impacted by Vendor’s Unplanned Outage […]
New International Labour Organizations (ILO) Research Repository Showcases ILO Research and Expertise
Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, News, Open Access, Profiles, Publishing, Reports
|From an ILO Announcement: The International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched a new Research Repository that provides better access to ILO research, as well as information on the work of ILO experts.The new repository creates a one-stop-shop for ILO research publications and other knowledge assets. It already contains around 20,000 publications, mostly published since 2000. […]
Report: “An Apparent Cyberattack Hushes the British Library”
Interviews, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Profiles, Public Libraries
|Note: infoDOCKET first shared a report about the BL cyberattack on Wednesday. In Canada, the Toronto Public Library continues to deal with a cyber incident one week after it was first reported. From The NY Times: On Saturday [10/28], the library was hit by what it is calling a “cyber incident.” Ever since, its website […]
Alabama: “State Library Director Nancy Pack Concedes to [Governor Kay] Ivey, Dissolves State Board Membership with American Library Association
Associations and Organizations, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles, Public Libraries
|UPDATED POST (November 3, 2023): Alabamians React to Public Library Service Leaving the American Library Association (via AL.com) Librarians and other organizations this week expressed disdain or support for Alabama Public Library Service (APLS) director Nancy Pack’s recommendation to leave the American Library Association (ALA). Read the Complete Article —End Update— From 1819 News: A […]
New Position Paper From LIS Forward: “Ensuring a Vibrant Future for LIS in iSchools” (Prerelease)
Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Profiles
|From the LIS Forward Website: We are pleased to make available the prerelease of the LIS Forward position paper, Ensuring a Vibrant Future for LIS in iSchools, at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology(ASIS&T) being held in London, UK October 27-31, 2023. Several members of LIS Forward led a session at […]
Video: Watch a C-SPAN Interview with the Archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan
Archives and Special Collections, Interviews, News, Profiles
|From C-SPAN: President Biden’s choice for the 11th Archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan, talked in her Washington, D.C. office about her stewardship of the National Archives and the controversies over White House records involving Donald Trump and Joe Biden. She is the first woman to head the Archives, home to the Declaration of […]
From the Library of Congress: Following its annual National Hispanic Heritage Month tradition, the Hispanic Reading Room in the Latin American, Caribbean and European division (LAC&E) announces the digital release of 50 new streaming audio recordings in the PALABRA Archive — the Library’s treasure trove of recordings of 20th and 21st century Luso-Hispanic poets and writers reading from their works. With […]