MORE POSTS FROM APRIL 2025
Hawaii Proposed Funding Cuts Could Reduce Access to Hawai’i Libraries (via Hawaii Civil Beat) Iowa It’s Brutal:’ Sudden Grants Cuts Devastate Iowa Museums, Libraries and Cultural Nonprofits (Via Des Moines Register) Legal Rhode Island District Court Holds Motion Hearing on Fate of IMLS (via PW) See Also: Analysis/Comment on the Hearing by EveryLibrary Exec. Director, […]
The article linked below was recently published by Quantitative Science Studies (QSS). Title Where There’s a Will There’s a Way: ChatGPT is Used More for Science in Countries Where It is Prohibited Authors Honglin Bao University of Chicago Mengyi Sun Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Misha Teplitskiy (University of Michigan) Source Quantitative Science Studies 1–23 DOI: […]
From WOSU: The Dublin-based nonprofit OCLC has filed a lawsuit against the company Baker & Taylor in the Southern District Court of Ohio over claims of interference with contracts and misuse of OCLC’s product, WorldCat. Both companies work with libraries, offering software, technology services and cataloging programs. The suit was filed in late March and […]
Report: “Legislature Moves West Virginia Libraries Under Tourism Department”
| Associations and Organizations, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
From The Register-Herald: Republicans stripped the credential qualification previously required for the state’s library director position this past legislative session. House Bill 2009 dissolved the Department of Arts, Culture and History and moved its functions under the Department of Tourism. Libraries, which previously were under the umbrella of Arts, Culture and History moved into the […]
An Archivist’s Job is to ‘Keep The Receipts.’ What Happens When They Can’t Do Their Job?; ‘A Death Blow’: Filmmakers, Archivists Reel As DOGE Suddenly Cuts Their Funding; & More Headlines
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News
Archivists and Archives An Archivist’s Job is to ‘Keep The Receipts.’ What Happens When They Can’t Do Their Job? (via The Boston Globe) Data U.S. Climate Data Websites Go Dark (via Science) Democracy Op/Ed From EveryLibrary, American Alliance of Museums; League of Women Voters: The Trump Administration is Not Just Erasing History, They’re Rewriting the […]
From The Sacramento Bee: The federal government withheld the last 21% of a $15.7 million grant that the California State Library was slated to receive this fiscal year, Jeff Barbosa, a spokesperson for the library, said in an email. It’s not clear if the state library will receive funding from IMLS in the upcoming fiscal […]
From The Guardian: Twelve students studying in Pentagon schools in the US and around the world are suing the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, over the book bans he has instigated to remove titles on race and gender from their libraries. A lawsuit lodged on the students’ behalf by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday […]
UPDATED POST (Additional Coverage) (4/15): Army and Air Force Libraries are Ordered to Review Books For DEI Material (via AP) Army and Air Force libraries have been told to go through their stacks to find books related to diversity, equity and inclusion, according to new memos obtained by The Associated Press. [Clip] The Air Force memo, […]
German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) Releases Discussion Paper on the Direct Funding and Evaluation of Scientific Journals
| Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access
From the News Release Access to scientific knowledge is essential for science, as well as for tackling societal challenges. However, the limitation of this access by paywalls comes at a cost to public finances and also, increasingly, to scientific quality. In light of this situation, the authors of a discussion paper published today by the […]
Brewster Kahle Accepts Project Uil Award from Dutch Wikipedia Community; Proposed Legislation to Limit Book Bans in Nevada Libraries Advances in State Assembly; & More Headlines
| Awards, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access, PLOS, School Libraries
AI Overcoming AI Hallucinations: Truist’s Chandra Kapireddy (via Sloan Business Review) Training LLMs to Self-Detoxify Their Language (via MIT News) Alabama Librarians Say Alabama Anti-DEI Education Law Impacts Morale: ‘Worried’ (via AL.com) Citation Analysis Exclusive: The Most-Cited Papers of the Twenty-First Century (via Nature) ||| Archived Version Science’s Golden Oldies: The Decades-Old Research Papers Still […]
