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From PEN America: The number of individual books banned by schools is soaring to a record level, according to a new PEN America report Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis. The report documents over 4,000 instances of book banning during the first half of the current school year – more than in the entire previous […]
From a Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) Post: A decade ago, the world’s best AI systems were incapable of classifying images at a human level. They could not understand language, struggled with visual reasoning, and flunked the most basic reading comprehension tests. Today, AI systems routinely exceed human performance on standard benchmarks. This is […]
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 […]
Tennessee: Democrats Oppose Bill to Have Books Removed From School Libraries; North Carolina: Durham County Main Library Evacuated Because Of Bomb Threat Before LGBTQ Story Hour; & More News Headlines
Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Publishing, School Libraries
|AI Google’s New Technique Gives LLMs Infinite Context (via Venture Beat) AR/VR Meta Wants to Put Students and Teachers in Quest VR Headsets (via Axios) ||| Official Meta Blog Post Digital Science/Metaphacts Metaphacts and Dimensions Launch the Dimensions Knowledge Graph, Powered by metaphactory Iowa Five Publishers Join PRH in Its Lawsuit of Iowa (via Publishing […]
The article linked below was recently published by the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. Title Journalistic Interventions Matter: Understanding How Americans Perceive Fact-Checking Labels Authors Chenyan Jia Northeastern University Taeyoung Lee University of Houston Source Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review DOI: 10.37016/mr-2020-138 Essay Summary To examine how people perceive the efficacy of different […]
NARA: National Archives Unveils New Mass Digitization Center in College Park
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|From a National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Post: A new state-of-the-art digitization center at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in College Park, Maryland, is allowing the agency to provide greater public access to the country’s most important historical federal government records faster than ever before. Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, Representative Steny […]
IFLA Releases “Open Access Vocabulary” Reference Guide
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Open Access
|From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA): A shared understanding of the key terminology used in Open Access across regions and languages is essential for awareness raising within the profession and communication with stakeholders. The purpose of IFLA’s Open Access vocabulary is to collate the most widely used terms and definitions, with […]
From PBS NewsHour: Librarians are often caught in the middle of these campaigns and state legislative attempts to censor library materials. They’ve faced criminalization and harassment and in some cases have been fired after refusing to move or remove books. The PBS NewsHour spoke to six librarians about what they’ve experienced: Suzette Baker lost her job […]
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 […]