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Digital Public Library of American (DPLA) Announces $750,000 Grant From Sloan Foundation to “Make Cultural Treasures Freely Available on Wikipedia”
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Here’s the Full Text of a DPLA Announcement: A $750,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to the Digital Public Library of America will fuel a multi-year effort to connect America’s cultural heritage institutions with Wikipedia, the world’s free online encyclopedia. This grant will offer an opportunity to make millions of cultural treasures from […]
Journal Article: “How Librarians and Firefighters Built a Special Library in Champaign, Illinois, USA: A Community Informatics Story”
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The article linked below was recently published by Digital Transformation and Society. Title How Librarians and Firefighters Built a Special Library in Champaign, Illinois, USA: A Community Informatics Story Authors Claudia Grisales Bohorquez University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Lian Ruan University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Kate Williams University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Source Digital Transformation and Society Article publication date: […]
A Selection of Ten New or Recently Updated Reports From the Congressional Research Service (CRS)
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Bridging the Digital Divide: Broadband Workforce Considerations for the 118th Congress COVID-Related Restrictions on Entry into the United States Under Title 42: Litigation and Legal Considerations FCC’s National Broadband Map: Implications for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program Foreign Leaders Addressing Congress Immigrants’ Access to Health Care Introduction to Criminal Referrals by Congress […]
Brent Reidy Named The New York Public Library’s Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries
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From NYPL: The New York Public Library (NYPL) is pleased to announce that it has named Brent Reidy its Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries. Reidy served as the Library’s interim director since April of this year, following the retirement of William Kelly, the former Mellon Director. Reidy’s tenure will begin immediately. Reidy […]
New Preprint: “Comparing Scientific Abstracts Generated by ChatGPT to Original Abstracts Using an Artificial Intelligence Output Detector, Plagiarism Detector, and Blinded Human Reviewers”
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The preprint linked below was posted to bioRxiv on December 27, 2022. Title Comparing Scientific Abstracts Generated by ChatGPT to Original Abstracts Using an Artificial Intelligence Output Detector, Plagiarism Detector, and Blinded Human Reviewers Authors Catherine A. Gao Northwestern University Frederick M. Howard University of Chicago Nikolay S. Markov Northwestern University Emma C. Dyer University […]
White House Releases U.S. Government’s Fifth Open Government National Action Plan, Includes Commitment to “Improve Access to Government Data, Research, and Information” & More News Headlines
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Colorado: State Archives Soaked After Pipe Bursts in Government Archive Building (via CBS Denver) Connecticut: After Pipe Bursts, ‘No Estimate’ for How Long Hartford Public Library’s Downtown Branch to Be Closed (via Connecticut Public) White House Releases U.S. Government’s Fifth Open Government National Action Plan, Includes Commitment to “Improve Access to Government Data, Research, and […]
BookNet Canada Releases Lists of the Most Circulated Books of 2022 in Canadian Public Libraries
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From a BookNet Canada Blog Post: What books did Canadian library patrons love in 2022? In this blog post, we share lists of the most circulated books in the Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Juvenile & Young Adult subject categories, both overall and from Canadian contributors. The following lists were created based on data from January 3, […]
Journal Article: “Defining Artificial Intelligence for Librarians”
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The article linked to below was recently published by the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. Title Defining Artificial Intelligence for Librarians Authors Andrew M. Cox University of Sheffield Suvodeep Mazumdar University of Sheffield Source Journal of Librarianship and Information Science First published online December 22, 2022 DOI: 10.1177/09610006221142029 Abstract The aim of the paper […]
Association of American Publishers (AAP) Reports”Publishing Industry Down 5.1% Year-To-Date and Down 9.3% for October Trade (Consumer Book) Revenues Down 13.7% in October, and Down 5.1% Year-to-Date”
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From the Association of American Publishers (AAP): The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today released its StatShot report for October 2022 reflecting reported revenue for Trade (Consumer Books), Higher Education Course Materials, and Professional Publishing. The report does not include PreK-12 revenue due to delays in data collection. Total revenues across all categories, excluding PreK-12, […]
Alaska: Anchorage Public Library Finally Has a Confirmed Director (via Alaska Public Media) Most Circulated Books of 2022 in Canadian Public Libraries (via BookNet Canada) Six New Projects Launch Under the RDA Open Calls Programme of the EOSC Future Project (via Research Data Alliance)
