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From CNBC: Adobe on Tuesday launched an artificial intelligence assistant in its Reader and Acrobat applications that can produce summaries of and answer questions about PDFs and other documents. The AI assistant, currently in beta, is now available on Acrobat, “with features coming to Reader over the coming days and weeks,” according to a news release. […]
New Research Tools: “OMB Stands Up First Online Database of All Federal Programs”
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|From Federal News Radio: It took 13 years — with some stops, starts and stumbles in between — but as of today, the federal government now has a single website designed to deliver detailed, searchable information about all federal programs. The Office of Management and Budget flipped the switch Thursday on the new Federal Program Inventory, […]
New From The Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School: “WARC-GPT: An Open-Source Tool for Exploring Web Archives Using AI”
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users
|From the Library Innovation Lab, Harvard Law School: Today we’re releasing WARC-GPT: an open-source, highly-customizable Retrieval Augmented Generation [RAG] tool the web archiving community can use to explore the intersection between web archiving and AI. WARC-GPT allows for creating custom chatbots that use a set of web archive files as their knowledge base, letting users explore collections through […]
Report: “Colorado Librarians are Now Front-Line Crisis Workers, Managing Homeless Patrons, Mental Illness, Book-Banners”
Academic Libraries, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|From The Denver Post (about 2300 words): Walk into one of metro Denver’s public libraries — among the few spaces where anyone can come inside and exist for free — and you’ll find a microcosm of society’s most pressing issues: Homelessness in Denver is at a peak, evidenced by the dozens of patrons in the […]
Journal Article: “Technology Education In Academic Libraries: An Analysis of Library Workshops”
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|The article linked (abstract/snippets; full text paywalled) was recently published by the Journal of Academic Librarianship. Title Technology Education In Academic Libraries: An Analysis of Library Workshops Authors Gyuri Kang Indiana University Bloomington Donghee Sinn University at Albany, State University of New York Source Journal of Academic Librarianship Volume 50, Issue 2, March 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102856 […]
Law Review Article: “Book Banning Goes Digital: Libraries Suspending Their E-Book Services and the Complications It Poses For First Amendment Doctrine”
Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, School Libraries
|The article linked belowa was recently published by the Stanford Technology Law Review. Title Book Banning Goes Digital: Libraries Suspending Their E-Book Services and the Complications It Poses for First Amendment Doctrine Author Catherine E. Ferri Source Stanford Technology Law Review, Stanford Law SchoolVolume 27 Issue 1 Abstract Book banning predates the United States and […]
Research Tools: UMD-LinkUp Announce World’s First AI-Powered Job Mapping Tool to Track the Creation of AI Jobs
Data Files, Jobs, Journal Articles, Maps, News, Patrons and Users, Reports
|From the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland UMD-LinkUp, a collaboration between the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, LinkUp Job Market Data, and Outrigger Group, introduced the world’s first tool for mapping the creation of jobs requiring artificial intelligence skills: UMD-LinkUp AI Maps. AI Maps leverages LinkUp’s […]
DataCite Launches First Release of the Data Citation Corpus
Dashboards, Data Files, Funding, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users
|From a Make Data Count Post: DataCite, in partnership with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), is delighted to announce the first release of the Data Citation Corpus. A major milestone in the Make Data Count initiative, the release makes eight million data citations openly available and usable for the first time via an interactive dashboard and […]
Library Data: IMLS Launches New State Library Administrative Agency (SLAA) Survey Comparison Tool
Academic Libraries, Dashboards, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|From IMLS: The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has launched a new State Library Administrative Agency (SLAA) Survey Comparison Tool on IMLS.gov.The SLAA Survey Comparison Tool is an online dashboard that allows users to select and compare data from up to 3 states collected from the biennial SLAA Survey in a visually accessible […]
Suzanne Wones is the New University Librarian at UC Berkeley
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Profiles
|From UC Berkeley News: UC Berkeley has chosen a new University Librarian, Suzanne L. Wones, who is associate university librarian for discovery and access at Harvard Library. Wones, with 20 years’ experience as a leader in academic libraries, will start her new post July 1, following University Librarian Jeffrey MacKie-Mason’s retirement. In a recent interview with Berkeley News, […]