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Roger Schonfeld Named Managing Director, JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services
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From a JSTOR Announcement (Full Text): ITHAKA announced today that Roger Schonfeld will lead JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services as its managing director. Launched in April 2025, JSTOR Digital Stewardship is a new digital collection stewardship solution designed to help libraries and archives describe, preserve, manage, and share their unique collections at scale. This service integrates next generation […]
Statement: Connecticut Libraries Applaud State House and Senate Passage of E-Book Legislation, Urge Governor Lamont’s Signature
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Update 4 (5/19; 10:00am) Statement From Library Futures: Connecticut Passes Landmark Ebook Bill Based on Library Futures Model Legislation The bill’s “trigger” provision of the bill means that it will not take effect until a state or states with a combined population of 7 million adopt similar laws. While this provision means the bill is […]
From the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University: Late last night, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reversed course and committed to restore climate-focused webpages purged from its websites after Earthjustice and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY), NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), and the Environmental […]
The preprint linked below was recently posted on arXiv. Title Student Perspectives on the Benefits and Risks of AI in Education Authors Griffin Pitts University of Florida Viktoria Marcus University of Florida Sanaz Motamedi Pennsylvania State University Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2505.02198 Abstract The use of chatbots equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) in educational settings […]
AP: “President Fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as White House Continues Purge of Perceived Trump Opponents”
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Ed. Note: We will update this report with additional media coverage and statements as they become available Recent Additions (Last Update 1:30pm; May 16) Donald Trump’s Library Of Congress Fight is Really About the Separation of Powers (via AP) Especially worrisome to them is potential meddling with the Congressional Research Service, known as the nonpartisan […]
From Public Knowledge: Today, Public Knowledge joined 16 other public interest, consumer rights, and library groups in a letter urging Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson to protect consumers in the digital marketplace by establishing clear ground rules for digital ownership and sales of goods. The groups argue that “ownership must mean something in the digital […]
Report: “Expertise is Disappearing’: How Canadian Film Archives are Fighting to Save Nearly Forgotten Culture”
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From The Globe and Mail: The preservation of Canada’s audio-visual history relies on these archives, but those who run them say they are struggling with a lack of funding, resources and postsecondary programs to bring in new archivists. Recently, they’ve also been calling attention to the Trump administration’s cuts to funding and jobs in the […]
The article linked below (full text) was recently published by npj Heritage Science. Title A Bibliometric Insight Into Immersive Technologies For Cultural Heritage Preservation Authors Leilei Jiang (INTI International University), Jingjing Li ( University of Tsukuba), Walton Wider ( INTI International University & Wekerle Sandor Uzleti Foiskola), et al. Source npj Heritage Science 13, 126 […]
SF Chronicle: “Trump’s War on Information Meets a Dedicated Adversary: University Librarians”
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From The San Francisco Chronicle: More than 50,000 government webpages have been affected, according to an evolving snapshot by the End of Term Archive, a nonpartisan project that began in 2008 to record government websites at the end of each presidential term, and the Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library formed nearly 30 years ago in San […]
Realising Potential, Supporting Users: International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Statement on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence; Crawford County Library System to Pay Plaintiff Attorney Fees (via 40/29TV; & More Headlines
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AI Realising Potential, Supporting Users: International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Statement on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Arkansas Crawford County Library System to Pay Plaintiff Attorney Fees (via 40/29TV) Digital Equity Announcing a Study: Assessing The Impact of Federal Funding in Promoting Digital Equity (via Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy) Digital Preservation First 100 […]
