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Report: Trump Fires Colleen Shogan, Archivist of the United States
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From CBS News: President Trump has fired Archivist of the United States Colleen J. Shogan, the government official responsible for preserving and providing access to government records. Sergio Gor, director of the Presidential Personnel Office, announced Shogan’s dismissal Friday night. Shogan has held the job since 2023. Read the Complete Article From 404 Media: “It was an […]
Video: Heather Staines Interviews Ivan Oransky; Andrew Beckerman Named Chair of the Dryad Board; Invest in Open Infrastructure Announces $2.7M Commitment from Founding Group For the IOI Fund for Network Adoption; & More Headlines
| Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, News, Preservation, Profiles, Reports
AI AI Biases Towards Rich and Powerful Surnames (preprint; via arXiv) Google’s AI Super Bowl Ad is Wrong About Cheese (via The Verge) CLOCKSS A Collaborative Future: CLOCKSS and Scottish University Press (SUP) Data Curation Network (DCN) Data Curation Network (DCN) Releases 2024 Annual Report Dryad Andrew Beckerman Named Chair of the Dryad Board Interview […]
New IMLS Report: “State-Level Analysis of Public Library Service Adaptations in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic”
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From the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS): The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced today the release of a report “State-Level Analysis of Public Library Service Adaptations in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.” This report focuses on state- and territory-level profiles covering public library financial health, resources, services, usage, and staffing […]
Journal Article: “College Students’ Credibility Assessments Of GenAI-Generated Information For Academic Tasks: An Interview Study”
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The article linked below was recently published by JASIST (Journal of the Association For Information Science and Technology) Title College Students’ Credibility Assessments Of GenAI-Generated Information For Academic Tasks: An Interview Study Authors Wonchan Choi University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Hyerin Bak University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Jiaxin An University of Texas at Austin Yan Zhang University of Texas […]
Video Interview: A Conversation with the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden
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From the David Rubenstein Show/Bloomberg: Carla Hayden is the first female and only the 14th Librarian of Congress in history since the Library of Congress was established in 1800. In an episode of “The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations,” she talks about the library’s history; how it’s evolved into the largest library in […]
The Rise of “AI Agents; Dr. Timnit Gebru Named 2025 Miles Conrad Awardee; & More Headlines
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles, Public Libraries
AI One Chatbot Safety Benchmark to Test Them All (via IEEE Spectrum) The Rise of “AI Agents”: What They Are and How to Manage the Risks (via World Economic Forum) Center For Research Libraries (via CRL) Interview: Introducing Jacob Nadal, CRL’s New President (via CRL) Digital Humanities Other Stories to Tell: Recovery Scholarship and the […]
A New Research Initiative From the Harvard Law School Library: The Institutional Data Initiative (IDI) Launches Today
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From the IDI: Today we’re launching the Institutional Data Initiative (IDI), a research initiative at the Harvard Law School Library. IDI is dedicated to supporting our peers as they steward humanity’s knowledge and seek to provide the broadest access to it in the age of AI, just as they’ve done for so much media over […]
New From the Library of Congress: U.S. Elections Web Archive Data Resources Available; Reflections on Collection Development: One Year at CLOCKSS and Looking Ahead to 2025; & More Headlines
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AI ChatGPT Now Understands Real-Time Video, Seven Months After OpenAI First Demoed It (via TC) Google Gemini Now Summarizes Entire Folders in Google Drive (via 9to5 Google) Google’s New Project Astra Could Be Generative AI’s Killer App (via Tech Review) & Google Reveals Gemini 2, AI Agents, and a Prototype Personal Assistant (via WIRED) Interview: […]
Libraries: Anchoring The Future of Software Preservation (Interview with Julien Roche, President of Liber)
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From Software Heritage: Imagine the Tower of Babel, but instead of chaos and confusion, it stands as a symbol of collaboration and understanding. This seemingly paradoxical image perfectly encapsulates the mission of the Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche (Liber). The association brings together over 400 national, specialized, and university libraries from 40 countries. In […]
Clarivate Releases Highly Cited Researchers 2024 List; Altmetric Now Tracks Clinical Impact of Research; & More Headlines
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AI AI Companies Are Trying to Get MIT Press Books (via 404 Media) Could Artificial Intelligence Help Catalog Thousands of Digital Library Books? An Interview with Abigail Potter and Caroline Saccucci (via Library of Congress) Altmetric Altmetric Now Tracks Clinical Impact of Research Clarivate Clarivate Releases Highly Cited Researchers 2024 List ||| Direct to the […]
