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From a FEMA Announcement: The Climate Risk and Resilience Portal (ClimRR) is an award-winning, free, national online source for sophisticated climate data down to the neighborhood level. ClimRR provides easy access to climate data to integrate future conditions into Hazard Mitigation Plans, land use plans, infrastructure design, and FEMA’s Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool (RAPT). ClimRR data is available […]
Report: “Appeals Court Blocks Texas From Enforcing Book Rating Law”
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|Ed. Note: We will be updating this report with additional coverage, statements/reactions, etc. if/when they become available. UPDATE 3: PEN America Expresses Relief Over Court Injunction Against Texas Law Requiring Sexual Ratings For School Books UPDATE 2: Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms That Texas Book Ban Law is Unconstitutional (via AAP) UPDATE 1: Full […]
Journal Article: “Quality Assessment of Research Comparisons in the Open Research Knowledge Graph: A Case Study”
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|The article linked below was published online today by JLIS.it: Italian Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science. Title Quality Assessment of Research Comparisons in the Open Research Knowledge Graph: A Case Study Authors Jennifer D’Souza TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology Julia Evans TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology Lars […]
Joint Statement: Judge Rules Lawsuit Challenging Escambia County, Florida Book Ban Can Move Forward
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|Ed. Note: We will update this post with media reports about the ruling as they become available. UPDATE 1: Book Publishers, Authors And Escambia Parents Get ‘Major Win’ In Book Ban Lawsuit (via Pensacola News Journal) In a hearing Wednesday at the federal courthouse in Pensacola, U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell II heard oral […]
Kansas City Public Library Director and Chief Executive John Herron Announces Resignation; Major Medical Journal Reverses Itself on ‘Research Parasites’ As NIH Beefs Up Data Sharing Rules; & More Headlines
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|AI/GPT UPDATED: A Generative AI Primer (via JISC, National Centre For Artificial Intelligence) Boston Library Consortium BLC’s Inaugural Annual Report Highlights a Year of Collective Impact EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center DHS Releases Data Mining Report After EPIC FOIA Request Language Lake Superior State University Releases 2024 Banished Words List Missouri Kansas City Public Library […]
A small selection of new or recently updated reports from the Congressional Research Service (CRS). All reports listed below were published/updated during December, 2023. Access to Government Information: An Overview Archival Records of Congress: Frequently Asked Questions Federal Funding for Broadband Deployment: Agencies and Considerations for Congress The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): An […]
Journal Article: We Must Fix the Lack of Transparency Around the Data Used to Train Foundation Models; Policy Brief: Students’ Use of Generative AI: The Threat of Hallucinations; & More Headlines
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|AI/GPT Journal Article: We Must Fix the Lack of Transparency Around the Data Used to Train Foundation Models (via HDSR) Preprint: Early ChatGPT User Portrait through the Lens of Data (via arXiv) Policy Brief: Students’ Use of Generative AI: The Threat of Hallucinations (via CDT) Elsevier Scopus Will Remove the Source Homepage Links From All […]
Internet Archive Files Opening Brief in Appeal of Publisher Lawsuit (Hachette et al v. Internet Archive)
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|As we’ve done in the past we will be updating this post with media coverage, documents, amicus briefs and other filings, etc. Update: March 22, 2024 at 4:30pm Eastern Brief For Amici Curiae The Authors Guild, Inc., American Photographic Artists, The American Society For Collective Rights Licensing, The American Society of Media Photographers, The Association […]
AI Artificial Intelligence: Agencies Have Begun Implementation But Need to Complete Key Requirements (via US GAO) Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) Appoints Task Force on Machine Learning and AI Library Publishing Coalition LPC Releases New, 5-year Community Plan Government Publishing Office GPO Makes Congressionally Mandated Reports Available to the Public Ahead of Schedule Sage […]
From Pew Research: Despite negative headlines and growing concerns about social media’s impact on youth, teens continue to use these platforms at high rates – with some describing their social media use as “almost constant,” according to a new Pew Research Center report. Roughly nine-in-ten U.S. teens say they use YouTube, making it the most […]