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Register to Attend the Delta Think Open Access Market Sizing Webinar (Wednesday, October 23, 2023); Now Open: Call for Proposals For 46th Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Annual Meeting; & More News Headlines
Associations and Organizations, Awards, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Scholastic
|Book Fairs NY Times: “For Book Fairs, Scholastic Will Separate Titles That Deal With Race and Gender” ||| Additional Coverage From The Daily Beast California California State Library to Award $172 Million In Additional Facilities Improvement Grants For Local Libraries (via State Library of California) Delta Think Register to Attend the Delta Think Market Sizing Webinar […]
American Library Association (ALA) Executive Director Tracie D. Hall is Leaving the Organization, Interim Director Will Be Named in the Coming Weeks
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement From ALA: The American Library Association (ALA) announced today that Tracie D. Hall will resign from her role as executive director following nearly four transformative years at the Association. Her last day will be Friday, October 6. During her tenure, Hall brought ALA greater public recognition, private funding, […]
Indiana: Educators, Librarians Could Face Criminal Prosecution And a Level 6 Felony Over Controversial Books; Internet Archive to Honor Supervisor Connie Chan with 2023 Hero Award; & More Headlines
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|Book Bans USA Today Report: “What’s Behind The National Surge in Book Bans? A Low-Tech Website Tied to Moms For Liberty” Funding Columbia University Libraries Awarded Grant from the Arcadia Fund to Support Anticaste Archives Project (via CUL) Indiana Educators, Librarians Could Face Criminal Prosecution And a Level 6 Felony Over Controversial Books Internet Archive […]
From a SAGE News Release: Sage has launched a new collection of free-to-read research highlighting the effects of academic censorship on democracy, social-emotional learning, higher education, and more. Categories in the collection include: academic freedom banned content cultures in the classroom intellectual freedom social emotion learning Sage’s guaranteed independence means that we are free to […]
ScienceOpen Implements Scite Smart Citation Badges on 75+ Million Records
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|From a Joint Announcement: ScienceOpen and Scite.ai announce announce a new cooperation to provide greater context around citation information for the academic community. The citation index at the core of ScienceOpen’s discovery environment has been augmented with Scite badges indicating whether those citations are supporting, contrasting or just mentions. ScienceOpen, founded in 2013, is a […]
Washington University Libraries Awarded Mellon Grant to Preserve Born-Digital Poetry Collections
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|From Washington University Libraries: The Washington University Libraries were awarded a two-year grant by the Mellon Foundation to support an exploration of essential questions surrounding the acquisition, discoverability, preservation, and use of born-digital poetry collections. The $250,000 award will enable the University Libraries to develop online resources and systems to process, preserve, and steward the […]
Funding: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Awards $5.7 Million to Strengthen Library Services for Tribal Communities, Native Hawaiians
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|From the Institute of Museum and Library Services: The Institute of Museum and Library Services today announced grants totaling $5,763,000 through three programs designed to support and improve library services of Native American, Native Alaskan, and Native Hawaiian organizations. “With these awards, IMLS recognizes the importance of supporting libraries and cultural centers in First Nations […]
Coalition For Networked Information (CNI) Releases “Edition Guide” For August 2023 Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series, Six Contributed Videos Address Current Digital Information Issues
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|From a CNI Announcement In the August 2023 edition of CNI’s , six contributed videos address current digital information issues. This edition guide provides a brief overview of each presentation; click through to the project briefing pages to watch the videos and see more session-specific details and resources. The National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication […]
National Endowment For the Humanities (NEH) Announces $41.3 Million For 280 Humanities Projects Nationwide
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|From the National Endowment For the Humanities: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $41.3 million in grants for 280 humanities projects across the country. These grants will support a documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Stanley Nelson on the life, work, and legacy of jazz legend Sun Ra; the creation of a set of linked […]
CLIR Announces Call for Submissions: Grants for Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Awards; Census Bureau Releases International Population Estimates and Projections; & More News Headlines
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|AI Red-Teaming Finds OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard Still Spread Misinformation (via NewsGuard) Council on Library and Information Resources CLIR Announces Call for Submissions: Grants for Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Awards U.S. Census Census Bureau Releases International Population Estimates and Projections