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Report: “Boston Public Library Expands Access to Collections Through AI-Enhanced Digitization”
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From the Boston Public Library (Full Text Announcement): The Boston Public Library (BPL) is launching a large-scale digitization project to unlock hundreds of thousands of historically significant items previously inaccessible to the public. This multi-phase effort will give BPL the opportunity to pilot the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to make vast historical collections […]
Report: “Missouri Secretary of State Suspends E-Book Service Over Culture War Concerns About Minors”
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From The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Following the lead of his predecessor, Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins Monday entered the ongoing conservative culture war skirmish against so-called inappropriate reading material being made available to minors. While former Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft put a target on printed material in libraries during his tenure, Hoskins […]
Roundup: Texas May Change How Schools Select Library Books. Critics Say It Could Lead to More Bans; VA: Warren County Board Votes To Defund 200-Year-Old Front Royal Library; & More Headlines
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Alabama Bill Would Ban Drag Performances in Public Schools and Libraries Digital Library Federation (DLF) Announcing the NDSA Climate Watch Publication Georgia Proposed Bill Would Penalize Librarians For Loaning Minors ‘Harmful’ Books (via WSAV) Government Publishing Office (GPO) GPO Partners With Yale University Library to Preserve Government Information OverDrive OverDrive Appoints Eric Miller as the […]
UK Government Boosts Digital Collection of World’s Oldest English Language Daily Newspaper
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From the Government of the United Kingdom: Historic editions of the world’s oldest English language daily newspaper still in circulation are to be digitised by the UK Government, delivering on commitments made in the Safeguarding the Union command paper. The News Letter, first published in September 1737, will this year mark its 288th anniversary as […]
Durbin, King, Smith, Wyden Introduce Legislation To Help Make College Textbooks More Affordable; Digital Science Adds AI-Powered Summaries to Symplectic Elements To Drive Research Discoverability; Royal Society Publishing selects the Silverchair Platform For Modernized Digital Library; & More Headlines
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Digital Science Digital Science Adds AI-Powered Summaries to Symplectic Elements to Drive Research Discoverability National Archives Radio Program: The National Archives and the Trump administration (via 1A/NPR) See Also: The National Archives is Nonpartisan But Has Found Itself Targeted by Trump (via AP) Project Muse Celebrating the Success of Subscribe to Open on Project MUSE: […]
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grant to Enhance Booksnake App for Immersive Archival Research
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From USC Dornsife: A $150,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant has been awarded to a team led by Sean Fraga, assistant professor (teaching) of environmental studies and history at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Curtis Fletcher, director of the Ahmanson Lab at USC Libraries; and Peter Mancall, Distinguished Professor, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of […]
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
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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 […]
AI: Authors Guild Launches “Human Authored” Certification to Preserve Authenticity in Literature; Delopments in Portico’s Work: 2024 in Review; Video Game History Museum Launches VGHF Digital Library; & More Headlines
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AI How an AI-Ready National Data Library Would Help UK Science (preprint, via arXiv) Censorship Federal Court Orders Milwaukee County Jail to Stop Censorship of Books, Magazines, and Mail (via Journal Sentinel) France Publication of the 2024 French Open Science Monitor: Increased Sharing Of Research Data But Less Communication Of Clinical Trial Results (via Minister […]
New Data From OverDrive, “Libraries Break Digital Lending Records in 2024 with Over 739 million Checkouts”
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From an OverDrive News Release: Librarians and educators achieved remarkable new milestones in 2024 by providing increasingly robust digital lending and streaming options to satisfy library patrons of all ages. Using OverDrive’s award-winning Libby and Sora apps, readers worldwide borrowed over 739 million ebooks, audiobooks, and digital magazines, a 17% increase over 2023. Streaming video […]
Report: “UK Library Releases Massive Holocaust Archive Online”
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From Agence France Presse (via Barrons): One of the world’s largest Holocaust archives was published online for the first time Monday, coinciding with Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online portal includes more than 150,000 documents — such as photos, transcripts and testimonies — […]
