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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 — […]
Report: “Video Game History Foundation’s Long-Awaited Digital Library Will Be Available Next Week”
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From Eurogamer: Back in 2023, the Video Game History Foundation announced it was curating a digital library, which would allow users to access its vast collection of magazines, art books and more from the comfort of their homes. And while it didn’t pop a date on when it would be available to the public at […]
New Resource From ARL: “e-Resource Licensing Explained: An A–Z Licensing Guidebook for Libraries”
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From Association of Research Libraries (ARL): ARL is pleased to publish e-Resource Licensing Explained: An A–Z Licensing Guidebook for Libraries, a practical tool to empower librarians who license electronic resources (e-resources). The guidebook includes easily digestible legal explanations and pragmatic strategies for preserving rights that users already have under US copyright law, particularly in the face […]
ITAL: The Latest Issue of Information Technology and Libraries (Vol. 43, No. 4; 2024) is Now Online
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In This Issue of ITAL (Vol. 43, No. 4; 2024): Editorials Letter from the Editors by Kenneth J. Varnum; Marisha C. Kelly Public Libraries Leading the Way How Kilgore Memorial Library Fostered County-Wide Collaboration through One Shared Calendar by Deb Robertson ITAL & … Beyond the Minimum: New Rule Requires Web Content (I’m Looking at […]
Digital Collections: Library of Congress Launches Digitized Collection of National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records
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From the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress has released a groundbreaking online collection of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records, making one of the most poignant symbols of the AIDS epidemic in the United States available to a global audience. As the largest communal art project in the world, the AIDS Memorial Quilt […]
