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Video Interview: CNN Speaks With Terri Lesley, Former Director of the Campbell County, Wyoming Library System Who Was Fired For Refusing to Remove Books
Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles, Public Libraries, Video Recordings
|From CNN (via YouTube): CNN’s Phil Mattingly speaks with Terri Lesley, the former director of a county public library system in Wyoming. Library board members voted to terminate Lesley’s position after she refused to remove certain books the board claimed were inappropriate for children. Background: Campbell County Library Board Fires Director; Hundreds Attend Special Meeting […]
Report: “Book Battles are Raging Nationwide. A Washington Library Could Be Nation’s First to Close”
|UPDATE: David Gutman, the reporter who wrote the article linked below, was interviewed on KUOW Radio. You can listen to the interview here. —End Update— From The Seattle Times: Book battles are raging across the nation, but none have carried the kind of stakes as the one here in Dayton, a one-stoplight farming community in […]
NBC News: “Top Librarian Calls ‘Marxist Lesbian’ Tweet Backlash ‘Regrettable'”
Associations and Organizations, Funding, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles
|From NBC News: Emily Drabinski took over as president of the American Library Association in July with plans to tackle the pressing issues facing her profession, such as shoring up funding and fighting a record number of book ban attempts nationwide. She said she wants to make sure that the LBGTQ community and Black people see […]
Canada: “Vancouver Librarians Caught in the Middle of the Culture War”
Interviews, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Public Libraries
|From Vancouver is Awesome: The Vancouver Public Library is not immune from the culture war. According to a list for the period of January 2022 to June 2023, released under freedom of information law, library users filed 17 challenges to books and one CD. After review, none was removed from the shelves. “We see complaints […]
Report: Stanford’s Role in the Quest to Save Video Games
Associations and Organizations, Funding, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Preservation, Profiles
|From Stanford University: Since the early 2000s, Henry Lowood has led or had an important role in numerous initiatives devoted to the preservation and documentation of virtual worlds, digital games, and interactive simulations. Lowood is also a leading game historian and writer on software preservation, authoring numerous articles and papers that were recently republished in a […]
New AI-Powered Tools From Dimensions (Beta Release) & Scopus (Alpha Release) Launching Today
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Elsevier, Funding, Maps, News, Patrons and Users, Profiles
|UPDATE 8/2: ChatGPT Like AIs are Coming to Major Science Search Engines (by Richard Van Noorden via Nature) —End Update— Two announcements today. Highlights from both + links below. 1. Powering Research with Dimensions AI Assistant Dimensions is introducing the beta of a new AI Assistant to enhance the user experience, with the research community […]
Directions in Digital Scholarship: Support for Digital, Data-Intensive, and Computational Research in Academic Libraries (A New Report From CNI by Joan K. Lippincott)
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Funding, Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Profiles
|From a Coalition For Networked Information (CNI) Announcement by Clifford Lynch: Today [June 21)] CNI is delighted to release the concluding report from Associate Director Emerita Joan Lippincott’s extensive study of the recent past, present and future of a selected set of programs at CNI member institutions addressing digital scholarship (DS), data-intensive, and computation research and interconnections […]
Interview: Improving Access, Reducing Barriers Top Priorities for New Archivist of the United States, Dr. Colleen Shogan; Filling the File Format Gaps; & More Headlines
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles
|AI OpenAI Wants to Improve ChatGPT’s Performance in Languages Other Than English Archives Interview: Improving Access, Reducing Barriers Top Priorities for New Archivist of the United States, Dr. Colleen Shogan National Archives Concludes Review of JFK Assassination Documents with 99% Made Public (Via CNN) Canada Five Canadian Library Organizations Issue Statement on the Decision For […]
Digital Collections: “Introducing Massachusetts Newspapers on Chronicling America”
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles, Public Libraries
|From The Library of Congress: Since the website was established in 2007, the Chronicling America collection of digitized historic newspapers has continuously grown through the contributions of state partners participating in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The collection now contains over 20 million pages from more than 3,900 newspaper titles. And we are excited to say that all 50 […]
Roger Rosen, Chairman of Rosen Publishing, Joins Board of Directors of EveryLibrary Institute (ELI); Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) Awarded $7.8 Million Statewide Broadband Development Grant for Community Libraries; & More News Headlines
Archives and Special Collections, Funding, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles, Public Libraries, Publishing
|#Advocacy Roger Rosen, Chairman of Rosen Publishing, Joins Board of Directors of EveryLibrary Institute #Book Bans Interview with Dr. Nancy Pack, Director of the Alabama Public Library Service (Alabama Political Reporter) #Business Digital Science Expands Executive Team For AI Future Project MUSE Launches Initiative for Broad Expansion of Latin American University Press Books Sage Acquires […]