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From the Houston Chronicle: Key portions of a law signed last year by Gov. Greg Abbott requiring booksellers to rate books for sexual content when selling to schools will not go into effect after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday declined to reconsider an earlier decision. It’s a win for booksellers, especially independent […]
University of Colorado Boulder: Norlin Library Now Host of Martin Scorsese’s Public VHS Archive; Louisiana: Bill Would Apply Obscenity Laws to Louisiana Public School Libraries; ARL to Congress: No One Can Own the Law; & More Headlines
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|Association of Research Libraries (ARL) ARL to Congress: No One Can Own the Law (via ARL) Louisiana Bill Would Apply Obscenity Laws to Louisiana Public School Libraries (via The Acadiana Advocate) Misinformation/Fake News The Geography of Corporate Fake News (via PLOS One) North Carolina Beta Version of the New UNC University Library Website Now Available […]
Report: “Should Researchers Use AI to Write Papers? Group Aims For Community-Driven Standards”
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|From Science: When and how should text-generating artificial intelligence (AI) programs such as ChatGPT help write research papers? In the coming months, 4000 researchers from a variety of disciplines and countries will weigh in on guidelines that could be adopted widely across academic publishing, which has been grappling with chatbots and other AI issues for the […]
From a Library of Congress Blog Post: The South Asian Digital Collection (SADC) is the new online home for the Library’s digitized books, serials, and manuscripts related to the histories and cultures of South Asian countries (i.e., Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka). The creation of SADC will provide easy access to a variety […]
Ad Transparency (Elections) Investigation: Every Tech Giants’ Ad Oversight Tools Fall Short in Historic Election Year AI How People View AI, Disinformation and Elections — in Charts (via Politico) Spot the Deepfake: The AI Tools Undermining Our Own Eyes and Ears (via Politico) Alabama House Passes 18 Percent Cut to State Library Operations Budget (via […]
US Government Publishing Office (GPO) Makes Available New Statutes at Large Dating Back to 1789 via GovInfo
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|From the US GPO: The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has added historical volumes of the United States Statutes at Large (Statutes at Large) to GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. The newly added Volumes 1–64 (1789–1950) date back to 1789 and include the text of […]
From a Delta Think Post by Dan Pollock and Heather Staines: In 2022, we estimated it [ the scholarly journals market] to be $10.7bn, rising to $10.8bn in 2023. We estimate the long-term average growth of the market to be 2.3% per year. The years following COVID saw above-average growth, and the lower growth in […]
Washington Post: “Red States Threaten Librarians With Prison — as Blue States Work to Protect Them”
|From The Washington Post: The bill in Connecticut, pending before an education committee, is one of a raft of measures advancing nationwide that seek to do things like prohibit book bans or forbid the harassment of school and public librarians — the first such wave in the country, said John Chrastka, director of library advocacy […]
Funding: NEH Announces $26.2 Million for 238 Humanities Projects Nationwide
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|From the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $26.2 million in grants for 238 humanities projects across the country. Grants awarded today will underwrite a new permanent exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh on how the Nile River shaped ancient Egyptians’ ideas of […]
Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information: “Researchers Need ‘Open’ Bibliographic Databases, New Declaration Says”
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|From Science: Some of the best known databases, such as the Web of Science and Scopus, are proprietary and offer pay-to-access data and services supporting these and other metrics, including university rankings and journal impact factors. But in a declaration posted today, more than 30 research and funding organizations call for the community to commit to […]