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AI NotebookLM to Get New Feature Updates, Magic View Mystery Solved (via Testing Catalog) Baker & Taylor Closure (Local Coverage) Hundreds of Jobs Will Be Lost as 200-Year-Old Charlotte Company Prepares to Close (The Charlotte Observer) Indiana: Region Libraries Scrambling After Nearly 200-Year-Old Book Distributor Collapses (via NW Indiana Times) Iowa Libraries Scramble For Suppliers […]
The article linked below was recently published by the International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC). Title An Exploration of the Functionality and Usability of Open Research Platforms to Support Open Science Authors Whitney Thompson Indiana University Indianapolis Angela Murillo Indiana University Indianapolis Source International Journal of Digital Curation Vol. 19, No. 1 (2025) DOI: 10.2218/ijdc.v19i1.941 […]
Now Available: 2025 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Proceedings
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Conference Presentations, Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Public Libraries, School Libraries
The 2025 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Proceedings were recently posted online. Direct links to all items included in the proceedings are linked below. The 2025 ALISE Annual Conference took place in Kansas City, MO, October 6-8, 2025. Direct to Complete Table of Contents Introduction 2025 ALISE Introduction Juried Papers Structuration Theory […]
Policy Paper: Mapping Relevant Data Collection Mechanisms for AI Training
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From the OECD: The performance and reliability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models are closely linked to the quality and diversity of the data used in their training. While the technical aspects of model development often take centre stage, the underlying methods for sourcing and assembling training data are equally relevant. Different data collection mechanisms bring […]
Latest PEN America Report Finds “Disturbing Normalization” of Book Bans in Public Schools; Nearly 23,000 Cases of Book Bans Across 45 States and 451 School Districts Since 2021
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From PEN America: In a new report documenting public school book bans over the 2024-2025 school year, PEN America cites alarming censorship pressures on school districts including: new federal efforts to restrict education that amplify rhetoric from state and local efforts to ban books; persistent attacks conflating LGBTQ+ identities as “sexually explicit;” and state-mandated bans […]
Report: “USDA Migrates Data Archive to New Website, Dropping Cornell’s Mann Library”
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From Reuters: Archived crop and livestock reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture were set to transfer to a new government website on Wednesday with the agency’s existing online archive, hosted by Cornell University’s Mann Library, decommissioned, the USDA and a Cornell official said on Tuesday. The USDA’s online Economics, Statistics and Market Information System, […]
Special Issue of Journal of the Copyright Society: Libraries and Collections, and the Annual Review of Selected Copyright Cases (Volume 72, Issue 3; 2025)
| Academic Libraries, Lecture, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation
Journal of the Copyright Society Libraries and Collections, and the Annual Review of Selected Copyright Cases Volume 72, Issue 3; 2025 72 J. Copyright Soc’y 593 Direct to Complete TOC (with Abstracts) In This Issue Recent Developments In Copyright Law: Selected Annotated Cases Thomas Kjellberg, Joelle Milov, Dasha Chestukhin and Jaime Berman with Allison Furnari, […]
Media Roundup & Statements: “Judge Approves $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement Between AI Company Anthropic and Authors”
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From the Court Docket (9/25) From the Associated Press U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued the preliminary approval in San Francisco federal court Thursday after the two sides worked to address his concerns about the settlement, which will pay authors and publishers about $3,000 for each of the books covered by the agreement. It does […]
U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Names University of North Texas With Best Federal Depository Website
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From the GPO: The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) honors University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries for having the best website in the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) for 2025. This is the third library to ever receive the award, which was created to recognize the creativity and the ways libraries are providing easy access […]
Public Library News Roundup (Reports From AL, FL, GA, IL, MN, & PA
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Alabama Alabama Library Must Give List Of Challenged Books Before Funding Is Returned (via AL.com) Florida Gulf County Library Faces Budget Issues and Staff Shortages (via MyPanhandle) Georgia Houston County Libraries See Record Growth With Over 210,000 Visitors in 2025 (via WMAZ) Illinois Small Libraries in South Suburbs Feel Federal Cuts to Already Limited Resources […]
