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From a PEN America Interview by Lisa Tolin: Art Spiegelman was shocked last year to hear that Maus, his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, had been banned in a school district in Tennessee. Even more surprising was the rationale — not the violent history of his parents’ journey to Auschwitz chronicled in the memoir, […]
New Collection: Library and Archives Canada Acquires 100 Environmental Interviews
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|From a LAC Announcement Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has just enriched its collections with a new acquisition: a series of environmental interviews entitled “The Green Interview.” This series includes about 100 interviews with prominent personalities, and six documentaries on the future of life on the planet and humanity’s collective responsibility to protect it. Canadians […]
From CBS News (via YouTube): Poet and author Amanda Gorman joins “CBS Mornings” for her first interview since her poem and book, “The Hill We Climb,” was restricted by a Florida elementary school. She shares her initial reaction to the ban, why she believes restricting books keeps history from children and how she got involved […]
From EDUCAUSE: This report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future. It is based on the perspectives and expertise of a global panel of leaders from across the higher education landscape. Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken […]
A new podcast in The CNI Interviews Podcast series (via EDUCAUSE): Joan Lippincott is Associate Executive Director Emerita at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). In this interview, she discusses the Directions in Digital Scholarships initiative, which explores the current and future state of digital scholarship, data-intensive research, and computational research. Text Transcript
From a ScholCommLab Blog Post: In our digital era, scientists are certainly sharing and reusing open data. Yet it remains unclear how widespread data reuse and citation practices are within academic disciplines, and why scientists cite—or do not cite—data in their research work. In a recent preprint from the Meaningful Data Counts project, Kathleen Gregory (postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna […]
Lyrasis Supports Open Book Futures Project to Expand Open Access Infrastructures; Recent Updates Clarifying PubMed Central’s Role as an Archive; & More Headlines
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|Florida: Broward County Library Seeks to Become Book Sanctuary Following Strict Laws Banning Books in Florida, US (via WSVN) Lyrasis Supports Open Book Futures Project to Expand Open Access Infrastructures (via Lyrasis) New From Google Scholar: Profiles Now Provide Public Access Reports For Funding Agencies (Google Scholar Blog) Open Science Leader Dr. Ralf Schimmer Joins […]
From GBH Radio: For David Leonard, president of the Boston Public Library, it’s all about addition. When you combine desirable things, like affordable housing and well-maintained public libraries, the sum is better than its parts. Leonard appeared on Boston Public Radio on Tuesday to discuss a new initiative to add affordable housing in several library branches across […]
From a Post on The Keyword (Google): The goal of Project Oasis is to bring greater visibility to digital media organisations in Europe. The project is a study of the sustainability of independent, digital native news organisations in more than 40 European countries. An international team of researchers conducted interviews with key media leaders in […]
Listen Online: Cindy Hohl, ALA 2023-2024 President-Elect, Interviewed on Kansas City Public Radio
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|From KCUR Radio On Wednesday, Cindy Hohl became the first person from a Kansas City-area public library to be elected president of the American Library Association. “I am very excited. This is a great opportunity for Kansas City and for our library to be seen as the leaders, not only in librarianship, but in the information field,” said […]