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Call For Proposals: ai4Libraries Conference 2023; Historic Depository Shipping Lists Now Available on GovInfo; & More News Headlines
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|arXiv Introducing arXiv’s New Governance Model Association of Research Libraries Call for Proposals: ARL IDEAL 2024—Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Libraries & Archives Conference, July 15–17, in Toronto Artificial Intelligence Call For Proposals: ai4Libraries Conference 2023 (Georgia Tech Library – Virtual Conference – October 19th, 2023) ChatGPT and the Potential Growing of Ghost Bibliographic […]
Digital Collections: The Churchill Archives Centre Launches New Access Portal to Mark its 50th Anniversary
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|From Churchill College, U. of Cambridge: The Churchill Archives Centre is a world-leading repository of 20th century history, holding a wide range of documents by more than 570 political, military and scientific luminary figures from the Churchill era and beyond. To mark the 50th Anniversary of the Churchill Archives Centre, we are proud to announce […]
IMLS Announces $20 Million Investment in U.S. Library and Archive Initiatives (64 Project Awards via National Leadership Grants for Libraries and Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program)
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|From the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS): The Institute of Museum and Library Services today announced 64 awards totaling $20,363,297 to support libraries and archives across the country. The FY 2023 awards were made through National Leadership Grants for Libraries and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The awarded grants search on the IMLS website contains a complete […]
Preliminary Ruling on Arkansas Library Law Coming By Week’s End, Judge Says; New Biden Rule Would Make Government Websites and Apps More Accessible to People With Disabilities; & More News Headlines
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|AccessNew Biden Rule Would Make Government Websites and Apps More Accessible to People With Disabilities (via AP) ArkansasPreliminary Ruling on Arkansas Library Law Coming By Week’s End, Judge Says (via Arkansas Times) eLifeeLife and PREreview to Enhance the ‘Publish, Review, Curate’ Ecosystem Through Adoption of COAR Notify IrelandOpenAIRE Awarded Contract for the National Open Access […]
From AL.com: A bill to take $5 million in state funds from the Alabama Department of Archives and History because it hosted a one-hour lecture on LGBTQ history did not pass during the special session that ended Friday. But the sponsor, Sen. Chris Elliott, a Republican from Baldwin County, said he plans to bring legislation […]
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Granted $5,000,000 Award From Mellon Foundation For Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices Regranting Program
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|From a CLIR Announcement: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has been granted a $5,000,000 award from the Mellon Foundation to bolster the Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices regranting program and related operations. This highly anticipated renewal continues the decisive shift in thematic focus, with a strong emphasis on […]
From the University of Sydney: The University of Sydney’s Fisher Library has digitised Virginia Woolf’s personal copy of the first edition of her debut novel, The Voyage Out, featuring inscriptions and edits by her hand that now anyone can enjoy. This first edition and Woolf’s personal copy is the only one of its kind publicly available […]
Special Collections: “An Open Mind: Robert J. Oppenheimer’s Collection of Books at the Princeton University Library”
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|From the Princeton University Library “Special Collections” Blog Post by Stephen Ferguson and Emma Sarconi: After Robert Oppenheimer–a theoretical physicist most well known as the director of Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II and the “father of the atomic bomb”–died in 1967, his books moved from the director’s house at the Institute for Advanced […]
Request For Information (RFI): IMLS Requests Input on “Information Literacy Programs, Resources, and Promising Practices”
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|The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) request for information (RFI) linked below will be formally published in the Federal Register on July 25, 2023. From the RFI: IMLS seeks to understand how organizations address and incorporate information literacy skills into local community programs broadly; how information literacy– related resources and programs are applied […]
Internet Archive Targets Book DRM Removal Tool with DMCA Takedown; Wiley Rolls Out New Initiatives to Accelerate Innovation in Research Publishing; & More News Headlines
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|Artificial Intelligence Meta Opens AI Model To Commercial Use, Throwing Nascent Market Into Flux (via Reuters) James Patterson, Margaret Atwood Among Thousands of Writers Urging AI Companies to Honor Copyrights (via AP) See Also: More Than 8,000 Authors Sign the Authors Guild Letter Calling on AI Industry Leaders to Protect Writers (via Authors Guild) Association […]