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ITHAKA Invests in Perlego to Make Course Materials Accessible and Affordable
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From an ITHAKA Announcement (Full Text): ITHAKA is investing in Perlego, a company dedicated to making knowledge more accessible. Perlego, founded in 2017, provides students around the world with affordable access to a digital library of over 1 million textbooks. To date, over 500,000 students have used Perlego in their coursework. Perlego’s impact is meaningful. Studies […]
Digital Collections: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections Announces Digitization of Neil Armstrong’s Paper Speeches
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From Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies (Full Text): Purdue University Archives and Special Collections (ASC) is pleased to announce the digitization of paper transcripts used by Neil Armstong for his public addresses and select speeches. The nearly 500 transcripts—totaling 7,700 pages—were generously donated by his wife, Carol Armstrong, in 2011. The speeches are […]
Digital Collections: Alan Turing and DNA Papers Among Historical Peer Review Reports Made Public For First Time by The Royal Society, Over 1600 Reports Posted Today
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From The Royal Society: The Royal Society has today released over 1,600 historical peer review reports, available to view publicly for the first time on the Science in the Making portal. Readers can discover what eminent scientists thought of work by mathematician Alan Turing, as well as Nobel Prize-winning chemist, Dorothy Hodgkin’s review of Crick and Watson’s famous “DNA” paper. […]
Digital Collections: NAACP Legal Defense Fund Records Newly Digitized and Now Available Online From the Library of Congress
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From the Library of Congress: A major portion of the processed records of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund are now available online for the first time from the Library of Congress. Spanning the years 1915-1968, with most dating from 1940 to 1960, these records document the organization’s work as it combated racial discrimination in the […]
Pennsylvania: Lackawanna County Prison OKs Contract For Digital Library, Bolstering Inmate Reading Options
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From The Times-Tribune: Lackawanna County Prison inmates will have free digital access to e-books and audio books offered by more than 5,000 publishers under a contract the county prison board approved this week. The board voted unanimously Wednesday to authorize the use of OverDrive, a digital library product inmates will soon be able to access […]
News From Library of Congress: “COVID Recollections: Now Available – First Collection of Frontline Worker Interviews from the COVID-19 American History Project”
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From The Library of Congress: The American Folklife Center is proud to announce that the first collection of interviews documented for the COVID-19 American History Project is now available online. To view these materials, visit the COVID-19 American History Project collection on the website of the Library of Congress. The collection features twenty interviews with service and […]
New Digital Library: Prado Museum Offers Free Online Access to More Than 11,500 Publications From the Late 15th to Early 20th Centuries
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Exciting news from Spain! From the Prado Museum (in Spanish, Translation via DeepL) The Prado Museum’s new Digital Library, developed with funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), offers free access to 5600 issues of magazines and 6000 books specialized in artistic literature and published between the late 15th and early 20th centuries. […]
AI Roundup: GPTs and Hallucination: Why Do Large Language Models Hallucinate?; Google’s “Audio Overview” Can Turn PDFs Into Podcasts; & More Headlines
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Frameworks Is This AI Tool Right for Me? Important Questions From the Framework (via C&RL News) UNESCO Releases New AI Competency Frameworks For Students and Teachers (via UNESCO) Google Google Hit With European Privacy Probe Over Its AI System (via Politico) See Also: Data Protection Commission Launches Inquiry Into Google AI Model (via DPC, Ireland) […]
OpenAIRE and SCImago Lab Unite to Enhance Scholarly Research Data; Building Assessment Criteria for Collection Development Policies: A Community Resource; & More News Headlines
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Collection Development Building Assessment Criteria for Collection Development Policies: A Community Resource (via Copim) HathiTrust Second Accessibility Update to HathiTrust Website and Digital Library IFLA Equity and Inclusion at the Center of Open Science & Scholarship Advisory Committee’s Initial Work Information Power Lorraine Estelle Announces Retirement (via IP) Scholarly Communications Foundations of Trust: The Alignment […]
Second Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms District Court Ruling in Hachette v. Internet Archive
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Note: We will be updating this post with media coverage, statements, etc. over the coming hours and days. Please check back. From the Opinion (Page 2): Defendant-Appellant Internet Archive appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Koeltl, J.) denying its motion for summary judgment and […]
