MORE POSTS FROM MARCH 2025
California Bill AB 1825 Declares Bans on Books of Diverse Perspectives Illegal in California (via Daily Bruin) Rhode Island RI ‘Freedom to Read’ Bill Would Protect Librarians From Censorship Prosecution. What to Know. (via Providence Journal) South Dakota South Dakota Senate Will Consider Repealing Obscenity Prosecution Protection For Librarians (via SD Search Light) Vermont Vermonters […]
From Axios: A Russian disinformation effort that flooded the web with false claims and propaganda continues to impact the output of major AI chatbots, according to a new report from NewsGuard, shared first with Axios. [Clip] “By flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, the network is distorting how large language models process and present […]
Roundup: Texas May Change How Schools Select Library Books. Critics Say It Could Lead to More Bans; VA: Warren County Board Votes To Defund 200-Year-Old Front Royal Library; & More Headlines
| Academic Libraries, Data Files, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Publishing, Roundup
Alabama Bill Would Ban Drag Performances in Public Schools and Libraries Digital Library Federation (DLF) Announcing the NDSA Climate Watch Publication Georgia Proposed Bill Would Penalize Librarians For Loaning Minors ‘Harmful’ Books (via WSAV) Government Publishing Office (GPO) GPO Partners With Yale University Library to Preserve Government Information OverDrive OverDrive Appoints Eric Miller as the […]
The article linked below was published today by Royal Society Open Science. Title The Academic Impact of Open Science: A Scoping Review Authors Thomas Klebel Open and Reproducible Research Group, Know Center Research Vincent Traag Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University Ioanna Grypari Athena Research Center Lennart Stoy Technopolis Group Tony Ross-Hellauer […]
From SCONUL (Society of College, National and University Libraries): SCONUL has launched the results of its first Library Technology Survey. This provides a comprehensive analysis of the technology landscape for academic and research libraries covering 26 library technology functional spaces. It provides detailed profiles of the products and services used in those spaces, as well […]
All-Inclusive Digital Search Solution Launched By EBSCO Information Services and The New York Public Library; ORCID Partners with Digital Science to Make Openness Even More Accessible; Utrecht University Library Digitizes Earliest Printed Books; & More Headlines
| Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, EBSCO, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Reports
AI AI Literacy in K-12 and Higher Education in the Wake of Generative AI: An Integrative Review (preprint) (via arxiv) Google is Adding More AI Overviews and a New ‘AI Mode’ to Search (via The Verge) Digitization Utrecht University Library Digitizes Earliest Printed Books (via UU) EBSCO / New York Public Library All-Inclusive Digital Search […]
From Upstream (Force11) Post by Adam Buttrick: The Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) has released a Community Call to Action, inviting organizations and individuals to contribute resources (funding, expertise, metadata, and infrastructure) to support the first phase of a community-driven infrastructure for making persistent identifier (PID) metadata better and more complete. An informational webinar will be […]
UK Government Boosts Digital Collection of World’s Oldest English Language Daily Newspaper
| Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Preservation
From the Government of the United Kingdom: Historic editions of the world’s oldest English language daily newspaper still in circulation are to be digitised by the UK Government, delivering on commitments made in the Safeguarding the Union command paper. The News Letter, first published in September 1737, will this year mark its 288th anniversary as […]
OpenAI Launches NextGenAI Consortium to Advance Research and Education with AI; Scopus Data Crosses the 100 Million Item Threshold; & More Headlines
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Elsevier, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
AI AI Skills and Capabilities in Canada (via OECD) Opera Browser Unveils AI Agent That Handles Online Tasks For You (via TNW) OpenAI Launches NextGenAI Consortium to Advance Research and Education with AI; Founding Partners Include Caltech, MIT, University of Michigan, and the Boston Public Library Policy Paper: Intellectual Property Issues in Artificial Intelligence Trained […]
From EDGI (Environmental Data and Governance Initiative): In response to the Trump administration’s rapid dismantling of federal websites, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) has relaunched its Federal Environmental Web Tracker. EDGI has long monitored thousands of federal webpages related to climate, energy, and the environment. The Federal Environmental Web Tracker makes records of significant changes […]
