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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
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Libraries, News
|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”
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News
|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”
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Government Libraries, Libraries, News
|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
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|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 […]
Texas Digital Newspaper Program Reaches Huge Milestone, 10 Million Digitized Pages of Newspapers!
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation, Public Libraries
|From the University of North Texas Libraries: On July 7, 2023, the Texas Digital Newspaper Program reached 10 million pages of newspapers. These are newspapers digitally preserved, freely accessible, and fully text-searchable in The Portal to Texas History, hosted by University of North Texas Libraries. Who makes the Texas Digital Newspaper Program possible? Encompassing 912,623 newspaper issues, the […]
Report: “87% Missing: The Disappearance of Classic Video Games”
Archives and Special Collections, Jobs, Libraries, News, Preservation
|From the Video Game History Foundation: The Video Game History Foundation, in partnership with the Software Preservation Network, has conducted the first ever study on the commercial availability of classic video games, and the results are bleak. 87% of classic video games released in the United States are critically endangered. Imagine if the only way to watch Titanic was to […]
New Principles on Use of AI in Education; COAR Notify: Overview of Year One; & More Headlines
Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Public Libraries
|AI Webinar Recording: Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education (via Council on Foreign Relations) New Principles on Use of AI in Education (via Russell Group) cOAlition S Consulting the Research Community on cOAlition S’s “Towards Responsible Publishing” Proposal: An Invitation To Tender (ITT) to Support This Initiative” COAR Confederation of Open Access Repositories) COAR […]
From KOSU Radio: Postcards, magazines, scrapbooks and more fill the archive shelves, depicting the story of OKC’s past. Soon, there will be additions to the past glimpses of the city, told through the lenses of six vintage cameras. Recapturing OKC, a new special collection at the Metropolitan Library System, will feature snapshots of a current Oklahoma City […]