July 25, 2024 by Gary Price
From ALA The American Library Association Council decided on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, that Sam Helmick will be the 2024-2025 president-elect effective immediately. Helmick, who is Community & Access Services Coordinator at Iowa City Public Library, was recommended by the ALA Executive Board and confirmed by the Council. ALA bylaws specified the process for replacing […]
July 23, 2024 by Gary Price
ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) Candidates For ACRL 2025 ACRL Board of Directors Announced AI AI Terminology, Explained for Humans (The Verge) See also: Artificial Intelligence Glossary (Nielsen Norman Group) As Generative Models Improve, People Adapt Their Prompts (preprint; via arXiv) Arizona Listen Online: How a Small Library [The Copper Queen Library in […]
July 18, 2024 by Gary Price
From the Library of Congress: The National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled at the Library of Congress today recognized two of its cooperating libraries in Maryland and Michigan for their outstanding service to readers with visual, physical or print disabilities. The Maryland State Library for the Blind and Print Disabled in Baltimore […]
May 31, 2024 by Gary Price
Arizona State University Library ASU Collection Preserves Legacy of Modern Architects, Buildings in the Southwest Authors Alliance Introducing the Authors Alliance’s First Zine: Can Authors Address AI Bias? (via AA) Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) DPLA Shares Update on “Plans to “Find a Durable Home For Our Cultural Heritage Aggregation Program” National Library of […]
May 24, 2024 by Gary Price
From the National Library of Medicine Technical Bulletin: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has recently added a new repository to the Dataset Catalog, a catalog of biomedical datasets from selected publicly available repositories. Based on feedback from users, NLM will gradually add new repositories to the initial four — dbGap, Dryad, ImmPort, and Harvard […]
May 23, 2024 by Gary Price
From the Irish Star: The manuscript of John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost was translated into the Irish language in the 19th century. Since then, scholars believed that it was irretrievably lost. Recently, through meticulous examination of an existing microfilm copy in the National Library of Ireland, researchers were finally able to trace its whereabouts. The […]
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May 9, 2024 by Gary Price
From NextGov/FCW: The Library of Congress was targeted in a cyberattack that occurred in parallel with a high-profile intrusion into the United Kingdom’s British Library in late October, but the hackers failed to access the U.S. library’s systems, according to internal documents obtained by Nextgov/FCW. The attempted breach occurred around Oct. 28, the same day the […]
May 9, 2024 by Gary Price
AI AI Image Generators Say They Never Used Artists’ Images to Train AI Models (via Courthouse News) Dotdash Meredith Forms Strategic Partnership With OpenAI (via Media Post) TikTok to Start Labeling AI-Generated Content (via AP) ||| Official Announcement From TikTok Clarivate Introducing Web of Science Research Intelligence (via Clarivate) Linked Data OCLC Introduces Meridian (via […]
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May 7, 2024 by Gary Price
ACRL The May 2024 (Vol 85, No. 5) Issue of College & Research Libraries News (C&RL News) is Now Available Online AI Elsevier Announces Launch of SciBite Chat, an AI-Powered Semantic Search Tool for Life Sciences R&D ALPSP ALPSP’s Learned Publishing Journal to Transition to Gold OA in 2025 Archives NPR Report: “Archive of Japanese […]
May 5, 2024 by Gary Price
From the National Library of Australia: The National Library of Australia has an ambitious mission: to assemble a complete collection of Australian published work. From romance novels to historical inquiry, the National Library is legislated to preserve every published word for future generations to find. The National Library recognises that this encompasses more than works […]