“Inside Libraries’ Battle For Better E-Book Access”; “Knowledge Unlatched Presents Open Access Heroes 2024 and Usage Increase of 20%”; & More Headlines
E-Books Inside Libraries’ Battle For Better E-Book Access (via Axios) Misinformation Fake News and Misinformation: Sydney Universities Launch New Database (International Digital Policy Observatory (IDPO) Open Access Knowledge Unlatched Presents Open Access Heroes 2024 and Usage Increase of 20% Open Access, Scholarly Communication, and Open Science in Psychology: An Overview [...]
AI Roundup: Artificial Intelligence’s Role in Digitally Preserving Historic Archives; Why RAG Won’t Solve Generative AI’s Hallucination Problem; & More Headlines
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Request For Contributions: National Library of Australia Seeks a Complete Collection of Every Australian Published Work
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 [...]
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Report: Libraries in British Columbia Interior Breached by Hackers Demanding Ransom
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Statement: ARL, ALA, ACRL, and ASERL Partner to Urge the National Center for Education Statistics to Retain Vital Academic Library Survey in IPEDS
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