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Report: Alabama Senate Approves Bill Allowing Firings Of Library Board Members
Media Roundup Alabama Library Board Members Can Be Removed Without Cause Under Senate-Approved Bill (via AL.com) The Alabama State Senate on Tuesday passed a bill allowing local officials to remove library board members without cause. The bill was approved with 26 ayes, four nays and one abstention after discussion from [...]
Preprint Roundup: Campus AI vs. Commercial AI; The Impact of LLMs on Online News Consumption and Production; Semantic Search at LinkedIn; & More
Here are several new or revised preprints posted on arXiv that might be of interest. An Analysis of the Effects Of Open Science Indicators on Citations in the French Open Science Monitor Authorship Drift: How Self-Efficacy and Trust Evolve During LLM-Assisted Writing Campus AI vs. Commercial AI: Comparing How Students [...]
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Benchmarking Database Access
What 171 academic libraries reveal about equity, funding, and research support. In the U.S., R1 universities provide access to an average of 498 distinct databases — more than triple the number available at most Baccalaureate and Associate’s institutions.
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Report: “Could Artificial Intelligence Save Endangered Archives? A Kenyon College Cohort Aims to Find Out”
From The Ohio Newsroom: “[Archives] are crumbling and disappearing and we are losing our history,” said Katharine Elkins, humanities professor at Kenyon College. Deteriorating archives are endangering historical documents across the country. A group of students and faculty at Kenyon College, in rural north central Ohio, believes artificial intelligence could be the key to rescuing […]
Internet Archive Adds Searchable Access to Archived Pages From the CIA World Factbook
Mark Graham at the Internet Archive tells us that searchable access to more than 18,000 archived pages from the CIA World Factbook found in The Wayback Machine’s collection are now available online via this interface. Thanks Mark! Thanks Internet Archive! See Also: More Searchable Collections via The Wayback Machine
Journal Article: “What Undergraduate Students Need to Know and Actually Know About Generative AI”
The article linked below (full text) was published today by Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence. Title What Undergraduate Students Need to Know and Actually Know About Generative AI Authors Sina Rismanchian University of California, Irvine Eesha Tur Razia Babar University of California, Irvine Shayan Doroudi| University of California, Irvine Source Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence […]
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Marco Rubio No Longer Serving as Acting Archivist of the United States
From Politico: Marco Rubio is no longer serving as the acting archivist of the United States, relieving the Trump administration official of one of several roles, a spokesperson for the National Archives and Records Administration confirmed to POLITICO. Rubio — who serves as interim national security adviser in addition to his duties as secretary of […]
Digital Collections: Newly Digitized Papers Shed Light on WWII Internment
From the Stanford Report Stanford University Libraries have digitized the Kazuyuki Takahashi papers, an “extraordinary collection” of letters and photographs that expand the historical record of wartime incarceration in the United States. The Kazuyuki Takahashi papers, comprising digital scans of correspondence, photographs, and related materials created and collected by Stanford University graduate Kazuyuki “Kaz” Takahashi and […]
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AP: “CIA Ends Publication of Its Popular World Factbook Reference Tool”
From the Associated Press: Close the cover on the CIA World Factbook: The spy agency announced Wednesday that after more than 60 years, it is shuttering the popular reference manual. The announcement posted to the CIA’s website offered no reason for the decision to end the Factbook, but it follows a vow from Director John Ratcliffe to end programs […]
Journal Article: Synthesizing Scientific Literature with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
The paper linked below was published today by Nature. It discusses the work by Ai2 and the University of Washington to develop OpenScholar that we’ve been posting about around here since it launched (as a prototype) in late 2024. Some of OpenScholar’s resources are accessible (to all) via the Asta ecosystem of tools. Title Synthesizing […]
