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April 9, 2025 by Gary Price

Report: “Mississippi Libraries Ordered to Delete Academic Research in Response to State Laws”

From Mississippi Today: A state commission scrubbed academic research from a database used by Mississippi libraries and public schools — a move made to comply with recent state laws changing what content can be offered in libraries. The Mississippi Library Commission ordered the deletion of two research collections that might violate state law, a March […]

April 4, 2025 by Gary Price

From the California Digital Library (CDL): “Ebook Usability Report on Aggregator Platforms: A Case Study of EBSCO and ProQuest”

From the California Digital Library (CDL): Following the University of California Ebook Usability Common Knowledge Group’s (EUCKG) analysis of 3 publisher platforms (Cambridge, Elsevier, and Wiley) and the publication of an initial report, the EUCKG received feedback to evaluate ebook aggregators to see how they perform against similar usability criteria. The criteria focuses on users’ […]

March 5, 2025 by Gary Price

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

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 […]

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Los Angeles Public Library Director John Szabo is Library Journal’s 2025 Librarian of the Year; Oklahoma Lawmaker Files Bill Requiring Schools Provide List of All Library Material; & More Headlines

January 8, 2025 by Gary Price

California Los Angeles Public Library Director John Szabo is Library Journal’s 2025 Librarian of the Year (via LJ) Connecticut E-Book Licensing Bill Filed in Connecticut General Assembly (Senate) HathiTrust Unlock the Past: Public Domain Day 2025 Idaho Boise Library Board Wrestles with Application of ‘Library Protection Act’ (via IdahoNews.com) Libraries Research Librarian is #20 on […]

Findings from EBSCO’s Natural Language Search Beta; Training AI through Human Interactions Instead of Datasets; & More

December 4, 2024 by Gary Price

AI Training AI through Human Interactions Instead of Datasets (via Pratt School Engineering/Duke University) EBSCO Findings from EBSCO’s Natural Language Search Beta (via EBSCO Post) OCLC OCLC Publishes Research On Art Library Collaborations in Art Libraries Journal Tennessee Knox County Schools Receive List of Books To Ban From Libraries Under State Law (via WVLT)

Lindsay Cronk, Andrea Jamison, and Maria McCauley are Candidates for the 2026-27 Presidency of the American Library Association (ALA)

November 11, 2024 by Gary Price

From the American Library Association (ALA): Lindsay Cronk, Dean of Libraries, Tulane University, New Orleans; Andrea Jamison, Assistant Professor of School Librarianship, Illinois State University; and Maria McCauley, Director of Libraries, Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cronk currently serves as a member of Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures. She’s a member of the Core 5 Year […]

NotebookLM Now Allows Users to Customize Audio Overviews; Internet Freedom in the Americas Declined in 2024; & More Headlines

October 17, 2024 by Gary Price

AI Scientific Papers That Mention AI Get a Citation Boost (Nature) EBSCO EBSCO Information Services Launches Mosaic, by GOBI Library Solutions Freedom House Internet Freedom in the Americas Declined in 2024 (via FH) ||| Full Text Report: Freedom on the Net 2024: The Struggle for Trust Online, Google NotebookLM Now Allows Users to Customize Audio […]

EBSCO Information Services Launches Inspec with Full Text; Research Solutions and Karger Publishers Collaborate to Enrich Journal Content with Scite Smart Citations; & More Headlines

October 8, 2024 by Gary Price

AI OpenAI Announces Content Deal with Hearst, Including Content from Cosmopolitan, Esquire and the San Francisco Chronicle EBSCO EBSCO Information Services Launches Inspec with Full Text Research Solutions Research Solutions and Karger Publishers Collaborate to Enrich Journal Content with Scite Smart Citations OCLC Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Library Joins OCLC’s Worldshare Management Services Community Systematic […]

EBSCO Releases 2025 Serials Price Projections Report

September 23, 2024 by Gary Price

From an EBSCO Release: EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has published the 2025 Serials Price Projection Report, offering valuable insights into the financial landscape for libraries and publishers as they prepare for the upcoming renewal season. This year’s report projects overall effective publisher price increases for libraries are four to fivepercent for individual e-journal titles, three and a […]

Maine State Library Selects EBSCO Information Services to Provide Database Resources Statewide; 2024 Canadian Book Market Half-Year Review; & More News Headlimes

September 5, 2024 by Gary Price

Books–Canada 2024 Canadian Book Market Half-Year Review (via BookNet Canada) Environment Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Partners with Orion Magazine to Advance Climate Storytelling (via CLIR) Maine Maine State Library Selects EBSCO Information Services to Provide Database Resources Statewide Manitoba Visits Up at Winnipeg Libraries, But So are Security Incidents, Report Says (via […]

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