July 11, 2024 by Gary Price
AI AI’s Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet’s Hyper-Consumption Era (via WIRED) An Experiment with the Use of ChatGPT for LCSH Subject Assignment on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (via arXiv) “The Rise Of Generative AI: Transforming the Role of Information Professionals” by Mary Ellen Bates (via Springer Nature) Coalition For Networked […]
July 10, 2024 by Gary Price
From the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign News Bureau: A toolkit for public librarians can help them use data to communicate the value of their services and justify their funding needs. The Data Storytelling for Librarians Toolkit helps librarians present data in story form using narrative strategies. It was developed by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign information sciences professors. […]
July 10, 2024 by Gary Price
Alabama Bill to Arrest Librarians Filed For 2025 Session (via APR) Coalition For Networked Information (CNI) CNI Welcomes Four New Members Internet Archive New Ways to Search Archived Music News (via Internet Archive) Privacy Student Privacy in the Datafied Classroom: Facilitating Conversations with Campus Stakeholders (via College & Research Library News) Public Libraries Conference Paper […]
July 9, 2024 by Gary Price
From PLA: The Public Library Association (PLA) today published the 2023 Public Library Technology Survey report. The national survey updates emerging trends around technology capacity, resources for patrons, infrastructure, digital literacy, and staffing in U.S. public libraries. This data is vital to understand how libraries serve as hubs of knowledge and innovation in our communities […]
July 9, 2024 by Gary Price
AI How Disinformation From a Russian AI Spam Farm Ended Up on Top of Google Search Results (via WIRED) Preserving Secondary Knowledge: Using Language Models for Software Preservation (Conference Paper)(via IJDC) Illinois River Forest Public Library Facing Threats, Hires Private Security (via ABC Chicago) Cincinnati $43.3 Million Makeover and Transformation at Main Library Adds Engagement, […]
July 8, 2024 by Gary Price
AI AI Tools in Science: Researchers Discuss Use Cases (via MPDL) Detecting LLM-Assisted Writing in Scientific Communication: Are We There Yet? (preprint, via arXiv) Harvard Business School Launches AI-Powered “Tutorbot” (Video via HBS) Censorship Teachers, Authors and Activists Gather For Summit July 12-13 In Orlando to Defend Against Educational Censorship in Florida (via PEN America) […]
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July 4, 2024 by Gary Price
AI ChatGPT Adoption and Its Influence on Faculty Well-Being: An Empirical Research in Higher Education (via Education and Information Technologies) Publishing Open Access: De Gruyter to Make 37 More Journals Freely Available via Subscribe to Open Model in 2025 Rhode Island Rhode Island’s Newest Restaurant is Inside the Providence Public Library (via Rhode Island Monthly) […]
July 3, 2024 by Gary Price
The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of the American Planning Association. Title Libraries Are Resilience: Hubs Evidence From the Midwest Authors Lucie Laurian University at Buffalo Evan Doyle University of Iowa Iulian Vamanu University of Iowa Kara Logsden University of Iowa Source Journal of the American Planning Association (2024) DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2024.2343670 […]
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July 2, 2024 by Gary Price
From The Alabama Reflector: The Autauga-Prattville Public Library Board of Trustees last week approved a resolution giving themselves the power to remove any materials they believe inappropriate, whatever a library director may decide. The move is the latest in an ongoing controversy over access to books at the library, one that has led in the […]
July 2, 2024 by Gary Price
Acquisitions Library of Congress Acquires House of Blues Radio Collection (via LC) AI GraphRAG: New Tool For Complex Data Discovery Now on Github (Via Microsoft Research) Perplexity’s “Pro Search” Receives an Upgrade California ‘Why Would You Hack A Library?’: Solano County Public Library Still Struggling Months After Cyberattack (via SF Chronicle) College & Research Libraries […]