July 14, 2024 by Gary Price
From Archives Portal Europe: DeCoSEAS project launch the web platform Pratinada.net, with 7200 recordings online from Southeast Asia. The web platform Pratinada.net hosts 7200 recordings online from Southeast Asia. It was created by the DeCoSEAS project (Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives) to make searchable and accessible online sound archives and collections related to music and sound (including interviews, speeches, […]
July 9, 2024 by Gary Price
From Channel 6 (Tulsa): Radio IDL is responsible for one of the largest Blues and Black history sheet music collections in the nation. Now work is being done to archive and digitalize them. Kerry Kudlacek, also known as the “professor of blues” was a collector for 63 years. He said it is his dream to […]
July 1, 2024 by Gary Price
From Internet Archive Canada We at Internet Archive Canada (IAC) are delighted to announce the launch of an exciting new digitization project in collaboration with Library and Archives Canada (LAC). This initiative marks a significant step forward in our mission to provide universal access to all knowledge, leveraging our expertise tn library and archival digitization […]
June 30, 2024 by Gary Price
From UNT Libraries: The University of North Texas Libraries is excited to release the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy Collection in the UNT Digital Library. This collection features over 120 resources about the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) toward government, legislative and procedural policy. We expect this collection to grow over the […]
June 12, 2024 by Gary Price
From a Library Futures Blog Post: In October 2023, Library Futures gathered a dozen library experts and practitioners to create principles for library ownership of digital books. These principles are meant to establish a foundation of trust between publishers and libraries so that publishers can sell digital books to libraries and libraries can build permanent digital […]
June 9, 2024 by Gary Price
From The Royal Society: Over 10,000 letters of the astronomer and photographic pioneer Sir John Frederick William Herschel FRS (1792-1871) have been digitised for the first time on the Royal Society’s Science in the Making archives portal. Digital audiences can now travel through time to read about Herschel’s work in his own words and those of his correspondents. They […]
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June 5, 2024 by Gary Price
From a Project ReShare Announcement: Project ReShare is pleased to announce the launch of the ReShare Digital software development initiative and its accompanying pledge drive. This endeavor is aimed at revolutionizing the way libraries share and access digital collections, with an initial emphasis on eBook lending and book chapter delivery functionalities. ReShare Digital, an extension of the […]
June 3, 2024 by Gary Price
From the Audio Publishers Association: Publishers’ audiobook revenue grew 9% in 2023 to $2 billion, continuing the trend of year-on-year growth according to the Audio Publishers Association’s Sales Survey conducted by Toluna Harris Interactive. Edison Research conducted the Audio Publishers Association’s 2024 Consumer Survey and found the majority of U.S. adults (52%) have listened to […]
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May 29, 2024 by Gary Price
American Library Association (ALA) ALA Awards $10,000 Grants to 16 Libraries Serving Incarcerated Persons or Assisting Those Re-Entering Society to Build Capacity AI OpenAI Signs Content Licensing Deal with The Atlantic The Crossroads of Innovation and Privacy: Private Synthetic Data for Generative AI (via MSR) The Influencer Next Door: How Misinformation Creators Use GenAI (preprint, […]
May 15, 2024 by Gary Price
From Syracuse University Libraries: Syracuse University Libraries has launched its new online Plastics Collection comprised of digitized content from the Special Collections Research Center’s (SCRC’s) plastics collecting area. This new landing page for the collection reimagines the previous site, which formerly focused on the digital photography of more than 3,000 objects from the Plastics Artifacts Collection. The new Plastics Collection brings […]