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Report: Alabama Board Defunds Local Library After Complaints Over ‘Inappropriate’ Books
From the Associated Press: The public library in Fairhope, Alabama — a picturesque city on the shores of Mobile Bay — has found itself in the crosshairs of battles over library content. The Alabama Public Library Service Board of Trustees voted Thursday to withhold state funding from the Fairhope Public Library after complaints from conservative […]
Op/Ed: When Funding Feeds Starvation
Ed. Note: infoDOCKET would like to thank Sandi Caldrone for contributing the op/ed shared below. When Funding Feeds Starvation by Sandi Caldrone Assistant Professor, University Library Research Data Librarian University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign caldron2@illinois.edu In a misguided quest for efficiency, the NIH recently announced it was limiting indirect costs to 15 percent of grant award funds. […]
ARL: IMLS Public Access Policy Guidance Explained
From an Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Post by Shawna Taylor and Marcel LaFlamme: The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has released its Public Access Policy Guidance, and while it follows the same requirements as all agencies, it may look a bit different from some of the large-scale scientific research agencies. IMLS’s implementation is […]
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Towards Next-Gen Citation Indexes: The Groundbreaking Release of OpenAIRE ScholeXplorer API 3.0!; U-M Academics Say Rising Costs of Journal Subscriptions Are Hurting Scholarly Research; & More Headlines
AI Anthropic’s New ‘Hybrid Reasoning’ AI Model Is Its Smartest Yet (via The Verge) Perplexity Teases a Web Browser Called Comet (via TechCruch) The Public Interest Corpus: An Update and Opportunities For Co-Development (via Authors Alliance) Internet Archive Who’s Funding the Wayback Machine? Saving Information Under Threat (via Inside Philanthropy) Lyrasis Lyrasis Partners with the […]
Wiley Launches Pilot Pricing Framework to Support Equitable OA Publishing For Researchers in Latin America; European Commission Publishes Guidelines on AI System Definition to Facilitate the First AI Act’s Rules Application; & More Headlines
AI Defining and Implementing AI Literacy: Announcing a New Cohort Project (via Ithaka S+R) European Commission Publishes Guidelines On AI System Definition To Facilitate The First AI Act’s Rules Application Release of the Initial Anthropic Economic Index Archives Public Letter Re the Firing of the Archivist of the United States (via Free Government Information) NOTE: […]
New Data From OverDrive, “Libraries Break Digital Lending Records in 2024 with Over 739 million Checkouts”
From an OverDrive News Release: Librarians and educators achieved remarkable new milestones in 2024 by providing increasingly robust digital lending and streaming options to satisfy library patrons of all ages. Using OverDrive’s award-winning Libby and Sora apps, readers worldwide borrowed over 739 million ebooks, audiobooks, and digital magazines, a 17% increase over 2023. Streaming video […]
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Television: Lorne Michaels Donates His Archive to Harry Ransom Center
From the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas: Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of Saturday Night Live, has donated his archive to the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. The Lorne Michaels Collection documents Michaels’s career in television from his earliest writing for Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In and The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show up […]
National Endowment For the Humanities (NEH) Announces $22.6 Million For 219 Humanities Projects Nationwide
From NEH: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $22.6 million in grants for 219 humanities projects across the country. Among these are grants that will establish protocols for the stewardship and voluntary return of unethically acquired archaeological and ethnographic artifacts to their communities of origin; enrich K–12 educators’ understanding and teaching of […]
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The New York Public Library Acquires Archive of Jhumpa Lahiri
From The NY Public Library: The New York Public Library has acquired the archive of Jhumpa Lahiri, shedding new light on the award-winning author and multilingual translator. Comprising 31 boxes of material stretching to nearly 40 linear feet, the archive, which will become publicly available in 2025, chronicles Lahiri’s literary accomplishments from a young age […]
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
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 […]
