Interviews Archives
The Rise of “AI Agents; Dr. Timnit Gebru Named 2025 Miles Conrad Awardee; & More Headlines
AI One Chatbot Safety Benchmark to Test Them All (via IEEE Spectrum) The Rise of “AI Agents”: What They Are and How to Manage the Risks (via World Economic Forum) Center For Research Libraries (via CRL) Interview: Introducing Jacob Nadal, CRL’s New President (via CRL) Digital Humanities Other Stories to Tell: Recovery Scholarship and the […]
A New Research Initiative From the Harvard Law School Library: The Institutional Data Initiative (IDI) Launches Today
From the Launch Announcement: Today we’re launching the Institutional Data Initiative (IDI), a research initiative at the Harvard Law School Library. IDI is dedicated to supporting our peers as they steward humanity’s knowledge and seek to provide the broadest access to it in the age of AI, just as they’ve done for so much media […]
New From the Library of Congress: U.S. Elections Web Archive Data Resources Available; Reflections on Collection Development: One Year at CLOCKSS and Looking Ahead to 2025; & More Headlines
AI ChatGPT Now Understands Real-Time Video, Seven Months After OpenAI First Demoed It (via TC) Google Gemini Now Summarizes Entire Folders in Google Drive (via 9to5 Google) Google’s New Project Astra Could Be Generative AI’s Killer App (via Tech Review) & Google Reveals Gemini 2, AI Agents, and a Prototype Personal Assistant (via WIRED) Interview: […]
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Report: “LA Public Library to Celebrate the Life and Legacy of LA’s First Black Librarian, Miriam Matthews”
From LAist: This Wednesday, Dec. 11, the Los Angeles Public Library’s Hyde Park Miriam Matthews Branch will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the building’s opening, as well as the life and legacy of its namesake, Miriam Matthews. [Clip] Matthews’ accomplishments run the gamut from advocating for Negro History Week in the city – the precursor […]
Journal Article: “Data Literacy in Flux: Perspectives of Community College Librarians on Evolving Educational Demands and Library Capacities” (Abstract/Snippets Only)
The article linked below was recently published by Library & Information Science Research. Title Data Literacy in Flux: Perspectives of Community College Librarians on Evolving Educational Demands and Library Capacities Authors Jeonghyun Kim University of North Texas Sarah Evans University of North Texas Lingzi Hong University of North Texas Erin Rice-Oyler University of North Texas […]
Libraries: Anchoring The Future of Software Preservation (Interview with Julien Roche, President of Liber)
From Software Heritage: Imagine the Tower of Babel, but instead of chaos and confusion, it stands as a symbol of collaboration and understanding. This seemingly paradoxical image perfectly encapsulates the mission of the Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche (Liber). The association brings together over 400 national, specialized, and university libraries from 40 countries. In […]
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Journal Article: “A Study on How Libraries Operate as Health Spaces in the United States” (abstract only)
The article (abstract only) linked below was published the Journal of Community Health. Title A Study on How Libraries Operate as Health Spaces in the United States Authors Sasha A. Fleary City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy Patrece L. Joseph Boston University School of Public Health Somya Rastogi […]
Clarivate Releases Highly Cited Researchers 2024 List; Altmetric Now Tracks Clinical Impact of Research; & More Headlines
AI AI Companies Are Trying to Get MIT Press Books (via 404 Media) Could Artificial Intelligence Help Catalog Thousands of Digital Library Books? An Interview with Abigail Potter and Caroline Saccucci (via Library of Congress) Altmetric Altmetric Now Tracks Clinical Impact of Research Clarivate Clarivate Releases Highly Cited Researchers 2024 List ||| Direct to the […]
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New Research Brief From IOI: “Community Infrastructure to Further Open Research Software”
From a New Invest in Open Infrastructure Research Brief: At Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI), we are working to understand the landscape of research software and to identify the gaps, challenges, and opportunities for advancing its sustainability and resilience. This research brief is a first output of a broader project (funded by the Sloan Foundation, October 2024-January 2025) […]
Draft Report From CNI Senior Scholar Don Waters Available for Comment: “Meeting the Climate Emergency: University Information Infrastructure for Researching Wicked Problems”
From a CNI Announcement by Cliff Lynch: CNI Senior Scholar Donald Waters has now made available a full draft of his report “Meeting the Climate Emergency: University Information Infrastructure for Researching Wicked Problems” for comment by the CNI community. The report can be downloaded at The plan going forward is to have Don convene a […]
