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Cornell University: Rare Transcript, Photos of MLK Jr. Union Speech Discovered
From Cornell Chronicle: Claire Deng ’22 was doing a survey of archival papers last summer at a library in the ILR School when she came across something unexpected. As the collections survey assistant at the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, she had been combing through thousands of boxes of archives since 2023 to evaluate […]
Curtis Brundy Named Dean of University Libraries at University of Massachusetts Amherst
From a UMass Amherst Announcement: Curtis Brundy has been named of University Libraries, effective April 1. Brundy is currently Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Communications and Collections at Iowa State University. From a Letter to the UMass Community: Curtis comes to UMass Amherst from Iowa State University (ISU), where he has been serving for the […]
New Resource From ARL: “e-Resource Licensing Explained: An A–Z Licensing Guidebook for Libraries”
From Association of Research Libraries (ARL): ARL is pleased to publish e-Resource Licensing Explained: An A–Z Licensing Guidebook for Libraries, a practical tool to empower librarians who license electronic resources (e-resources). The guidebook includes easily digestible legal explanations and pragmatic strategies for preserving rights that users already have under US copyright law, particularly in the face […]
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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 […]
Research Resource: “Announcing HADES: Health Advertisements Database From Ebling Sources”
From the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries: HADES consists of advertisements from health sciences journals covering the disciplines of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, hospital management, laboratory management, and the allied health sciences from 1923 to 2007. From small quarter page ads to full page drug ads, which often include the pharmaceutical indications, these advertisements offer a window into […]
GPO Sees Surge in Use of GovInfo to Access Government Information; Criteria for Bibliographic Databases in a Well-Functioning Scholarly Communication and Research Assessment Ecosystem; & More Headlines
Audiobooks Digital Audiobooks Lead Growth in Library Circulation For the Second Year (via Audio Publishers Association) Books Print Book Sales Saw a Small Sales Increase in 2024 (via PW) California “Palisades Branch of LA Public Library Burns Down. What Was Lost in the Fire?” (via Here and Now) Council on Library and Information Resource (CLIR) […]
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Journal Article: “Open Science at the University of Toronto: Exploration of Researcher, Staff and Librarian Perspectives”
The article linked below was recently published by Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research. Title Open Science at the University of Toronto: Exploration of Researcher, Staff and Librarian Perspectives Authors Madelin Burt-D’Agnillo University of Toronto Mindy Thuna University of Toronto Source Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice […]
AI: The Publisher of the Journal “Nature” is Emailing Authors of Scientific Papers, Offering to Sell Them AI Summaries of Their Own Work; New Data: Demographics of the Canadian Publishing Industry, 2015-2023; & More Headlines
AI AI and the Struggle for Control Over Research (via Inside Higher Ed) Meta Knew It Used Pirated Books to Train AI, Authors Say (via Reuters) The Publisher of the Journal “Nature” is Emailing Authors of Scientific Papers, Offering to Sell Them AI Summaries of Their Own Work (via Futurism) Authors Alliance Artificial Intelligence, Authorship, […]
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Journal Article: “‘As of My Last Knowledge Update’: How is Content Generated by ChatGPT Infiltrating Scientific Papers Published in Premier Journals?”
The article linked below was recently published by Learned Publishing. Title As of My Last Knowledge Update’: How is Content Generated by ChatGPT Infiltrating Scientific Papers Published in Premier Journals? Author Artur Strzelecki University of Economics in Katowice, Katowice, Poland Source Learned Publishing Volume38, Issue1; January 2025 DOI: 10.1002/leap.1650 Abstract The aim of this paper is […]
Library Battles Heat Up in Alabama; Examining Library Structures to Scale Research Support Services: Insights From an OCLC RLP Leadership Roundtable; & More Headlines
Alabama Library Battles Heat Up in Spanish Fort, Athens as New Year Begins (via APR) Data Announcing Make Data Count and HELIOS Open Collaboration: ‘Implementing data evaluation at institutions’ Working Group National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Trump Promises to Replace National Archivist After the Agency’s Role In Documents Case Against Him (via AP) NDSA […]
