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How a Rural Library is Working To Build Connectivity For Its Community; Just Announced: IFLA PressReader International Marketing Award Winners 2024; & More Headlines
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|AI Managing Extreme AI Risks Amid Rapid Progress (via Science) New Report: Science in the Age of AI (via Royal Society) Toward a ‘More-Than-Digital’ AI Literacy: Reimagining Agency and Authorship in the Postdigital Era with ChatGPT Alabama Two Report: Lawsuit Against Prattville Library Policy Featured on MSNBC (via APR) and Prattville Library Policy ‘Trying to […]
Report: “National Nonprofit Partners with University to Open Libraries in New Jersey Prisons”
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|From Town Topics: Before he graduated from Yale Law School and became a MacArthur Fellow, Reginald Dwayne Betts spent nine years in prison after pleading guilty to carjacking. He was only 16. It was the availability of books, and the engagement with literature, that got him through those years without crushing his spirit. An award-winning […]
From the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS): Today the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced the 10 recipients of the 2024 National Medal for Museum and Library Service. The National Medal is the nation’s highest honor given to museums and libraries that demonstrate excellence in service to their communities. Since 1994, […]
Just Released: Shortlist For 9th IFLA Green Library Award (Top Eight Green Libraries and Green Library Projects 2024)
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|From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA): With generous sponsorship from De Gruyter Publishing (Boston/Berlin), ENSULIB circulated a Call for Submissions for the IFLA Green Library Award for the ninth year in a row. Any type of green library, or outstanding green library project, initiative or idea was invited to apply for the Award. Libraries with a small budget but […]
The May 2024 Issue of College & Research Libraries is Now Available Online; Building a Global Research Initiative on Open Science (GRIOS); elife Announces New Podcast to Highlight Stories of Researchers Across the Globe; & More Headlines
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|AI Artificial Intelligence’s Role in Digitally Preserving Historic Archives (via Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture) Books ACLS Announces 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award Winners Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) One Step Closer to a New Home for America’s Digital Heritage Libraries The May 2024 Issue of College […]
The Brubeck Collection at Wilton Library Launches Digital Archive of Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck on International Jazz Day, 22,000+ Item Collection Includes Unreleased Music, Interactive Tour Maps, Song Timelines, Rare Photos, Videos & More
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|From The Wilton Library: Today, one of the world’s premier jazz archives, The Brubeck Collection at Wilton Library (Wilton, CT), announced the launch of its enhanced and interactive digital archive, making the 22,000+ item collection catalog easily searchable and browsable online for the first time to everyone worldwide. This new digital archive also includes more […]
Cynthia Hudson Vitale Appointed Associate Dean of Technology Strategy and Digital Services; Op/Ed: Policy-Making and the Future of Scholarly Monographs; & More News Headlines
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|Data Management and Sharing Plans Connecting DMSPs to Research Outputs (via University of California Curation Center (UC3)) France French National Library Quarantines ‘Poisonous’ Books (AFP via France 24) Iowa Iowa City Launches Book Donation and Recycling Program to Promote Sustainability (via Des Moines Register) Johns Hopkins University Libraries Cynthia Hudson Vitale Appointed Associate Dean of […]
Library of Congress: 24 Previously Unpublished Audio Recordings Now Available Online From the PALABRA Archive
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|From the Library of Congress: As part of the Library’s National Poetry Month celebrations, the Latin American, Caribbean, and European Division (LAC&E) is making digitally available 24 previously unpublished audio recordings from the PALABRA Archive. Since the launch of the online repositories of the Library’s literary audio archives almost a decade ago, the tradition around the PALABRA Archive […]
Funding: NEH Announces $26.2 Million for 238 Humanities Projects Nationwide
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|From the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $26.2 million in grants for 238 humanities projects across the country. Grants awarded today will underwrite a new permanent exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh on how the Nile River shaped ancient Egyptians’ ideas of […]
American Library Association (ALA) Releases The State of America’s Libraries 2024
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|From an Introduction to the Report (18 pages; PDF) by ALA’s Interim Director, Leslie Burger: Library workers never cease to amaze me, and that’s saying something because I’ve been in the field for quite some time. Toward the end of 2023, I joined the American Library Association (ALA) in a new capacity, as interim executive […]