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“What a Top Librarian’s Road Trip Reveals About America’s #Libraries — and Democracy”(Interview with Outgoing ALA President, Emily Drabinski); “Looted Antiquities are in the Spotlight in New Digital Museum”; & More Headlines
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AI AI Dataset Licensing Companies Form Trade Group ||| Media Report ( via Reuters) AI-Generated Exam Submissions Evade Detection at Reputable UK University (via PLOS) ||| A Real-World Test Of Artificial Intelligence Infiltration Of A University Examinations System: A “Turing Test” Case Study (via PLOS) Online Resources Looted Antiquities are in the Spotlight in New […]
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 […]
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 […]
A University Librarian Asks: How Do We Rescue the Past?; Preview Upcoming Improvements to PubMed Central; & More Headlines
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) The Tech Industry Can’t Agree On What Open-Source AI Means. That’s a Problem (via MIT Technology Review) Arts New Data: Arts & Cultural Sector Hit All-Time High in 2022 Value Added to U.S. Economy (via National Endowment for the Arts, US Bureau of Economic Analysis) Librarians A University Librarian Asks: How Do […]
New Orleans Public Library is Now Fine Free; Dav Pilkey, Scholastic, and Little Free Libraries Launch New Initiative; & More Headlines
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Little Free Libraries Dav Pilkey, Scholastic, and Little Free Libraries Launch New Initiative Louisiana New Orleans Public Library is Now Fine Free (via NOPL) Open Book Collective Collective Development Fund Grant Programme: Scoping Update (via Open Book Collective) Scholarly Communications Scientific Journals Are Publishing Papers with AI-Generated Text (via 404 Media) Standards W3C Adopts New […]
From Apple: Today [4/5] Apple introduces transcripts for Apple Podcasts, an innovative new feature that makes podcasts more accessible and easier to navigate. With transcripts, users can read the full text of an episode, search the episode for a specific word or phrase, and tap on the text to play the podcast from that point […]
From Cornell University: In this episode of the Inclusive Excellence Podcast, Erin Sember-Chase and Toral Patel sit down with the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell for a conversation about the critical role that libraries play in preserving the past, especially when it comes to censorship, the rise of banned books and this year’s theme […]
From a Clarivate Announcement: Clarivate today announced a partnership with EveryLibrary, the non-partisan advocacy organization for libraries. As part of the partnership, Clarivate™ has made a commitment to advance EveryLibrary’s mission to safeguard and support libraries in the U.S. Bar Veinstein, President, Academia & Government, Clarivate said: “Libraries transform the world through their critical role […]
The article (preprint) linked below is scheduled for publication in portal: Libraries and the Academy. Title A Case for Open Peer Review Podcasting in Academic Librarianship Author Amber Sewell University of Nevada, Las Vegas Source portal: Libraries and the Academy Forthcoming in Vol. 23, No. 4 (2023) Abstract Models of open peer review are being […]
Listen to This: ALA President Emily Drabinski Interviewed on The Ezra Klein Show (NY Times)
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From The NY Times: Emily Drabinski is the president of the American Library Association and an associate professor at the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She is steering an embattled organization at a moment when libraries — and librarians themselves — are increasingly under fire. This conversation unpacks the political and […]
