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From Nashville Public Radio/WPLN: A large crowd gathered outside the Hendersonville Public Library on a drizzly Saturday morning to hear the actor and evangelist Kirk Cameron at a story time event in February 2023. They circled around the flagpole, recited the pledge of allegiance and sang the national anthem, and Cameron led them in prayer. […]
New York: Previewing the Rochester Public Library’s New Archive of Black History & Culture; AI Perceptions at the University of Baltimore; & More Headlines
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|AI White Paper: AI Perceptions at the University of Baltimore ||| Blog Post about the Paper From Ithaka S+R Kentucky Video: Louisville’s Western Library Holds More Than a Century of History (via WAVE) New York Previewing the Rochester Public Library’s New Archive of Black History & Culture (via WXXI) Pennsylvania Philadelphia: “Mayor Parker’s Social Media […]
Manitoba Winnipeg Library Security Incidents Down After Safety Enhancements, Report Says (via CBC) Montana Bozeman Library Holds Grand Reopening (via NBC Montana) New Mexico Bill Aiming to Prevent Public Library Book Bans Moves Forward (via NM Politico Report) Rural Libraries Go by the Book in a Hunt For Help (via Santa Fe New Mexican) Tennessee […]
AI Allen Institute for AI (AI2) Releases OLMo 7B, “a Truly Open” State-of-the-Art LLM Can This A.I.-Powered Search Engine Replace Google? It Has for Me (via NY Times) Ed. Note: I had the opportunity to discuss and demo the search tool discussed in the article at the CNI Fall 2023 Meeting. Video here. New Nonpartisan […]
Pennsylvania State Library Back Home at Newly Renovated Forum Building; Wyoming: Abby Beaver Named New State Librarian; & More News Headlines
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|Alabama Alabama Public Library Agency Quits American Library Association (via AL.com) Colorado War of the Words: Colorado Eyes Challenges to Drag Queen Story Hours, LGBTQ+ Books (via Westword) Louisiana Lafayette Library Board May Not Require ALA Master’s Degree by Library Director Applicants (via The Advocate) Mississippi State Librarian Stephen Parks Sworn in for Third Term […]
Library Data: IMLS Launches New State Library Administrative Agency (SLAA) Survey Comparison Tool
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|From IMLS: The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has launched a new State Library Administrative Agency (SLAA) Survey Comparison Tool on IMLS.gov.The SLAA Survey Comparison Tool is an online dashboard that allows users to select and compare data from up to 3 states collected from the biennial SLAA Survey in a visually accessible […]
Atlanta University Center (AUC) Library CEO & Director, Loretta Parham to Retire This Year
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|From AUC (via PR Newswire) (Full Text): Loretta Parham, chief executive officer and director of the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center Inc., will retire after 19 years of outstanding leadership of the Library. The Board of Trustees and governing body of the AUC Woodruff Library is announcing her planned retirement date of June […]
Digital Collections: Georgia State University Library Completes Grant Making Recordings, Speeches, and More From The Southern Labor Archives Audio Collection Digitally Accessible
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|From the Georgia State University Library: Georgia State University Library has completed a $23,945 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to support digitizing audio holdings in the 20th and 21st century Southern Labor Archives. As a result of the project, 523 recordings that were once inaccessible due to their format and at […]
BHL Technical Development: Year in Review; NYC Ended 7-Day New York Public Library Service. So What Has The Impact Been?; & More News Headlines
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|Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) BHL Technical Development: Year in Review Boston Library Consortium, NISO Boston Library Consortium (BLC) and NISO (National Information Standards Organization) Announce Membership Agreement EBSCO EBSCO Information Services CEO Tim Collins to Retire on June 30, 2024 DataCite Meet Maria Gould, DataCite’s New Product Director Google Chrome Browser Adds Three New Generative […]
From NL Times: Exactly ten years ago this Sunday, the then Minister of Culture Jet Bussemaker officially lent out the first e-book via the public libraries’ special online platform, the so-called online Bibliotheek (online library). It was Vaslav, the novel by Arthur Japin about the life of the legendary ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950). In […]