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Updated Edition Now Available: Directory of Institutions Offering ALA-Accredited Master’s Programs in Library and Information Studies; Ohio: Library Levies, Making Up Significant Parts of Operating Budgets, Head For Ohio November Ballots; & More Headlines
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Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) Publishes 2024 Annual Report Books Updated and Rebranded OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit Now Available Ithaka S+R New Project: Building Data Collection and Evaluation Capacity for Higher Education in Prisons (via Ithaka S+R) LIS Education Updated Edition Now Available: Directory of Institutions Offering […]
Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation (IPLC) Launches the South Asian Governmental Publications Web Archive
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From the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation: From demographic data to legislative proceedings, the serials that form the focus of the Archive include publications on all subjects and from all countries of the region (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka). The Archive complements robust print collections of government documents acquired through the PL-480 and subsequent South […]
Interview: ALA President Cindy Hohl Discusses Book Bans on NPR’s All Things Considered
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From National Public Radio (NPR): The American Library Association’s president, Cindy Hohl, is at the forefront of the fight against book censorship — a fight the ALA and other First Amendment groups have been losing. [Clip] From the Interview: [Andrew] LIMBONG [NPR}: The push to remove books, particularly books dealing with LGBTQ issues or race […]
From National Public Radio/ATC: The internet has gotten a little bit more noisy lately as audio files on social media have rediscovered an amazing fact. The BBC’s vast sound effects library is open to the public. Thousands of clips can be downloaded for free, and people have been pulling out all kinds of weird sounds. […]
Book Sanctuaries People are Supporting ‘Book Sanctuaries’ Despite Politics: ‘No One Wants to Be Censored’ (via USA Today) Maryland Anne Arundel County Public Library Becomes the First in Maryland to Be a Book Sanctuary (via WMAR) New York Far Rockaway Library Named NYC’s ‘Best New Building’ by Municipal Art Society of New York (via QNS) […]
From the Library of Congress: The Library’s Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations are in full swing, and as it is tradition, the Hispanic Reading Room has released a new batch of fifty PALABRA Archive recordings for online streaming. The PALABRA Archive, which turned eighty last year, is a collection of audio recordings of 20th and 21st century poets and writers from Luso-Hispanic and U.S. Latino […]
Digital Collections: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections Announces Digitization of Neil Armstrong’s Paper Speeches
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From Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies (Full Text): Purdue University Archives and Special Collections (ASC) is pleased to announce the digitization of paper transcripts used by Neil Armstong for his public addresses and select speeches. The nearly 500 transcripts—totaling 7,700 pages—were generously donated by his wife, Carol Armstrong, in 2011. The speeches are […]
Journal Article: “Knowledge Infrastructures are Growing Up: The Case for Institutional (Data) Repositories 10 Years After the Holdren Memo”
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The article linked below was recently published by Data Science Journal. Title Knowledge Infrastructures are Growing Up: The Case for Institutional (Data) Repositories 10 Years After the Holdren Memo Authors Mikala R. Narlock University of Minnesota Scout Calvert University of Nebraska-Lincoln Shawna Taylor Association of Research Libraries Rachel Priesman Márquez Eastern Carolina Univeristy Aundria Parkman […]
The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself; Patron Privacy Protections in Public Libraries: IT Professionals’ Points of View; & More Headlines
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IEEE IEEE is the Latest Publisher to Join GetFTR IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) Registration Now Open For 2024 International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Online Meeting ||| Meeting Agenda/Session Descriptions Internet Archive The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself (via WIRED) Language Models Language Agents Achieve Superhuman Synthesis of Scientific Knowledge (preprint via arXiv) Library Publishing […]
Digital Collections: Alan Turing and DNA Papers Among Historical Peer Review Reports Made Public For First Time by The Royal Society, Over 1600 Reports Posted Today
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From The Royal Society: The Royal Society has today released over 1,600 historical peer review reports, available to view publicly for the first time on the Science in the Making portal. Readers can discover what eminent scientists thought of work by mathematician Alan Turing, as well as Nobel Prize-winning chemist, Dorothy Hodgkin’s review of Crick and Watson’s famous “DNA” paper. […]
