MORE 'NATIONAL-LIBRARIES' POSTS
Fight for the First and the National Library Alliance Release One Year Impact Report
| Libraries, National Libraries, News, Public Libraries, School Libraries
From an EveryLibrary Institute Blog Post: We are celebrating an important milestone: The one-year anniversary of Fight for The First, the only online digital advocacy platform that provides tools to local communities who want to take action against book bans in public libraries and school libraries around the United States. Supported by generous donations from […]
Report: “Texas Libraries Work To Bridge State’s Mental Health Services Gap”
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Funding, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
From The Texas Tribune: From the Texas State Library and Archives Commission in Austin offering a mental health resources page to the San Antonio Public Library’s mental health awareness presentation on the signs of anxiety to a private telehealth room where patrons can meet with a counselor via Zoom in North Texas town of Pottsboro, these librarians do their best […]
American Institute of Physics: Trevor Owens Named as AIP’s First Chief Research Officer
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, News, Preservation
Here’s the Full Text of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Announcement: AIP is delighted to announce the appointment of Trevor Owens as its first Chief Research Officer. Starting Feb. 12, Owens will lead AIP Research, a core element of the Institute’s strategic transformation enabling AIP to leverage its work in statistical research, history, policy, […]
Report: “British Library Restores Access to Online Collection Following Ransomware Attack”
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Maps, National Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, School Libraries
From The Record: The British Library — the national library of the United Kingdom and an archive of millions of books and manuscripts — began restoring access to its online catalog on Monday following a ransomware attack last October. [Clip] The online system, for now, will be the only way to see the rarest books, […]
Advocacy EveryLibrary Publishes 2023 Impact Report AI Gen-Al: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work (via IMF) OpenAI Unveils Plans For Tackling Abuse Ahead Of 2024 Elections (via Axios) ||| Official OpenAI Statement Microsoft Copilot Adds a Premium Subscription, Copilot Pro (via PC World) Idaho Idaho Bill On ‘Harmful’ Library Books Moves Forward After Most […]
Kansas City Public Library Director and Chief Executive John Herron Announces Resignation; Major Medical Journal Reverses Itself on ‘Research Parasites’ As NIH Beefs Up Data Sharing Rules; & More Headlines
| Conference Presentations, Data Files, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Reports, Scholarly Communications
AI/GPT UPDATED: A Generative AI Primer (via JISC, National Centre For Artificial Intelligence) Boston Library Consortium BLC’s Inaugural Annual Report Highlights a Year of Collective Impact EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center DHS Releases Data Mining Report After EPIC FOIA Request Language Lake Superior State University Releases 2024 Banished Words List Missouri Kansas City Public Library […]
Number of Countries with Open Science Policies Has Almost Doubled Since Adoption of UNESCO Recommendation; Digital Curation Network (DCN) Response to NSF Public Access Plan 2.0; & More Headlines
| Lecture, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Video Recordings
Digital Curation Network (DCN) DCN Response to NSF Public Access Plan 2.0 Events Lecture: National Libraries in the Digital Era―Focusing on the Strategies of the National Library of the Netherlands (via National Diet Library, Japan) ||| Presentation Materials?Slides ||| Video Recording UNESCO Number of Countries with Open Science Policies Has Almost Doubled Since Adoption of […]
Free Law Project Powers ProPublica’s New App About SCOTUS Investments; La Bibliothèque Mondiale du Cheval (World Horse Library) Launches; & More Items
| Interviews, Lecture, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Profiles, Video Recordings
AI/GPT Interview: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Discusses the Promise and Potential Perils of AI (via Morning Edition/NPR) Digital Libraries Learn About: La Bibliothèque Mondiale du Cheval (World Horse Library) Research Tools Free Law Project Powers ProPublica’s New App About SCOTUS Investments (via FLP) ||| Direct to ProPublica’s New “Supreme Connections” App
A New Online Exhibition: “Making the Greatest Medical Library In America”
| Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, National Libraries, News
From Circulating Now/National Library of Medicine: On a quest to bring together and catalog the world’s medical knowledge, John Shaw Billings, an Army surgeon and book collector who oversaw the U.S. Surgeon General’s library (today known as NLM), acquired approximately 300 pamphlets from the private collection of the renowned French physiologist Claude Bernard in 1878. Later […]
Video Recording: Chief Executive of the British Library, Sir Roly Keating in Conversation with Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden
| Libraries, National Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Video Recordings
From The Library of Congress (via YouTube): The chief executive of the British Library and Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden discuss how national libraries are vital to connecting and engaging with users, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the British Library. The video was recorded on October 25, 2023 and is also available via […]
