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From The Telegraph (Macon, GA): A Monroe County commissioner says he wants to defund the Monroe County Library if it doesn’t move LGBTQ+ themed books out of its children and young adult sections, and the issue prompted about 100 people to show up at the county’s commission meeting last week. District 3 Commissioner John Ambrose […]
The Open Library Foundation Welcomes Project ReShare as an Affiliate Member; Data Exposure from LLM Apps: An In-depth Investigation of OpenAI’s GPTs; & More Headlines
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Public Libraries
|AI Data Exposure from LLM Apps: An In-depth Investigation of OpenAI’s GPTs (preprint via arXiv) Inside Universities’ Love-Hate Relationship with ChatGPT (via WSJ) Reliant’s Paper-Scouring AI Takes on Science’s Data Drudgery (via TC) Boston University Boston University (BU) Names Jennifer Gunter King First Associate University Librarian for Special Collections (via BU News) Canada Halifax Public […]
From a Communications of the ACM Article by Ryen White (Microsoft Research): As many of us in the information retrieval (IR) research community know and appreciate, search is far from being a solved problem. Millions of people struggle with tasks on search engines every day. Often, their struggles relate to the intrinsic complexity of their […]
The research article (full text) linked below was recently published by Scientometrics. Title Tweeting and Retweeting Scientific Articles: Implications for Altmetrics Authors Ashraf Maleki University of Turku, Finland Kim Holmberg University of Turku, Finland Source Scientometrics (2024) DOI: 10.1007/s11192-024-05127-8 Despite differences in extent of engagement of users, original tweets and retweets to scientific publications are […]
The research article (preprint) linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title AI Transparency in Academic Search Systems: An Initial Exploration Authors Yifan Liu University of British Columbia Peter Sullivan University of British Columbia Luanne Sinnamon University of British Columbia Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2408.10229 Abstract As AI-enhanced academic search systems become increasingly popular among […]
Report: “Grambling State Makes History as First HBCU in the U.S., Only Institution in Louisiana with a Digital Library”
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access
|From KTAL: Grambling State University entered the digital age on Thursday with a ribbon cutting to celebrate its new Digital Library and Learning Commons. They declare the $16.6 M facility is the only of its kind at a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in the U.S. According to GSU, the digital library is a state-of-the-art, 50,000-square-foot facility where people can […]
Woman Makes It Her Mission To Visit RI’s 70 Public Libraries; After Millions Lose Access to Internet Subsidy, FCC Moves To Fill Connectivity Gaps; & More Headlines
Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Public Libraries
|Arkansas North Little Rock Public Library System to Assume Management of Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub (Arkansas Business) FCC After Millions Lose Access to Internet Subsidy, FCC Moves To Fill Connectivity Gaps (via AP) Louisiana This Louisiana Author and Librarian Fights Against School Book Bans. Meet Amanda Jones. (via NOLA) Rhode Island Woman Makes It Her […]
The article linked below was recently published by Royal Society Open Science. Title Accelerating AI for Science: Open Data Science For Science Authors Neil D. Lawrence University of Cambridge Jessica Montgomery University of Cambridge Source Royal Society Open Science DOI: 10.1098/rsos.231130 Abstract Aspirations for artificial intelligence (AI) as a catalyst for scientific discovery are growing. […]
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Selects TIND RDM; American Library Association Announces Revised Date for ALA 2025 Annual Conference & Exhibition in Philadelphia; & More Headlines
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News
|American Library Association (ALA) American Library Association Announces Revised Date for ALA 2025 Annual Conference & Exhibition in Philadelphia Research Libraries UK (RLUK) RLUK Joins Green Libraries Campaign (via RLUK) TIND University of Nebraska-Lincoln Selects TIND RDM Texas The Portal to Texas History Reaches Twentieth Anniversary (via UNT) Last Update: 8:10 AM
From The Library of Congress “Worlds Revealed” Blog: The Geography and Map Division is excited to support the newly launched “Library of Congress Geospatial Applications” Hub site! Hosted in ArcGIS Online, a web-based platform created by Esri, “the Hub” provides online users with a new way to explore the Library’s wide range of StoryMaps and […]