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From The Decoder: Ana Navarro-Cardenas claimed on X that President Woodrow Wilson pardoned his brother-in-law Hunter deButts—a person who, according to Lopatto, never existed. Navarro-Cardenas is known as a commentator on CNN and The View. Esquire and other media outlets spreaded similar misinformation, stating that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil and Jimmy Carter […]
The New York Public Library Publishes New Study on Libraries and Well-Being
| Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
From the NY Public Library: Libraries & Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library, a new white paper published by a groundbreaking partnership between The New York Public Library’s Strategy & Public Impact team and the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project within The University of Pennsylvania’s Positive Psychology Center, finds for the […]
Authors Alliance: “Developing a Public-Interest Training Commons of Books”
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Libraries, News
From the Authors Alliance: Authors Alliance is pleased to announce a new project, supported by the Mellon Foundation, to develop an actionable p lan for a public-interest book training commons for artificial intelligence. Northeastern University Library will be supporting this project and helping to coordinate its progress. Access to books will play an essential role […]
Dow Jones/Factiva Dow Jones Negotiates AI Usage Agreements with Nearly 4,000 News Publishers (via Nieman Lab) Ethics Striking a Balance: Navigating the Ethical Dilemmas of AI in Higher Education (via EDUCAUSE Review) Impact Shaping AI’s Impact on Billions of Lives (via arXiv) UCLA An Upcoming UCLA Humanities Class Will Utilize AI-Generated Textbook and Assignments (via […]
Case Over: Internet Archive Decides Not to Pursue Supreme Court Review in Copyright Lawsuit (Roundup of Statements and Media Reports)
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Publishing, Reports, Roundup
Statement From Internet Archive While we are deeply disappointed with the Second Circuit’s opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the Internet Archive has decided not to pursue Supreme Court review. We will continue to honor the Association of American Publishers (AAP) agreement to remove books from lending at their member publishers’ requests. We thank the many readers, […]
Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) Launches Recommendations to Tackle Inequity in Open Access Publishing
| Funding, News, Open Access, Publishing
From the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA): In a world of digital abundance, and over a million articles being published open access in 2023, vast quantities of scholarly outputs remain locked behind paywalls, and many scholars across the world are blocked by dominant models of open access publishing. Blockers include funding systems that uphold […]
The report linked to below was published by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) from the Computing Research Association (CRA). Title Future of Information Retrieval Research in the Age of Generative AI Authors James Allan University of Massachusetts Amherst Eunsol Choi University of Texas at Austin New York University Daniel P. Lopresti Lehigh University CCC Hamed […]
Findings from EBSCO’s Natural Language Search Beta; Training AI through Human Interactions Instead of Datasets; & More
| Data Files, EBSCO, Libraries, News
AI Training AI through Human Interactions Instead of Datasets (via Pratt School Engineering/Duke University) EBSCO Findings from EBSCO’s Natural Language Search Beta (via EBSCO Post) OCLC OCLC Publishes Research On Art Library Collaborations in Art Libraries Journal Tennessee Knox County Schools Receive List of Books To Ban From Libraries Under State Law (via WVLT)
Library of Congress Appoints Rachael Stoeltje as New Chief for National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation
From the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress has named Rachael Stoeltje as the new chief of the Library’s National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, which includes the Library’s Packard Campus in Culpeper, Virginia, beginning in January 2025. Stoeltje will oversee the state-of-the-art facility where the Library of Congress acquires, preserves and provides access to the […]
$715 Million Deal: “India Takes Out Giant Nationwide Subscription to 13,000 Journals”
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, News, Open Access, Publishing, Springer Nature
From Science: Last week, the Indian government announced a giant deal with multiple publishers that will allow an estimated 18 million students, faculty, and researchers free access to nearly 13,000 journals, including some top-tier ones, through a single portal. Under the One Nation One Subscription scheme, which kicks in on 1 January 2025, India will […]
