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This Alabama Library Had to Review 8,000 Books. Here’s What Happened; Golden Gate University Selects FOLIO; Cengage Launches GenAI-Powered Student Assistant In Beta; & More Headlines
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|AI Video: Can Artificial Intelligence Lead Us to a Smarter ILL Future or Other Library Services? (via IFLA) Alabama North Shelby Library Director Resigns After Board Takeover (via APR) This Alabama Library Had to Review 8,000 Books. Here’s What Happened (via AL.com) Cengage Cengage Launches GenAI-Powered Student Assistant in Beta EBSCO Golden Gate University Selects […]
The article linked below was recently publishing by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Title ChatGPT as Research Scientist: Probing GPT’s capabilities as a Research Librarian, Research Ethicist, Data Generator, and Data Predictor Authors Steven A. Lehr Cangrade Aylin Caliskan University of Washington Suneragiri Liyanage Harvard University Mahzarin R. Banajii Harvard University Source Proceedings of the […]
From Reuters: Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has been hit with a class-action lawsuit in California federal court by three authors who say it misused their books and hundreds of thousands of others to train its AI-powered chatbot Claude. The complaint by writers and journalists Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson, said that Anthropic […]
Journal Article: “Determinants of Downloads as Demand for Hybrid Journals”
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|The article (full text) linked below was recently published by LIBER Quarterly. Title Determinants of Downloads as Demand for Hybrid Journals Authors Sumiko Asai Meiji University Source LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries 34(1), 1-11. DOI: 10.53377/lq.18689 Abstract Although Big Deal contracts that provide access rights to all electronic journals […]
From Nature: Research-integrity watchers are concerned about the growing ways in which scientists can fake or manipulate the citation counts of their studies. In recent months, increasingly bold practices have surfaced. One approach was revealed through a sting operation in which a group of researchers bought 50 citations to pad the Google Scholar profile of […]
Creative Commons Strategic Workshop Reveals Big Opportunities For Open Access to Cultural Heritage; ARL Comments on NIH Draft Public Access Policy; & More Headlines
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|American Library Association ALA Opens 2025 Annual Conference & Exhibition Call for Proposals (via ALA) Association of Research Libraries ARL Comments on NIH Draft Public Access Policy (via ARL) Cultural Heritage Creative Commons Strategic Workshop Reveals Big Opportunities For Open Access to Cultural Heritage (via CC) North Carolina Greenville Library Committee Votes to Remove Books […]
From LiveScience: ChatGPT’s medical diagnoses are accurate less than half of the time, a new study reveals. Scientists asked the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to assess 150 case studies from the medical website Medscape and found that GPT 3.5 (which powered ChatGPT when it launched in 2022) only gave a correct diagnosis 49% of the time. […]
Report: “A South Texas School District Received a Request to Remove 676 Books”
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|From the Texas Tribune: On May 17, with just one week to go until the end of the school year, the superintendent of the South Texas Mission school district received an email with a list of 676 books a group of local pastors believed were “filthy and evil.” The email came from the personal assistant […]
From the Des Moines Register: The reprieve is over for Iowa educators and schoolchildren. A federal court has ordered that restrictions on some instruction and on school library books dealing with sex must go into effect. [Clip] For the time being, though, we are all stuck with it, thanks to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ Aug. […]
From Iowa Public Radio: Last year, an Iowa law that required schools to remove books that contain a depiction of a ‘sex act’ was put on pause by a temporary injunction, but an appeals court decision has cleared the way for the law to go into effect. A decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals […]