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Alabama: Huntsville-Madison County Public Library Moves Books Out of Children’s Section; Washington: ‘A Brutal Hit’: Everett Library Cuts Will Lead To Reduced Hours, Staffing; & More Headlines
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Alabama Huntsville-Madison County Public Library Moves Books Out of Children’s Section (via WAAY) CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network Six New Collections Coming to Canadiana through the Call for Canadiana Collection Development Projects Internet New Research, Book Sets out How to Make Free Internet Access a Human right (via U. of Birmingham) Max Planck Digital Library […]
From an Introductory Blog Post: IFLA has for many years had its own Advisory Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE), which has both engaged in discussions internationally and provided a space for discussing the work of libraries in their own settings to uphold intellectual freedom. Through this, it works to strengthen […]
Journal Article: “A Study on How Libraries Operate as Health Spaces in the United States” (abstract only)
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The article (abstract only) linked below was published the Journal of Community Health. Title A Study on How Libraries Operate as Health Spaces in the United States Authors Sasha A. Fleary City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy Patrece L. Joseph Boston University School of Public Health Somya Rastogi […]
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Releases 2023 Salary Data and Statistics in Four New Reports
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From the ARL Salary Data Release: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2023, which analyzes salary data for professional staff working in 126 of the 127 ARL member libraries during 2023. Data are reported for 11,118 professional staff from 120 university ARL libraries in Canada and the United States […]
Sage Acquires GOOD DOCS, Distributor of Film Documentaries; The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI; & More Headlines
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Alabama ‘Extremists’: Alabama GOP Chair, Anti-Censorship Group Blast Each Other Over Libraries (via AL.com) AI Microsoft Pitches AI ‘Agents’ That Can Perform Tasks on Their Own (via AP) State Department Reveals New Interagency Task Force On Detecting AI-Generated Content (via FedScoop) The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI (via WIRED) […]
New Data, Trends: Urban Libraries Council (ULC) Releases 2024 Library Insights Report
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From ULC: This summer, the Urban Libraries Council asked its 187 member libraries across the U.S. and Canada to participate in the second-annual Library Insights Survey (LIS), compiling 2023 data to build on pre-pandemic trends tracked from 2019-2022. Today, we proudly release the 2024 Library Insights Report. The 2024 report provides a data-driven view of post-pandemic […]
Clarivate Releases Highly Cited Researchers 2024 List; Altmetric Now Tracks Clinical Impact of Research; & More Headlines
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AI AI Companies Are Trying to Get MIT Press Books (via 404 Media) Could Artificial Intelligence Help Catalog Thousands of Digital Library Books? An Interview with Abigail Potter and Caroline Saccucci (via Library of Congress) Altmetric Altmetric Now Tracks Clinical Impact of Research Clarivate Clarivate Releases Highly Cited Researchers 2024 List ||| Direct to the […]
Google Scholar Turns 20! 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Scholar
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Ed. Note: Google Scholar launched on Wednesday, November 17, 2004. Here’s a post about Google Scholar from November 18, 2024 (ResourceShelf via Wayback Machine) that I co-authored. Additionally, two media reports about the launch from NBC News and Ars Technica. The “About Google Scholar” page from November 20, 2004 can be accessed (via Wayback) here. […]
Research Tools: An Updated Database of Early English Playbooks: DEEP 2.0
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From the University of Pennsylvania: Was Shakespeare the most famous dramatist of his day? Zachary Lesser, Edward W. Kane Professor of English in the School of Arts & Sciences, often poses this question to students in his Introduction to Shakespeare class. One way to generate an answer is to consult the Database of Early English Playbooks […]
From WUSA: The Library of Congress discovered a recent cyber breach by an “adversary,” according to officials. The unidentified adversary “accessed email communications between Library staff and congressional offices,” according to Director of Communications Bill Ryan. Emails between congressional offices and some Library staff, including the Congressional Research Service, from January through September were compromised, according […]
