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Urban Libraries Council (ULC) Releases New Set of Best Practices Designed to Help Libraries Better Serve Those Experiencing Homelessness In Their Communities
| Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
From ULC: The Urban Libraries Council (ULC), North America’s leading nonprofit and membership organization for urban libraries, has released a new set of best practices designed to help libraries better serve those experiencing homelessness in their communities. Informed by library leaders across the U.S. and Canada, the report recommends that community partnerships, staff development, and intentional […]
GPO Makes Available Thousands of New U.S. Congressional Serial Set Volumes
| Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Publishing, Reports
From the US Government Publishing Office: U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has added more than 3,000 volumes of the containing more than 45,000 individual documents and reports to GPO’s GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. This comes as part of a multi-year effort with the […]
From the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries: In 2019, the University Libraries began a partnership with Google Books and HaithiTrust Digital Library to create digital copies that will preserve and improve access to difficult to find and rare materials in our collections. Since then the Libraries have sent 92 thousand items to be digitized, which we estimate have saved […]
The article linked below was recently published by Scientometrics. Title Open Access Improves the Dissemination of Science: Insights From Wikipedia Author Puyu Yang University of Amsterdam Ahad Shoaib University of Waterloo Robert West École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Giovanni Colavizza University of Bologna Source Scientometrics (2024) DOI: 10.1007/s11192-024-05163-4 Abstract Wikipedia is a well-known platform […]
cOAlition S Announces Releases an Independent Study on the Impact of Plan S, First Assessment of the Impact of Plan S Five Years After Its Launch
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, News, Open Access, Publishing, Reports
From a cOAlition S Release: cOAlition S is pleased to announce the release of an independent, comprehensive study assessing the impact of Plan S on the scholarly communication landscape. Conducted by scidecode science consulting, following a tender process, this study provides the first assessment of the impact of Plan S five years after its launch. Titled “Galvanising […]
Roundup: “NYT Sends AI Startup Perplexity ‘Cease And Desist’ Notice Over Content Use”; “The Problem with “Perfect” Answers: GenAI and Academic Research Tools”; & More News Headlines
| Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Reports, Roundup
AI Apple Study Reveals Critical Flaws in AI’s Logical Reasoning Abilities (via Apple Insider) NYT Sends AI Startup Perplexity ‘Cease And Desist’ Notice Over Content Us (via Reuters) OpenAI Says ChatGPT Treats Us All the Same (Most Of The Time) (via Technology Review) Prompt Engineering for Academic Librarian: Implications and Applications of Prompt Engineering in […]
Montana State Library Debates ‘Young Adult’ Literature; Kevin King, Elected to Lead Core In 2025-26, Will Step Away From the Position; & More Headlines
| Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access
American Library Association Kevin King, Elected to Lead Core In 2025-26, Will Step Away From the Position (via ALA) British Library British Library Installs Solar Technology on Roof (via BBC) Charleston Conference Charleston Conference Expands to Asia with New Event in Bangkok, Thailand Montana Montana State Library Debates ‘Young Adult’ Literature OverDrive OverDrive Content Catalog […]
The article linked below was recently published by Scientometrics. Title Open Access Publications Drive Few Visits From Google Search Results to Institutional Repositories Author Enrique Orduña-Malea Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Cristina I. Font-Julián Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Jorge Serrano-Cobos Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Source Scientometrics (2024) DOI: 10.1007/s11192-024-05175-0 Abstract Given the importance of Google Search in […]
From Fast Company (via MSN) Amid the catastrophic damage from extreme weather over the past few weeks, many people have found public libraries to be a refuge, from coordinating supply distribution to serving as meeting spots. And this isn’t anything new. Increasingly, libraries see themselves as more than just a place to escape into a good book. […]
Research Tools: Violation Tracker Global Joins Violation Tracker and Violation Tracker UK in Exposing Corporate Misconduct
| Data Files, Jobs, News
From Good Jobs First: The world’s largest corporations have racked up US$700 billion in monetary penalties linked to regulatory infringements in 45 countries since 2010. Major banks, especially those based in the United States and Europe, account for more than one-third of the penalties. Ninety-five parent companies have received US$1 billion or more in penalties. […]
