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NISO Welcomes New Board Members for 2024–25; Libraries, Civil Society Push Back on NDAA Copyright Amendment Based on Pro Codes Act; & More Headlines
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Funding, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
|Accessibility Web and Mobile App Accessibility Regulations (via EDUCAUSE) Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Libraries, Civil Society Push Back on NDAA Copyright Amendment Based on Pro Codes Act Ebooks E-book Demand Stretches Indianapolis Public Library Budget Lyrasis The Palace Project IMLS Grant Report, Part 2: Access for All National Information Standards Organization (NISO) NISO Welcomes […]
Remembering David M. Shotton, Founder and Co-Director of OpenCitations; Three Things to Know About Prompting LLMs; & More News Headlines
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Elsevier, Jobs, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
|AI Three Things to Know About Prompting LLMs (via Sloan Mgmt Review) “What Does It Mean to Make Data AI-Ready?” (via Dryad) Alabama Alabama Library Association Concerned About The Cost of Implementing APLS Code Changes (via APR) Accessibility Web and Mobile App Accessibility Regulations (via EDUCAUSE) Gender Equality Latest Elsevier Gender Equality Study Reveals 20 […]
AI AI ‘Gold Rush’ For Chatbot Training Data Could Run Out of Human-Written Text The AI Arms Race to Combat Fake Images Is Even—For Now (via IEEE Spectrum) Report: New “Apple Intelligence” AI Features Will Be Opt-In by Default (via ars techica) Books English-Language Books are Filling Europe’s Bookstores. Mon Dieu! (via The NY Times) […]
2024 Top Trends in Academic Libraries: A Review of the Trends and Issues
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Open Access
|The article linked below was published in the June 2024 Issue of College & Research Libraries News. Title 2024 Top Trends in Academic Libraries: A Review of the Trends and Issues Author ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee Source C&RL News Vol 85 No 5 June 2024 DOI: 10.5860/crln.85.6.231 Abstract This article explores the topics […]
The article linked below appears in the June 2024 issue of College & Research Libraries News. Title AI Reskilling in Libraries: When the Dean’s Assistant Gets an AI Assistant Authors Leo S. Lo University of New Mexico Victoria Anderson University of New Mexico Source College & Research Libraries News Vol. 85, No. 6 June 2024 […]
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Awards Nearly $6M in Grant Funding for African American History and Culture
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|From the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS): The Institute of Museum and Library Services has announced the FY24 recipients of its Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC). Awardees will receive up to $500,000 each for projects that build the capacity of African American museums or support the growth and development of […]
From the Tampa Bay Times: Three parents on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit challenging a controversial 2023 Florida law that increased scrutiny of school-library books and instructional materials, alleging the process for removing books unconstitutionally discriminates against parents who disagree with “the state’s favored viewpoint.” The law (SB 1069), in part, made the process of […]
AI Meta’s AI System is a Boost to Endangered Languages — As Long As Humans Aren’t Forgotten (via Nature) Princeton University Library Princeton University Library is Using a Pioneering Digital System to Uncover the History Of Collection Items University of Georgia The University of Georgia Selects TIND IR and TIND RDM
“A Texas County Removed 17 Books From Its Libraries. An Appeals Court Says Eight Must Be Returned”
|From AP: Eight books dealing with subjects including racism and transgender issues must be returned to library shelves in a rural Texas county that had removed them in an ongoing book banning controversy, a divided panel of three federal appeals court judges ruled Thursday. It was a partial victory for seven library patrons who sued […]
FCC Adopts $200M Cybersecurity Pilot Program for Schools & Libraries
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News
|UPDATE: Statement From ALA: American Library Association Welcomes Fcc Cybersecurity Funding Pilot For Libraries, Calls For Long-Term Funding —- From the Federal Communications Commission: The Federal Communications Commission today adopted a three-year, $200 million Schools and Libraries Cybersecurity Pilot Program. This program will allow the Commission to obtain actionable data about which cybersecurity services and […]