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AI Audible is Beta Testing AI-Powered Search (via PW) Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Apple, Meta Targeted in U.K. Creators’ AI Content Crackdown (via Variety) Reddit To Test AI-Powered Search (via Media Post) Scientists are Falling Victim to Deepfake AI Video Scams — Here’s How To Fight Back (via Nature) Cataloging Recording and Slides Now Available For […]
Newly Digitized Virginia Woolf Manuscripts Available Online
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|From Smith College Libraries: King’s College London is the new institutional home for WoolfNotes, where it will be steered by Woolf scholars, Clara Jones and Anna Snaith. Spearheaded by scholars Michèle Barrett and Brenda Silver, and technical director Gilly Furse, WoolfNotes is a major digital humanities project that brings into the public domain Woolf’s last […]
From USC Annenberg: The word of the year in entertainment seems to be “contraction” and according to a new study, the term can be applied not only to sluggish production numbers but also to Hollywood’s efforts on inclusion. The report, by Professor Stacy L. Smith and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative updates the organization’s longitudinal analysis of top-grossing movies. The investigation […]
Clarivate Appoints Former ProQuest CEO Matti Shem Tov as the Company’s Next CEO
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|From Clarivate (Full Text of Announcement): Clarivate today announced that the Board has appointed Matti Shem Tov, former CEO of ProQuest, as the Company’s next CEO, effective August 9, 2024. Mr. Shem Tov will also join the Company’s Board of Directors. Jonathan Gear, Chief Executive Officer, will step down as CEO and as a member […]
JSTOR Announces “Artstor on JSTOR”; Seattle Public Library Still Reeling From May Cyberattack; & More Headlines
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|Association of Research Libraries ARL Awarded IMLS Grant for Futurescape Libraries: Mapping Possibilities for Tomorrow’s Information Hubs Center For Research Libraries (CRL) CRL Welcomes Newest Member: Saint Louis University JSTOR Integration Complete; JSTOR Announces “Artstor on JSTOR” Research Organization Registry (ROR) Using ROR for Funder Identification Seattle Public Library Seattle Public Library Still Reeling From […]
From CalMatters: Last November, [Fresno County Supervisor Steve] Brandau led Fresno County in creating one of California’s first citizen review committees for library books, which could soon decide whether to move material with “sexual references” and “gender-identity content” to a restricted area where it could only be checked out with a parent’s permission. The committee, […]
From Rare Book School (University of Virginia): “Collecting Daily Life in Early American Manuscripts” — The 2024 NEH-SHARP Living American History in Primary Documents Lecture by Ashley Cataldo was recorded on July 31, 2024 in Charlottesville, VA. Description The is no doubt the early American manuscript is collectible. From autographs of the Founders to writings […]
From the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA): This year marks a decade since IFLA’s last Internet Manifesto was launched, and of course the world is a very different place today, the way we access and exchange information keeps changing, however, connectivity remains the gateway through which we can turn that information into knowledge. With […]
Roundup: A Selection of New or Recently Updated Reports by the Congressional Research Service (CRS)
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|The reports listed below are a small selection of new or recently updated reports (July 15-August 1) by by the Congressional Research Service (CRS). Access to Motor Vehicle Software and Data Global Women’s Issues: Background and Selected U.S. Efforts Immigration: Grounds of Inadmissibility IT Outage from CrowdStrike’s Update: Impacts to Certain Public Safety Systems and […]
AI Roundup: “Policies on Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Among Academic Publishers: A Cross-Sectional Audit”; Cal Poly and Snopes Develop an AI Service to Fact-Check Your Questions & More Headlines
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|Academic Publishing Policies on Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Among Academic Publishers: A Cross-Sectional Audit (preprint; via medRxiv) Chatbots New Report Shows the Truth of How People Actually Use AI Chatbots (via PC World) ||| See Also: How Do People Use ChatGPT? We Analyzed Real AI Chatbot Conversations (via WaPo) Digital Twins Y Social: An LLM-Powered Social […]