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From Booknet Canada: A survey of leisure time and reading habits from industry non-profit BookNet Canada has found that 79% of Canadians felt they had enough or more than enough free time in 2023. The survey, which has been conducted by BookNet every year since 2013, asked 1,247 Canadians if they had read or listened to a […]

From a Google Blog Post:   For the first time, Condé Nast opens the doors to the Vogue archive. In collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, the worlds of fashion, design, history and culture come to life with over 15,000 newly-digitized color images spanning more than three decades and six hundred issues. Today, these images […]

Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice (Vol. 12, No 1) was published online June 11, 2024.  PLRP is published by the College & Research Division of the Pennsylvania Library Association. In This Issue Commentary Carry That Weight: The Journey of an Academic Librarian by Jim Frutchey Research Self-Care in the LibraryA Case Study of a Multi-Use […]

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 […]

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 […]

From USA Today/Des Moines Register:  …an exclusive Des Moines Register survey of Iowa’s 325 public school districts found that some schools pulled dozens – even hundreds – of books under the law before a federal judge issued an injunction last December after Butler Abry and other teachers, families and publishers sued. But an exclusive Des Moines […]

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) […]

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 […]

From the Associated Press: A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts… Direct to Full Text Article See Also: More “Not Real […]