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Advocacy ‘A Toolkit for Knowledge Rights Advocacy’ – KR21 Workshop Report (via LIBER) Open Book Collective Report on Open Book Collective’s (OBC) First Annual General Assembly of Custodians Publishing Brown University Digital Publications Joins the Association of University Presses

From The Sacramento Bee: California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday evening signed a bill into law barring school boards from banning books, instructional materials or curricula labeled as inclusive or diverse. “Remarkable that we’re living in a country right now in this banning binge, this cultural purge that we’re experiencing all throughout America, and now […]

The full text article linked below was published today by Scientific Data. Title Journal Production Guidance for Software and Data Citations Authors Shelley Stall, Geoffrey Bilder, Matthew Cannon, Neil Chue Hong, Scott Edmunds, Christopher C. Erdmann, Michael Evans, Rosemary Farmer, Patricia Feeney, Michael Friedman, Matthew Giampoala, R. Brooks Hanson, Melissa Harrison, Dimitris Karaiskos, Daniel S. […]

Book Bans A Ban on Book Bans? Teachers, Students Call on Pennsylvania Lawmakers to Make It Happen AI Book Bans: Testing LLMs Against the Freedom to Read (via Library Innovation Lab) Illinois Illinois State Library Evacuated After Friday Bomb Threat (via WCIA) MIT Libraries MIT Libraries Receives Grant From Mellon Foundation to Support Postdoctoral Research […]

The article linked below was recently published by the International Journal of Librarianship. Title Librarians’ Attitudes, Needs, and Barriers to Participating in International Conferences: A Survey of ALA Members Authors Grace Liu West Chester University Shoshana Frank Independent Researcher Elizabeth Dawson Arizona Western College Olanike Olaniyi Indianapolis Public Library Source International Journal of Librarianship DOI: […]

From EDUCAUSE: In 2023, generative AI emerged as the most rapidly adopted technology in history. All members of the higher education community, from students to administrators, are trying to determine what impact generative AI tools can, will, and should have on life, learning, and work. To make matters more complex, there is no consensus about […]

From Colorado Public Radio: A former librarian will receive $250,000 from the High Plains Library District as part of a settlement in a lengthy civil rights dispute over her firing. Brooky Parks lost her job at Erie Community Library in 2021 after promoting anti-racism and LGBTQ history workshops for teens. The programming drew backlash from the district’s […]

The article linked below was published online today by Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP). Title Video Game Equipment Loss and Durability in a Circulating Academic Collection Authors Diane Robson University of North Texas Libraries Sarah Bryant Western Wyoming Community College Catherine Sassen University of North Texas Libraries Source Evidence Based Library and Information […]

From Knowledge Exchange: Different alternative publishing platforms have appeared over recent years. But what are their pros and cons? Do they differ significantly from traditional scholarly journals? To better understand what individual publishing platforms do and how they fit in the open scholarly communication ecosystem, Knowledge Exchange invited platforms working in open access publishing to […]