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From a CDL Post by John Chodaki: California Digital Library (CDL) is proud to formally endorse the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information and commit to supporting and participating in open, transparent and community-governed research information systems. The values articulated in the Barcelona Declaration – openness, transparency, inclusivity and the commitment to public infrastructure – resonate deeply […]

AI OpenAI’s Most Capable Models Hallucinate More Than Earlier Ones (via ZDNet) Technology Assessment: Artificial Intelligence Generative AI’s Environmental and Human Effects (via GAO) Alabama Fairhope Public Library Likely to Lose All State Funding After Vote to Keep Explicit Material In Juvenile Section (via 1819News) Data Inside the Desperate Rush to Save Decades of US […]

The article (full text) linked below was recently published by IFLA Journal. Title Ukrainian Public Libraries During the Russia-Ukraine War: Supporting Individuals, Communities, and the Nation Authors Irene Lopatovska Pratt Institute Grace Pickering Pratt Institute Celia Coan Pratt Institute Source Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (2025) DOI: 10.1177/0961000625132661 Abstract The study presented here was […]

AI OpenAI’s Most Capable Models Hallucinate More Than Earlier Ones (via ZDNet) Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) A New Future For the Biodiversity Heritage Library Coalition For Networked Information (CNI) CNI Spring 2025 Plenary Session Videos National Science Foundation NSF Cancels Over 400 Grants Covering Disinformation, Deepfakes and STEM Education Open Access Estimating Transformative Agreement Impact […]

From a Circana Release: First quarter print book sales in the U.S. dropped 1%, or 2.3 million units, compared to the same time last year. The seasonal Easter shift is a key factor in first quarter performance. Easter 2024 fell in late March and in mid-April this year, leading to difficult comps for the month […]

From The Hechinger Report by Jill Barshay: ERIC stands for Education Resources Information Center and it is a curated online public library of 2.1 million educational documents that is funded and managed by the U.S. Education Department. The collection dates back to the 1960s and used to be circulated to libraries through microfiche. [Clip] This critical […]

Hawaii Proposed Funding Cuts Could Reduce Access to Hawai’i Libraries (via Hawaii Civil Beat) Iowa It’s Brutal:’ Sudden Grants Cuts Devastate Iowa Museums, Libraries and Cultural Nonprofits (Via Des Moines Register) Legal Rhode Island District Court Holds Motion Hearing on Fate of IMLS (via PW) See Also: Analysis/Comment on the Hearing by EveryLibrary Exec. Director, […]

The article linked below was recently published by Quantitative Science Studies (QSS). Title Where There’s a Will There’s a Way: ChatGPT is Used More for Science in Countries Where It is Prohibited Authors Honglin Bao University of Chicago Mengyi Sun Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Misha Teplitskiy (University of Michigan) Source Quantitative Science Studies 1–23 DOI: […]

From WOSU: The Dublin-based nonprofit OCLC has filed a lawsuit against the company Baker & Taylor in the Southern District Court of Ohio over claims of interference with contracts and misuse of OCLC’s product, WorldCat. Both companies work with libraries, offering software, technology services and cataloging programs. The suit was filed in late March and […]