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From The Hill: Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) unveiled legislation Tuesday to curb book bans. “I’m proud to introduce the Fight Book Bans Act, legislation that will help our school boards and school districts overcome these relentless attacks on our civil rights and civil liberties and academic freedom,” Frost said at a press conference on Capitol Hill. “The […]

From an Urban Libraries Unite Announcement (Full Text): The Mellon Foundation has awarded Urban Librarians Unite (ULU) one million dollars in general operating support over the next four years through its Public Knowledge program. This signiicant gift, the largest ever received by ULU, is a powerful recognition of our history of work supporting urban library […]

AI/GPT Association of American Publishers (AAP) Submit Reply Comments to Copyright Office in Artificial Intelligence Proceeding Google’s New Gemini AI Will Understand Your Photos and Videos, Not Just Text (via News.com) Archives Release of Success Criteria for Digitizing Permanent Records (via NARA: US National Archives and Records Administration) Connecticut CT Librarians Looking For Lawmaker Help […]

AI/GPT New White Paper: Generative AI in Scholarly Communications (via STM) CHORUS CHORUS Endorses Statement on Research Data Linkability and Citability of Research Data (via CHORUS) Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Infographic: 5 Things You Might Not Know About Palace Bookshelf (via DPLA) Wikipedia ChatGPT Tops Wikipedia’s Most-Viewed Articles of 2023 List (The Hill)

Two announcements from MSFT today. Continued AI Innovation in Copilot Soon, Copilot will be able to generate responses using OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-4 Turbo…This model is currently in testing with select users and will be widely integrated into Copilot in the coming weeks.  You can now use Copilot to create images that are even higher […]

From a COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) Post: Open Science is ushering in a new paradigm for research; one in which all researchers have unprecedented access to the full corpus of research for analysis, text and data mining, and other new research methods. A prerequisite for achieving this vision is a strong and well-functioning […]

From Northern Illinois University: Northern Illinois University Libraries is pleased to announce the completion of the Street & Smith Project. First begun in 2020 with a grant of $338,630 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), this project involved partner libraries at NIU, Villanova University, Stanford University, Bowling Green State University, and Oberlin College […]

From The Decoder: UC Berkeley researchers present Starling-7B, an open Large Language Model (LLM) trained with Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF). Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF) uses feedback from AI models to train other AI models and improve their capabilities. For Starling-7B, RLAIF improves the helpfulness and safety of chatbot responses. The model […]

Direct to Complete Table of Contents + Abstracts (Issue 58, December 4, 2023) Direct to Articles Editorial Enhancing Serials Holdings Data: A Pymarc-Powered Clean-Up Project The Use of Python to Support Technical Services Work in Academic Libraries Pipeline or Pipe Dream: Building a Scaled Automated Metadata Creation and Ingest Workflow Using Web Scraping Tools A […]