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The article linked below (preprint) was recently shared on arXiv. Title A Global Exploratory Comparison of Country Self-Citations 1996-2019 Authors Alberto Baccini University of Siena, Italy Eugenio Petrovich University of Turin, Italy Tilburg University, the Netherlands Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2303.0809 Abstract Self-citations are a key topic in evaluative bibliometrics because they can artificially inflate […]

From Nikkei Asia: Shared bookstores, where each shelf is operated by a different owner, are cropping up in Japan’s big cities, allowing book lovers to find new books and interact with each other. Passage, a shared bookstore in Tokyo’s Jimbocho district, popularly known as “book town,” has sets of shelves named after 31 streets in France, inspired […]

Arizona: How the Pima County Library Created a Safe Space for This Librarian (via Arizona Daily Star) ChatGPT Sends Shockwaves Across College Campuses (via the Hill) Connecticut: A CT Leader’s Decision to Pull a Children’s Book About Pronouns From Library Display Called ‘Censorship’ (via Hartford Courant) Conservatives are Trying to Ban Books in Your Town. […]

From the American Library Association (ALA): The Committee on Accreditation (CoA) of the American Library Association (ALA) announces release of a proposed revision of the Standards for Accreditation of Master’s Programs in Library and Information Studies for ALA Council adoption at the ALA Annual Conference being held in Chicago, IL June 22-27, 2023. About the Proposed Revision  […]

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 See Also: More “Not Real News” […]

Getty Acquires 11th Century Irmengard Codex (Fine Books & Collections) JAMA’s New Editor Settles in, Bringing Open Access and Other Changes (via STAT) ‘Shelves Have Been Left Barren’: Florida Teachers Sue DeSantis’ Government Over School Library Regulations

From an IMLS Announcement: The Institute of Museum and Library Services announced today that the agency’s  (AFR) is now available for FY 2022. The report details the health of the agency’s finances from October 1, 2021, to September 30, 2022, as required by the Office of Management and Budget. IMLS received a seventeenth consecutive unmodified […]

From a CORE Blog Post: Today we’re excited to unveil a project we’ve been working on here called CORE-GPT. The CORE-GPT application is a step change in academic question answering. Simply ask a question, in a perfectly natural way, this is then parsed using GPT-3 (and soon 4!). Our key development is that the provided […]

From a New Op/Ed published by Inside Higher Education: A lawsuit against the Internet Archive threatens the most significant specialized library to emerge in decades, say a group of current and former university librarians. [Clip] Libraries are defined by collections, services and values. In The Librarian’s Book of Lists (ALA, 2010), George M. Eberhart offers this […]