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From the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress has released a groundbreaking online collection of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records, making one of the most poignant symbols of the AIDS epidemic in the United States available to a global audience. As the largest communal art project in the world, the AIDS Memorial Quilt […]

From Digital Science: New analysis suggests that open data practice is now on the edge of becoming a standard, recognised and supported scholarly output, globally. As part of the latest in the State of Open Data series, produced by partners Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature, direct author-sharing practices have been analysed from a funder, country and institutional […]

From Oxford University Press:  Oxford University Press (OUP) has named ‘brain rot’ as the Oxford Word of the Year 2024, following a public vote that saw more than 37,000 people worldwide have their say. ‘Brain rot’ was one of the six contenders shortlisted by OUP’s language experts to reflect some of the moods and conversations that have shaped the past year. Selected […]

The preprint linked to below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Suspected Undeclared Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Academic Literature: An Analysis of the Academ-AI Dataset Author Alex Glynn University of Louisville Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2411.15218 Abstract Since generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT became widely available, researchers have used […]

The article linked below was recently published by Nature. Title Why ‘Open’ AI Systems are Actually Closed, and Why This Matters Authors David Gray Widder Cornell University Meredith Whittaker Signal Foundation University of Western Australia Sarah Myers West AI Now Institute Source Nature 635 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08141-1 Abstract This paper examines ‘open’ artificial intelligence (AI). Claims about […]

From the Associated Press: The Aurora Health Care Mobile Medical Clinic team waited patiently at a table in the main hallway of the Milwaukee Public Library’s sprawling downtown branch, a blood pressure cuff and mental health questionnaire at the ready as they called out to patrons who paused: “Do you have any questions about your […]

From the Alamaba Political Reporter: Movies like Moana, Frozen, Coco and more are moving in the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library after the board changed policies to comply with new state aid requirements from the Alabama Public Library Service. Interim director Connie Chow confirmed to APR that numerous movies currently shelved in the juvenile section of libraries are moving to […]

The article linked below was recently published by Library & Information Science Research. Title Data Literacy in Flux: Perspectives of Community College Librarians on Evolving Educational Demands and Library Capacities Authors Jeonghyun Kim University of North Texas Sarah Evans University of North Texas Lingzi Hong University of North Texas Erin Rice-Oyler University of North Texas […]

From The Toronto Star: A broad coalition of Canada’s major news organizations, including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC, is suing tech giant OpenAI, saying the company is illegally using news articles to train its ChatGPT software. It’s the first time all of a country’s major […]