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From The NY Public Library: The New York Public Library has acquired the archive of Jhumpa Lahiri, shedding new light on the award-winning author and multilingual translator. Comprising 31 boxes of material stretching to nearly 40 linear feet, the archive, which will become publicly available in 2025, chronicles Lahiri’s literary accomplishments from a young age […]

AI AI Mistakes are Very Different Than Human Mistakes (via IEEE Spectrum) Authorship Attribution in the Era of LLMs: Problems, Methodologies, and Challenges (preprint; via arXiv) Center For Research Libraries (CRL) CRL Releases New Mission & Vision Statement Open Access Diamond Open Access: Advancing Knowledge as a Public Good (via UNESCO) Exploring the Business Models […]

The article linked below was recently published by Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research. Title Open Science at the University of Toronto: Exploration of Researcher, Staff and Librarian Perspectives Authors Madelin Burt-D’Agnillo University of Toronto Mindy Thuna University of Toronto Source Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice […]

From the Wyoming Tribune Eagle: Early Tuesday morning, the Laramie County Library System was the victim of a ransomware attack that shut down library servers and immobilized most digital services. The library’s Information Technology team was able to revert the system to a previous state and resume full service for library patrons by 9 a.m. […]

From the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR): This collection of brief essays challenges long-held principles of archival practice by addressing the carceral underpinnings of the cultural professions. Contributors explore how complicity with carceral systems and the Prison Industrial Complex undermines equitable access to information and perpetuates systemic harms. Drawing from their experiences working […]

The article (preprint) linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Agent Laboratory: Using LLM Agents as Research Assistants Author Samuel Schmidgall AMD Johns Hopkins University Yusheng Su AMD Ze Wang AMD Ximeng Sun AMD Jialian Wu AMD Xiaodong Yu AMD Jiang Liu AMD Zicheng Liu AMD Emad Barsoum AMD Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2501.04227 […]

From the U. of South Carolina College of Information and Communication: A College of Information and Communications research team conducted a national survey on “Americans’ Use and Perception of AI Tools” in December 2024. This marks the second survey carried out on this topic, continuing their efforts to understand public attitudes toward AI technologies. The […]

AI AI and the Struggle for Control Over Research (via Inside Higher Ed) Meta Knew It Used Pirated Books to Train AI, Authors Say (via Reuters) The Publisher of the Journal “Nature” is Emailing Authors of Scientific Papers, Offering to Sell Them AI Summaries of Their Own Work (via Futurism) Authors Alliance Artificial Intelligence, Authorship, […]

From the Public Domain Review: After the hundreds (thousands?) of hours trawling through online image collections since the PDR’s inception, we’ve decided it was time to create one of our own! We are really excited to share with you the launch of our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of more […]