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From BNNBloomberg: Amazon.com Inc.’s Audible will begin inviting a select group of US-based audiobook narrators to train artificial intelligence on their voices, the clones of which can then be used to make audiobook recordings. The effort, which kicks off this week, is designed to add more audiobooks to the service, quickly and cheaply — and to welcome traditional narrators into the evolving world […]

From the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress Literacy Awards program, sponsored by David M. Rubenstein since 2013, and also by the Kislak Family Foundation since 2023, honors promising initiatives that provide exemplary, innovative and replicable strategies that promote literacy. Twenty-four organizations working to expand literacy and promote reading were awarded the 2024 Library […]

The article (preprint) linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title A Survey on Knowledge Organization Systems of Research Fields: Resources and Challenges Authors Angelo Salatino Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK Tanay Aggarwal Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK Andrea Mannocci CNR-ISTI — National Research Council, Institute of Information Science and Technologies, […]

From Clarivate: Clarivate launched today its first Pulse of the Library report. The report combines feedback from a global survey of over 1,500 librarians with qualitative interviews and reveals libraries are in the early days of AI implementation. Key findings of the report include: Most libraries have an AI plan in place, or one in […]

AI Artificial Intelligence: Agencies are Implementing Management and Personnel Requirements (via GAO) Cultural Heritage: Register Now to Join the AI4Culture Workshop Series (via Europeana Pro) FEDLINK Federal Library & Information Network (FEDLINK) Inspection Report Funding Announcing $150,000 Award From Sloan Foundation to Invest in Open Infrastrucuture (IOI) to Advance Understanding of the Research Software Ecosystem […]

The article (full text) linked below was recently published by The Journal of Academic Librarianship. Title A Holistic Approach to Understanding Undergraduates: Campus Engagement, Library use and Psychological Factors Jung Mi Scoulas University of Illinois Chicago Sandra L. De Groote University of Illinois Chicago Kimberly Shotick Northern Illinois University Nestor L. Osorio Northern Illinois University […]

The abstract linked below was recently published by Performance Measurement and Metrics. Title First-Gen and the Library: A Survey of Student Perceptions of Academic Library Services Authors Edward Harold Stocking (University of Nevada, Reno) Rosalind Bucy (University of Nevada, Reno) Carlos Ramirez-Reye (University of Nevada, Reno) Source Performance Measurement and Metrics Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. […]

Alaska Alaska Libraries Promised Full State Funding After ‘Drastic’ Cuts Announced (via ADN) Arkansas Garland County Library Funding Cut Proposal Declined For This Election Cycle (via KUAR) California How a Proposed California Law Could End Book Bans in Public Libraries (via CapRadio) Montana Great Falls Library Board Approves Counter-Proposal In Funding Dispute (via Bozeman Daily […]

The article linked below was recently published by C&RL (College and Research Libraries). Title Library Terms that Users (Don’t) Understand: A Review of the Literature from 2012-2021 Authors Courtney McDonald University of Colorado Boulder Nicole Trujillo University of Colorado Boulder Source C&RL (College and Research Libraries) Vol 85, No 6 (2024)DOI: 10.5860/crl.85.6.906 Abstract This paper […]