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AI Is AI Search a Medical Misinformation Disaster? See Also: The Health Misinformation Monitor—Edition 1 (via KFF) HAICu: Using AI to Access, Connect, and Analyze Heritage Collections (via Europeana Pro) Expenditures Academic Library Expenditures and Graduation Rates: Evidence From Four-Year Colleges and Universities in The Us (via Studies in Higher Abstract, Abstract Only) History A […]
The article linked below was published today by PLOS One. Title Understanding the Value of Curation: A Survey of US Data Repository Curation Practices and Perception Authors Lisa R. Johnston University of Wisconsin Madison Renata Curty UC Santa Barbara Susan M. Braxton University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jake Carlson University of Buffalo Hannah Hadley Princeton […]
The article linked below appears in the new issue (Vol. 19, No. 2) of Evidence Based Library And Information Practice (EBLIP). Title A Survey on Student Use of Generative AI Chatbots for Academic Research Authors Amy DeschenesHarvard Library Meg McMahonHarvard Library Source Evidence Based Library And Information Practice (EBLIP)Vol. 19, No. 2 (2024) DOI: 10.18438/eblip30512 […]
The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of Academic of Librarianship. Title What is Ideal EDI Learning For Academic Librarians? Discovering EDI Learning Stories Through Appreciative Inquiry Authors Megan Fitzgibbons Concordia University Chloe Lei Concordia University Source Journal of Academic of Librarianship Volume 50, Issue 5, September 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102908 Abstract Academic […]
From The State: The conference committee finalizing the state’s spending plan starting July 1, adopted a Senate proposal to require county libraries to certify they are not offering any books or materials that “appeal to the sexual interest of children under the age of 17 in children’s, youth or teen book sections of libraries.” The […]
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) PubScholarJoins the Movement to Support The Directory of Open Access Journals North Carolina Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Expands in North Carolina with New Bilingual Book Collection (via Smart Start Rhode Island Radio Interview: With Censorship On The Rise, Providence Librarian Says Rhode Island Needs To Do More To Protect […]
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) PubScholarJoins the Movement to Support the Directory of Open Access Journals Lyrasis Lyrasis Partners with 4Science to Improve ORCID Functionality in DSpace North Carolina Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Expands in North Carolina with New Bilingual Book Collection (via Smart Start Rhode Island Radio Interview: With Censorship On The Rise, […]
V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Brotherless Night wins the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World wins the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction. Kevin Jared Hosein wins the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for Hungry Ghosts. Winners of the Reading the West Book Awards, the shortlist for the Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers, and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel shortlist are announced. Plus Page to Screen.
LJ talks with Audie Award– and multiple-time Earphones Award–winning narrator Eunice Wong to learn more about her creative process and how she has found her voice and style.
From NARA: Dr. Colleen Shogan, Archivist of the United States, approved 32 awards totaling $4,070,583 for historical records projects in 20 states. The National Archives grants program is carried out through the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). A complete list of new grants is available online. The Archivist also approved two new funding opportunities […]
The preprint linked below was posted on arXiv today. Along with the preprint the authors have released the Article Processing Charges Explorer. Title An Open Dataset of Article Processing Charges From Six Large Scholarly Publishers (2019-2023) Authors Leigh-Ann Butler University of Ottawa Library, Ottawa Scholarly Communications Lab Madelaine Hare Scholarly Communications Lab, Ottawa/Vancouver School of […]
From the Pew-Knight Initiative: Social media platforms are an important part of the American news diet: Half of U.S. adults say they get news at least sometimes from social media in general. But specific platforms differ widely in structure, content and culture. A new Pew Research Center survey finds that the ways in which Americans encounter news […]
EBSCO EBSCO FOLIO Celebrates the Implementation of More Than 200 Libraries and Library Systems Using FOLIO LSP The Open Resource Sharing Coalition (OpenRS) Welcomes MOBIUS as Its First Consortial Member Implementer Misinformation New Resource From the Kaiser Family Foundation: The Health Misinformation Monitor – Edition 1 Oxford University Press OUP Releases Latest Responsible Publishing Report
The Seattle Public Library (SPL) is continuing to recover from a ransomware attack on Saturday, May 25. At press time, all branches were open, in-person and virtual programs and events were still being hosted, books and other physical materials were available for checkout, and online services provided by third-party vendors including ProQuest, Hoopla, Kanopy, and others were available to patrons. However, access to SPL’s ebooks and e-audiobooks, public computers, in-building Wi-Fi, printing and copying services, pickup lockers, museum pass services, interlibrary loan services, and some other online resources remained unavailable.
The winners of the Lambda Literary Awards are announced. The African Speculative Fiction Society releases the shortlist for the Nommo Awards. Poets & Writers announces its picks for the best debut authors of the summer: ’Pemi Aguda, Jiaming Tang, Michael Deagler, Yasmin Zaher, and Gina María Balibrera. The Oklahoma Supreme Court blocks state effort to ban books from school libraries. The entire author events team at the Free Library of Philadelphia has been fired. A new study from The Economist says that the New York Times bestseller list is politically biased against conservative books.
From a Library Futures Blog Post: In October 2023, Library Futures gathered a dozen library experts and practitioners to create principles for library ownership of digital books. These principles are meant to establish a foundation of trust between publishers and libraries so that publishers can sell digital books to libraries and libraries can build permanent digital […]
From CARL: The Canadian Association of Research Libraries is pleased to share the CARL Digital Literacy Framework, created by the Advancing Teaching and Learning Committee’s Digital Literacy Task Group. This framework has been created for use by Canadian academic and research libraries to define the library’s teaching and learning role and objectives in an increasingly […]
From the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) & HBCU Library Alliance: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the HBCU Library Alliance proudly announce the successful culmination of their inaugural collaboration, aimed at empowering Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to preserve and digitize their invaluable cultural heritage. With the generous […]
The article linked below was recently published by PNAS Nexus. Title Book Bans In Political Context: Evidence From US Schools Authors Marcelo S O Goncalves Duke University Isabelle Langrock University of Pennsylvania Jack LaViolette Columbia University Katie Spoon University of Colorado Boulder Source PNAS Nexus Volume 3, Issue 6, June 2024 DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae197 Abstract In […]
From the University of Iowa Libraries: With a $281,104 Scholarly Editions and Translations grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), researchers at the University of Iowa and Western Kentucky University collaborated to build the first-ever digital map and data table for all three volumes and 1,992 pages of Principia Mathematica—a monumental work in the […]
Florida ‘Challenges Our Authority’: School Board In Florida Bans Book About Book Bans (via Tallahasseee Democrat) International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) From Special Needs to Equitable Services Re:Create Brandon Butler is the New Executive Director at Re:Create Springer Nature Springer Nature Releases Two New AI-Powered Academic Integrity Tools, Say Hello to Geppetto […]
Florida ‘Challenges Our Authority’: School Board In Florida Bans Book About Book Bans (via Tallahasseee Democrat) International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) From Special Needs to Equitable Services Oklahoma Oklahoma Supreme Court Rejects State Education Board’s Authority Over Public School Libraries (via AP News) Open Library Foundation The Open Resource Sharing Coalition (OpenRS) […]
Library Journal’s galley guide for the 2024 American Library Association conference is now available. Get a jump on reader demand and get in the know; sign up to get a PDF download now.
Debut author Wood has expertly mixed romance with mystery in a novel that leaves more questions than answers. This fast-paced thriller will work well for book clubs and fans of the unreliable narrator trope.
Michelle Moran, author of Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp, talks with LJ about research, the Broadway production of the musical, and Maria’s real-life persona.
Harrow’s breathtaking debut delves deep into the raw emotions of grief and the pure beauty of rediscovering joy in an exquisite tale of second chances, featuring an enemies-to-lovers romance.
Aspiring writers can find expert advice and guidance from bestselling author Roxane Gay, publishing pro Lisa Mangum, and New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme.
Bestselling Jillian Cantor and LibraryReads author Lauren E. Rico have new books on the way, Ava Robinson makes a big debut, and a list of forthcoming series titles.
Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.
On offer this month are a debut memoir from global activist Jaha Marie Dukureh, a biography about Edna Ferber, and two memoirs that reflect on learning the crafts of carpentry and woodworking.
Oprah selects Familiaris by David Wroblewski for her 106th book club pick. Ted Chiang wins the PEN/Bernard and Ann Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Christina Morina wins the German Nonfiction Prize. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for buzzy book Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood. V.E. Schwab signs a two-book deal with Tor. Sylvester Stallone’s forthcoming memoir The Steps will be published by Morrow in 2025. A Crazy Rich Asians TV series, based on the books by Kevin Kwan, is in the works, and Netflix is developing a three-part series adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Seven Dials Mystery.
Summer sounds—waves, bike wheels, ice cream truck bells—are joined by the skilled voices of narrators transforming novels, nonfiction, and poetry in audio editions that fill the season with not-to-miss listens, be they tense thrillers, swoony romances, or reflective fiction.
From The Des Moines Register: An attorney representing Iowa argued before a federal appeals court Tuesday that an injunction against the state’s book ban law should be lifted, a decision that would affect the fate of thousands of books in public school libraries and what can be taught to many Iowa students. Attorney Eric H. Wessan, representing […]
From Booknet Canada: A survey of leisure time and reading habits from industry non-profit BookNet Canada has found that 79% of Canadians felt they had enough or more than enough free time in 2023. The survey, which has been conducted by BookNet every year since 2013, asked 1,247 Canadians if they had read or listened to a […]
From a Google Blog Post: For the first time, Condé Nast opens the doors to the Vogue archive. In collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, the worlds of fashion, design, history and culture come to life with over 15,000 newly-digitized color images spanning more than three decades and six hundred issues. Today, these images […]
Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice (Vol. 12, No 1) was published online June 11, 2024. PLRP is published by the College & Research Division of the Pennsylvania Library Association. In This Issue Commentary Carry That Weight: The Journey of an Academic Librarian by Jim Frutchey Research Self-Care in the LibraryA Case Study of a Multi-Use […]
Accessibility Web and Mobile App Accessibility Regulations (via EDUCAUSE) Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Libraries, Civil Society Push Back on NDAA Copyright Amendment Based on Pro Codes Act Ebooks E-book Demand Stretches Indianapolis Public Library Budget Lyrasis The Palace Project IMLS Grant Report, Part 2: Access for All National Information Standards Organization (NISO) NISO Welcomes […]
Fred C. Trump, Donald Trump’s nephew, will publish a memoir, All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way, on July 30. The Frank R. Paul Award Nominees are announced. Publishers Weekly rounds up book club picks for June. Earlyword’s June GalleyChat spreadsheet is out now. Ursula K. Le Guin’s home will become a writers residency. Thomas Harris’s Hannibal turns 25. Plus, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are in talks to star in a sequel to Practical Magic, based on the novel by Alice Hoffman.
AI Three Things to Know About Prompting LLMs (via Sloan Mgmt Review) “What Does It Mean to Make Data AI-Ready?” (via Dryad) Alabama Alabama Library Association Concerned About The Cost of Implementing APLS Code Changes (via APR) Accessibility Web and Mobile App Accessibility Regulations (via EDUCAUSE) Gender Equality Latest Elsevier Gender Equality Study Reveals 20 […]
Digital-native users want library resources in digital form. Vendors who furnish those resources are expecting the library to share content responsibly. Using a digital delivery platform, University of Tennessee Libraries are making both groups happy—and enjoying streamlined workflows as a bonus.
“Everything breaks–or ends up breaking something else,” says Carissa Carter, stating the basic premise of Assembling Tomorrow. “But by thinking about the world differently—the way designers do—we still have a chance to design for healing and to transform the future.”
This year’s American Library Association Annual Conference will be held June 27 – July 2 in San Diego, CA, where Pacific Ocean breezes and dry air will likely keep daytime temperatures in the low ’70s and nights 10 degrees cooler. Add in the San Diego Convention Center’s bayfront setting and nearby attractions that include Balboa Park, home to the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Museum of Art, and Mission Beach a 15-minute car trip away, and this year’s Annual is one to look forward to.
Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood leads holds this week. Also getting buzz are titles by Elin Hilderbrand, Katherine Center, Freida McFadden, and Rufi Thorpe. The James Beard Media Award winners are announced. Vajra Chandrasekera’s The Saint of Bright Doors wins the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Nine LibraryReads and nine Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is All Friends Are Necessary by Tomas Moniz. Plus, Costco announced its plan to no longer sell books year-round.
From USA Today/Des Moines Register: …an exclusive Des Moines Register survey of Iowa’s 325 public school districts found that some schools pulled dozens – even hundreds – of books under the law before a federal judge issued an injunction last December after Butler Abry and other teachers, families and publishers sued. But an exclusive Des Moines […]
AI AI ‘Gold Rush’ For Chatbot Training Data Could Run Out of Human-Written Text The AI Arms Race to Combat Fake Images Is Even—For Now (via IEEE Spectrum) Report: New “Apple Intelligence” AI Features Will Be Opt-In by Default (via ars techica) Books English-Language Books are Filling Europe’s Bookstores. Mon Dieu! (via The NY Times) […]
The article linked below was published in the June 2024 Issue of College & Research Libraries News. Title 2024 Top Trends in Academic Libraries: A Review of the Trends and Issues Author ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee Source C&RL News Vol 85 No 5 June 2024 DOI: 10.5860/crln.85.6.231 Abstract This article explores the topics […]
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 Article See Also: More “Not Real […]
The article linked below appears in the June 2024 issue of College & Research Libraries News. Title AI Reskilling in Libraries: When the Dean’s Assistant Gets an AI Assistant Authors Leo S. Lo University of New Mexico Victoria Anderson University of New Mexico Source College & Research Libraries News Vol. 85, No. 6 June 2024 […]
From the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS): The Institute of Museum and Library Services has announced the FY24 recipients of its Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC). Awardees will receive up to $500,000 each for projects that build the capacity of African American museums or support the growth and development of […]
From the Tampa Bay Times: Three parents on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit challenging a controversial 2023 Florida law that increased scrutiny of school-library books and instructional materials, alleging the process for removing books unconstitutionally discriminates against parents who disagree with “the state’s favored viewpoint.” The law (SB 1069), in part, made the process of […]
AI Meta’s AI System is a Boost to Endangered Languages — As Long As Humans Aren’t Forgotten (via Nature) Princeton University Library Princeton University Library is Using a Pioneering Digital System to Uncover the History Of Collection Items University of Georgia The University of Georgia Selects TIND IR and TIND RDM
In recent years, the scholarly nonprofit Ithaka has prioritized advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), both within the organization and in its outward-facing work. As that process evolved, Kate Wittenberg, managing director of Ithaka’s digital preservation service, Portico, saw that its archival conservation mission aligned in many ways with social justice ideals. In summer 2021, she began to identify underrepresented community collections that might be at risk without a preservation strategy, and in 2023 Portico launched a pilot project connecting the curators of those archives to its expertise and resources.
Homer Aridjis’s Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence, tr. by George McWhirter, wins the Griffin Poetry Prize. Kevin Sinfield wins the top Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Award for The Extra Mile. Alicia Elliott wins the Amazon Canada First Novel Award for And Then She Fell. Louise Penny wins the International Thriller Writers’ Silver Bullet Award for public service. A new “Hunger Games” book and movie are announced. Cengage, Elsevier, Macmillan Learning, and McGraw Hill have sued Google for allowing ads to run on sites that pirate textbooks.
In a divided three-judge panel, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a majority decision largely upholding a preliminary injunction ordering Llano County Library System to reshelve several titles that were previously removed.