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The video recording linked and embedded below was recorded at the Coalition For Networked Information (CNI) Spring 2024 Membership Meeting on Monday, March 25, 2024. You can find more session recordings from the meeting listed and linked here. Title: The ARL/CNI Task Force on AI Futures Scenarios for the Research Enterprise and Research Libraries Description […]
This friends-to-lovers romance from Lewis (Beauty and the Playboy Prince) will have readers oohing and aahing over the couple that is truly meant to be.
First in a new series, Blake’s (Cinderella Assistant to Boss’s Bride) second-chance romance has it all: an instant connection that returns after years apart, plenty of steamy glances, and royalty.
Seeing these two protagonists, both burned by their respective times in the spotlight, find love together makes for a charming story sure to please readers in the latest from Pembroke (Cinderella in the Spotlight).
This contemporary romance from Baine (Pregnant Princess at the Altar) is a perfect read for those who want to do some armchair traveling, with the added bonus of an HEA.
In Meier’s (Fling with the Reclusive Billionaire) latest, the fake-engagement trope gets a fun twist in this charming story, perfect for readers who love a story with a close-knit family.
A contemporary royal romance with the added flair of a marriage of convenience, Rohan and Elora’s love story will keep readers’ attention from start to finish in Milne’s (Wedding Planner’s Deal with the CEO) latest.
Colter’s (Winning Over the Brooding Billionaire) latest is a contemporary romance perfect for readers who like their couples to have a history together.
With passion that is off the charts and a unique story, lovers of contemporary romances will be devouring this second “One Year To Wed” title, after Secretly Married to a Prince by Ally Blake.
California Oakland’s Main Library Will Soon Close For Six Months For Repairs (via SF Chronicle) Iowa Legal Filing By PEN America Urges Appeals Court to Uphold Injunction Against Iowa’s Book Ban Law Libraries Listen to a Radio Interview with ALA President Emily Drabinksi: (America’s Top Librarian Says ‘We’re Fighting For Our Lives’ (via WBEZ) Open […]
Fady Joudah, author of the collection […], wins the Jackson Poetry Prize for American poets. Winners of the Tolkien Society Awards are announced. Finalists are also announced for NYPL’s Young Lions Fiction Award and the Jhalak Awards. Nominees for the CrimeFest Awards are out. Actor Viola Davis and her husband are launching a publishing company to champion underrepresented voices. Facing criticism for its response to the war in Gaza, PEN announces plans to review the organization’s work going back a decade.
Stratton delivers a tightly woven dual-timeline thriller. Elements of occult horror, historical fiction, and whodunit will intrigue readers of all stripes. Give this to fans of Alyssa Cole’s When No One Is Watching.
The lack of juicy personal information may disappoint celebrity gossip mavens, but Selleck’s earnestness and self-deprecating folksy style will satisfy celebrity watchers, especially Magnum, P.I. and Blue Bloods fans.
Culled from the author’s three decades of researching and writing about the Civil War, this book provides vibrant accounts of many prominent people of the era. Readers interested in an introduction to a variety of Civil War personalities and American history will enjoy.
Aptly demonstrated by the millions of views the author gets on her social media platforms, there is a definite appetite for Jawad’s healthy brand of Midwest meets Mediterranean style dishes.
Recommended for readers both fascinated by and leery of math. Educators who are looking for a different way to approach math will especially benefit from this title.
A remarkably balanced, brilliant, ambitious, durable work of scholarship, combining histories of the Cold War with Soviet foreign policy. A good read-alike is Adam Ulam’s Expansion and Coexistence:The History of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917–67.
A vigorous contribution to the conversation and discourse about how to protect youths from psychological and neurological damage linked to technology. For parents, educators, and tech decision-makers.
Horn raises the humble chicken to its rightful place in the history of Southern cooking and at dinner tables with this collection of diverse and delicious recipes.
From The Charlotte Observer: Davidson College on Thursday announced plans for a $100 million renovation of its library, including permanently relocating about half of its collection. It’s the largest capital project in the school’s history. The school received $85 million in combined gifts from the Duke Endowment and Bob Abernethy, a businessman and Davidson native, […]
From Open.Science.Gov: CENDI, a volunteer membership organization of U.S. federal scientific and technical information (STI) managers, recently launched an updated version of its flagship STI federated search product, Science.gov. Key updates include a modernized look and feel, and centralized access to federal agency open science and public access efforts including the public access plans/policies issued in response to the […]
The full text article (preprint) linked below was recently share on arXiv. Title A Survey on Retrieval-Augmented Text Generation for Large Language Models Authors Yizheng Huang York University Jimmy Huang York University Source via arXiv April 17, 2024 Abstract Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) merges retrieval methods with deep learning advancements to address the static limitations of […]
From the Houston Chronicle: Key portions of a law signed last year by Gov. Greg Abbott requiring booksellers to rate books for sexual content when selling to schools will not go into effect after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday declined to reconsider an earlier decision. It’s a win for booksellers, especially independent […]
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) ARL to Congress: No One Can Own the Law (via ARL) Louisiana Bill Would Apply Obscenity Laws to Louisiana Public School Libraries (via The Acadiana Advocate) Misinformation/Fake News The Geography of Corporate Fake News (via PLOS One) North Carolina Beta Version of the New UNC University Library Website Now Available […]
Because Project MUSE believes that knowledge has the power to enrich lives and that a sustainable scholarly ecosystem is essential for advancing humanity, we partner with mission-driven publishers and libraries to curate dependable content and fuel interdisciplinary discoveries that benefit everyone.
Winners are announced for the Publishing Triangle Awards for LGBTQIA+ books. Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia, tr. by Zoë Perry, wins the UK Republic of Consciousness Prize for small press books. The shortlist for the Donner Prize, recognizing the best public policy book by a Canadian, is announced. There’s more reporting on the turmoil surrounding the PEN Awards. Plus new title bestsellers and interviews with Marjane Satrapi and Emily Henry.
From Science: When and how should text-generating artificial intelligence (AI) programs such as ChatGPT help write research papers? In the coming months, 4000 researchers from a variety of disciplines and countries will weigh in on guidelines that could be adopted widely across academic publishing, which has been grappling with chatbots and other AI issues for the […]
From a Library of Congress Blog Post: The South Asian Digital Collection (SADC) is the new online home for the Library’s digitized books, serials, and manuscripts related to the histories and cultures of South Asian countries (i.e., Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka). The creation of SADC will provide easy access to a variety […]
Ad Transparency (Elections) Investigation: Every Tech Giants’ Ad Oversight Tools Fall Short in Historic Election Year AI How People View AI, Disinformation and Elections — in Charts (via Politico) Spot the Deepfake: The AI Tools Undermining Our Own Eyes and Ears (via Politico) Alabama House Passes 18 Percent Cut to State Library Operations Budget (via […]
Real-life courtroom battles are shared by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey as they detail accounts of wrongful conviction; plus a new Malcolm Gladwell book is on the way.
Rebecca Yarros will publish a stand-alone novel, Variation, in October. Kemi Ashing-Giwa wins the Compton Crook Award for The Splinter in the Sky. Oren Kessler wins the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist is announced. The May LibraryReads list arrives, featuring top pick The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci. Mick Herron’s Down Cemetery Road and Don Winslow’s City on Fire are slated for adaptations.
This extensive database of previously unaggregated primary-source documents provides a view of the United States government’s documentation of a crucial period in U.S. and Indigenous history. A valuable resource for researchers seeking firsthand reports in U.S. political and military history.
This superbly executed open-access database offers an unprecedented gateway to different versions of Shakespeare’s First Folios. AM’s powerful search tools and thoughtfully selected tips and pointers allow for exciting research opportunities.
LJ Best Book author Hailey Piper offers a twist on vampire mythology; plus new books from Kelley Armstrong, Richard Chizmar, and Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award-winner Nuzo Onoh.
A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.
Stephen A. Marshall’s latest book, Hymenoptera: The Natural History and Diversity of Wasps, Bees and Ants, was one of LJ’s Best Print Reference picks for 2023 and also won the prestigious Dartmouth Medal. LJ invited Marshall to reflect upon the definition of reference, his approach to writing and research, and his fieldwork.
Monika Kim is a second-generation Korean American living in Los Angeles’s Koreatown. She learned about eating fish eyes from her mother, who immigrated to LA from Seoul in 1985. The Eyes Are the Best Part is her first novel.
From the US GPO: The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has added historical volumes of the United States Statutes at Large (Statutes at Large) to GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. The newly added Volumes 1–64 (1789–1950) date back to 1789 and include the text of […]
From a Delta Think Post by Dan Pollock and Heather Staines: In 2022, we estimated it [ the scholarly journals market] to be $10.7bn, rising to $10.8bn in 2023. We estimate the long-term average growth of the market to be 2.3% per year. The years following COVID saw above-average growth, and the lower growth in […]
From The Washington Post: The bill in Connecticut, pending before an education committee, is one of a raft of measures advancing nationwide that seek to do things like prohibit book bans or forbid the harassment of school and public librarians — the first such wave in the country, said John Chrastka, director of library advocacy […]
From the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $26.2 million in grants for 238 humanities projects across the country. Grants awarded today will underwrite a new permanent exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh on how the Nile River shaped ancient Egyptians’ ideas of […]
From Science: Some of the best known databases, such as the Web of Science and Scopus, are proprietary and offer pay-to-access data and services supporting these and other metrics, including university rankings and journal impact factors. But in a declaration posted today, more than 30 research and funding organizations call for the community to commit to […]
From The Library of Congress: ABBA’s “Dancing Queen,” Blondie’s era-defining “Parallel Lines,” The Notorious B.I.G.’s landmark “Ready to Die,” Green Day’s “Dookie,” The Chicks’ “Wide Open Spaces” and Lily Tomlin’s comedy have been selected as some of the defining sounds of history and culture that will join the National Recording Registry of the Library of […]
From PEN America: The number of individual books banned by schools is soaring to a record level, according to a new PEN America report Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis. The report documents over 4,000 instances of book banning during the first half of the current school year – more than in the entire previous […]
A new PEN America report out today, Banned In The USA: Narrating the Crisis, documents nearly 4,000 accounts of book banning in the first half of the current school year. Major publishers have joined Penguin Random House in supporting a suit challenging Iowa’s book ban. Finalists are announced for the Gotham Book Prize, the Nova Scotia Book Awards, and the Atlantic Book Awards. Washington Post reports on the growing popularity of silent book clubs. Author Robin Cook has two new film/TV projects, including an adaptation of his forthcoming book Bellevue and a procedural featuring his iconic characters Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery.
From a Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) Post: A decade ago, the world’s best AI systems were incapable of classifying images at a human level. They could not understand language, struggled with visual reasoning, and flunked the most basic reading comprehension tests. Today, AI systems routinely exceed human performance on standard benchmarks. This is […]
From a BookNet Canada Post: In 2023, Canadian library book borrowers visited the library online and in-person more than ever before. Since 2020, the percentage of Canadian book borrowers who visited the library online at least one a month has increased 72% from 50% in 2020 to 86% in 2023. The percentage of book borrowers […]
AI Google’s New Technique Gives LLMs Infinite Context (via Venture Beat) AR/VR Meta Wants to Put Students and Teachers in Quest VR Headsets (via Axios) ||| Official Meta Blog Post Digital Science/Metaphacts Metaphacts and Dimensions Launch the Dimensions Knowledge Graph, Powered by metaphactory Iowa Five Publishers Join PRH in Its Lawsuit of Iowa (via Publishing […]
A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci leads holds this week. Also getting buzz are titles by James Patterson and Candice Fox, Anthony Horowitz, Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke, and Sara Paretsky. People’s book of the week is My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-Wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me by Caleb Carr. Salman Rushdie speaks about the attack that almost took his life and writing his new book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder. As Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance turns 50 this year, fans will re-create his famous motorcycle ride.Plus, NYT celebrates 100 years of Simon & Schuster.
The article linked below was recently published by the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. Title Journalistic Interventions Matter: Understanding How Americans Perceive Fact-Checking Labels Authors Chenyan Jia Northeastern University Taeyoung Lee University of Houston Source Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review DOI: 10.37016/mr-2020-138 Essay Summary To examine how people perceive the efficacy of different […]
From a National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Post: A new state-of-the-art digitization center at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in College Park, Maryland, is allowing the agency to provide greater public access to the country’s most important historical federal government records faster than ever before. Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, Representative Steny […]
From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA): A shared understanding of the key terminology used in Open Access across regions and languages is essential for awareness raising within the profession and communication with stakeholders. The purpose of IFLA’s Open Access vocabulary is to collate the most widely used terms and definitions, with […]
From PBS NewsHour: Librarians are often caught in the middle of these campaigns and state legislative attempts to censor library materials. They’ve faced criminalization and harassment and in some cases have been fired after refusing to move or remove books. The PBS NewsHour spoke to six librarians about what they’ve experienced: Suzette Baker lost her job […]
Alabama NPR: Why Aren’t Some Librarians In Alabama in a Celebratory Mood? CHORUS CHORUS Forum: 12 Best Practices for Research Data Sharing – Event Summary, Comments ||| Slides & Video OCLC OCLC Global Council Elects Xuemao Wang, Re-Elects Anja Smit to Board of Trustees Toronto Public Library What is the Cost of Ransomware Attack on […]
Spring blooms with fresh perspectives and new plans. Support readers with a refreshed collection as they follow suit, planning a garden, exploring creative hobbies, or finding their center.
This powerful memoir is ultimately about keeping a family together as things begin to fall apart. It’s consistently vivid, sometimes humorous, and engaging from start to finish.
By all accounts the 2024 Public Library Association (PLA) conference, held April 3–5 in Columbus, OH, was a resounding success. The 7,573 participants—including 5,702 attendees, 1,518 exhibitors, and 353 virtual registrants—packed the show floor, programs, and speaker sessions with palpable enthusiasm.
At the 2024 Public Library Association (PLA) conference, held April 3–5 in Columbus, OH, presentations were notably targeted and useful. And, as a number bore out, those concerns overlap in many areas.
Shenjé shines a light on LGBTQIA+ love and people of color in Victorian England. No stone is left unturned or unexamined in this gothic mystery that offers a counterpoint to what is often a cis-het and white genre. Fans of Sarah Waters and Bridget Collins might have in Shenjé a new author to add to their TBR lists.
A thought-provoking book about women’s health care that comes with a strategic plan for improvements. The book makes an important addition to health sciences and women’s studies collections.
Zanetti (Frostbitten) launches a new series with this shadowy and violent twist on “Beauty and the Beast” that will appeal to readers looking for a uniquely magical world filled with seduction and betrayal.
