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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

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 […]