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From a Harvard Business Review Article by Bhaskar Chakravorti: With tens of billions invested in AI last year and leading players such as OpenAI looking for trillions more, the tech industry is racing to add to the pileup of generative AI models. The goal is to steadily demonstrate better performance and, in doing so, close the gap […]

The article/dataset linked below was recently published by Scientific Data. Title A Dataset For Measuring the Impact of Research Data and Their Curation Authors Libby Hemphill University of Michigan Andrea Thomer University of Arizona Sara Lafia University of Michigan Lizhou Fan University of Michigan David Bleckley University of Michigan Elizabeth Moss University of Michigan Source […]

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 […]

From The Canadian Press (via Global News): B.C. libraries have been targeted by a hacker who demanded a ransom or they would release user data that includes the phone numbers and email addresses of some clients. The Cariboo Regional District says its library was among those involved, and data was obtained about users who received […]

The article linked below was published today (May 3, 2024) by the Journal of Academic Librarianship.  Title Transforming Academic Librarianship Through AI Reskilling: Insights From the GPT-4 Exploration Program Authors Leo S. LoUniversity of New Mexico Source Journal of Academic LibrarianshipVolume 50, Issue 3, May 2024, 102883 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102883 Abstract The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in […]

From a Post by Katherine Klosek, Association of Research Libraries:  A partnership with the American Library Association (ALA), the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL), ARL strongly opposes the proposed removal of the Academic Libraries component from the annual National Center for Education Statistics IPEDS survey. IPEDS—the Integrated […]

The article linked below was published today by Education and Information Technologies. Title ChatGPT in Higher Education – A Synthesis Of The Literature and a Future Research Agenda Authors Pritpal Singh Bhullar Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Technical University, India Mahesh Joshi RMIT University, Australia Ritesh Chugh Central Queensland University, Australia Source Education and Information Technologies […]

AI Artificial Intelligence’s Role in Digitally Preserving Historic Archives (via Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture) Books ACLS Announces 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award Winners Libraries The May 2024 Issue of College & Research Libraries is Now Available Online (via ACRL) Louisiana Louisiana House Committee Shelves Bills Targeting Libraries […]

From the Executive Summary: Five years after the Workplace Equity Survey (WE Survey) first benchmarked the state of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the global scholarly publishing industry, the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) conducted the survey for a second time in 2023. This week, C4DISC released Workplace Equity in […]