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From EveryLibrary (Full Text): Trump has demanded a freeze on all federal grants and for all agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance.” The memo also calls for each agency to perform a “comprehensive analysis” to ensure its grant and loan programs are consistent with President Donald Trump’s executive […]

Two reports are linked below. 1) DeepSeek’s New AI Chatbot and ChatGPT Answer Sensitive Questions about China Differently (via AP) Chinese tech startup DeepSeek ’s new artificial intelligence chatbot has sparked discussions about the competition between China and the U.S. in AI development, with many users flocking to test the rival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. [Clip] The […]

From a Clarivate Announcement: Clarivate iscovery platforms to create a more cohesive, streamlined and secure experience. The British Library will implement Alma, Primo VE and Rapido. Founded in 1973, the British Library is the United Kingdom’s national library and is one of the largest libraries in the world. Its collection features 170 million items, including books, journals, newspapers, patents, […]

AI Quartz Is Publishing AI-Generated Articles Based on Other AI Slop, Along With Warning They May Be Filled With Errors (via Futurism) Books Bookshop.org is Launching an Ebook Store to Take on Amazon (via The Verge)   China Studies ACLS Expands Access to China Studies Resources and Data Through New Website (via American Council of […]

From an OverDrive News Release: Librarians and educators achieved remarkable new milestones in 2024 by providing increasingly robust digital lending and streaming options to satisfy library patrons of all ages. Using OverDrive’s award-winning Libby and Sora apps, readers worldwide borrowed over 739 million ebooks, audiobooks, and digital magazines, a 17% increase over 2023. Streaming video […]

From Agence France Presse (via Barrons): One of the world’s largest Holocaust archives was published online for the first time Monday, coinciding with Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online portal includes more than 150,000 documents — such as photos, transcripts and testimonies — […]

AI Scenario Planning for the AI-Driven Future of Research Libraries (via Katina Magazine) Stunning Breakthroughs from China’s DeepSeek AI Alarm US Rivals (via Axios) Canada Library and Archives Canada’s Accessibility Plan: 2024 Progress Report DataCite 72 Million DOIs Ready for Analysis: Our Latest Public Data File (via DataCite) Digital Collections  From Paper to Pixels, Mountain […]

The article linked below was recently published by the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship. Title An Environmental Scan of Bibliometrics and Research Impact Open Instructional Trends at Canadian Academic Research Libraries Authors Megan Palmer SUNY Oneonta Laura Bredahl University of Waterloo Kari D. Weaver University of Waterloo Source Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship Vol. 11 […]

From The Hollywood Reporter: The banning of books in school libraries, an especially hot topic in 2022/23 news cycles, may not feature high in the headlines recently given the new presidential administration’s tsunami of rights-snuffing, Constitution-flouting executive orders. But it’s still going on. That makes the debut at Sundance of The Librarians, a scrupulously assembled feature documentary by […]