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From Association of Research Libraries (ARL): ARL is pleased to publish e-Resource Licensing Explained: An A–Z Licensing Guidebook for Libraries, a practical tool to empower librarians who license electronic resources (e-resources). The guidebook includes easily digestible legal explanations and pragmatic strategies for preserving rights that users already have under US copyright law, particularly in the face […]

From Billboard: The Pacific Palisades fire destroyed the building housing Belmont Music Publishers, the exclusive publisher of physical works by early 20th century composer Arnold Schoenberg. The fire consumed Belmont’s entire inventory of sales and rental materials, including manuscripts, scores and other printed works, the publisher said. “For a company that focused exclusively on the […]

From NEH: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $22.6 million in grants for 219 humanities projects across the country. Among these are grants that will establish protocols for the stewardship and voluntary return of unethically acquired archaeological and ethnographic artifacts to their communities of origin; enrich K–12 educators’ understanding and teaching of […]

From the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries: HADES consists of advertisements from health sciences journals covering the disciplines of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, hospital management, laboratory management, and the allied health sciences from 1923 to 2007. From small quarter page ads to full page drug ads, which often include the pharmaceutical indications, these advertisements offer a window into […]

The research paper (preprint) shared below was recently posted on arXiv. Title Large Language Models, Knowledge Graphs and Search Engines: A Crossroads for Answering Users’ Questions Authors Aidan Hogan IMFD; DCC, Universidad de Chile Xin Luna Dong Meta Reality Labs Denny Vrandečić Wikimedia Foundation Gerhard Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics Source DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2501.06699 Abstract […]

Audiobooks Digital Audiobooks Lead Growth in Library Circulation For the Second Year (via Audio Publishers Association)  Books Print Book Sales Saw a Small Sales Increase in 2024 (via PW) California “Palisades Branch of LA Public Library Burns Down. What Was Lost in the Fire?” (via Here and Now) Council on Library and Information Resource (CLIR) […]

Data Literacy Building an Inclusive Data Literacy Community (via Harvard Data Science Review) Retractions Retractions Caused by Honest Mistakes are Extremely Stressful, Say Researchers (via Nature) Library Publishing Coalition DEIA Committee Report on the Library Publishing Forum 2024 Demographic Survey

From ALA: The American Library Association extends our deepest sympathies to those who have been affected by and to those who have lost everything during the Los Angeles area fires. We know that the Los Angeles Public Library’s Palisades Branch Library was destroyed, and we await word on others that may have been in the […]

From The NY Public Library: The New York Public Library has acquired the archive of Jhumpa Lahiri, shedding new light on the award-winning author and multilingual translator. Comprising 31 boxes of material stretching to nearly 40 linear feet, the archive, which will become publicly available in 2025, chronicles Lahiri’s literary accomplishments from a young age […]