Library Link of the Day
June 2023
- UC Berkeley anthropologists fight to protect liberal arts [KALW]
- Fresh Ideas [American Libraries]
- ChatGPT conundrums [College & Research Libraries News]
- Library cancels trans speaker after Montana bans drag readings [ABC News]
- The Artificial Intelligence Dilemma: Can Laws Keep Up? [Bloomberg Law]
- Utah district bans Bible in elementary and middle schools ‘due to vulgarity or violence’ [AP News]
- Transphobes Are Mad That the British Library Posted About a Fish That Can Change Its Sex [Them]
- The Case of the Knock-Off Cookbook [Plagiarism Today]
- A researcher who publishes a study every two days reveals the darker side of science [El País]
- Book bans are on the rise. Biden is naming a point person to address that [NPR]
- Hopeful Visions, Practical Actions: Cultural Humility in Library Work [Circulating Ideas]
- Information literacy in the age of internet conspiracism [Journal of Information Literacy]
- National Archives refutes claims Trump had two years to go through presidential records in rare public statement [CNN]
- I just bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, and I regret nothing [Ars Technica]
- The Saga Over Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Russian Novel” Has an Uncomfortable Lesson—and It’s Not for Her [Slate]
- How AI art killed an indie book cover contest [The Verge]
- Twitter Hit With $250M Lawsuit From Music Publishers Over “Massive Copyright Infringement” Claim [The Hollywood Reporter]
- YouTube’s Science Scam Crisis [Kyle Hill]
- Illegal access to scholarly information: considerations regarding the use of sci-hub and its constraints to academic libraries [Beatriz Barrocas Ferreira]
- Check this out: the British Library gets into gaming [The Guardian]
- Introducing "AI Search" [LibraryThing]
- An 80-year odyssey of repatriation and repair [The Source]
- Popular A.I. services for creating images are legal minefields for artists seeking payment for their work [Fortune]
- LexisNexis Helps ICE Spy, Track Cars, and Try to Predict Crime [The Intercept]
- Replacing news editors with AI is a worry for misinformation, bias and accountability [The Conversation]
- OCLC introduces AI-generated book recommendations in WorldCat.org and WorldCat Find beta [OCLC]
- 99% Of Books Won’t Make Their Money Back - Anna David [Film Courage]
- British Museum apologizes after using translator’s work in China exhibition without pay or acknowledgment [CNN]
- What Happens When Libraries Stop Sharing Wi-Fi? [KQED]
- RIAA Cracks Down on AI Voice Group on Discord: ‘Undermines The Entire Music Ecosystem’ [Billboard]
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