Library Link of the Day
May 2024
- Celebrating fictional library workers [Pop Culture Library Review]
- 2024 Library Systems Report [American Libraries]
- Excessive use of words like ‘commendable’ and ‘meticulous’ suggests ChatGPT has been used in thousands of scientific studies [El País]
- Walk-through of Portland State University’s library after three-night occupation reveals damage: ‘It’s ugly’ [The Oregonian]
- The Complicated Ethics of Rare-Book Collecting [The Atlantic]
- Revising a Best Selling Romance Novelist Proves a Challenge [The New York Times]
- AI-Voiced Audiobooks Top 40,000 Titles on Audible [Bloomberg]
- A Conversation with Dr. Safiya Noble - New challenges in DEI, Technology, and Libraries [Ex Libris]
- Please Don’t Steal My Work, by Maria Toft [For Better Science]
- Libraries [Last Week Tonight with John Oliver]
- In Florida, a bestselling author is building a new community of literary resistance [CNN]
- This clever, “poisonous” new software is helping artists defend their work from AI [Fast Company]
- Librarians, Advocates Sue to Block Restrictive New Alabama Library Policies [Publishers Weekly]
- Obsolete, but not gone: The people who won't give up floppy disks [BBC]
- Not Lost in a Book [Slate]
- How tech giants cut corners to harvest data for artificial intelligence [Business Standard]
- Are librarians non-playable characters? [Library Policy and Advocacy Blog]
- Wiley shuts 19 scholarly journals amid AI paper mill problems [The Register]
- Considering RAG when Evaluating Generative AI Tools [LibTech Insights]
- Librarians Are Waging a Quiet War Against International “Data Cartels” [The Markup]
- Donnelly Public Library announces it will become adults-only library, cites Idaho Legislature's library bill [KTVB]
- AI-assisted writing is quietly booming in academic journals. Here’s why that’s OK [The Conversation]
- A UCLA doctor is on a quest to free modern medicine from a Nazi-tainted anatomy book [Los Angeles Times]
- Nassau County schools facing federal lawsuit over removal of dozens of books [News4JAX]
- Not Your Childhood Library [The New Yorker]
- School librarians in Ohio could face felony charges if kids access 'obscene' material [The Enquirer]
- Google Search’s AI falsely said Obama is a Muslim. Now it’s turning off some results [CNN]
- Why Scientific Fraud Is Suddenly Everywhere [New York Magazine]
- 'It’s unethical': Little Free Libraries cleared out in multiple metro Denver communities [9NEWS]
- Libraries are under siege [Editor & Publisher]
- Why did ransomware hackers target Seattle Public Library? [GeekWire]
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