Library Link of the Day
December 2024
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- Investing in open access at the University of Minnesota [Insights]
- Will AI kill Google? Past predictions of doom were totally wrong. [The Washington Post]
- Libraries are offering free health and wellness classes across the US [Associated Press]
- New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone [The Bookseller]
- How Gen Z Came to See Books as a Waste of Time [The Atlantic]
- AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably [Scientific Reports]
- How Open Investing Will Transform Library Collections [Katina Magazine]
- Michael Kosta Meets the No. 1 Book Banner in Florida [The Daily Show]
- Stop using generative AI as a search engine [The Verge]
- Online library drops its legal battle to provide free e-books without publishers' permission [ABC News]
- How AI is accelerating and devaluing book publishing [Fast Company]
- Literacy materials dropped by many schools face new pressure from struggling readers' parents [Associated Press]
- As children's book bans soar, sales are down and librarians are afraid. Even in California [Los Angeles Times]
- A Year Before CEO Shooting, Lawsuit Alleged UHC Used AI to Deny Coverage [Newsweek]
- The optical disc onslaught continues, with LG quitting Blu-ray players [Ars Technica]
- Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft [Wired]
- Taylor Swift Is Coming for Book Publishing [Esquire]
- Scores for Adults Are Dropping on Tests of Basic Skills [Minding the Gap]
- AI outrage: Error-riddled Indigenous language guides do real harm, advocates say [Montreal Gazette]
- Public Domain Day 2025 [Center for the Study of the Public Domain]
- Ten Stories That Shaped 2024 [LISNews]
- Implementing an AI reference chatbot at the University of Calgary Library [Hanging Together]
- The Top 10 Book Business News Stories of 2024 [Publishers Weekly]
- Big dreams: He's the founder of a leading African photobook library [Goats and Soda]
- 'I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved': inside the university AI cheating crisis [The Guardian]
- NYU students and professors cuffed after blocking library during latest pro-Palestine protest [amNewYork]
- Here are Boston Public Library’s 10 most borrowed books in 2024 [Boston.com]
- Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index [Ars Technica]
- Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones... [Hank Green]
- Judge rules Arkansas law allowing criminal charges against librarians is unconstitutional [Associated Press]
- Encyclopedia Britannica Is Now an AI Company [Gizmodo]
These links are not updated for accuracy; older links may be dead.
