(17 Apr 2023) Computational thinking (CT), the concepts and practices associated with using computers and technology to solve problems, is becoming one among many new literacies of the 21st century and is increasingly considered a critical skill for academic and career success. Urban, rural, and at-risk youth are often in school systems that are least…
(31 Mar 2023) A few collections are added to the Library of Congress’ digital collections, including: Africana Historic Postcard Collection: 1,200 postcards documenting representations of African life from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Gisella Selden-Goth collection: Musicologist and collector Gisella Selden-Goth’s holograph manuscripts collection, personal Autographen album and a chronological register of her manuscript…
(19 Apr 2023) As a trainer and consultant for Open Science Communication, Jo Havemann realized the general idea behind Open Science principles works very well in theory, but does not seem to be applicable to realities in certain research communities, disciplines, and world regions. To address this issue, he consolidated a map containing more than 200…
(17 Apr 2023) The result of an EDUCAUSE QuickPoll report investigating the nature and scope of generative AI’s arrival in higher education has been published. The report found that as the use of these technologies becomes more widespread, institutions will increasingly be faced with questions about longer-term implications. While most respondents agreed that these technologies…
(13 Apr 2023) Fair use and AI has been a popular topic recently given the flurry of developments to generative AI systems. As discussed in the first installation of this blog, it is impractical to make broad predictions about how courts might rule on fair use and AI. However, after a high-level analysis of the…
(10 Apr 2023) Alibaba Cloud unveiled Tongyi Qianwen (通義千問), a ChatGPT-like AI product that possesses both Chinese and English language capabilities it plans to deploy across all of the Chinese e-commerce giant’s business applications in the near future. The AI model will also be offered to customers and developers, allowing them to create customized large…
(14 Apr 2023) Ruth Pagell and her colleague Barbie Keiser decided to build on their interest in SDGs to present an in-depth report that highlights ways the scholarly community (publishers, educational institutions, international and regional organizations, and libraries) participates in sustainable development activities The chapter covers: Researching SDGs, including data and their sources Publishers’ and…
(3 Apr 2023) Funding for the country’s largest digitized archive has been announced, after months of the National Library of Australia (NLA) calling for more financial support. In its upcoming May budget, the federal government has promised $33 million over four years to the NLA. The NLA, which runs digital archive database Trove, will…
(3 Apr 2023) Across countries in the global north the transition to open access to research has in recent years been driven largely through library consortia and national institutions striking transformative agreements with commercial publishers. Drawing on recent work on The University of Sheffield’s content strategy, Peter Barr argues that academic libraries can play a larger role…
(3 Apr 2023) The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is pleased to announce that after 5 years, the Lotus Sutra Manuscripts Conservation and Digitisation Project successfully concluded in December 2022. Generously sponsored by the Bei Shan Tang Foundation, the Project aimed to publish online 793 manuscript copies of the Lotus Sutra from Dunhuang currently in the Stein collection…