(29 Jun 2023) Earlier this week, Newsguard, a company that provides tools for vetting news sources, released a report on “Unreliable AI-Generated News and Information websites” or UAINs. According to the report, their UAIN site tracker has already grown from 49 sites to 277. They claim that the sites have generic-sounding names, but feature news…
(29 Apr 2023) Universities and colleges tend to have strict anti-piracy policies for students. In the United States, this is very much a necessity since its required by law. While most students play by the rules, a worrying trend is developing where outsiders exploit university websites to promote piracy scams. Torrent Freak has the…
(27 Apr 2023) One of the world’s oldest newspapers still in print, Austria’s Wiener Zeitung, will primarily move online, after a decision Thursday (Apr 27) by the country’s parliament. The development marks the final step in a years-long dispute between the Austrian government and the newspaper about the future of the state-owned daily. Founded…
(20 Apr 2023) In March 2023, Italy became the first western country to block the advanced chatbot known as ChatGPT. The Italian data protection authority, Garante, cited concerns over the protection of personal data when making this decision. It has given OpenAI, the California-based company that created ChatGPT, until the end of April to comply…
(8 Mar 2023) In a sector first, Jisc has released a framework to help universities make strategic moves towards digital transformation. Underlining the importance of digital technology in delivering education, Jisc has released a framework to help universities improve strategic planning around necessary digital transformation. The first framework for digital transformation in higher education contains…
(30 Jan 2023) Andy Horbal, director of access services and streaming video coordinator at Cornell Library, shares his thoughts on navigating streaming acquisitions. “…While streaming video has some clear advantages over physical formats, as a form of collection its transient selection creates challenges for faculty, librarians and vendors. For example, university faculty don’t teach…
(30 Dec 2022) Goodbye to 2022 and hello to 2023; let’s look at what stories at LibraryLearningSpace.com (LLS) attracted our readers the most in 2022. The statistics show that the reader’s interest lies in specific topics that make more sense by looking at a higher level. But feel free to go directly to the…
(10 Nov 2022) Beset by bugs, shorn of around half of its staff and with an idiosyncratic new owner who is changing the rules on a whim, Twitter is turning from a must-use social-media platform into one that many people, including scientists, are becoming wary of. A raft of other social-networking platforms are cropping up in its…
(7 Oct 2022) What impact does #BookTok have on the Canadian library circulation of backlist titles? Booknet Canada, a non-profit organization that develops technology, standards, and education to serve the Canadian book industry intends to find out with the help of LibraryData, Canadian library collection and circulation analysis tool. Data was gathered on the library…
(12 Sep 2022) Sixteen works have become the first Chinese web novels to be included in the British Library, one of the world’s largest academic libraries. The works now in the library’s Asian & African collections are My Heroic Husband, Up in Heaven, The Era of the Earth, The First Order, Great Power, Heavy Industry, Great Doctor Ling Ran, Good Spring Time, The Wisdom…