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A senior Army official ordered Army libraries, including West Point, to remove all books “with the explicit and sole purpose of directly and overtly promoting DEI, gender ideology, and critical race theory in a manner that subverts meritocracy and unity,” according to a memo sent last week by acting Assistant Secretary of the Army Derrick Anderson. It says the list of documents should be provided to the Army’s chief librarian by April 16th. The memo, dated April 9th, was viewed by NPR.
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Access to scientific knowledge is essential for science, as well as for tackling societal challenges. However, the limitation of this access by paywalls comes at a cost to public finances and also, increasingly, to scientific quality. In light of this situation, the authors of a discussion paper published today by the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) propose a new funding principle for scientific journals that would make these publications freely available to everyone.
The purpose of this paper is to report on a scoping review investigating the preference for using digital literacy, digital competence, digital fluency, or digital dexterity when considering continued professional skills development for academic librarians.
Abstract: Libraries show an increasing interest in incorporating AI tools into their workflows, particularly easily accessible and free-to-use chatbots. However, empirical evidence is limited regarding the effectiveness of these tools to perform traditionally time-consuming subject cataloging tasks. In this study, researchers sought to assess the performance of AI tools in performing basic subject heading and classification number assignment. Using a well-established instructional cataloging text as a basis, researchers developed and administered a test designed to evaluate the effectiveness of three chatbots (ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot) in assigning Dewey Decimal Classification, Library of Congress Classification, and Library of Congress Subject Heading terms and numbers. The quantity and quality of errors in chatbot responses were analyzed.
From the arXiv Blog: Audio summaries are coming to arXiv! arXiv has partnered with ScienceCast on a pilot project to bring 60-second AI-generated audio summaries to arxiv.org. This follows our efforts to make arXiv’s scientific content even more broadly available by supporting additional formats beyond PDF, starting with HTML versions of recent papers, which we began rolling out in 2024. The pilot project with ScienceCast is initially limited to a small subset of arXiv papers, namely those in the astro-ph.HE category. However, we expect that it will be rolled out to more categories, and that other forms of audio content will be supported in the near future.
For more than 20 years, Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)—the largest collection ever assembled of English-language books, pamphlets, and periodicals published in the 18th century—has served as an invaluable resource for students and scholars worldwide. Now, this resource is being further enhanced with 1.7 million new pages of content.
With chapters on transgender youth, activists, workers, and athletes living between 1850 and 1950, this book humanizes and historicizes the lives and identities of trans people in ways that, now more than ever, are critical for navigating systems that thrive on erasure, obfuscation, and misrepresentation of marginalized communities.
An excellent bibliographical essay, useful time lines, maps, and illustrations, and a helpful list of the historical figures who people this story enhance Wisnom’s tour of an astounding collection.
Neal provides a well-researched look at a key figure in American literary history, bringing her back into the public eye. Recommended for researchers and readers with an interest in mid-1800s literary history.
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