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Digital life
fromwww.dw.com
4 days ago

The pleasure of books in the digital age

The debate over digital archiving versus physical books highlights the unique engagement and sensory experience that books provide in a digital age.
fromPadailypost
6 days ago

Want government records? This California lawmaker wants you to pay more for them

This bill is intended to address a narrow set of high-cost, resource-intensive requests that can delay agencies' ability to respond to other records requests. The goal is to ensure that agencies can continue to respond to all requests in a timely manner.
California
fromSearch Engine Roundtable
1 week ago

Block of Citations Tested Beneath AI Overview Summary

The format has ginormous link cards at the bottom of the AI summary, which include a thumbnail of no apparent value, the site name, favicon, description, and title.
Typography
#public-libraries
fromTruthout
2 weeks ago
Social justice

Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment

Public libraries are vital infrastructure enabling free access to knowledge, gathering spaces, and shared intellectual life that authoritarianism seeks to eliminate.
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago
Arts

A 200-year-old book distributor is closing. Here's what that means for public libraries

Baker & Taylor, the nation's largest print book distributor to public libraries, is closing amid financial troubles, a 2022 data breach, and industry pressures.
Social justice
fromTruthout
2 weeks ago

Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment

Public libraries are vital infrastructure enabling free access to knowledge, gathering spaces, and shared intellectual life that authoritarianism seeks to eliminate.
Media industry
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
2 weeks ago

Blocking the Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web's Historical Record

Major newspapers are blocking the Internet Archive from preserving their websites, threatening decades of historical records that journalists and researchers depend on.
Intellectual property law
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
2 weeks ago

Organizations Warn Fast-Track of Bill to Separate Copyright Office from Library of Congress Would Be a 'Grave Mistake'

A coalition of consumer rights and library groups opposes fast-tracking H.R. 6028, which would separate the Copyright Office from the Library of Congress and restructure leadership appointments, urging regular legislative procedures to prevent unintended consequences.
Film
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

The ultimate entertainment budget hack: Your local library

Local libraries offer free access to books, ebooks, DVDs, and audiobooks as a cost-effective alternative to expensive movie tickets and streaming services.
fromSearch Engine Roundtable
3 weeks ago

AI Mode Tests Ask About Element in Citations

Google AI mode has added an 'Ask about this' option above the sources where all URLs are displayed. Clicking on 'Ask about' here automatically pulled a new prompt into the search box.
Artificial intelligence
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
3 weeks ago

How Libraries Shape AI Literacy on Campus

Librarians have been actively collaborating and talking about it almost every day, whether it's creating tutorials and digital learning objectives or thinking about the conversations to have with instructors. It can feel like cognitive dissonance to be actively working with AI on a regular basis and also saying we're constantly thinking about the harms and the biases.
Higher education
fromThe Mercury News
3 weeks ago

New Campbell Library set to open on May 9 after construction delays

Construction of the two-story building at 77 Harrison Ave. is complete, as is the landscaping. The interior finishing work is wrapping up, and library staff are starting to move in brand-new furniture, books and equipment. The library's opening was delayed after the City of Campbell was awarded a $500,000 grant from Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE) to build an all-electric facility after plans for the new library had already been approved.
East Bay real estate
SF real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
18 years ago

Here, time stood still

Scott Bakula's former Ojai home, originally listed at $1.8 million in the mid-'90s, is now on the market for $4.3 million, featuring extensive gardens, orchards, and architectural elements inspired by Greene & Greene and Frank Lloyd Wright.
California
fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 weeks ago

New Campbell Library set to open on May 9 after construction delays

The Santa Clara County Library District will open the new Campbell Library on May 9, featuring a 24,000-square-foot all-electric facility with community spaces and natural lighting.
Books
fromLos Angeles Times
32 years ago

New Central Library Succeeds as Urban Crossroads for L.A.

The Central Library's public reception contradicts critical reviews, with visitors responding positively to the Pfeiffer design and its urban contribution to downtown Los Angeles.
Cancer
fromwww.berkeleyside.org
1 month ago

Remembering Ann Morgan Jensen, longtime UC Berkeley librarian

Ann Morgan Jensen, an 80-year-old woman who dedicated her career to working with at-risk youth in the probation and foster care systems, passed away peacefully from metastatic cancer surrounded by family.
#ai-safety-in-schools
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 month ago

UC Davis Library Emerges as Campus "Third Place"

That was the most profound moment for me. Students were walking by, stopping and going, 'What's this?' and I would watch them texting their friends to come down from the upper floors to see the performance. That was an experience I don't think these students would have had otherwise because they were in the library.
Higher education
Science
fromNature
1 month ago

Why every scientist needs a librarian

Academic libraries have transformed into dynamic research hubs offering expert librarianship, technologies, coding, maker spaces, and data support that accelerate scientific research.
California
fromwww.berkeleyside.org
1 month ago

New bioresearch hub is sculpted from UC Berkeley's brutalist former art museum

UC Berkeley experiences increased freshman and transfer applications, while Bakar Labs companies reach $1 billion in cumulative funding amid reported hate crimes on campus.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

When Artists Lose Their Archives

An artist lost a storage unit and later discovered parts of their work were sold online without notification, stripping authorship and meaning.
California
fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
1 month ago

Library Lines: Four Contra Costa branches to close doors for renovations

Four county-owned Contra Costa libraries will close temporarily for extensive infrastructure and accessibility upgrades over the next two years.
fromSan Francisco Bay Times
2 months ago

A Digital Archival Collection Spotlight: Victoria Fernandez/Vicki Starr Papers - San Francisco Bay Times

The collection shows how Fernandez used photography to explore and express her gender, identity, and personal life from the 1950s through the 1980s. Materials include photobooth strips, Polaroids, and personal snapshots, often capturing moments with partners, friends, and members of the queer communities she was part of. They offer a glimpse of everyday trans life across several decades, reflecting both private relationships and broader social worlds.
SF LGBT
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

The Wayback Machine debuts a new plugin designed to fix the internet's broken links problem | TechCrunch

"Link rot" is the unfortunate phenomenon whereby online articles become populated by broken links - URLs that once led to active pages but now result in error messages or dead ends. A Pew Research study from 2024 showed that nearly 40% of links that existed in 2013 were no longer active. Such "digital decay" occurs across a broad diversity of webpages, from news and government sites to Wikipedia pages to tweets.
Web development
fromDaily Coffee News by Roast Magazine
1 month ago

UC Davis Library Adds Three Major Collections on Coffee

As the beverage we all know and love, coffee is beautifully fleeting, reflecting seasonality and the specific work of many hands from seed to cup. Yet as an industry, coffee has advanced to become the stuff of institutional archival preservation. On the latter front, the UC Davis Library says it has received three major coffee-related collections adding to its existing coffee-focused archives.
Coffee
#internet-archive
fromEngadget
2 months ago
Media industry

Publishers are blocking the Internet Archive for fear AI scrapers can use it as a workaround

fromEngadget
2 months ago
Media industry

Publishers are blocking the Internet Archive for fear AI scrapers can use it as a workaround

History
fromTechRepublic
2 months ago

National Archives Embraces AI to Modernize Its Museum - TechRepublic

The National Archives uses AI recommendation-style portals to tag, organize, and surface existing historical records for personalized museum visits without generating new content.
Privacy professionals
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Letters: Authorities must end sharing of license plate data

Residents demand enforcement of SB 34 and SB 54, protection of license-plate privacy, relief for overcrowded animal shelters, and safe vehicle-housing solutions for the homeless.
Education
fromwww.timesheraldonline.com
2 months ago

Bay Area library pods blow up on social media

Benicia Public Library is piloting temporary pods that provide dampened privacy for Zoom meetings, interviews, and study while evaluating permanent purchase and grant funding.
Tech industry
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Internet history is vanishing. Researchers want to save it

Preserve historical internet operational data to enable future analysis of network behavior, societal impact, and to prevent irreversible loss of critical measurements.
#wikipedia
fromNature
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

The academic community failed Wikipedia for 25 years - now it might fail us

fromNature
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

The academic community failed Wikipedia for 25 years - now it might fail us

#privacy
Books
fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
2 months ago

Library Lines: Contra Costa branches' 2025 digital checkouts broke record

Contra Costa County Library achieved a record 3,045,601 digital checkouts in 2025 via Libby, while Pinole Library will close March 1 for an 11-month renovation.
fromNature
2 months ago

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click

Within a couple of years of ChatGPT coming out, I had come to rely on the artificial-intelligence tool, for my work as a professor of plant sciences at the University of Cologne in Germany. Having signed up for OpenAI's subscription plan, ChatGPT Plus, I used it as an assistant every day - to write e-mails, draft course descriptions, structure grant applications, revise publications, prepare lectures, create exams and analyse student responses, and even as an interactive tool as part of my teaching.
Privacy technologies
Web development
fromCmsreport
1 month ago

Preserving CMS Report: Why We Are Transitioning to a Permanent Archive

CMS Report will be transitioned into a permanent archive: no new content or updates will be published while existing material remains online and accessible.
Film
fromFuncheap
2 months ago

Internet Archive's Virtual Public Domain Day 2026 (SF)

Works published in 1930 and sound recordings from 1925 entered the public domain on January 1, 2026.
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Wikimedia announces AI partners including Meta and Microsoft

As part of Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, parent company Wikimedia a slew of partnerships with AI-focused companies like Amazon, Meta, Perplexity, Microsoft and others. The deals are meant to alleviate some of the cost associated with AI chatbots accessing Wikipedia content in enormous volumes by giving the tech companies streamlined access. As noted by , the timeline on these deals is a little squirrely.
Artificial intelligence
Science
fromColossal
2 months ago

'Making the Invisible Visible' Highlights an Ambitious Digitization Project at Harvard

Digitizing museum analog catalogs and microscope-slide invertebrate collections preserves fragile records and makes thousands of specimens accessible to researchers and the public.
Education
fromThe Mercury News
2 months ago

Bay Area library pods blow up on social media

Benicia Public Library is piloting temporary Nook-brand pods to provide quiet, private spaces for online meetings and interviews, with potential grants-funded purchase.
#medieval-manuscripts
fromPinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news
1 month ago

University class making sure Wikipedia doesn't erase LGBTQ+ history

During those 10 years, her students have created 63 new articles and edited 588 others, adding 332,000 words and more than 3,000 citations across pages that have collectively been viewed more than 900 million times. "As a professor, I am really proud of the impact my students are having to make sure that Wikipedia reflects the diversity of the world," Rodríguez told PinkNews.
LGBT
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

I Lost My Library in a Fire

I had weighed that exact yes-or-no question untold thousands of times across my 60-some years of book collecting. This time was different. Weeks earlier, excepting a few hastily grabbed items, my entire collection of something like 4,000 volumes, acquired one by one over all those decades, had turned to smoke and ash in the Palisades fire. The question before me was not just about this particular book,
Books
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Archival Art Will Not Save Us

Archival work supports historical recovery and cultural self-understanding, but not every artwork must be archival and political work requires action beyond mere presence.
History
fromMedievalists.net
2 months ago

New Open-Access Book Maps a Medieval Kingdom of the Isles - Medievalists.net

Finlaggan served as the ceremonial, administrative, and judicial centre of the medieval Lordship of the Isles and contained a 12th–13th-century royal castle.
History
fromMedievalists.net
2 months ago

10 Medieval Studies' Articles Published Last Month - Medievalists.net

Local populations in Anatolia used spolia to assert cultural continuity with the ancient and Byzantine past, challenging exclusive Western claims to that heritage.
California
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Newsom zeroes out California's landmark deal to save local news

Gov. Gavin Newsom eliminated state funding for the California Civic Media Program in his proposed 2026-27 budget, undoing a Google-state deal to support local journalism.
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Six more AI outfits sign for Wikimedia's fastest APIs

The org revealed the new partnerships in a post celebrating its 25th birthday, and which points out it is among the world's ten most-visited websites, and the only one to be run by a nonprofit. The post notes that 250,000 editors work on at least one Wikipedia article each month, and that editors make 324 changes each minute as they contribute to the 65 million-plus articles the site contains. 1.5 billion unique devices reach Wikipedia each month.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
1 month ago

Berkeley, a Look Back: Pacific School of Religion dedicates new library

The building, designed by Walter Ratcliff, Jr. was declared one of the most beautiful and chaste buildings in the Bay region according to the Berkeley Daily Gazette. Heavenward pointing in its Gothic lines, the architecture, said Dr. Swartz (President of the PSR) was of the most inspiring character. Final plans call for a central tower as the crowning feature of the architectural scheme.
California
California
fromCalMatters
2 months ago

How Californians can use a new state website to block hundreds of data brokers

California residents can use DROP to request deletion and stop sale of personal data from all state-registered data brokers simultaneously.
California
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

New Museum Los Gatos to hold newspaper history tour on Jan. 16

Los Gatos will host a newspapers history tour Jan. 16, switched insurance to a larger joint powers pool, and is considering entertainment zones for major events.
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