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Weekly News Digest
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January 9, 2025 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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Job News From CCC and ByWater Solutions and Honoree News From NISO
CCC announced that Catie Sheret, general counsel for Cambridge University Press & Assessment, has been elected to its board of directors. “Catie brings a wealth of expertise in innovation, operational efficiency, AI governance, and sustainability to CCC’s Board of Directors,” says Tracey Armstrong, president and CEO of CCC. “Her experience in driving educational impact, reducing carbon footprints, and fostering stronger community engagement will be invaluable for CCC as we continue to advance our mission to make copyright work.”ByWater Solutions has been busy ensuring that its team is poised for success heading into 2025 by promoting Catrina Berka to lead educator and Enica Davis to lead data migration specialist, hiring Heather Harmon—who has experience working in education and public libraries—as a project coordinator, and hiring Sakhir Sohail as a systems administrator; he has nearly 10 years of experience as an infrastructure engineer. The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) named Timnit Gebru, executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR), as the winner of its 2025 Miles Conrad Award. She will deliver the Miles Conrad Lecture virtually at NISO Plus 2025 on Feb. 12. “We are honored to have Dr. Gebru deliver this year’s Miles Conrad Lecture,” says Jason Griffey, NISO’s director of strategic initiatives. “The award recognizes her critical work on the dangers of biases in AI as the information community grapples with ethics and rapidly advancing technologies. We look forward to hearing her views about the opportunities and risks inherent in the use of AI in an imperfect world.”
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