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NewsLink Spotlight |
| A Day in the Life of Five Librarians, Part 12 |
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by Justin Hoenke
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| Justin Hoenke, who has worked in public libraries in the U.S. and New Zealand, has been talking to all types of library staffers for A Day in the Life, his column in Information Today. Among other things, he asks them about their typical days, moments that made them proud, their current projects, and how they see the library field evolving. This Spotlight features excerpts of his columns from October 2023 to April 2024. |
Weekly News Digests |
| ResearchGate Announces Three New Partnerships |
| ResearchGate entered into new partnerships with Termedia Publishing House and Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. and expanded its partnership with Canadian Science Publishing. |
| The Urban Libraries Council Unveils a Toolkit for Promoting Youth Literacy |
| The Urban Libraries Council (ULC) published the free Science of Reading Toolkit: Evidence-Based Approaches for Public Libraries. |
| OpenAthens Issues a Call for Proposals and for Award Applications |
| OpenAthens shared that the next Access Lab, its online conference for discussing the global challenges affecting the information industry, will be held Feb. 24–27, 2025. |
| SSP Joins Effort to Support the Publishing Community in Ukraine |
| The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is partnering "with Supporting Ukrainian Publishing Resilience and Recovery (SUPRR). SUPRR is a bottom-up initiative designed to help strengthen the Ukrainian publishing sector. ..." |
| Federal Antitrust Lawsuit Filed Against Six Academic Journal Publishers and STM |
| "On September 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel at Justice Catalyst Law filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against six commercial publishers of academic journals, including Elsevier B.V., John Wiley & Sons, Wolters Kluwer NV, and the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), on behalf of a putative class or scientists and scholars. ..." |
NewsBreaks |
| Testing Google One's AI Premium and Gemini Advanced's Gems |
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by Sophia Guevara
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| Google One is Google's secure storage and AI solution. I signed up for a free, monthlong trial of its AI Premium Plan. Subscribers to this plan get 2 TB of storage, share storage with up to five others, gain access to Gemini Advanced, and more. I was most interested in accessing Gems, custom versions of Gemini, as a part of this plan. Here is what I learned. |
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