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NewsLink Spotlight |
| 50 Years of Peter Benchley's Behemoth, Jaws |
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by Anthony Aycock
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Next year will be the 50th anniversary of Jaws, the movie that changed movies. This year, that honor goes to the novel on which it was based. The beach read of the summer of 1974, Peter Benchley's Jaws captured "the angst of a generation." It became a bestseller and changed the public's attitude toward sharks, a fact that filled the conservationist Benchley with regret in later years. Here are some of the best information sources for Jaws, sharks, and the ocean. |
| The Footsore Searcher Visits ALA Annual 2024 |
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by Marydee Ojala
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| The exhibit hall at ALA's annual conference is always overwhelming. This year in San Diego was no exception, with 602 companies, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies eager to show their best faces to the 8,000-plus librarians in attendance. For attendees, the advice to "wear comfortable shoes" was never more appropriate. Resurrecting the nom de plume of the Footsore Searcher, I embarked on a journey of discovery in the vast Library Marketplace, as ALA calls its exhibit hall. |
Weekly News Digests |
| OCLC Furthers Its Linked Data Strategy With Dewey Decimal URIs |
| OCLC is continuing to build up its robust linked data infrastructure by creating uniform resource identifiers (URIs) for Dewey Decimal Classification numbers. |
| 'Artists Score Major Win in Copyright Case Against AI Art Generators' by Winston Cho |
| "Artists suing generative artificial intelligence art generators have cleared a major hurdle in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit over the uncompensated and unauthorized use of billions of images downloaded from the internet to train AI systems. ..." |
| Chicago Book-Wrapped Initiative Offers Free Access to Special Digital Collections |
| Chicago Public Library (CPL) and Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson partnered with OverDrive to develop Chicago Book-Wrapped, an initiative to provide immediate ebook and audiobook access to residents and visitors in the city. |
| CyberRisk Alliance Webcast Series Sets Out to Debunk Cybersecurity Myths |
| CyberRisk Alliance is planning a Cybersecurity Fact or Fiction webcast series on YouTube "that identifies and debunks major myths in the cybersecurity industry." |
| 'Got Cold Symptoms? Here's When Kids Should Take a Sick Day From School' by Cheyanne Mumphrey |
| "[B]ack-to-school is hitting just as COVID-19 cases are increasing, raising the question: When is a child too sick for school?" |
NewsBreaks |
| The Curse of Convenience: Google's Gemini AI Assistant and Information Literacy |
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by Xanthippe Pack-Brown
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| With the Gemini responses being the first thing that a user sees on Google search results, and the pre-established common behavior of not moving beyond the first or second search result provided, it is of concern that users will now be choosing these AI-generated responses as their primary source of information without double-checking them. |
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