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NewsLink Spotlight |
| Eight Ways Your Library Is Like a Hospital |
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by Steve Albrecht
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| The library is like a hospital. OK, so the library doesn't take insurance, and library workers aren't doing surgery in the stacks. Still, there are some parallels between the two environments, especially when viewed from the eyes of the patients and patrons. |
Weekly News Digests |
| MIT Press Reaches Its Direct to Open Funding Goal for 2025 |
| The MIT Press shared that its Direct to Open (D2O) framework—which "shifts publishing from a solely market-based, purchase model where individuals and libraries buy single eBooks, to a collaborative, library-supported open access model"—reached its full funding goal for 2025 and will make 80 new monographs and edited book collections OA this year. |
| CNET Provides Advice on Detecting AI Writing |
| Rachel Kane writes in "How to Detect AI Writing" for CNET: "It's usually easy to tell when a student has used one of these tools to draft their entire work." |
| RBmedia Launches New Audiobooks of the Outlander Series |
| RBmedia is releasing new audiobook editions of the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon that are read by Kristin Atherton, who portrays the character Jenny Murray in the STARZ adaptation. |
| Bluesky May Soon Offer an Alternative to Instagram |
| Sarah Perez writes in "Bluesky Is Getting Its Own Photo-Sharing App, Flashes" for TechCrunch: "More good news for those looking to exit Meta's social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a photo-sharing app for Bluesky called Flashes." |
| SOLUS Integrates hoopla Digital Content Into Its Library App |
| hoopla Digital partnered with SOLUS' Library App to integrate hoopla's content collection into online public library catalogs. |
| SOLUS Integration Enables hoopla Digital Content in TLC's Library App |
| The Library Corp. (TLC) introduced "a new hoopla Digital integration for TLC•Go!, its mobile app for libraries." |
NewsBreaks |
| AI in HR: Proceed With Caution |
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by Kashyap Kompella
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| AI tools offer the promise of making the hiring process more objective by grounding the decisions in data, better evaluating the resumes, and shortlisting candidates for interviews. Given that the volume of applications received can be quite high, automating many steps of the process makes it possible to conclude the search in a short amount of time. AI tools are also increasingly used not only for candidate screening, but for video interviews and assessments as well. Job descriptions are created using AI tools, and algorithms decide who the (online) job ads are shown to. |
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