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NewsLink Spotlight |
| Pew Research Center Reports From Early 2025 |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| NewsBreaks often covers recent surveys and reports from Pew Research Center, "a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world." The following are some of the latest reports and other analyses from 2025. |
Weekly News Digests |
| OpenAI Shortens Its Safety-Testing Timeline |
| Radhika Rajkumar writes "OpenAI Used to Test Its AI Models for Months—Now It's Days. Why That Matters" for ZDNET. |
| The Latest News From DPLA |
| The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) issued an update on its activities, including that DPLAfest 2025 is in the works. |
| EBSCO Information Services Debuts EBSCO Discovery: Open Education for OER Access |
| EBSCO Information Services rolled out EBSCO Discovery: Open Education, a "centralized platform designed to streamline access to open-access e-books and journals and Open Educational Resources (OER)." |
| ALA Leadership News |
| ALA announced the results of multiple elections and appointments for its organization and its divisions. |
| All About Small Language Models |
| Stephen Ornes writes "Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say" for WIRED. |
NewsBreaks |
| A Safe Space for Dark Times: Libraries and Dystopian Literature |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| There are obvious reasons to have dystopia on the brain these days, but dystopian literature has a long-standing popularity I wanted to ask library workers about. I reached out to public libraries across the U.S. and Canada, and I received responses from staffers who shared the various ways they engage with it. I also asked these library workers about their favorite dystopian titles and why they think the genre is so important for libraries to promote. |
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