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Weekly News Digest
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November 5, 2024 — 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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Advantage Archives Rolls Out a Community History Archives Directory
Advantage Archives emailed customers about its new community history archives directory, which features more than 1,100 free online archives for library patrons. “This directory is designed to make it easier for you and your community to access and explore a vast collection of historical resources,” the company shares. “It is a great resource to include in your website’s digital resources section to inform your patrons about these free historical resources.”
Job News at Sage and the British Library
Sage appointed Khal Rudin as its chief commercial offer, a new role at the company. He will be “accelerating the independent academic publisher’s customer-centered approach to business operations and further aligning the business amongst global customers and end-users. Rudin was formerly managing director at the Sage subsidiary AM and is currently a senior vice president at Sage. He will begin his new role in January 2025.”The British Library has a new chief executive: Rebecca Lawrence. She starts in this role on Jan. 2, 2025. “From 2019 to 2023 she was Chief Executive of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), where she led the organisation through the pandemic, implementing large scale innovation to improve performance and support digital transformation,” the press release notes. “Prior to leading the CPS, she was a founder and first CEO of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), serving as Director of Strategy and Resourcing from 2013 to 2016, and Chief Executive from 2016 to 2019. In these roles she became a recognised national leader of police technology and digital security innovation.”
JSTOR Expands Its Interactive Research Tool Beta Program
JSTOR shared the following:JSTOR, a nonprofit service of ITHAKA, announced today that it is expanding the beta program for its interactive research tool by offering 500 colleges and universities the opportunity to provide early access for their faculty and students. Higher education institutions that sign up will give their communities a chance to experiment with an AI-powered tool that enhances research practices and skill development without compromising the critical thinking and information literacy skills needed for college-level work. For more information, read the news item.
Springshare Purchases CareerShift to Broaden Its Offerings
Springshare is buying CareerShift, “the software platform that helps students with job search, career, and company research. Springshare acquired CareerShift from Student Playbook LLC who, after this divestiture, will focus on serving the alumni associations market,” Springshare notes. “CareerShift will operate as an independent brand under Springshare’s corporate umbrella.”“The CareerShift platform is an incredibly helpful and valuable tool for job seekers and is already used at hundreds of college and university Career Services offices,” says Slaven Zivkovic, Springshare’s founder and CEO. “The platform also holds great potential with our public libraries—vibrant community hubs—to assist librarians as they seek to help patrons with career and company research.” For more information, read the press release and the FAQ.
Paratext Unveils Comparative Library Analytics for Its bird Platform
Paratext introduced nest, “a groundbreaking suite of comparative library analytics built upon the platform of bird. nest will premiere at the 2024 Charleston Conference Vendor Showcase on November 12, 2024. Launched in February 2024, bird: Base Inventory of Research Databases is developed and maintained by research librarians. bird provides subject selectors and collection strategists with the only comprehensive profile of 7,700+ commercial and Open Access (OA) research databases, spanning 177 academic disciplines, 34 formats and over 1,900 suppliers. nest enhances bird’s capabilities, offering one-touch peer institution and consortia comparisons for realtime benchmarking.”For more information, read the press release.
LinkedIn Creates an AI Hiring Assistant to Help With Job Recruitment
Ingrid Lunden writes the following in “LinkedIn Launches Its First AI Agent to Take on the Role of Job Recruiters” for TechCrunch:LinkedIn, the social platform used by professionals to connect with others in their field, hunt for jobs, and develop skills, is taking the wraps off its latest effort to build artificial intelligence tools for users. Hiring Assistant is a new product designed to take on a wide array of recruitment tasks, from ingesting scrappy notes and thoughts to turn into longer job descriptions to sourcing candidates and engaging with them. For more information, read the article and LinkedIn’s announcement.
EFF Develops a Website for Answering Common Tech Questions
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) introduced Digital Rights Bytes, “a new website with short videos offering quick, easily digestible answers to the technology questions that trouble us all.”“It’s increasingly clear there is no way to separate our digital lives from everything else that we do—the internet is now everybody’s hometown. But nobody handed us a map or explained how to navigate safely,” says Cindy Cohn, EFF’s executive director. “We hope Digital Rights Bytes will provide easy-to-understand information people can trust, and an entry point for thinking more broadly about digital privacy, freedom of expression, and other civil liberties in our digital world.” For more information, read the press release.
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