Google is committing $2.25 million to support AI-ready data in Africa.
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New funding from Google will help launch a regional Data Commons for Africa.
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A few takeaways from Open Education 2025 - In an age of corporate techno-solutionism, open education can help academia fulfill its responsibilities to the public good. But we have to institutional...
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Broadway Comes to the Library, and the Library Goes to Broadway - The papers of Jonathan Larson and Leonard Bernstein are among many of the Library's musical holdings that have been used extensively by composers, actors a...
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Not Goodbye, but See Ya Later - Hi everyone! You may have noticed that we've slowed down a bit on posting, approving comments, and, well, pretty much our whole end of the deal. We'd like ...
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January 7th Stream - Shared I Like What Bob Likes. Shared high tide. Shared New Years at Mars.
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TBR Challenge: Paranormal or Romantic Suspense – Into the Night by Suzanne Brockmann - I’m on vacation this week so I don’t have a review for you but I did want to share what I’m reading for the TBR Challenge. I chose Into the Night by Suza...
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Librarian, You're a grand old - A newly hired librarian should spent part of his or her very first library paycheck to purchase a cat flag for every month of the year. Fly them proudly at...
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I Can’t, Anymore - Everyone in the world knows it’s hard out there for a librarian, especially one with no practical experience. Jobs are hard to come by for the most qualif...
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Cupcakes Collide With Tuscaloosa Trademarks - From WBRC video Overeager trademark enforcers at the University of Alabama cooked up another controversy last week, threatening a local baker with legal ...
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10 Next-Gen Twitter Comedians You Need to Follow - From postmodern to posting videos to @postcrunk, check out these 10 next-gen Twitter comedians before you refresh your feed. The post 10 Next-Gen Twitter...
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Journals, Academic - On occasion, I read something, and I am so moved by it that I have to share. You know, like when you are reading the New Yorker - and you see a comic that ...
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The rumors are true: I went and got myself employed! - You may have noticed crickets chirping and tumbleweeds rolling by on this eerily quiet blog. And many of you have guessed that the unthinkable happened and...
