The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and VideosAfter Mamdani Nods to ‘Heated Rivalry,’ Library E-Book Downloads Surge
Research Library at NASA’s Goddard Space and Flight Center to Close Friday
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/climate/nasa-goddard-library-closing.html
Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library
The 85-Year-Old Activist Trying to Block the Trump Presidential Library Plan
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/trump-library.html
Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/black-leaders-trump.html
Florida Plans to Hand Over Prime Miami Property for Trump Library
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/miami-property-trump-library.html
Lambert HellerRecommended reading. An essay which critically acknowledges what #DesignThinking is about, plus the context it originally came from. Worth a read also for my #librariesandlibrarians bubble, since it's a lot about bringing innovation and enthusiasm to a resource deprived public sector. (I hope I got your attention now.✨)
Jane KaylorInformative update about the state of ebooks and libraries right now. (Which lasts longer? Ebooks or physical books?) Libraries have seen a loss in purchasing power ever since publishers have charged more for ebooks and limited their use. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-08/which-last-longer-ebooks-or-physical-books-the-answer-may-surprise-you
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Judy WrightProximity searching in #PubMed is now possible! Great news for creating more sophisticated #SystematicReview searches with less noise - if PubMed is your only way to access Medline. But - can't use truncation and the syntax and way you construct the search is v different to all other platforms I've used (ovid, ebsco, proquest, Wiley, clarivate). Big step in the right direction though! 😀 #MedLibs #librariesandlibrarians #InformationRetrival https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd22/nd22_pubmed_proximity_search_available.html
MTIX: the Next-Generation Algorithm for Automated Indexing of MEDLINE. NLM Technical Bulletin. 2024 Mar–Apr
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is committed to advancing biomedical discovery across our databases of biomedical literature, genomic information, and other scientific data. As part of these efforts, NLM strives to produce timely MeSH indexing of MEDLINE biomedical and life sciences citations for the PubMed database. To this end, the Library is pleased to announce the next major milestone in automated MEDLINE indexing: the implementation of the MTIX (Medical Text Indexer-NeXt Generation) algorithm, which replaces the MTIA (Medical Text Indexer-Automated) algorithm. MTIX Technology Although MTIA and MTIX have similar names, they use different technologies. MTIA was a complex system based on a dictionary of MeSH terms, synonyms, and other trigger phrases, with rules created and refined by humans over the course of many years. In contrast, MTIX is a machine learning model known as a neural network, a type of AI.MTIX was trained on millions of MEDLINE...
Erik HoltenGlyn Moody, author of the recent book "Walled Culture":
"… the problem of archiving digital creations is hard enough, but thanks to copyright, it’s often impossible. So much for copyright supporting creativity…"
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Digital books do wear out – just like digital music, digital films and video games
<p>There’s a great post by Brewster Kahle on the Internet Archive blog with the title “Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books“. He makes an important point about the work involved in providing and preserving digital books: The Internet Archive processes and reprocesses the books it has digitized as new optical character recognition technologies …</p>