The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition At this point, AI tools like Gemini should be able to make most digitized handwritten documents sear ...

A nationwide internet age verification plan is sweeping Congress The bill is set to be discussed in a hearing before a powerful House committee that’s co ...

OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets But the authors suspect there’s more to the story than that. They noted that Op ...

BlogWorldExpo 2008 remains underway and has been a unique event. In many cases, the LISTen production team have been some of the only ones conducting stand-up interviews. Los Angeles-based TechZulu is ...

A new show at the Grolier Club on the Upper East Side conjures memories of the glorious bookstores designed by Ernest Flagg for the firm of Charles Scribner’s Sons. Fortunately, both ...

This week’s program provides a bit of a news recap. Links to the issues mentioned and more can be found at the Erie Looking Productions blog.

Ender passed along This National Center for Education Statistics Page that answers the old question, From what sources are public libraries funded?. Most income was from state sources (84.6 percent), ...

madcow writes “Nicholson Baker’s project to preserve our pulpy heritage is soon to be moving south according to this article. ‘At Duke, the newspapers in the ANR are housed at a state-of-the-art ...

Friends of Libraries U.S.A. (FOLUSA) and Baker & Taylor have once again partnered with the American Library Association (ALA) to honor the Friends group with the most creative use of ALA’s @ your ...

Publicly-funded research doesn’t seem so public when taxpayers must pay to read the results in a journal. A new law may help publishing companies preserve their business models, but will limit public ...

A Very Defiant Duckling Named Ender sent over The Economics of Digitization: An Agenda for NSF [PDF] by By Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern. He added ” Which might be a key place for ...

Like innumerable writers and researchers over the years, I have experienced the joy (many times) of entering the New York Public Library with a near-hopeless citation in hand only to find the very ...