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American Archive of Public Broadcasting A collaboration between GBH and the Library of Congress with a long-term vision to preserve and make accessible significant historical content created by public media.

This is great!

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting, to their eternal glory, have digitized more than 7,000 public radio and television programs from 1940 to the present.

It's a treasure trove of historic newsreels, interviews, speeches, and more.

americanarchive.org

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No doubt some parts of South and Northeast Philly would choose the President over the Pope

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution.

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Chicago Turns All Public School IDs Into Library Cards To Boost Student Access Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the library system's vast collection and databases.

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC.

"All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources."

blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

Michigan is the one state where people point to their hand to show where they’re from. I was born on the top hand, at the first bend of the ring finger

Go Michigan

Our readers also hold us accountable, helping to ensure that we meet the standards of quality, fairness and accuracy that they expect from The New York Times. Now, we are planning to build even stronger bonds with our readers by establishing a Reader Center at The Times. We want to capitalize on our readers’ knowledge and experience, using their voices to make our journalism even better.

Too bad they don't have an actual ombudsman, but "Our readers also hold us accountable" archive.is/uOAil#select...

History is cool and I like archives, which are filled with cool and creative people who do cool things. Archivists are creative people and deserve to be treated better than they are by institutions and administrators. Archives should be treasured jewels of educational and cultural institutions.

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

The Meritocrats!

For Iran?

NARA filled with a bunch of furious archivists and librarians going scorched earth in the survey.

Because they are winning?

Also you’ll burn to death if you survive the drone attack because you can’t open the doors

Academy Film Archive Lays Off Multiple Staff Members in Restructuring as AMPAS Announces Expansions to Collection The Academy Film Archive has laid off archive and library staff members in a restructuring move, as the Academy Museum announced new acquisitions.

A reminder that the Academy shamelessly and wrongly fired a lot of its archivists

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A flyer taped to a utility pole It features John Fetterman’s face with the eyes and mouth replaced by elements from American printed money , under the words “call your senator” and “I love bombing children with your money while you can’t afford healthcare “ and “call me” with his office number I assume

Spotted this on a pole behind independence hall. I recently saw someone say they found collage to be the best way to work through things and I didn’t really see it at the time but

Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal Gunnar Ridderström/Pexels As a hospital librarian, Jessica Waite is typically successful at tracking down elusive articles for clinicians at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in England. So when a colleag…

Fake references make Waite’s job as a librarian “so much harder,” she added.

“I expect this on the wider internet, but not in reputable scientific journals,” she told us. “…It’s really worrying.” retractionwatch.com/2026/03/06/l... #medlibs

I, for one, welcome our new librarian overlords.

New on ACRLog... Tribute Post for Fobazi Ettarh

"With immense sadness, the writers of ACRLog acknowledge the passing of Fobazi Ettarh, library worker and influential LIS scholar."

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