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May 16, 2024

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Welcome to LJAN Resources, our monthly academic content roundup. We’ll be curating standout InfoDocket posts and nonfiction LJ book reviews once every month for quick access to news and reviews you can use.

From Infodocket:
 
New on Europeana: European Commission Showcases a Pan-European Collection of Emblematic 3D-Digitised Cultural Heritage Assets
The [European] Commission has released a collection of 3D-digitised cultural heritage assets on Europeana, the common European data space for cultural heritage. The collection results from the “Twin it! 3D for Europe’s culture” campaign and includes a range of historic buildings, sites, and objects.
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Syracuse University Libraries Launch New and Expanded Plastics Digital Collection
The new Plastics Collection brings in additional archival content from other digitized collections, including the Antique Comb Collector’s Club Collection, the Edwin F. Bushman Collection, the Syracuse Ornamental Company (Syroco) Collection, and the forthcoming Plastics Media Collection, which will feature company and manufacturer product commercials and infomercials, footage of workers engaged in production, educational media about plastic materials and compositions, symposia and more.
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New Report From JISC: Student Perceptions of Generative AI (May 2024)
From JISC:  to continue the discussion with students/learners as the technology continues to evolve. Over this past winter, we ran a series of nine in-person student discussion forums with over 200 students across colleges and universities to revisit student/learner perceptions of generative AI. Our goal was to understand if and how views on generative AI have shifted, identify emerging usage and concerns, and explore the developing role students/learners want these tools to play in their educational experience. 
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Using Streamed Content in the Shakespeare Classroom: Spotlight on Soliloquies


Exploring the same play through different performances helps us to deepen our understanding, challenges any assumptions about meaning, and demonstrates many possible interpretations. There are multiple filmed performances of individual Shakespeare plays here on Drama Online which can be used to support teaching and learning.

 

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Report: “Researchers Test AI Systems’ Ability to Solve The New York Times’ Connections Puzzle”
Can artificial intelligence (AI) match human skills for finding obscure connections between words? Researchers at NYU Tandon School of Engineering turned to the daily Connections puzzle from The New York Times to find out. 
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IHE Report: “Academic Librarians Oppose Plan to Eliminate Key Federal Data”
The federal government’s collection of data about the nearly 3,700 academic libraries as part of its longitudinal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) is “critical to understanding the value libraries provide to the institutional mission,” said a joint public comment letter from the American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries. They urged the U.S. Education Department to sustain the library survey component as part of IPEDS.
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From LJ Reviews:

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War

By Martin Sixsmith
A critical profile of Putin’s worldview. Thematically similar to Mikhail Zygar’s War and Punishment, this book focuses on Putin’s career in the Russian government.
 
PREMIUM
Belonging Without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World
By John A. Powell & Stephen Menendian
Will appeal to readers researching DEI. This interdisciplinary work for think tanks, academics, faculty, and graduate students is most useful as a treatise.
 
PREMIUM
Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics
By Ernesto Londoño
This title about utilizing medicinal psychedelics in the treatment plans of some conditions could easily have future public policy implications worldwide. The subject matter will be of interest to many readers.
NONFICTION
PREMIUM
The Last Decade of Cinema: 25 Films from the Nineties
By Scott Ryan
Gen Xers and movie fans of all generations will enjoy this passionate and amiable appreciation of films of the 1990s.
 
PREMIUM
Rolling: Blackness and Mediated Comedy
Ed. by Alfred L. Martin Jr.
An enlightening collection of essays that will appeal to readers interested in the history of Black comedy.
 
HISTORY 
The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt
By Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Llewellen-Jones’s extensive research on all seven of these intriguing Cleopatras is expertly presented. Highly recommended.
 
The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
By Adam Smyth
A must for book lovers. Give to fans of Christopher de Hamel’s The Manuscripts Club.
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