AI Bots & Crawlers: Fighting invisible foes
AI is the topic of the year, for better or for worse. The AI large learning models (LLM) are sending bots and crawlers to sweep across the internet and pulling public content to feed the machines that are now informing everything from predictive text to scientific analysis, and is being exponentially employed for all matter of applications. It is a truly awesome development in human history. It is also destructive and is having universal impact on online resources large and small. Read more…
New Collections
The Whitestone Public Library collection is throwing opening a window into the history of families, farming, fishing and relaxing in the lakes and fields north of Parry Sound, Ontario. Read more…
Growing Collections
New Prince Edward/Hastings WI documents
The Prince Edward/Hastings branch of the Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario have digitized, reviewed and released another 70 volumes of Tweedsmuirs and other WI history, tracing current day back to the 1800s. These documents offer a host of family names, local events and activities, and reflect the unfathomable support these women provide to their communities.
Wilmette Newspapers
More than 32,000 more pages of local papers are now part of the Wilmette Newspaper Index site, with issues of the Wilmette Life and Wilmette Beacon public and/or accessible through the library workstations. Dense with illustrations and local stories, the newspapers add to the larger story of the Greater Chicago area.
Good News
Congratulations to the recent DHCP Funding recipients & Meet us at Illinois Library Association Annual Conference. Read more…
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