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• Report: “How AI is Unlocking Ancient Texts — and Could Rewrite History”

  30-12-2024 18:34 via infodocket.com
  From Nature:
  In October 2023, an e-mail pinged onto Federica Nicolardi’s phone with an image that would transform her research forever. It showed a fragment of a papyrus scroll that had been burnt in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in ad 79. The scorched scroll was one of hundreds discovered in the remains of a luxury Roman villa in Herculeaneum, near Pompeii in Italy, in the eighteenth century. Attempts over the centuries to peel apart the scrolls’ fragile, carbonized layer
  
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• Missouri: “St. Louis Has the Oldest Library West of the Mississippi River – and It’s Getting a Makeover”

  30-12-2024 17:46 via infodocket.com
  From Ladue News:
  Since 1846, the St. Louis Mercantile Library has served the city of St. Louis as a cultural hub. Filled with vibrant collections of books, archives and artwork, the library has something for every interest. Today, the library is undergoing renovations to ensure the library’s success for years to come.
  The library has been located in three buildings throughout history. After spending 125 years on Locust Street, it has spent the last 28 in the Thomas Jefferson Library buildi
  
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• Japan: “Japanese Bookstores Collaborate with Libraries For Survival”

  30-12-2024 17:04 via infodocket.com
  From The Japan Times:
  While bookstores are increasingly closing in Japan due to the prevalence of online shopping, some have started to work with libraries for survival.
  The government plans to support such collaborations by starting a survey in fiscal 2025 from April in response to concerns over the current situation in which libraries own multiple copies of the same book, a factor behind sluggish book sales. Based on the survey results, an expert panel of the education ministry will discuss me
  
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