• IBD Publishes Profile of OverDrive Founder and Chairman, Steve Potash

    From Investor’s Business Daily (IBD): or IBD via MSN
    Steve Potash was fed up with shuffling forms and documents when he began his career as a lawyer. So he developed technology to do the job for him.
    “When I started my law practice, I had to produce so much paperwork,” recalled Potash, founder of OverDrive, the largest digital content distributor used by libraries and schools. To alleviate the burden, Potash automated his law practice. He developed what he says was so
  • Outputs From MIT’s Working Group on Scholarly Content and Generative AI Now Available

    From a MIT Blog Post byAnantha P. Chandrakasan, Provost & Ian A. Waitz, Vice President for Research:
    We write today to share the outputs of the Working Group on Scholarly Content and Generative AI, which was co-chaired by Chris Bourg, MIT Libraries Director, and Claire Schneider, Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel (OGC).
    Launched in April 2025 by the offices of the Provost (under then-Provost Cynthia Barnhart), Vice President for Research, and General Counsel, the working grou

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