After some recent contributions from Larry Evans and big news coming from BYD itself, I started digging into BYD’s monthly production and sales reports. The big business is the passenger vehicle business. However, BYD also reports production and sales of its buses (electric) and production and sales of its other ... [continued]

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The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) put out a story yesterday that caught my attention. The title of the organization’s article was “America’s New Role at COP29: Global Solar Champion.” My first thought was, “Great, the US is doing something good on solar at COP29.” My next thought was, “Wait, ... [continued]

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『カレントアウェアネス』359号（2024年3月20日発行）の記事を掲載しました。

CA2056 – 「ユネスコ公共図書館宣言2022」：2022年版に至る歩みとその活用 / 永田治樹
CA2057 – 公共図書館と大学の連携事例の一考察 / 渡部幹雄
CA2058 – ジャパンリンクセンター（JaLC）の歩みと今後の展望 / 小林瑠那
CA2059 – オスロ大学図書館のデジタルサービス / マグヌスセン矢部直美

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『カレントアウェアネス-E』479号を発行しました。

■E2694■　「子ども時代の「心に残る」読書体験を考える」＜報告＞
実践女子大学文学部・須賀千絵

■E2695■　「これからの地域資料データの継承・共有を考える」＜報告＞
日本舞台美術家協会・伊藤雅子

■E2696■　フォーラム「東海地域の文化財保護体制を考える」＜報告＞
国立歴史民俗博物館・小野塚航一

■E2697■　全国書誌サービスの現状と将来：書誌調整連絡会議＜報告＞
収集書誌部収集・書誌調整課・小野塚由希子

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『カレントアウェアネス-E』489号を発行しました。

■E2739■　「きくち圏域電子図書館」の歩みと今後の展望
菊池市立図書館・長尾美穂

■E2740■　日本玩具博物館50年の歩みと活動継承への取り組み
日本玩具博物館・尾崎織女

■E2741■　石見銀山から、バーチャルを活用した「とどける博物館」
石見銀山資料館・佐藤愛

■E2742■　オランダ国立図書館が建設する新書庫について
収集書誌部資料保存課・廣川明日菜

■E2743■　デジタル化と歴史研究の未来―人文学・社会科学の協働＜報告＞
東京大学史料編纂所・菊地智博

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『カレントアウェアネス-E』490号を発行しました。

■E2744■　帝国議会会議録検索システム、全期間本文テキストデータ公開
調査及び立法考査局議会官庁資料課、電子情報部電子情報企画課次世代システム開発研究室

■E2745■　韓国の第4次図書館発展総合計画（2024～2028）
関西館総務課・中村穂佳

■E2746■　スペインにおける読書習慣と書籍購入（2023）の概要
関西館文献提供課・水野翔彦

■E2747■　消失するインターネット上のコンテンツに関する調査（米国）
関西館電子図書館課・志村努

■E2748■　NCARシンポジウム003「美術館のアクセシビリティ」＜報告＞
国立アートリサーチセンター・鈴木智香子

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2024年11月、全国学校図書館協議会（全国SLA）が、「第69回学校読書調査」（2024年）の結果を公開したと発表しました。

「学校読書調査」は、全国の小・中・高等学校の児童生徒の読書状況について毎年実施されている調査です。

2024年6月第1、2週に、全国の小学生3,308人、中学生3,496人、高校生4,604人を対象に実施されました。調査項目は、毎年定例のものと年ごとに特設されるものがあります。今回は、「電子書籍の読書経験」「獲得したデジタル情報の正しさをどう確かめているか」「どんなときに本を読みたくなるか」の項目が特設されました。

発表によると、2024年5月1か月間の平均読書冊数は、小学生は13.8冊、中学生は4.1冊、高校生は1.7冊で、不読者（5月1か月間に読んだ本が0冊の児童生徒）の割合は、小学生は8.5％、中学生は23.4％、高校生は48.3％とあります。

「学校読書調査」の結果（全国SLA）
https://www.j-sla.or.jp/material/research/dokusyotyousa.html

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2024年11月1日から2025年3月30日まで、阪神・淡路大震災記念人と防災未来センター（兵庫県神戸市）において「1995.1.17から30年。あらためて知る 阪神・淡路大震災～30年を振り返り未来を展望する30コラム展～」が開催されています。

震災からの30年を捉えるに当たり30のテーマによるコラムが設けられ、テーマごとに重要なポイントが展示パネルで紹介されます。11月1日から12月28日までの第1期では、震災以降の同センターの歩みや取組の成果等7点が紹介されます。1月4日から3月30日までの第2期では、同センター以外での動きを含む23点が追加され、計30のコラムが展示されます。

【令和6年11月1日～】「1995.1.17から30年。あらためて知る 阪神・淡路大震災 ～30年を振り返り未来を展望する30コラム展～」の開催について（人と防災未来センター, 2024/10/30）
https://www.dri.ne.jp/information/78009/

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This week, Google sent an email to some Google Ads advertisers warning that they may lose access to use Customer Match with their ads cause harm to users or create a poor user experience. Google said they are updating their customer match policy effective January 13, 2025, to enforce this. Google also posted this over here.

Navah Hopkins posted about this notice on LinkedIn after she received an email from Google about this update. The email says:

On January 13, 2025, Google will update its Customer Match policy to state that customers may lose Customer Match access if their ads have the potential to cause harm to users or create a poor user experience. We may take the following considerations, among others, into account when making this determination.

What are those considerations? Google wrote:

• User feedback
• Prevalence or severity of abuse
• Repeated violations of the Customer Match policy

Google added that "violations of this policy will not lead to immediate account suspension without prior warning. A warning will be issued, at least seven days, prior to any suspension of your account."

Here is the email:

Navah Hopkins added, "Google customer match allows advertisers to take customer lists and apply them for targeting and seed purposes in Google Ads. This is a great way to ensure folks get exactly the right messaging as well as giving us an option to exclude our existing customers from prospecting campaigns."

She explained what harm might be:

The first and most important consideration is using someone's email without their consent. I would take this signal from Google that gambling with privacy rules is getting harder.

Second, ad creative needs to pass the "not a creep" check. This means:
1. You're not targeting kids.
2. You're not making it seem like the ad is for any one specific user.
3. You're not including people in a target list who outright told you they didn't want to see your ads.

Third, and most importantly, violating customer match rules will get your account suspended. Don't mess around with it.

Forum discussion at LinkedIn.

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