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Monday, August 12
Top o’ the Review
College Writing Centers Worry AI Could Replace Them
(EdSurge)
EDUCAUSE QuickPoll Results: Third-Party Risk Management Practices in Higher Education
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Flood of “Junk”: How AI Is Changing Scientific Publishing
(AFP via Yahoo News)
Generative AI Literacy: Twelve Defining Competencies
(Digital Government: Research and Practice)
July Issue of Library Resources & Technical Services Includes Several Articles of Interest
(Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures, ALA: American Library Association)
Move Over, LLMs. Small AI Models Are the Next Big Thing.
(BNN Bloomberg)
New AAUP Statement on Academic Boycotts
(AAUP: American Association of University Professors)
Perplexity’s Popularity Surges as AI Search Start-Up Takes on Google
(Financial Times)
The Importance of Data Ethics in Data Interpretation
(DCN: Data Curation Network)
Video Playlist: Keynote and Plenary Presentations from FORCE2024 Conference
(FORCE11 via YouTube)
ARL Member Libraries
Albert Moll Hypnotism Collection Now Fully Cataloged
(Vanderbilt University Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries)
New Digital Collection: Houston Shakespeare Festival
(University of Houston Libraries)
The Queen of Comedy-Variety: Exploring the Carol Burnett Papers
(UCLA Library)
University Libraries Open Publishing Launches Open-Access Journal “Geomorphica”
(Penn State University Libraries)
Use AI to Build Course Materials? Earn $1,000
(The University of New Mexico University Libraries via IHE: Inside Higher Ed)
Higher Ed
CHEA Opens Recognition
to International Higher Education Accreditation Organizations
(CHEA: Council for Higher Education Accreditation)
Texas State University Board OKs Contract for Campus in Mexico
(San Antonio Express-News)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Biden-Harris Administration Releases Summary Report of 2023 Request for Information (RFI) on Open Source–Software Security Initiative
(ONCD: Office of the National Cyber Director, The White House)
Scholars & Scholarship
Harvard Undergraduate Survey on Generative AI (preprint)
(arXiv)
On Responsible Machine Learning Datasets Emphasizing Fairness, Privacy, and Regulatory Norms with Examples in Biometrics and Healthcare
(Nature Machine Intelligence)
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Tuesday, August 13
Top o’ the Review
CHLOE 9: Strategy Shift: Higher Ed Institutions Respond to Sustained Online Demand
(EDUCAUSE)
Groundbreaking Agreement Provides Libraries with Permanent Ownership Rights over Tens of Thousands of Digital Titles
(DPLA: Digital Public Library of America)
IFLA Attains Charity Status
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
This HBCU Alum Is Leading the First Digital Presidential Library
(Essence)
Sakana AI’s “AI Scientist” Conducts Research Autonomously, Challenging Scientific Norms
(VentureBeat)
See also: Automated Research: The AI Scientist Generates Papers for $15 Each (The Decoder)
Webinar Video: Uncovering the Costs of Academic Data Sharing: From Real Data to Tips for Future Planning with ARL and DCN
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries, DCN: Data Curation Network, and NNLM: Network of the National Library of Medicine via infoDOCKET)
ARL Member Libraries
Beyond Bars: The Cornell Prison Education Program and Cornell University Library
(Cornell University Library)
Canada’s Copyright Act at 100
(University of Alberta Library)
Daggers, Slides, Maps, and More: Objects from 200+ Collections Are New Online
(Yale University Library)
Library, Museums, and Press Offers First Two Digital Badges
(University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press)
The Kislak Collection Contains Many Treasures
(University of Miami Libraries)
The UI Libraries’ Book Model Collection Binds the Book’s Past to Its Present
(University of Iowa Libraries)
UGA Libraries’ Brown Media Archives Offers Free Home Movie Digitization
(University of Georgia (UGA) Libraries)
Video: Data in the Humanities
(Boston College Libraries via YouTube)
Libraries—Other
Europeana Impact Playbook Helps to Develop Recommendations for Cultural Heritage Metadata
(Europeana)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Grounding AI Policy: Towards Researcher Access to AI Usage Data
(CDT: Center for Democracy & Technology)
Scholars & Scholarship
An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of ChatGPT on Creativity
(Nature Human Behaviour)
Searchsmart.org: Guiding Researchers to the Best Databases and Search Systems for Systematic Reviews and Beyond
(Research Synthesis Methods)
Sharing Practices of Software Artefacts and Source Code for Reproducible Research
(International Journal of Data Science and Analytics)
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Wednesday, August 14
Top o’ the Review
Artists Score a Win Against AI Art Generators in Ongoing Copyright Battle
(The Decoder)
ChatGPT Unexpectedly Began Speaking in a User’s Cloned Voice During Testing
(Ars Technica)
Has Your Paper Been Used to Train an AI Model? Almost Certainly
(Nature)
This AI Startup Wants to Be the Notary of the Internet
(CNET)
Video: Safeguarding Large Language Models and Why This Matters for the Future of Geopolitics
(RAND)
What Shapes the Future? Respond Now to Our Trends Survey
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
What’s in a Picture? Two Decades of Image Manipulation Awareness and Action
(Retraction Watch)
ARL Member Libraries
Cross-Campus Collaboration in Research Support: Insights from an RLP Leadership Roundtable
(14 ARL Libraries via Hanging Together: The OCLC Research Blog)
Empowering Early-Career Humanities Researchers to Successfully Navigate the Scholarly Publishing Process
(The Ohio State University Libraries via Public Services Quarterly)
High-Quality Metadata: A Collective Responsibility and Opportunity
(CDL: California Digital Library, University of California via Upstream, FORCE11)
Also from CDL: “Building a National Finding Aid Network” (NAFAN): Final Report Now Available
KU Libraries Announce Centennial Celebration of Watson Library with Fall Activities, Website
(The University of Kansas (KU) Libraries)
Library User Survey Results Are In
(University of Waterloo Library)
New Book Offers a Guide for Building Library Collections and Curriculum Centered on Indigenous Works
(University of Colorado (CU) Boulder University Libraries)
Parks and Rec., Wilmington Delaware Edition
(University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press)
Thank You, Donors: VCU Libraries Closes FY24 with $559,184 in Gifts
(VCU Libraries, Virginia Commonwealth University)
US Congress Legislative Status Steps Image Added to Congress.gov
(Law Library of Congress)
Vanderbilt Divinity Library’s Revised Common Lectionary Improves Access, Enhances Christian Worship
(Vanderbilt University Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Berkeley Law Unveils Groundbreaking AI Law Degree Program
(University of California (UC), Berkeley School of Law)
Scholars & Scholarship
Registration Open for RDA 23rd Plenary Meeting, San José, Costa Rica (Hybrid), November 12–14, 2024
(RDA: Research Data Alliance)
Ten Simple Rules for Recognizing Data and Software Contributions in Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure
(PLOS Computational Biology)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
