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Monday, March 3
Top o’ the Review
ACE, Higher Education Groups Urge Department of Education to Rescind DEI “Dear Colleague” Letter
(ACE: American Council on Education, ARL, and 69 other organizations)
See also: US Department of Education Releases Frequently Asked Questions on Dear Colleague Letter About Racial Preferencing (US Department of Education)
American Library Association and Gallup Release New Diversity Study
(ALA: American Library Association)
Derek Mosley Assumes SAA Presidency, Mario Ramirez to Be Vice President for Remaining 2024–2025 Term
(SAA: Society of American Archivists)
Hiring Freezes, Fewer Grad Students: Funding Uncertainty Hits Colleges
(The Washington Post)
Save the Date for FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI): July 21–25
(FORCE11)
Upcoming Webinar: Call to Action from COMET (Wednesday, March 5)
(COMET: Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce)
ARL Member Libraries
A Look Inside the Dr. Seuss Archive
(UC San Diego Library via CBS News)
Academic Librarian Schedules and Workspaces (snippets)
(McGill University Libraries via The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
ARL member library authors
Dozens Worked WashU Event to Save Federal Data at Risk of Disappearing
(WashU Libraries, Washington University in St. Louis via St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Also from WashU: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Illustrated German Periodicals
Fair Use Week 2025: Day Five with Guest Experts Katherine Klosek and Samantha Teremi
(ARL and UC Berkeley Library via Harvard Library)
ARL member library authors
“Free to Be”: New Art Installation in Shannon Investigates Our Shared Charlottesville Landscape
(University of Virginia (UVA) Library)
Lost and Found: Bringing History’s Female Philosophers to the Forefront
(Duke University Libraries)
McMaster Students Use Social Media to Show the Creative Potential of Thode Makerspace
(McMaster University Libraries)
Reading Billie Holiday: A New Collection of Letters Comes to the Sheridan Libraries
(Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries and University Museums)
SU Press “The Book of Disappearance” Longlisted for 2025 International Booker Prize
(Syracuse University (SU) Libraries)
UMD Libraries Announce Gift of 150-Year-Old Printing Presses
(University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries)
Wish You Were Here: Visit Every Corner of the Commonwealth with UK Libraries’ Postcard Collection
(University of Kentucky (UK) Libraries)
Scholars & Scholarship
Bibliometric Insights into the Open Education Landscape
(IRRODL: The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning)
The Data Horror Escape Room Game as a Successful Tool for RDM Education and Engagement
(LIBER Quarterly)
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Tuesday, March 4
Top o’ the Review
ARL Hosts Briefing on Fair Use & Research Innovation for Congressional Staffers
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries with CCIA: Computer & Communications Industry Association, Re:Create Coalition, and Rochester Institute of Technology Libraries)
Association of American Publishers Announces Finalists and Category Winners for 2025 PROSE Awards
(AAP: Association of American Publishers)
Call for Proposals: CNI Pre-recorded Project Briefing Series Spring 2025
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
Congress Moves to Slash Higher Ed Funding in Budget Showdown
(ACE: American Council on Education)
EDGI Relaunches Federal Environmental Web Tracker
(EDGI: Environmental Data & Governance Initiative)
LCA Response to Israel Ministry of Justice Request for Comments Regarding Copyright Law Barriers
(LCA: Library Copyright Alliance)
NIH Indirect Costs Policy for Research Grants: Recent Developments
(CRS: US Congressional Research Service)
Our Letter to the Library Community
(Clarivate)
ARL Member Libraries
Heads Up, History Buffs: Most of Kent State’s Sanborn Maps Are Now in the Public Domain
(Kent State University)
Library Prepares for Major Technology Upgrade to Services Platform in July
(Yale University Library)
Roy Reuther and the UAW: Fighting for Workers and Civil Rights
(Wayne State University Library System)
Self-Plagiarism: A Retrospective Study of Its Prevalence and Patterns Across Scientific Disciplines
(University of Michigan Library via Accountability in Research)
ARL member library authors
UBC Library Achieves Funding Goal for the George Bowering Reading Room
(The University of British Columbia (UBC) Library)
Higher Ed
Building an Academic Space for Black Women Scholars
(Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)
The Cost of Clicks: Cultivating Data-Awareness and Ethical Learning Management Systems (LMS) Practices in Higher Education
(Information Matters)
Scholars & Scholarship
AI in Medical Education: Five Ways Schools Are Employing New Tools
(AAMC: Association of American Medical Colleges)
See also: GenAl Adoption in Business Schools: Deans and Faculty Respond (AACSB: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business)
Explaining AI Explainability
(Communications of the ACM)
Also from the ACM: The Big Shrink in LLMs
Multilingual Research Dissemination: Current Practices and Implications for Bibliometrics (preprint)
(arXiv)
Portico Access Alert: Two Journals Now Openly Available
(Portico)
Wikipedia Contributions in the Wake of ChatGPT (preprint)
(arXiv)
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Wednesday, March 5
Top o’ the Review
AI Literacy in K–12 and Higher Education in the Wake of Generative AI: An Integrative Review (preprint)
(arXiv)
Also from arXiv: Generative Artificial Intelligence for Academic Research: Evidence from Guidance Issued for Researchers by Higher Education Institutions in the United States (preprint)
AI Skills and Capabilities in Canada
(OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Also from OECD: Intellectual Property Issues in Artificial Intelligence Trained on Scraped Data
Canada Launches First-Ever Artificial Intelligence Strategy for the Federal Public Service
(Government of Canada)
Also from the Government of Canada: Guide on the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Citations Drop After Scientists Accused of Sexual, but Not Scientific, Misconduct
(Science)
Global Trends 2025
(Diff, Wikimedia Foundation)
Neuroscience Expert Marina Picciotto to Lead AAAS as President-Elect
(AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science)
ORCID Partners with Digital Science to Make Openness Even More Accessible
(ORCID)
SCONUL Publishes Its Library Technology Landscape Report
(SCONUL)
2024 Annual Report Released
(International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Consortium)
ARL Member Libraries
ARL President’s Institute Inspires Multigenerational Collaboration in Libraries
(Western University Libraries and ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
ARL member library authors
Decoding Virtual Chats: Natural Language Processing (NLP) Insights into Academic Library Services
(New York University (NYU) Libraries via Library & Information Science Research)
ARL member library authors
Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices Awards
(Queen’s University Library)
Innovative Approaches to Combat Climate Change: The Penn Libraries’ Role in Sustainability
(Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania)
Israeli Literary Magazine Digitization Project Complete
(University of Texas Libraries)
McGill Libraries’ Initiatives to Combat Islamophobia
(McGill University Libraries)
OpenAI Announces “NextGenAI” Higher-Ed Consortium
(Boston Public Library, Duke University, Harvard University, Howard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio State University, University of Georgia, and University of Michigan via Government Technology)
Trans* Journeys: Centering Marginalized Voices Through Open Pedagogy and Open Publishing
(The University of British Columbia (UBC) Library)
Higher Ed
Higher Education Leaders Align on Guiding Principles for Learning and Employment Records
(AACRAO: American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers)
Lumina Releases New Long-Term Goal and Strategic Plan for Higher Education
(Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)
Scholars & Scholarship
The Questions ChatGPT Shouldn’t Answer
(The Verge)
See also: AI Chatbots Perpetuate Biases When Performing Empathy, Study Finds (UC Santa Cruz)
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Thursday, March 6
Top o’ the Review
Announcing the NDSA Climate Watch Publication
(NDSA: National Digital Stewardship Alliance, DLF: Digital Library Federation)
Checklist for Supporting Non-citizen Campus Members
(Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)
Coalition for Networked Information Executive Director Search Launched
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries, CNI: Coalition for Networked Information, and EDUCAUSE)
For Review: Accessibility Roles and Responsibilities Mapping (ARRM)—First Draft
(W3C Web Accessibility Initiative)
Gartner Identifies Top Trends in Data and Analytics for 2025
(Gartner)
Panels Giving Scientific Advice to Census Bureau Disbanded by Trump Administration
(Science)
Two Errors Limit the Potential Influence of AI Fair Use Case
(Re:Create Coalition)
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.
(CJR: Columbia Journalism Review)
See also: Russian Disinformation Floods AI Chatbots, Study Finds (Axios)
ARL Member Libraries
Bookstore, Library Leaders Discuss Student Savings with Faculty Senators
(Iowa State University Library)
Digital Dreams Come to Life for Student Video Game Creators
(Virginia Tech University Libraries)
From Personal Effects to Public Archive
(Texas State University Libraries)
GPO Partners with Yale University Library to Preserve Government Information
(Yale University Library via GPO: US Government Publishing Office)
Preserving the Oldest Known Published Cookbook Written by a Black Woman
(University of Michigan Library via The Metro, WDET Detroit Public Radio)
Removing Barriers: How Library Accessibility Services Is Reducing Inequalities in Learning
(York University Libraries)
Video: The Library of Congress’s Ancestral Voices Initiative a Decade Later
(Library of Congress via RLUK: Research Libraries UK on YouTube)
Yesterday’s Women’s Movement, Today’s National Memory
(University of Ottawa Library)
Higher Ed
Engineering, Computer Sciences Top Salary Projections for Class of 2025 Bachelor’s Grads
(NACE: National Association of Colleges and Employers)
See also: More Money for Less Time? Examining the Relative and Heterogenous Financial Returns to Non-degree Credentials and Degree Programs (preprint) (EdWorkingPapers, Annenberg Institute at Brown University)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Project Alexandria: Towards Freeing Scientific Knowledge from Copyright Burdens via LLMs (preprint)
(arXiv)
Scholars & Scholarship
Access for Whom? An Examination of Public-Facing Accessibility Practices in Library Accessibility Alliance Members’ Open Access Institutional Repositories
(Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
The Academic Impact of Open Science: A Scoping Review
(Royal Society Open Science)
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