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Monday, May 5
Top o’ the Review
ACLS, AHA, and MLA File Lawsuit Alleging Illegal Dismantling of National Endowment for the Humanities
(ACLS: American Council of Learned Societies, AHA: American Historical Association, and MLA: Modern Language Association)
See also:
- NHA Statement on NEH Lawsuit (NHA: National Humanities Alliance)
- Trump Aims to Eliminate NEH and NEA in New 2026 Budget Proposal (ARTnews)
AI Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
(The New York Times)
ARL Congratulates Member Institutions Represented in IFLA Governing Roles
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
British Library Releases “Knowledge Without Borders: How We Made a Difference with Our Global Partners in 2023/24”
(British Library)
College Uncovered: The Revenge of the Humanities
(The Hechinger Report)
CRKN’s Response to Tri-Agency Draft Open Access Policy
(CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network)
Also from CRKN: Call for Nominations: Board of Directors
Invitation to Participate in a Survey of Academic Librarians on Conducting Research
(Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Information Studies)
See also: Invitation to Participate in a Study of Librarian Perceptions of and Experience with Artificial Intelligence (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
More CNI Spring 2025 Meeting Videos Live
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
Peter Suber on Science in Danger: “Host Your Open and Uncensored Research in More Than One Place and Preferably More Than One Country.”
(ZBW MediaTalk)
Preparing the Next Generation of Citizens: What Libraries Can Learn from Campus Civic Initiatives
(Shamichael Hallman)
ARL Member Libraries
AI, Art, and Copyright: The Human Element That Makes All the Difference
(Library of Congress)
Assessment Community: A Critical Component of Assessment Strategy
(University of Michigan Library)
The COVID Information Commons & Columbia University Libraries—Using Translation & Transcription to Increase Accessibility to NSF-Funded Research
(Columbia University Libraries)
2025 Open and Equitable Course Material Community of Practice
(UC Santa Cruz University Library)
University Libraries Toolkit Gives Guidance for Researchers Who Receive Federal Funding and Must Make Research Publicly Accessible
(Virginia Tech University Libraries)
Video: New Al Tool from UK Libraries Aims to Assist with Student Research
(Kentucky Kernel)
Higher Ed
Engaging State Policymakers to Support College Student Mental Health: A Resource Guide for Campus Leaders
(ACE: American Council on Education)
Scholars & Scholarship
A Smack of All Neighbouring Languages: How Multilingual Is Scholarly Communication? (preprint)
(arXiv)
A Survey of Knowledge Organization Systems of Research Fields: Resources and Challenges
(Quantitative Science Studies )
ChatGPT Struggles to Recognize Reproducible Science
(Knowledge and Information Systems)
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Tuesday, May 6
Top o’ the Review
A Note from Re:Create: Delete IP? No, Just Respect Fair Use
(Re:Create Coalition)
AAU, APLU, and ACE Regarding their Legal Challenge to NSF’s Cut to Critical Research That Strengthens America
(AAU: Association of American Universities, APLU: Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and ACE: American Council on Education)
Accelerating Implementation of the NIH 2024 Public Access Policy
(NIH: US National Institutes of Health)
College Literacy and Fluency: What We Learned from Our Latest Webinar
(Ithaka S+R)
Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight in Action: Insights from the Global South (working paper)
(ISC: International Science Council)
In Collaboration with AJC, Groups Representing Full Breadth of US Colleges and Universities Pledge Reforms to Fight Campus Antisemitism
(AJC: American Jewish Committee, AAU: Association of American Universities, ACE: American Council on Education)
It’s (Getting) Personal: How Advanced AI Systems Are Personalized
(CDT: Center for Democracy & Technology)
Most Americans Use Federal Science Information on a Weekly Basis, a New Poll Finds
(NPR)
See also: KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Vaccine Safety and Trust
New Research to Accelerate Library Climate Advocacy
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
We Analyzed Over 9,000 Generative AI Papers…How Corporate AI Research on Reliability and Safety Ignores Real-World Risks
(Asimov’s Addendum/AI Disclosures Project)
ARL Member Libraries
Building an Inter-Institutional and Cross-Functional Research Data Management Community: From Strategy to Implementation
(University of Waterloo Library)
College & Research Libraries 86, no. 3 (May 2025)
ARL member library authors
- A Bibliometric Study of Art Exhibition Reviews: Intersectionality, Implications, and Impact across Academic and Research Collections
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - Building Distinctive Collections: A Survey of Association of Research Libraries’ Member Institutions Acquisitions Infrastructure
(Library of Congress, Penn State, UC Santa Barbara, University of British Columbia) - Inclusive Leadership: Perspectives from Academic Library Leaders
(Penn State University) - Introducing C&RL’s Generative AI Policy
(New York University) - Making the Connection: An Examination of Institutional Repositories and Scholarly Communication Crosslinking Practices
(Harvard University and University at Albany) - What We Talk About When We Talk About “First-Generation Students”: Exploring Definitions in Use on College and University Websites
(University of New Mexico)
Early Implementation Date for the New NIH Public Access Policy
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
GAACAI: A new archival initiative focusing on Asian Americans in Georgia
(Emory University Libraries)
Growing the UC Davis Library’s Music Collection
(UC Davis Library)
Inside the Milberg Gallery: Slavery and Emancipation
(Princeton University Library)
Legacy Technology Collection Leads the Way for New Scholarship
(University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries)
Materials from 2025 Library of Congress Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections Meeting
(Library of Congress via CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
The Dirty Details of McKeldin’s Trash: Library’s Waste Audit Gathers Info with Goal of Improving Sustainability
(University of Maryland Libraries)
Tulane Students Amplifying Community Voices by Documenting Vietnamese Histories in New Orleans
(Tulane University Libraries)
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Wednesday, May 7
Top o’ the Review
AGB Leads National Call to Reaffirm and Uphold the Independence of Higher Education Governance
(AGB: Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges)
Impact of AI on Cyber Threat from Now to 2027
(NCSC: UK National Cyber Security Centre)
In Meta’s AI Future, Your Friends Are Bots
(Axios)
Maryland Senator’s Attempt to End Naval Academy Book Ban Falls Short
(The Baltimore Banner)
McGill Platform Becomes Safe Space for Conserving US Climate Research Under Threat
(The Canadian Press)
Meta Al “Personalized” Chatbot Revives Privacy Fears
(Fast Company)
New NIH Foreign Subaward Structure
(NIH: US National Institutes of Health)
Research Integrity and Human Agency in Research Intertwined with Generative AI
(SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online)
Upcoming Communications Community of Practice Call—Communicating Change: A Discussion About Current Disruptions in Library Operations (Wednesday, May 21)
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
ARL Member Libraries
Blooks, Jane Austen, and America’s First Public Library in Rare Book School’s Summer Lecture Series
(Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries via Fine Books & Collections)
International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Conference 2025 Recap
(Harvard Law School Library)
Next Generation Network Installation Underway at Four Yale Libraries
(Yale University Library)
UMD Libraries–Supported Open Research Platform SocArXiv Wins Prestigious Sociology Prize
(University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries)
Upcoming In-Person Event: Sarina Dahlan ’98 and S.B. Divya MEng ’00 Reunite at Their Alma Mater for an Evening of Storytelling (Wednesday, May 28)
(UC San Diego Library)
Higher Ed
New Report Identifies Opportunities to Advance College Affordability in the Great Lakes States
(NCAN: National College Attainment Network)
Upcoming Webinar: Confronting the Unspoken: The Impact of AI Adaptation on Institutional Policy and Accreditation (Tuesday, May 20)
(CIQG: CHEA International Quality Group, CHEA: Council for Higher Education Accreditation)
Scholars & Scholarship
“But What Is the Alternative?!”—the Impact of Generative AI on Academic Knowledge Production in Times of Science Under Pressure
(Internet Policy Review)
Meet Six Winners of the First-Ever Crossref Metadata Awards
(Crossref)
The Right Way to Launch an AI Initiative
(HBR on Strategy podcast)
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Thursday, May 8
Top o’ the Review
AI Models Embrace Human-Like Reasoning
(IEEE Spectrum)
ARL Supports Senator Wyden’s Call for FTC Action on Digital Ownership Rights
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Next CNI Spring 2025 Membership Meeting Video Release
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
Thank You to NEH, IMLS, DoD Minerva, and NSF
(Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group, Old Dominion University)
The Contested Field of Open Science: A Debate Through the Lens of Inclusion
(Leiden Madtrics)
The State of Science at 100 Days: Co-opted, Hindered, and Undermined
(UCS: Union of Concerned Scientists)
See also:
- As the US Cuts Scientific Talent, Europe Launches an Initiative to Attract It (WIRED)
- NIH Grant Terminations Under Trump Have Totaled at Least $1.8 Billion, Analysis Finds: Minority Health Institute Experienced the Biggest Funding Reductions (STAT)
US Universities are Filling a Regional Innovation Gap
(MIT Sloan School of Management)
ARL Member Libraries
Celebrating Gale Etschmaier’s Legacy of Innovation and Service at Florida State University Libraries
(Florida State University (FSU) Libraries)
Collaborative Project Yields New Digital Archive on Hidden History of Indigenous Enslavement
(Brown University Library)
Expanding Electronic Book Discovery and Usage: Adding Link Resolver Access
(The Ohio State University Libraries via Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship)
ARL member library authors
Introducing TigerData: A Comprehensive Data Management Service for the Princeton Research Community
(Princeton University Library)
Keep@Downsview Work Underway at McMaster Libraries
(McMaster, Ottawa, Western, Toronto, Queen’s university libraries)
Library of Congress Acquires Major Photography and Manuscript Collection Documenting the Chicano Movement
(Library of Congress)
Project MUSE and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Launch New Landmark Initiative
(Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries via Project Muse)
University Archives Delivers Unique Student Experience
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University Library via The Daily Illini)
Higher Ed
Data Visualization: Nearly Half of 2023 US Doctorate Recipients with Temporary Visas Were from China or India
(NCSES: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF: US National Science Foundation)
Interest in Higher Education Remains High
(Gallup)
Scholars & Scholarship
ACM TechBrief: Advancing Accessibility in the Digital World
(ACM: Association for Computing Machinery)
Software Heritage Citation Feature: Addressing Researcher Needs
(Software Heritage)
The Role of Science in the Climate Change Discussions on Reddit
(PLOS Climate)
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